Dr Ali Rad Yousefnia
Teaching Associate
School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Book Chapters
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2025). Iranian vernacular architecture: an alter-na[rra]tive. Persian vernacular architecture: lessons from master builders of Iran on climate resilient design. (pp. 305-318) edited by Ali Cheshmehzangi and Sue Roaf. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-96-1116-4_16
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2024). The absent referent of exchange in South and Southeast Asian trade: the role of Iranian trade networks in facilitating colonial commodities in the nineteenth century. Architectural encounters in Asia Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s. (pp. 185-196) edited by Amanda Achmadi, Paul Walker and Soon-Tzu Speechley. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781350421394.ch-012
Sobti, Manu P. and Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2024). Beyond water: step wells and community hydraulics in modern India. Rethinking stormwater management through sustainable urban design. (pp. 273-292) edited by Ali Cheshmehzangi, Maycon Sedrez and Andrew Flynn. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-4924-9_14
Journal Articles
Zahnow, Renee, Rad Yousefnia, Ali, Hassankhani, Mahnoosh and Cheshmehzangi, Ali (2025). Climate change inequalities: a systematic review of disparities in access to mitigation and adaptation measures. Environmental Science & Policy, 165 104021, 104021-165. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104021
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2024). Politics as a city’s last analysis. Nature Cities, 2 (4), 1-2. doi: 10.1038/s44284-024-00186-7
Conference Papers
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2022). Provocation, ultra-resistance and representation: A case study-based research course and the student exhibition ‘re-presented’. Ultra: Positions and Polarities Beyond Crisis, Adelaide, SA Australia, 10-13 November 2021. Adelaide, SA Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. doi: 10.55939/a3993p1uq3
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2020). One History and Two Narrations: Contrasting Safavid and Ottoman Histories of Tabriz and Azerbaijan Region. Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Perth, WA, Australia, 18-25 November, 2020. Perth, WA Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2019). The impacts of a political quarrel on heritage: The case of traditional Bazaar in Tabriz. Tangible – Intangible Heritage(s) – Design, social and cultural critiques on the past, the present and the future, London, United Kingdom, 13 - 15 June 2018. London, United Kingdom: AMPS C.I.O..
Theses
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2023). Networks of Qajar Commerce: The Tabriz Grand Bazaar within the Globalising World of the Nineteenth Century. PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/ddff528
Rad Yousefnia, Ali (2018). Structural and ideological transformation of public space: the case of Tabriz. Master's Thesis, Department of Architecture, Middle East Technical University (Turkey).