About Dr Lee Stickells
Dr Stickells’ research extends across fields including urbanism, landscape and heritage. It is focused on relationships between architecture and the city.
Dr Stickells’ current research interests include: Changing conceptions and structuring of bodily movement within modern architecture; The incorporation of cinematic techniques and concepts in architectural and urban design processes; Contemporary ephemeral heritage and urban ruins; Contested understandings of modern architectural heritage.
Dr Stickells teaches and researches across the areas of urban architecture and urban design. He is also an editor of Architectural Theory Review.
Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2008 he was a senior lecturer, and Programme Leader of the MA Urban Design, at The University of the West of England in Bristol. He has been an invited critic at The University of Strathclyde and Technical University of Eindhoven, as well as a sessional staff member at the University of Western Australia, and Curtin University of Technology. Before becoming a full-time academic he gathered a range of professional experience in urban design and architecture – working predominantly in Australia and Asia.
Selected publications
- “Flow Urbanism: The Heterotopia of Flows,” in Lieven De Cauter and Michel Dehaene (Eds), The Rise of Heterotopia – Public Space and the Architecture of the Everyday in a Post-civil Society, Routledge, 2008.
- “Things That Go Bump in the Night: What price to save Perth’s heritage?” in Ian Alexander, Dave Hedgcock and Shane Greive (Eds), Planning in WA [with Brian J. Shaw, forthcoming].
- “Perth Waterfront: in response” Architecture Australia May/June 2008.
- “Film/Architecture/Narrative,” Cities in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image, University of Liverpool, 26-28th March 2008 [with Jonathan Mosley]
- “Architecture and motion: shifting spaces of encounter,” Isolation: Disconnection, solitude and seclusion in a connected world, 14th - 16th December, Hobart, Tasmania,
- “Questioning History: Conflict between perceived property rights and heritage listing in Perth, Western Australia,” Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London 30th August – 1st September 2006 [with Nicole Sully]