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An article by Associate Professor Antony Moulis and Dr Peyman Akhgar that reveals the substantial role of Beaux-Arts training in the expression of Iranian twentieth-century modernism has been published in the prestigious Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH).

Delegates from around the globe recently came together in Brisbane to explore the concept of “Islands” in architectural history and practice, at the 40th annual Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) conference.

Six books by esteemed academics in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning are among the publications to be celebrated at the 2024 SAHANZ Conference in December.

Professor John Macarthur has released a new book that examines a provocative, complex question posed by its title: Is Architecture Art?

Paul Dielemans has accomplished a fascinating PhD thesis that explores the 1940–50s school designs of Queensland architect Frank Leo Cullen (1909–91) and what they represented for the Roman Catholic Church.

On 2–4 December 2024, Brisbane will host the 40th annual Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) conference.

A project that built traditional First Nations rainforest shelters on the UQ Art Museum lawn has taught students new uses for familiar plants and reinforced that “Country is everywhere.”

UQ PhD graduate Dr Dilrabo Tosheva has been granted a prestigious Fellowship with Harvard University’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA). The esteemed appointment is to conduct advanced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, material culture and archaeology, and will allow Dr Tosheva to complete a book she is writing based on her UQ PhD thesis.

Dr Maram Shaweesh’s insightful research into the homemaking practices of the Australian Lebanese community has been recognised with a 2023 UQ Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses, announced in February 2024.

On a recent field trip to South Korea, 11 students from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning explored the captivating megastructures of Seoul. The students immersed themselves in the sights and movements of the city to gain a deeper understanding of its inner workings. Bella Smithson (Bachelor of Design) and Hannah Freiberg (Bachelor of Architectural Design) share their experiences.

Nineteen architecture students recently explored the design wonders of Tokyo and beyond, as part of a cohort of 21 UQ students participating in a field trip to Japan. Liam Leblond (Bachelor of Architectural Design) shares some highlights, from innovations in aged care to projects that rewild the city.

The power of architecture and visions of its future are explored through five research projects from the UQ School of Architecture, Design and Planning paired with State Library of Queensland collection content in a new exhibition at slq Gallery.

Gunyah Goondie + Wurley by UQ School of Architecture's Professor Paul Memmott, has been awarded a 2023 National Trust Award.

Acclaimed author David Malouf discussed “all things Queensland” with Professor Cameron Bruhn to celebrate the release of The New Queensland House at Brisbane’s The Calile Hotel on Saturday 24 September.

The UQ School of Architecture has established the Biography of Queensland Architects Fund to help make the state’s architectural history more accessible. To support the cause, anonymous donors have generously committed to matching gifts up to a total of $25,000 on and in the lead-up to UQ Giving Day on 19 October.

On Friday 19 August, UQ officially opened “Camps, cottages, and homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland”, a collaboration between the School of Architecture and UQ Anthropology Museum.

UQ Architecture academic staff were recognised at the Research and Innovation Awards for Excellence held at The University of Queensland St Lucia Campus last week.

This new publication by Professor Cameron Bruhn and Katelin Butler is a showcase of the most innovative examples of Queensland's subtropical architecture.

Join Parlour and SAHANZ for Parlour LAB 14 – Places of opportunity: designing with and for young people with Penelope Carroll, Karen Witten and Kate Bishop.

On Tuesday 21 June 2022, the University of Queensland launched the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Design Framework at an event at Customs House. University of Queensland Vice Chancellor and President Professor Deborah Terry, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Project Teams and Leads, and the UQ community were all in attendance at what Professor Cameron Bruhn noted was "a significant moment in the university's journey towards reconciliation and the task of creating a treaty-ready built environment."

Project Lead, Carroll Go-Sam's inspiring call to action titled "Zero to Hero" follows.

Climate change presents not only an environmental challenge but a representational one that will push architects to rethink how climate events are incorporated into their practices. Drawing Climate examines what it means for architects and landscape architects to depict seasons and weather but increasingly extreme events like bushfires, floods, and heatwaves.

Digitised cultural databases are a treasure house of information that are telling us the missing stories in Australia’s cultural history.

The 2021 Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize was jointly awarded to UQ School of Architecture Professor John Macarthur and RMIT Associate Professor Conrad Hamann.

Join us for a panel discussion focusing on the confluence of architecture, art, and its neighbouring disciplines, chaired by UQ Senior Lecturer Susan Holden.

The quote 'To speak of cities and present them only as buildings' by Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1967) presents a fascinating provocation, as we constantly reconsider the role of buildings and public space. What is the relationship between utopian urbanism and real life cities?

This seminar will examine the School’s strengths and capabilities in the evolving field of cultural heritage, including recent conferences, publications and research projects in collaboration with government and practice.

The Round About or Inside exhibition explores how artists from multiple geographic and cultural contexts approach the spaces and sites that mark our lives. The exhibition opening will also mark the launch of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture.

For this presentation, the Hill House and its new box highlight the peculiar architecture of buildings-in-buildings and, in particular, the creation of spaces that are not interior nor exterior, but both, simultaneously.

Ahead of the release of his book Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism (January 2021), Associate Professor Antony Moulis, will outline the genesis of the project and the research opportunities that have underpinned it.

This seminar will present three papers from an upcoming book documenting Robin Gibson's life and work.

Launched during 'The Roosenberg Talks' symposium at the Roosenberg Abbey, Architectural Education Through Materiality explores what kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century.

Ashley Paine writes for ArchitectureAU about how our houses demonstrate the passage of time and mark the ways we cohabitate with the past.

To commemorate the launch of Light, Space, Place: The Architecture of Robin Gibson at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2022, editors Deborah van der Plaat and Lloyd Jones will join the University of Melbourne's professor Philip Goad in a discussion of Gibson’s distinctive vision of Brisbane as a sub-tropical city, sensitive to climate and place, and alive with people.

Macarena de la Vega de León a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with ATCH receives Opler Grant for Membership for Emerging Scholars 2020.

Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research reveals the radical potential of a research method that has historically been cast as subjective, partial and unreliable.

In 1950s Australia, places of worship were a pivotal component in the construction of culture and community in rural and suburban expansion. However, the subsequent significance of these buildings has been largely unrecognized. Philip Goad and UQ Architecture PhD candidate Lisa Marie Daunt introduce some of the country’s most intriguing experiments with a new, modernist language for ecclesiastical architecture.

A public exhibition created with University of Queensland architecture researchers that showcased more than 60,000 photographs of suburban homes was awarded the highest honour at the National Trust Queensland Heritage Awards in October.

Learn more about PhD candidate, Lloyd Jones, and his research into the architectural works of Robin Gibson.

Witty and wise, Donald Watson's architectural designs represent some of the finest examples of postmodernism in Queensland. The exhibition Don Watson: A Civil Servant, sheds light on some of Queensland’s little known architectural treasures.

Of the thousands of churches erected to serve the fast-growing communities of post-war Australia, very few are protected. UQ Architecture's Lisa Marie Daunt asked The Conversation whether we are happy to lose buildings that are so much part of our modern heritage?

Virtual reality will allow the public to take a journey through Brisbane’s oldest standing structure, thanks to University of Queensland researchers.

Spectacular architectural pavilions are big crowd-pleasers, but critics claim they’re running out of control. UQ Architecture's Professor John Macarthur weighs in with habitusliving.com

Attempts to redevelop informal settlements with apartment buildings could cause more harm than good in developing regions, according to a University of Queensland PhD architecture student.

Silvia Micheli and Paul Violett write for ArchitectureAU on how the rapid urbanization of China is opening up significant opportunities for Australian architectural practices.