Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

Professor Kaji-O’Grady’s research interests are in the cross-fertilization between architecture, science and art in the 1960s and 1970s. She draws out the relationships between emerging sciences such as computerisation and robotics, the development of performance art and installation, and the architecture of the 1970s. She situates these exchanges in their historical and cultural contexts and alongside theoretical debates in and out of architecture. As a critic, she is concerned to assess the consequences of individual buildings for the discipline. Additionally, she researches notation and colour through her own art practice and is interested in supervising higher degree research by project.

Professor Michael Tawa

I am fascinated by the way things (concepts, places, spaces, objects) are made – not only that they are made, but more so the way they come to be made. Consequently, I value process over product, and products only to the extent that they open up new perspectives and processes of thinking and making. I value the un-programmable, the uncertain, the makeshift, the incommunicable and the uncanny in language, the image, representation and architectural experience. My approach to teaching is that of an encounter with an equivalent fascination in the other, of a practice focused on opening up and mobilising sense through the project, around which the work hovers and proceeds.

Dr Lee Stickell

Dr Lee Stickells is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He teaches in architectural design, urban design and the architectural humanities; he also directs the Master of Architecture program. Lee’s broad research interests lie in the architectural humanities, particularly in the intellectual history of twentieth-century architectural and urban design culture. This has been focused through the investigation of conceptual relationships between architecture and the city, revealed in critical histories of urban design paradigms, art-architecture relations, and architectural design techniques.

Dr Duanfang Lu

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).

Dr Dagmar Reinhardt

Dagmar Reinhardt recently joined the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning as a lecturer of Architectural Design and Digital Architecture. Reinhardt is an academic with a practice – reinhardt_jung, operating in Frankfurt and Sydney. Reinhardt’s research considers the emerging potential of digital architecture as an exciting challenge, specifically in the interdisciplinary exchange between academic environment, cultural productions, industrial expertise and architectural entrepeneurship.

Ross Anderson