Architectural and Urban Past
Research into the history of architecture, landscapes and the urban realm is critical to the continual re-shaping of our understandings of the past, and to the informing of creative responses in the present and future.
The Faculty has an outstanding reputation in research in these directions. Profiled here are a selection of projects that include histories of institutions, key Australian and international architects, and new ways of engaging communities in their past.
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Animating the Archive
The aim of this project is one of outreach to and engagement with cultural organisations to probe the future of innovative uptake of mobile and media technology.
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Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building
Linking immigrant social histories to industrialisation through an explicitly spatial analysis, this project explores the post-war architectural, rural and industrial landscapes of Australia as shaped by the labour of displaced persons.
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Australia’s new cities: past present and future
To conceptualise Australia’s urban future, we must not only look beyond metropolitan boundaries, but also to successful—and failed—past projects and visions for population relocation, placement, and growth.
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Bauhaus Australia
Bauhaus Australia: Émigrés, Refugees and the Modernist Transformation of Education in Art, Architecture, and Design, 1930 to 1970
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Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities
The commitment to the environmental quality of university campuses is central to the modern contemporary tertiary experience and represents a growing multi-million dollar public investment in higher education infrastructure.
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Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place
This project explores new digital technologies to enhance the visibility of lesser-known precincts of urban heritage.
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Designing Australian Schools: A Spatial History of Innovation, Pedagogy and Social Change
Designing Australia’s Schools is an historical, cross disciplinary study of innovations in the design of Australian primary and secondary schools across the twentieth century.
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Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture
The first comprehensive reference text to be published on Australian architecture. Unique in its breadth and depth, and revealing new knowledge on architects, their buildings and the ways they designed and built them.
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Glass at Work
The construction industry has the reputation to innovate slowly in time. Technological retrospectives, therefore, have the potential to help to identify how strategic changes can affect the built environment.
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Global South Research and Pedagogy
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Level-crossing removals: learning from Melbourne’s experience
Getting the best from level-crossing removals in Melbourne.
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Making Architectural Identity: The Architecture of John Andrews
Understanding the contemporary globalisation of architecture
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Making Landscape Architecture in Australia
This book on the history of landscape architecture in Australia, the first of its kind, profiles the people who have shaped the nation's landscape.
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New Tools and Techniques for Learning in the Field
Enabling interactive learning in the field
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Peripheral Centralities: Lost, Past, Present and Future
A series of four seminars exploring the role of suburban peripheries in the expansion of cities, and their perception in the public imagination.
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Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment
The expedient design, assembly and erection of WWII internment facilities, and their subsequent transformation for post-war detention and commemoration has produced a legacy of camp environments associated with citizenship.
Researchers
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Dr Amanda Achmadi, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Dr AnnMarie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Design Theory -
Dr Karen Burns, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Dr Sofia Colabella, Lecturer in Architectural Technology -
Anna Edwards, Research Fellow in Urban Studies -
Professor Hélène Frichot, Director, Bachelor of Design -
Professor Philip Goad, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Chair of Architecture -
A/Prof Rory Hyde, Associate Professor in Architecture (Curatorial Design and Practice) -
Nancy Ji, Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Professor Hannah Lewi, Professor in Architecture -
Dr Giorgio Marfella, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Construction -
Craig McCormack, Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design -
Professor Brendon McNiven, Enterprise Professor, Architectural Engineering -
Dr Renee Miller-Yeaman, Research Fellow In Urban Studies -
Professor David Nichols, Professor in Urban Planning -
Professor Anoma Pieris, Professor in Architecture -
A/Prof Andrew Saniga, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urbanism -
Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley, Lecturer in Urban and Cultural Heritage -
Dr James Thompson, Lecturer in Teaching and Learning -
Professor Paul Walker, Professor of Architecture -
Dr Katti Williams, Postdoctoral Research Fellow -
Professor Julie Willis, Dean