CURRENTLY
Current Teaching
MARC4002
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The Sustainable Stream of the M. Arch
Design with Dr Glen Hill |
| ARCH 9049 |
Contemporary Architectural Theories with Ross Anderson. |
| DAAP3001 |
Contemporary Architectural Theory undergraduate course. |
| ASR |
Supervision |
Current Research
My research is concerned with the interdisciplinary nexus of philosophy, biology and architectural theory. My past published research has focuses on the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; the biology of the ‘eclipse of Darwinism’ phase, and; technologies of the body, in respect to contemporary architectural theory. Presently I am concentrating upon the changing relation the discourses of philosophy, biology and architecture maintain in relation to notions of matter and material.
Current Projects includes:
I am presently working on two key projects: The first is an edited text that is the result of a conference I co-organised in the UK with Andrew Ballantyne and Sally Jane Norman titled Architecture in the Space of Flows. The text will focus on the understanding of selves, buildings and cities as modulators of flows. The second project is preparing my doctoral dissertation for publication. The text explores a method derived from the work of Deleuze and Guattari for the analysis of deployments of body constructs from biological to architectural theory. This work will extend from and contextualise a number of my published papers.
Both of these projects will draw upon research conducted through the Tectonic Cultures Research Group and as a co-director of the Cultural Technologies of the Body Research Group at Newcastle University UK.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Awards
| 1995 |
Bachelor of Science (Architecture) degree with merit. |
| 1998 |
Awarded a Bachelor of Architecture degree with Honours Class I. |
| 2004 |
Awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and membership to the Higher Education Academy from Newcastle University, UK. |
| 2005 |
Awarded a PhD in Architectural Theory. |
Prizes and awards
| 1996 |
University of Newcastle (Australia) Undergraduate Summer Vacation Scholarship for applied research. |
| 1997 |
University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor’s Honours Scholarship for excellence in academic performance. |
| 1997 |
Sydney C. Morton Prize for technology studies in Architecture. |
| 1997 |
Board of Architects of New South Wales Prize for the highest performing architecture student at The University of Newcastle of 1997. |
| 1999 |
Australian Postgraduate Award Research Scholarship to support doctoral studies. |
| 2006 |
Newcastle University (UK) University Teaching and Learning Committee grant to explore the use of accessible digital technologies in teaching and learning. |
Employment History
| 1997 - 00 |
Foundational partner: Liquid Design Australia. |
| 2001 |
Visiting Academic: School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. |
| 2002 - 07 |
Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Newcastle University, UK.
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| 2006 - 07 |
Degree Program Director for the BA (Architectural Studies)
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
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| 2005 - 07 |
Deputy Director of the Tectonic Cultures Research Group; School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. |
Public lectures/ invited lectures
Baltic: 1 year on
With Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects (Architect of Baltic) and Sune Nordgren Founding Director of Baltic.
Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Arts, UK
June 26 2003.
Form and matters
Lecture
Research Seminar Programme 2004-05
School of Cultural Studies, University College Winchester, UK
November 08 2004.
Architecture and the Politics of Matter
Lecture
Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar Programme 2006
School of Arts, Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh, UK
October 27 2006.
2003-07 Visiting Lecturer
Division of Arts and Humanities
HKU Space (Hong Kong University- Space)
Hong Kong.
2003-07 Visiting Lecturer
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Publications
Edited book sections:
| 2003 |
‘The Impassive Politics of Language: Speech-acts and the Body of Architectural History’, in Christian Hermansen and Elizabeth Tostrup eds, Con,text: (Theorising) History in Architecture and Design, (Oslo: Architekthøgskolen i Oslo, 2003), 107-15. |
| 2005 |
‘Differential Mechanisms: form and matter’ in The Erotic: Approaches to a Cultural Contextualisation. The eBook is Volume 5 of the Critical Issues series entitled 'The Erotic', edited by Koen De Temmerman, ISBN: 1-904710-04-2. |
Forthcoming edited book sections:
| 2007 |
‘Differential Mechanisms: form and matter’, in Jones Irwin ed., Critical Issues: the Erotic, (New York: Rodopi). |
| 2007 |
‘Preceding an Architectural Body’, in Jean-Jacques LeCercle and Francoise Kral, ed. in process. |
Refereed papers
| 1999 |
‘Architecture and the Anatomy of Ontogeny: Architecture and the Transforming Body of the Biological Morphology Movement,’ within Richard Blythe and Rory Spence eds., Thresholds, Papers of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Launceston and Hobart, Australia. |
| 2000 |
‘A Very Becoming Whale: a (re)emerging Origin in the Construction of an Architectural Body,’ Habitus: a sense of place, international conference proceedings, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. |
| 2001 |
‘anOther Hopeful Monster: Reading a Motion from Modern Figuration,’ within Formulation Fabrication, Papers of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 2002 |
‘The Habit and its Fictions: Analogy and the Appropriate(d) Body of Architecture,’ within John Macarthur & Antony Moulis, Colophon: Additions to Architectural History, (Brisbane: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2002). |
| 2006 |
‘The Problem of Writing Architecture’, Journal for Cultural Research, 10(2), 185-197. |
Exhibitions
| 2004 |
Interventions
Jesmond Dene and the Armstrong Banqueting Hall
February 28- March 04
Jesmond Dene, UK.
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| 2005 |
The Bolam Coyne Event Competition Exhibition
February 14-18
The Long Gallery, Newcastle University, UK.
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| 2005 |
City Sense Showcase
June 20-24, 2005.
An exhibition of images and film put on especially for Architecture Week.
In collaboration with Northern Architecture and video artist Steve Baxter
The Park Centre, Cruddas Park, UK
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| 2006 |
Architectural Interventions in the Body
March13-19, 2006.
An exhibition of conceptual design work in/of the body.
Queen’s Campus, Durham University, UK.
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