Amanda Achmadi obtained her doctorate degree in Architecture and Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007. She also holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Parahyangan University (Bandung, Indonesia). Her dissertation explores the role of architectural discourses within the 20th century construction of cultural identity in Bali. Amanda is interested in looking at the interactions between architecture and identity politics and how these unfold in different historical periods: pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial era. Her main focus is the architectural landscape of Indonesia and Southeast Asian region. 

MORE

Tutin Aryanti, Ph.D.  is a Lecturer of Architectural History and Theory at the Department of Architectural Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesia University of Education), Bandung (Indonesia). She works under the Architectural History, Theory, and Dwelling Culture Research Group. Her research interests revolve around gender and diversity in architecture, ethno-socio aspects in the production of space and architectural design, spatial justice, visual culture, and Islamic feminism.

MORE

David Beynon's research, teaching and practice broadly involve investigating the social, cultural and compositional dimensions of architecture and urban environments. He does this both as an academic and as a practicing architect (with alsoCAN Architects).

Currently this is centred on four areas.

1) Diasporic and hybrid architectures, in particular the adaptation of architectural content and meaning, and investigation of notions of place, multiculturalism and identity in Australia and Asia.

2) The early development of Hindu and Buddhist architecture in South and Southeast Asia, in particular how compositional connection can be traced across the region.

3) The multi-directional flows of architectural ideas in contemporary Asian and Australian cities, in particular the influence of subcultures, street tactics and art practices on urban environments.

4) The integration of practice, teaching and research, with explorations into typology, density and cultural responsiveness.

MORE

Katharine Bartsch has been involved in learning and teaching in this School since 1997. Her research examines how human mobility shapes the built environment, specifically Islamic architecture. Islam is a global faith and it has never existed in a vacuum. The emergence and diffusion of Islam can be traced along routes of migration, pilgrimage, trade, or travel in pursuit of knowledge. Given this context of mobility and the cultural encounters that it engenders, the goal of Katharine’s research is to interpret the complexity and diversity of Muslim communities that is materialised in the built environment. Thus, her research is interdisciplinary, reaching beyond conventional discourses of architecture, to obtain rich insights from anthropology, cultural geography, world systems theories, postcolonial theory, and the history of travel. This approach enables a critical understanding of the production and transformation of the predominantly hybrid architecture of Muslim communities. Thus, Katharine’s research offers a compelling counter-narrative to pervasive misconceptions about architecture and Islam.

MORE

Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. He teaches architectural design studios, and graduate seminars in research methodology and contemporary theories. His present research is on design ethics, especially on the dissonance between professional (public) obligations and the aesthetic responsibility of an architect. Jeffrey holds a BArch from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a MEd from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of California Berkley.

MORE

Chang Jiat Hwee, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley), is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. Jiat Hwee is an architectural historian, theorist and critic whose writings on the various aspects of colonial and postcolonial architectural history, socio-technical dimensions of sustainable architecture, and design culture in Asia have been widely published.

MORE

Dr Hing-Wah Chau is an Academic Teaching Scholar in Built Environment at the College of Engineering and Science. Before joining Victoria University in 2019, he has been teaching architectural design at the University of Melbourne since 2011 at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Dr Chau completed his doctoral research and the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching at the University of Melbourne in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He received Teaching Excellence Award at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Before moving to Melbourne, he received architectural education in Hong Kong. He has more than ten years of professional practice experience in Hong Kong as a registered architect, working in an interdisciplinary environment and involving in various types of projects, ranging from small public structures, public housing to large infrastructural development.

MORE

Lilian Chee is assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. Trained in architectural design, history and theory, her research interests intersect architectural representations, domesticity and gender. She is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Architecture and Singapore Architect.

MORE

Preeti Chopra is Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Design Studies Department. Her research concentrates on architecture and urbanism in South Asia, with a focus on western and more recently, northern India in the colonial and postcolonial context. Chopra’s work has addressed such diverse themes as the practices of naming, charity and philanthropy, the place of religion in the secular public realm, architectural style and its meaning, and the heritage movement in postcolonial Bombay. Chopra teaches classes on taste, colonial spaces, the visual cultures of South Asia, and the cities of Asia. Her forthcoming publications include A Joint Enterprise: The Indian Making of British Bombay, 1854-1918 (University of Minnesota Press, in press). At the IRH she is working on her second book manuscript The City and its Fragments: Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918.

MORE

Cecilia L. Chu is Assistant Professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, where she teaches urban theory, urban design, and architectural and landscape history. Dr. Chu worked as a professional designer in Canada and Hong Kong and research consultant for several NGOs focusing on urban design and conservation strategies. Her areas of expertise include history and theory of architecture and urbanism, heritage conservation, urban design, and cultural landscapes in Asia. 

MORE

Lawrence Chua is a historian of the global modern built environment with an emphasis on Asian architecture and urban culture. His current research excavates the historical relationship between modernism and fascism in the architecture of Thailand, a nation that was never colonized by an imperial power and which aligned itself politically and culturally with the Axis during World War II. His teaching focuses on architecture’s historical potential to both foster and obstruct social change. Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Chua taught courses in the history and theory of art and architecture at Hamilton College, New York University, and Chulalongkorn University.

MORE

Jeffrey Hou, PhD is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on the role and agencies of individuals and marginalized social groups in shaping the built environment. Hou is recognized for his pioneering work on guerrilla urbanism and bottom-up placemaking, with collaborative publications including Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (2010) and Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia (2016).

Partner: Pacific Rim Community Design Network

MORE

Shumei is an assistant professor for the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. She obtained her Ph.D in the Built Environment at the University of Washington. Her research interests include Carescapes, Geographies of Care, Transnational urbanism, Comparative Research of Urban Regeneration in East Asian Cities, Gentrification Studies, Critical Heritage Studies.

MORE

Farhan Karim is Assistant Professor of Architectural History. Prior to joining the faculty, Karim taught at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and the University of Asia Pacific. Karim received a PhD in architectural history from the University of Sydney, Australia. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in architecture from the BUET.

Salma has been researching and writing urban history since the early 1990s, and this includes architectural history and social history. She is a principal in Areca Books, Lestari Heritage Network, & the Sun Yat Sen Museum. In January 2017, she was appointed City Councillor of Penang Island, as a representative of Penang Forum, a coalition of civil society organisations championing local democracy and the sustainable development of Penang.

MORE

Abidin Kusno is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. His research interests include global cities, urban/suburbanism, politics and culture, history and theory of architecture, urban design and planning, nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, and Asian studies. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture Tier II and also serves as co-director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Research. Previously he served as Academic Advisor of the MA in Asian Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) Program.

MORE

Dr Lai Chee Kien is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is an architectural and urban historian, as well as a registered architect in Singapore. He researches mainly on the histories of art, architecture, settlements, urbanism and landscapes in Southeast Asia. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an M. Arch. by research in 1996, and a PhD in History of Architecture & Urban Design from the University of California, Berkely in 2005.

MORE

Hyun Kyung Lee is a post-doctoral research fellow working on the Academy of Korean Studies-funded research project "Beyond the Cold War, towards a community of Asia" at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge and Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.  Her research interests include difficult heritage (colonial/Cold War heritage), trans-national heritage networking, peace-building and the role of UNESCO programmes in East Asia. Her latest book Memory and Punishment: Heritage and De-commissioned Prisons in East Asia, written in collaboration with her Taiwanese colleague Shu-Mei Huang, is forthcoming from Routledge. She is also the author of Difficult Heritage in Nation Building: South Korea and Post-conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture (2019, from Palgrave Macmillan).

MORE

Lee Kah-Wee obtained his PhD in Architecture (Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies) at UC Berkeley, and is currently Assistant Professor at NUS, Department of Architecture. His research pertains to the spatial history of the control of vice and contemporary casino development in the Asia Pacific region, a phenomenon he calls ‘casino urbanism’. He also focuses on history and ethnography, and transnational urban studies.

MORE

Dr Francis Chia-Hui Lin is Assistant Professor at Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. He is also an architectural historian, theorist and curator. His areas of expertise lie in the critical discourse on architecture and urbanism within a wider context of history and theory. Francis has been involved in both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily tertiary-level teaching and research since 2002. His interests focus comparatively on Art, Design, Architecture and Cities, and their histories, theory, visual representation and criticism. Amongst all, a particular interest is within a built context of the Asia Pacific region, which is resulted from an inescapable marriage with the prevailing Western epistemology, from both global and alternative perspectives of the Humanities, to examine its immediate historicity of postcoloniality.

MORE

Dr Duanfang Lu teaches in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She holds a BArch from Tsinghua University, Beijing and PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been awarded prestigious research grants from the US Social Science Research Council, UC Berkeley, the Getty Foundation and Australian Research Council (Discovery Project, 2007-9), and the Best Article Prize from Planning Perspectives and the International Planning History Society (2006-7).

MORE

Dr Silvia Micheli is Lecturer at the School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. She obtained her PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism at the IUAV University, Venice. Her research focuses on global architecture and urbanism and cross-cultural exchanges in 20thand 21stcentury Asia Pacific region. Silvia is currently investigating new forms of urban spaces in Southeast Asia and Australia.

MORE

Dr Kelum Palipane is a Lecturer in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. She is a graduate architect with experience in several architectural practices based in Melbourne and overseas. She obtained her PhD by Creative Works from the University of Melbourne. Kelum’s doctoral research involved developing a design framework that would help retain and foster the diverse place-making practices of multicultural communities in neighbourhood regeneration projects.

MORE

Nihal Perera is currently Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University, Indiana, USA, and Director of CapAsia field-study program in South Asia. He obtained his PhD from the State University of New York and has studied at the University College, London, MIT, and the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He has been a visiting scholar/faculty at the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Baptist University, CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India, and University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Perera’s research focuses on the politics of space, especially how subject people create spaces for their daily activities and cultural practices.

MORE

Anoma Pieris is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. She is an architectural historian by training with a specialist focus on South and Southeast Asian architecture. Her interdisciplinary approach draws on history, anthropology and geography with an additional interest in gender studies.
 

MORE

Dr Jayde Lin Roberts is an interdisciplinary scholar of the built environment and Burma/Myanmar specialist. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright-Hayes DDRA Program, the Blakemore Freeman Fellowship and ANU's CIW non-resident fellowship. In 2014, she served as the lead researcher for an EU-funded project to examine urban livelihoods in Yangon/Rangoon and her monograph,Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese, will be published by the University of Washington Press in June 2016. She has been selected as Fullbright U.S. Fellow for Burma/Myanmar for 2016 to 2017.

MORE

Peter Scriver has played a leading role in the teaching of Architectural History, Theory and Architectural Design, and the development of postgraduate research across the Built Environment disciplines at the University of Adelaide since 1996. A founding member of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), established at Adelaide U. in 1997, his research engages cultural and cognitive approaches to the study of architecture and the broader built environment, with a particular focus on colonial architectures and urbanism, and the professional networks and institutional frameworks in which the design disciplines operate. Scriver’s original doctoral research, completed in the Netherlands (TUDelft) in 1994, examined the interface between theory and practice in the propagation and institutionalisation of modern architectural and engineering knowledge in colonial India through the agency of the Public Works Department of British Indian, and he has continued to focus on cross-cultural thresholds in the building of colonial and contemporary South and Southeast Asia in subsequent work.

MORE

Ari Selifmann's current research examines Japanese architecture, architectural photography, and architectural education. He is a regular contributor to the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand with a suite of studies of the discursive construction of Japanese architecture. His Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015, Developments and Dialogues (2016) is one of the first English language surveys of modern Japanese architecture produced in almost 30 years. Ongoing research includes documenting and analysing the evolution of the Kumamoto Artpolis Program (1988-present), which is the longest running public architecture program in the world and a litmus of the development of contemporary Japanese architecture. He has published in prominent journals such as Architecture and Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Journal of Architectural Education.

MORE

Eunice M.F. Seng is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and founding principal of SKEW Collaborative, Shanghai-Hong Kong. Her research interests include the histories and theories of modernity, housing and the metropolis, politics of power and post-colonialism, inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches to architecture, as well as utopias, artifacts and their cultural representations. 

MORE

Dr Sidh Sintusingha is Coordinator, Landscape Architecture Major, Bachelor of Environments at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining academia, he practiced as an architect and landscape architect in Thailand and Australia. His research focuses on addressing socio-cultural, environmental and scalar problems relating to urban sprawl and the speculation of retrofits towards urban sustainability in Southeast Asian cities. His research also addresses the evolving formal cultural landscape expressions, both planned/designed and unplanned/undesigned, in response to those broader phenomenon of urban sprawl. Sidh has widely presented and published in these areas both locally and internationally. He is also a Research Associate at the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab and on the Architects for Peace editorial board.

MORE

Dr. Sobti is an Islamic architecture and urban historian, previously Associate Professor at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee USA. He has a B.Dipl.Arch. from School of Architecture-CEPT (Ahmedabad - India), an SMarchS. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge - USA), and a Ph.D. from the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta - USA).

MORE

Dr Amit Srivastava is a member of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) and is involved in the historiography of Post-Colonial Architecture in South and South East Asia, with special focus on the socio-political condition generated by the intersection of de-colonizing and nationalist policies. His work also deals with issues of Human Rights and Social Ethics within the extended field of architecture. In addition to this, his long standing intellectual pursuit engages the works of Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour to discuss the problems of Materiality as confounded by the subject-object dichotomy.

MORE

Dr Imran bin Tajudeen is known since 2012/ 2013 for his ground-breaking public awareness campaign on the historical significance of the Jalan Kubor Cemetery and its surrounding. He did this through a number of media interviews, public talks and research on the Kampong Glam area beyond the Conservation District boundaries. Over time, his efforts and those of his volunteers to document Jalan Kubor attracted the interest of National Heritage Board and other agencies to lend their support.

Dr. John Ting is an Australian architect, researcher and educator. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra, and he has previously taught at the University of Melbourne and at RMIT University. His present research investigates the mobility of timber colonial buildings in nineteenth century Southeast Asia and Australia, and the history of architecture in Sarawak before 1963.

MORE

Tim is a sociologist by training, and has previously held positions at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, University of Sydney and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Tim’s research interests cover a number of heritage related themes: how the concept is shaped epistemologically through certain knowledge practices; and how it figures in issues like nationalism, cultural diplomacy, post-conflict recovery, sustainability, postcolonial identities and urban development. Much of his work focuses on the developing economies of Asia, with projects currently being pursued in Cambodia, Qatar, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

MORE

Julian Worrall is an Australian architect, urbanist, scholar, and critic, with an international reputation as an interpreter of Japanese contemporary architecture. He holds a PhD in Architectural and Urban History from the University of Tokyo, and has worked for leading architectural practices in Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands, including Klein Dytham Architecture and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. His creative and research interests – pursued through a mix of scholarly research, critical writing, and design practice – are broadly concerned with exploring intersections between local cultures and global modernity, with Japanese architecture and urban space being fertile ground on which to pursue this agenda.

MORE