Associate Professor Lee Stickells
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Associate Professor Lee Stickells

PhD, UWA; PG Cert, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of the West of England; BArch(Hons 1), UWA; BEnv Des, UWA.
Associate Professor
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+61 2 9351 2328
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G04 - Wilkinson Building
The University of Sydney
Associate Professor Lee Stickells

Lee Stickells is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. He teaches across the areas of architectural design, urban design and the architectural humanities. Lee has a range of professional experience in urban design and architecture – predominantly in Australia and Asia – including with leading Australian practices Donaldson + Warn and Woods Bagot. Before moving to the University of Sydney in 2008, he was Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the West of England, where he taught in architecture and urban design as well as directing the Master of Urban Design program. Lee has also been a sessional tutor and visiting critic at University of Strathclyde, TU Eindhoven, University of Bath, University of Western Australia, University of Technology, Sydney, Curtin University and the University of South Australia.

Lee’s overarching research interest is in connecting architectural experimentation to broader socio-cultural and technological transformations. He focuses particularly on alternative practices in architectural and environmental design from the 1960s onward, which have tended to challenge conventional disciplinary models – rethinking and reconfiguring mainstream education, professional practice, and capital-intensive production.

Lee’s current research is concerned with developing histories that connect architecture with the sweeping socio-cultural transformations centred on the 1960s, and informing understandings of the legacy of that turbulent period – especially the architectural and design strategies that have sought to respond to those transformations. He is particularly concerned to place these architectural practices within a global context and to think through the local articulation of international movements. Lee approaches this through intertwined historical research, critical writing and curatorial practices that rethink the boundaries of architecture, its conditions, and territories. Current areas of research include:

  • Alternative and countercultural architecture of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Experimental domesticity in Australian mining settlements
  • Architecture and spatial justice
  • Architecture and the governance of circulation
  • Architecture design studio

  • Architectural and urban design history and theory

Project titleResearch student
Domesticity and Leisure: Radical ArchitecturesMaria CANO DOMINGUEZ
The Shape of a Knot: Thought Forms and Symbolic Systems of the Visual Tactile in Art as ResearchMaya STOCKS

Publications

Edited Books

  • Stickells, L., Leach, A. (2018). Sydney School: Formative Moments in Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. Melbourne: Uro.

Book Chapters

  • Stickells, L. (2022). Little living labs: 1970s student design-build projects and the objects of experimental lifestyle. In Elke Couchez, Rajesh Heynickx (Eds.), Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design, (pp. 126-145). London: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Housing the Farmers of Enlightenment. In Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye (Eds.), Activism at Home. Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance. Jovis Verlag.
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Take up the Flute. In Sophie Lanigan, Anna Tonkin (Eds.), Sent, The Publication. Sophie Lanigan Projects & Post-Post-. [More Information]

Journals

  • Stickells, L. (2023). "Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine." Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group's ECOL Operation, 1971-76. ABE Journal, 21. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2020). Book Review - Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s. Constructs, Spring 2020. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2020). Can We Still Choose Architectural History? Architectural Theory Review, 24(2), 203-206. [More Information]

Edited Journals

  • Stickells, L. (2022). Pig Education Redux. CIRCA, 1.

Conferences

  • Stickells, L. (2022). Cold Showers: Architectural Experiments in Eco-Domesticity. CRITIQUE-King’s College Joint Roundtable: Fail Again, Fail Better? Utopia, Memory, Radical Politics, and Radical Research, Online: The University of Edinburgh.
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Material Practices and Everyday Utopia. Politics and Utopia in Architecture: Shaping Future Societies, Melbourne Design Week, Online: Independently Published.
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Model Students: The ECOL Operation and the Performance of Appropriate Technology. The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Online: Independently Published.

Visual Art

  • Breen Lovett, S., Stickells, L. (2011). Limit.Cycle. In: Limit.Cycle. FraserStudios. FraserStudios - Dwyer St Facade, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia.
  • Breen Lovett, S., Stickells, L. (2010). Expanded Architecture 04: Window Wound. In: Expanded Architecture 04: Window Wound. Silvester Fuller Architects. BMA House in Macquarie Street, Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Textual Creative Works

  • Stickells, L. (2013). Hand Made: The Ecology of a Countercultural Architecture. Not Quite Square: The Story of Northern Rivers Architecture, (pp. 16 - 23). Lismore, Australia: Lismore Regional Gallery.
  • Stickells, L. (2013). Not Quite Square. Emergen/city - User Generated Architecture, (pp. 17 - 22). Sydney, Australia: Tin Sheds Gallery.
  • Stickells, L. (2011). Editorial: The Right to the City, Rethinking Architecture's Social Significance. Architectural Theory Review, 16 (3), (pp. 213 - 227). Sydney, Australia: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

Design or Architectural Works

  • Stickells, L., Zanardo, M., Shelton, B., Thioulouse, N. (2009). Campus Life: A Vision For Harold Park And Environs. Harold Park, Glebe, Australia: The University of Sydney. public. Unrealized.
  • Stickells, L. (2001). The Two Coins. Bristol, United Kingdom.

Exhibitions / Events

  • Stickells, L., Geddes, K. (2013). Not Quite Square: The story of Northern Rivers architecture. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
  • Stickells, L., Breen Lovett, S., Hamilton, Y. (2011). Expanded Architecture 2011. CarriageWorks, Sydney, Australia: Performance Space.
  • Begg, S., Stickells, L. (2011). The Right to the City. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Stickells, L. (2022). No Dope, No Dole, No Dogs. The Journal of the Fulcrum Agency - Commune, Vol. 3. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2018). Aquarian Green. SL Magazine (Spring 2018).
  • Stickells, L. (2014). Architecture of doom: DIY planning for global catastrophe. The Conversation.

ERA Specific Journals

  • Stead, N., Stickells, L. (2010), Editorial: Special Issue on Writing Architecture. Architectural Theory Review, 15(3), 233-241. [More Information]

2023

  • Stickells, L. (2023). "Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine." Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group's ECOL Operation, 1971-76. ABE Journal, 21. [More Information]

2022

  • Stickells, L. (2022). Cold Showers: Architectural Experiments in Eco-Domesticity. CRITIQUE-King’s College Joint Roundtable: Fail Again, Fail Better? Utopia, Memory, Radical Politics, and Radical Research, Online: The University of Edinburgh.
  • Stickells, L. (2022). Little living labs: 1970s student design-build projects and the objects of experimental lifestyle. In Elke Couchez, Rajesh Heynickx (Eds.), Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design, (pp. 126-145). London: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2022). No Dope, No Dole, No Dogs. The Journal of the Fulcrum Agency - Commune, Vol. 3. [More Information]

2021

  • Stickells, L. (2021). Housing the Farmers of Enlightenment. In Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye (Eds.), Activism at Home. Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance. Jovis Verlag.
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Material Practices and Everyday Utopia. Politics and Utopia in Architecture: Shaping Future Societies, Melbourne Design Week, Online: Independently Published.
  • Stickells, L. (2021). Model Students: The ECOL Operation and the Performance of Appropriate Technology. The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Online: Independently Published.

2020

  • Stickells, L. (2020). Book Review - Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s. Constructs, Spring 2020. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2020). Can We Still Choose Architectural History? Architectural Theory Review, 24(2), 203-206. [More Information]
  • Leach, A., Stickells, L. (2020). Position paper: Looking back at distance looks back: Reflections on the first combined meeting of EAHN and SAHANZ (Sydney, 10-13 July 2019). Architectural Histories, 8(1), 9. [More Information]

2019

  • Stickells, L. (2019). Ambitions in student design-build experiments of the 1970s. Objects & Sites of Schooling, University of Queensland: University of Queensland.
  • Stickells, L. (2019). Little Living Labs of the 1970s. Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History, New York City: Columbia University.

2018

  • Stickells, L. (2018). Aquarian Green. SL Magazine (Spring 2018).
  • Barber, D., Stickells, L., Ryan, D., Koehler, M., Leach, A., Goad, P., van der Plaat, D., Keys, C., Karim, F., Taylor, W. (2018). Architecture, Environment, History: Questions and Consequences. Architectural Theory Review, 22(2), 249-286. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2018). Housing the Farmers of Enlightenment. Activism at Home: Architects’ own houses as sites of resistance, Manchester: University of Manchester.

2017

  • Smith, W., Lewi, H., Saniga, A., Stickells, L., Constantidis, D. (2017). Bringing the Classroom into the World: Three Reflective Case Studies of Designing Mobile Technology to Support Blended Learning for the Built and Landscaped Environment. Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 5(1), 64-84. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2017). Journeys with the autonomous house. Fabrications, 27(3), 352-375. [More Information]
  • Thorpe, A., Moore, T., Stickells, L. (2017). Pop-up Justice? Reflecting on Relationships in the Temporary City. In John Henneberry (Eds.), Transience and Permanence in Urban Development, (pp. 151-169). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. [More Information]

2016

  • Stickells, L. (2016). Architecture and the Welfare State. Fabrications, 26(1), 123-126. [More Information]

2015

  • Stickells, L. (2015). Exiting the Grid: Autonomous House Design in the 1970s. 32nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney: Society Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
  • Stickells, L. (2015). Negotiating Off-Grid: Counterculture, Conflict and Autonomous Architecture in Australia's Rainbow Region. Fabrications, 25(1), 104-129. [More Information]

2014

  • Stickells, L. (2014). Architecture of doom: DIY planning for global catastrophe. The Conversation.
  • Stickells, L., Thorpe, A. (2014). Beyond protest: activism and participation in 1970s Sydney. 12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference, Wellington, New Zealand: Australasian Urban History and Planning History Group and Victoria University of Wellington.
  • Stickells, L. (2014). Designing way out: Shay Gap and the living laboratory of the 1970s. In Philip Goldswain, Nicole Sully, William M. Taylor (Eds.), Out of Place: Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition: Gwalia, (pp. 231-265). Crawley: UWA Publishing.

2013

  • Stickells, L. (2013). "And everywhere those strange polygonal igloos": Framing the history of Australian counterculture architecture. The 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2013, Gold Coast, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Stickells, L. (2013). Beyond The Pop-Up Art. Christchurch Art Bulletin, (171), 48-51.
  • Leach, A., Taylor, W., Stickells, L. (2013). Editorial: Architecture, Evidence, and "Evidentiality". Architectural Theory Review, 18(1), 1-7. [More Information]

2012

  • Stickells, L., Warren, S. (2012). An Agonistic Vocabulary - A Litany of Engagement. In Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (Eds.), Beyond Utopia, (pp. 109-112). Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
  • Stickells, L. (2012). Other Australian Architecture: Excavating Alternative Practices of the 1960s and 1970s. Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage, SAHANZ XXIX 2012, 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand, Launceston, Australia: Society Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
  • Stickells, L., Hill, G. (2012). Pig Architecture. Architecture Australia, 101(2, March/April 2012), 75-76.

2011

  • Stickells, L. (2011). A HEAP OF WRECKED MAPS: Re-viewing Kjetil Fallan's "Architecture in Action: Traveling with Actor-network Theory in the Land of Architectural Research" and David Leatherbarrow's "Criticism and Affirmation". Architectural Theory Review, 16(2), 177-183. [More Information]
  • Stickells, L. (2011). Architectural Review Australia | One to Watch: Officer Woods Architects. Architectural Review Australia, 122 (Residential 11), 54-58.
  • Stickells, L. (2011). Architectural Review Australia | The Making of Hong Kong. Architectural Review Australia, June / July(Issue 120), 14-15.

2010

  • Stickells, L. (2010). Barangaroo: Instant Urbanism - Just Add Water. Architecture Australia, Volume 99 No 3, (pp. 47 - 51). Port Melbourne, Australia: Architecture Media Pty Ltd..
  • Stickells, L. (2010). Conceiving an architecture of movement. ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 14(1), 41-51. [More Information]
  • Stead, N., Stickells, L. (2010), Editorial: Special Issue on Writing Architecture. Architectural Theory Review, 15(3), 233-241. [More Information]

2009

  • Stickells, L. (2009). A foray into the vertical common: The practice of utopia. 5th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools in Australasia AASA 2009, New Zealand: Association of Architecture Schools in Australasia.
  • Stickells, L., Zanardo, M., Shelton, B., Thioulouse, N. (2009). Campus Life: A Vision For Harold Park And Environs. Harold Park, Glebe, Australia: The University of Sydney. public. Unrealized.
  • Stickells, L. (2009). Editorial in Special Issue: Sensory Urbanism. Architectural Theory Review, 14(2), 105-107. [More Information]

2008

  • Stickells, L. (2008). Conceiving an Architecture of Movement. History in Practice: The 25th Annual Society of Architectural Historians (SAHANZ) Conference, Geelong, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Stickells, L., Mosley, J. (2008). Film/Architecture/Narrative. Cities in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image, Liverpool, UK: University of Liverpool.
  • Stickells, L. (2008). Flow Urbanism: The heterotopia of flows. In Michael Dehaene and Lieven De Cauter (Eds.), Heterotopia and the city: Public Space in a postcivil society, (pp. 247-257). Oxon, UK: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]

2007

  • Stickells, L., Mosley, J. (2007). Film/Architecture/Narrative. The Architecture Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom: University of the West of England (UWE).

2006

  • Stickells, L. (2006). Architecture and motion: shifting spaces of encounter. Isolation: Disconnection, solitude and seclusion in a connected world, Tasmania.
  • Stickells, L., Sully, N. (2006). 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, UK.
  • Stickells, L. (2006). Watchet. United Kingdom: Phoenix Arts Centre.

2005

  • Stickells, L., Sully, N. (2005). 'There is No Village': Problems of Heritage and Remembering in Perth. 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand - SAHANZ 2005, New Zealand: Society of Architectural Historians.
  • Stickells, L. (2005). Flow Urbanism: Heterotopia and Affective Form. European Association of Architectural Education Conference 2005 (EAAE 2005), Belgium: European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE).

2002

  • Stickells, L. (2002). Modernism and the Games Village. Additions to Architectural History - XIXth Annual Conference of SAHANZ, Brisbane: Society Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

2001

  • Stickells, L. (2001). The Two Coins. Bristol, United Kingdom.

Selected Grants

2017

  • Aquarian Green: Building new ways of living in the 1970s counterculture, Stickells L, Library Council of NSW/Research Grant

2014

  • International Alternative Architecture Research Platform, Stickells L, Castillo G, Scott F, Sadler S, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant