Sandra Kaji-O'Grady
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Biography
Architecture is a cultural practice, a site of technological application and a profession. The tensions between service to clients, technique of production and fabrication, and making sense of the world through representation, form and spatial organization, fascinates Professor Kaji-O’Grady. Her abiding motivation is to understand how these larger tensions in the discipline are played out in specific circumstances.
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.
Kaji-O'Grady's research has been published in leading international journals including The Journal of Architectural Education and the Journal of Architecture, and as chapters in books with international audiences and publishers including The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, Sage, (forthcoming 2010) and Architecture, Disciplinarity and the Arts, A&S Books, Ghent, (2009). She has presented regularly at international conferences including in the UK, USA, Finland, France, Germany and Belgium. She delivered the first plenary lecture at the conference ‘Universal versus Individual: The Architecture of the 1960s' in Finland, organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy in 2002. In the same year, at the invitation of the architect, Hiromi Fujii, she delivered a lecture on his work at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.
The innovative nature of Kaji-O'Grady's research lies in the connections made between architecture and art in the 1960s and 1970s, and between architectural design and the socio-political contexts of contemporary practice. Her research on the 1970s is pioneering scholarship on a period that has only just come into view as a historical subject. Her work on the transfer of ideas and techniques between art, architecture and emerging information technologies in the 1970s has been published internationally in The Journal of Architectural Education (61/4, 2008) and presented at national and international conferences. It builds on her doctoral thesis and previous research on cross-disciplinary techniques in art, music and architecture. Completed in 2001 through the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash University, her doctoral work developed skills in interdisciplinary research and knowledge of the broader themes of aesthetic, media and visual theory, as evident in her recent contribution on ‘Formalism and Forms of Practice', for The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory (2009).
In addition to refereed works, Kaji-O'Grady has regularly contributed research ideas to the wider profession and community through publication and broadcasting. A prolific critic of art, design and architecture, she has over forty building, exhibition and book reviews in the professional press including Monument, Object, Architecture Australia, Architecture Review and Artichoke. Kaji-O'Grady has written essays for exhibition catalogues and made public presentations for the 2006 and 2008 Sydney Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the Victorian and NSW chapters of the AIA, the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, the Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, the Geelong Art Gallery and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. A practicing artist, she has exhibited her work that explores notation and colour using pianola rolls and Dulux paint samples in Sydney and Singapore.
She has supervised three doctoral students to completion, and has served as external examiner for masters and doctoral theses from several Australian & NZ universities.
Publications and outputs
Books | Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Conference Presentations and Publications | Architectural and Design | Public Lectures and Presentations
Book Chapters
2011 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., & Smitheram, J, 'Critical Utopia: Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro', in Critical Tools: International Colloquium on Architecture and Cities #3, Hilde Heynen and Jean-Louis Genard (eds.), La Lettre, Volée, Bruxelles, 2011.
2011 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Formalism and Forms of Practice', in The Safe Handbook of Architectural Theory, Greig Chrysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen (eds.), Sage, 2011.
2009 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Serial Techniques in the Arts: General Ambitions and Particular Manifestations', in Architecture, Disciplinarity and the Arts John Macarthur and Andrew Leach, A&S Books, Ghent,
2009 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Designing a practice: the emergence of a multi-office global practice', Cox Architects and Planners 1960-2010, Images Publishing, Melbourne, 2008.
2009 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Public Art and Audience Reception: Theatricality and Fiction', in Back to the City. Collaboration between Artists and Architects: Strategies for Informal Urban Design', Steffen Lehman (ed.), Hatje Cantz, 2009.
2006 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Architectural Models: Literally and Metaphorically', Public, Vol. 1, Spatial Tactics: Woods Bagot Research Press, Melbourne, Sydney.
2005 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Public Art and Crime', in Steffen Lehman, e, Absolutely Public: Crossover - Art and Architecture, The Images Publishing Group, Melbourne.
2002 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Op Art in the Abyss of Design', Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
2000 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The serial underside of structuralism: Boulez, Lévi-Strauss, Eco, Eisenman and Fujii', in Re-Framing Architecture: Theory, Science and Myth, Michael J. Oswald and John Moore, (eds.), Archadia Press, Sydney.
Journal Articles
2011 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Seriature', Architecture &, Vol. 3, special issue, 'Architecture and Series', 2011.
2010 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Architectural Aphorisms', Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, November.
2008 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The London Conceptualists: Architecture and Performance in the 1970s', The Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2008.
2007 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Book review: PAtricia an Ulzen Imagine a Metropolis: Rotterdam's Creative Class 1970-2000', Visual Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, October.
2006 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Melbourne versus Sydney', [[i||Architectural Theory Review', Vol. 11, No. 2.
2005 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., and Raisbeck, P., 'Prototype cities in the sea', Journal of Architecture, Vol. 10, No. 4.
2005 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The London Conceptualists: architecture and conceptual art in the 1970s', in respenser les limites: l'architecture á travers l'espace, le tempts et le disciplines, Paris, INHA, (Actes de colloques), 2005.
2003 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., and Willis, J., 'Conditions, Connections and Change: Reviewing Australian Architectural Theory 1880-2000', Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 8, No. 2.
2002 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'National identity at Arakawa and Gins' site of reversible destiny - Yoro, Japan', Fabrications, Vol. 12, No. 2.
2001 | Kaji-O'Grady, S. 'Authentic Japanese Architecture After Bruno Taut: The Problem of Eclecticism', Fabrications, Vol. 11, No. 2.
1998 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Architectural Serialism', Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 3, No. 2.
Conference presentations and publications
2011 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Environment Bubbles: Architecture, Medicine and Media', Proceedings of Audience: SAHANZ International Conference, Brisbane, 7-10 July. Antony Moulis and Deborah van der Plaat, (eds.).
2009 | Russel, A., King, S., Kaji-O'Grady, S. and Edwards, D., 'Mapping Ultimo, Sydney for Sustainable Tourism', in Urban Design Research: Method and Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference held at Birmingham City University, 3-4 December. Mohsen Aboutorabi and Andreas Wesener, (eds.) Birmingham City University.
2008 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Challenges for Architectural History and Criticism: The Super-sized Office and the Transdisciplinary Studio', Proceedings of History in Practice: SAHANZ 25th International Conference, 3-6 July, David Beynon and Ursula de Jong (eds.). Deakin University, Geelong.
2007 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The dramatisation of 'eco-technologies' in recent high rise towers', in Kristen Orr and Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, (eds), Proceedings of the fourth international conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, "Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation", - University of Technology, Sydney, Sept. 27-29, 2007.
2007 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The solipsism of serial arts', in George E. Lasker and Ana Luz, (eds.), On choreographies in music, visual and performing arts and Environmental Design', Vol. 1, Baden-Baden, July 31-August 1, 2007. Tecumseh, Canada: The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, pp. 1-5.
2006 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Larrikins and Landscape: The Quest to be the most Australian City', unAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Canberra 6-8 December 2006, electronic proceedings.
2005 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., ''Architecture as Performance Art: The collaboration between Rosalie Goldberg and Bernard Tschumi', Refereed Proceedings: Third International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA), Kathi Holt-Damant and Paul Sanders, Brisbane (28-30 Sept).
2004 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The look of information: conceptual art, computers and architecture in the 1970s', Limits: Proceedings of the 21st Annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Harriet Edquist and Helene Frichot, (eds.), Melbourne, Vol. 1.
2003 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Hiromi Fujii and Serialism', Contribution and Confusion: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry. Proceedings of the 91st ACSA International Conference, Helsinki, Finland, July 27-30, 2003. Scott Poole and Pia Sarpaneva, (eds.). ACSA Press, Washington DC.
2004 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Architecture and te Future in the Philosophical Writings of Virilio and Flusser', CongressCATH 2004: The Architecture of Philosophy/The Philosophy of Architecture, 9-11 July, Bradford.
2003 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Divergent accounts of architectural progress: Virilio and War, Fluster and the Factory', Progress: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney.
2003 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Constrictive Procedures in Architectural Design: The Oulipian Example' Design + Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, Clare Newton, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Simon Wollan (eds.), Melbourne, Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
2002 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Serialism in the Architectural Experiments of the 1960s', Universal vs. Individual: The Architecture of the 1960s, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, Jyväskylä, Finland, Alvar Aalto Academy, 2002.
2002 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'From Stroll Garden to Stumble Park: Mapping Japan at Site of Reversible Destiny', De-Placing Difference: Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography, Samer Akkach, ed., Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide.
2000 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Derrida's "Countersignature": Levinas, Titus-Carmel and Tschumi'., Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, SAHANZ, Wellington, New Zealand, November.
2000 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Speculating on Architectural Models: in 'Architecture and Education', proceedings of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia International Conference. Gary T. Moore and Louise Trevillion, (eds.) University of Sydney.
1999 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Temporality in Soler's Suite Sans Fins', Papers from teh 16th Annual Conference of SAHANZ, Richard Blythe and Rory Spence (eds.), SAHANZ, Launceston and Hobart.
1998 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'The Children's Museum', Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar Forum UNESCO: University and Heritage, W.S. Logan, C. Long and J. Martin (eds.), Melbourne and Geelong.
1998 | Kaji-O'Grady, S., 'Architectural serialism', Papers from the 15th annual conference of SAHANZ, Julie Willis, Philip Goad and Andrew Hutson (eds.), Melbourne.