Hamish Lonergan


Disciplines: Architecture – writing
Disciplines: Architecture – writing
Based in Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Residencies: 2023
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Hamish Lonergan is an architectural writer, educator, and designer. His work appears in publications including OASE, Footprint, gta Papers, Interstices, Cartha, and his co-edited volume This Is Not a Summer School (with Elke Couchez, gta Verlag, 2025). He lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

At MacDowell, Hamish worked on an essay collection exploring queer experiences of space through architecture, film, literature, and autobiography.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Hamish Lonergan worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up…

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