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Harrison, Austen St Barbe
(b Kent, c. 1891; d Athens, 11 Feb 1976). English architect. He studied at McGill University, Montreal (1909–13), and University College, London (1913–14). After World War I he returned to University College to complete his studies and to qualify for the Certificate in Town Planning. In 1919 he became an Associate and in 1927 a Fellow of the RIBA. Apart from a short period in London in 1922, including a few months in Edwin Lutyens’s office working on the New Delhi project, his post-war years focused on Greece. In the Department of Reconstruction for Eastern Macedonia (1919–20) his work included plans for Nigrita and Gallipoli. He then studied Byzantine and early Islamic architecture at the British School, Athens. In 1923 he was appointed chief architect in the Department of Public Works, Palestine. Until his resignation in 1937 his department maintained a consistently high standard of public architecture. He was personally responsible for the design of several fine buildings, notably Government House (1926–31) and the Palestine Archaeological (Rockefeller) Museum (c. 1927–34), Jerusalem, and the Post Offices in Jaffa (1927–31) and Jerusalem (c. 1927–9).
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