Dr Ashley Paine
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Director of ATCH
Centre of Architecture Theory Culture History
+61 7 336 53878
Researcher biography
Dr Ashley Paine is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Director of the ATCH Research Centre (Architecture Theory Culture History) at the University of Queensland, Australia. His current research examines the collection, preservation, and reconstruction of buildings in museums, with a particular focus on the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. His broader research and teaching interests span architectural history, intersections of art and architecture, as well as historical preservation and adaptive re-use.
Paine was the lead editor of the book, Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture (2020) published by Valiz as part of the "Studies in Art and Architecture" series. He has also contributed to two other books in this series, as a co-editor of Trading between Architecture and Art: Strategies and Practices of Exchange (2019) and co-author of Pavilion Propositions: Nine Points on an Architectural Phenomenon (2018). He has presented his research in conferences across Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the United States, and published extensively in international books and journals including arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, AA Files, and Future Anterior.
Paine is also a practicing architect, and co-founder of PHAB Architects: a Brisbane-based studio focused on public projects, exhibition design, residential, and heritage works.
| Featured projects | Duration |
|---|---|
| Trading Between Architecture and Art : Strategies and Practices of Exchange | 2019 |
Publications
Book
Macarthur, John, Holden, Susan, Paine, Ashley and Davidts, Wouter (2018). Pavilion propositions: nine points on an architectural phenomenon. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
Book Chapters
Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2022). Fugitive Architecture. The spoken object: a collector's journey in fashion, jewellery, design and architecture. (pp. 341-377) edited by Gene Sherman. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Images Publishing.
Micheli, Silvia and Paine, Ashley (2022). Inside becomes outside: Queensland’s domestic landscape. The new Queensland house. (pp. 12-19) edited by Cameron Bruhn and Katelin Butler. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames & Hudson.
Macarthur, John, Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2020). For what it’s worth: the value of architecture as heritage and culture. Valuing architecture: heritage and the economics of culture. (pp. 8-20) edited by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
Paine, Ashley (2020). The price is Wright: recovering value in Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural fragments. Valuing architecture: heritage and the economics of culture. (pp. 40-57) edited by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
Paine, Ashley (2019). Reading between the lines: reflections on an interview with Mario Botta. Speaking of buildings: oral history in architectural research. (pp. *-*) edited by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat. NY, United States: Princeton Architectural Press.
Davidts, Wouter, Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2019). The terms of trade of architecture and art. Trading between architecture and art: strategies and practices of exchange. (pp. 9-15) edited by Wouter Davidts, Susan Holden and Ashley Paine. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
Paine, Ashley (2019). Spencer Finch’s windows: authenticity and the reconstructed interior. Trading between architecture and art: strategies and practices of exchange. (pp. 181-191) edited by Wouter Davidts, Susan Holden and Ashley Paine. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
Journal Articles
Paine, Ashley (2024). Profile: Speculative Architecture. Architecture Australia, 113 (1), 26-27.
Paine, Ashley (2023). Buildings-in-buildings: museological theatres of preservation and display. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 27 (3), 190-208. doi: 10.1017/S1359135523000295
Paine, Ashley (2022). Green House by Steendijk. Houses, 148 (October), 18-25.
Paine, Ashley (2022). Staging Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel. Theatre and Performance Design, 8 (1-2), 63-75. doi: 10.1080/23322551.2022.2082713
Paine, Ashley (2021). Tactics of reconstructing the past: recent residential practice. Architecture Australia, 110 (2), 62-65.
Paine, Ashley (2021). The Wright House Museum: mediated encounters with Frank Lloyd Wright’s domestic architecture. SaveWright, 12 (1), 2-5.
Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2020). Curating architecture and the city: recent Australian pavilions. European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 3 (1), 117-138. doi: 10.6092/issn.2612-0496/10140
Paine, Ashley and Holden, Susan (2019). The pavilion returns: The Holy See’s Vatican Chapels at the 16th International Venice Biennale of Architecture, 26 May–25 November 2018. Fabrications, 29 (1), 109-111. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2019.1539892
Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2018). Breaking Ground: Muir and Openwork. NGV Magazine, 13, 68-73.
Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2018). Looking back, seeing through: contemporary Australian pavilions. Architecture Australia, 107 (2), 104-108.
Paine, Ashley and Clarke, Amy (2018). Frank Lloyd Wright's posthumous architecture. Architectural Research Quarterly, 22 (1), 69-80. doi: 10.1017/s1359135518000325
Paine, Ashley (2018). Not quite Wright: re-performing Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture ex situ. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 15 (2), 63-79. doi: 10.5749/futuante.15.2.0063
Paine, Ashley (2017). “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: unpacking the archive”, 12 June – 1 October, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 27 (3), 429-432. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2017.1368852
Paine, Ashley (2017). Review: Northlakes Veterinary Hospital by Vokes and Peters. Architecture Australia, 4 (July), 36-43.
Paine, Ashley and Holden, Susan (2017). The art of reverence. Architecture Australia, 106 (4), 73-76.
Paine, Ashley (2015). The curious history of striped architecture. The Architectural Review.
Paine, Ashley (2013). Striped effects: the articulation of materiality and directionality in striped architecture. Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 14, 68-78.
Paine, Ashley (2011). The Problem of Stripes. AA Files, 63, 70-73.
Conference Papers
Holden, Susan, Paine, Ashley, Chaddock, Steven, Macarthur, John and Greenop, Kelly (2023). Building value: Assimilating environmental and cultural heritage frameworks. ICOMOS 21st General Assembly and Scientific Symposium: Heritage Changes, Sydney, NSW Australia, 31 August – 9 September 2023. Sydney, NSW Australia: ICOMOS International.
Paine, Ashley, Holden, Susan and Sale, Charles (2023). Between preservation and curation: OMA and the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip. Prague – Heritages: Past and Present – Built and Social, Prague, Czech Republic, 28-30 June 2023. Prague, Czech Republic: Czech Technical University & AMPS.
Paine, Ashley (2023). A Window on the Museum: Reconstructing the Interiors of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Exhibition as Interior, Online , 9 May 2023. London, United Kingdom: Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University.
Paine, Ashley and Greenop, Kelly (2022). Archives and authorship: a case study on the impact of digital architectural collections. Building Data: Architecture, Memory and New Imaginaries, Delft and Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 23-24 November 2022. Rotterdam, Amsterdam: TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Paine, Ashley (2019). Theatricality and the reconstruction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel. Distance Looks Back: 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, 10-13 July 2019.
Paine, Ashley (2019). Buildings in buildings: close encounters of the architectural kind. AAANZ 2019 Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6 December 2019.
Paine, Ashley (2019). The price is Wright: re-thinking value in the fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. The Values of Architecture and the Economy of Culture, Brisbane, Australia, 12-14 June 2019.
Clarke, Amy and Paine, Ashley (2018). The rhetoric of reproduction: built heritage in a digital age. Digital Cultural Heritage: FUTURE VISIONS, 2018, Brisbane, Australia, 19-20 April, 2017. Brisbane QLD, Australia: Architecture Theory Criticism History Research Centre, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland.
Paine, Ashley (2017). Rethinking replicas: temporality and the reconstructed pavilion. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 5-8 July 2017. Canberra, ACT, Australia: SAHANZ.
Paine, Ashley (2017). Period rooms and the fantasy of architectural display. Fantasy in Reality: Architecture, Representation, Reproduction, London, United Kingdom, 15-16 June 2017.
Paine, Ashley (2016). The rhetoric of authentic surfaces: gold Leaf in the recent work of OMA and Mario Botta. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 6-9 July 2016. Melbourne, Australia: SAHANZ.
Kahn, Michael M. and Paine, Ashley (2015). The decorated synagogue: architectural appropriation and assimilation at Atlanta’s Temple. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2015. Sydney, NSW, Australia: SAHANZ.
Paine, Ashley (2015). Institutional polychromy: the striped architecture of Don Watson and Spence Jamieson. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2015. Sydney, NSW, Australia: SAHANZ.
Paine, Ashley (2014). Principles for the definition of a striped architecture. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2014. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ.
Paine, Ashley (2012). Botta’s striped historicism: Historicism, myth and fabulation in Mario Botta’s stripes. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Launceston, Australia, 5 - 8 July 2012. Brisbane, Australia: SAHANZ.
Paine, Ashley (2011). Facades and stripes: An account of striped facades from medieval Italian churches to the architecture of Mario Botta. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 7-10 July 2011. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Thesis
Paine, Ashley Ian (2015). The history and artifice of horizontally striped architecture: A study of articulation, composition and the work of Mario Botta. PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.21
Designs
Generic Documents
Paine, Ashley (2007). Speed Bump Systems: Visual tools for locating the viewer. Metro Arts Gallery.