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.
Head of Architecture
G04 - Wilkinson Building
The University of Sydney
| Telephone | +61 2 9351 2328 |
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Biographical details
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.
Research interests
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
Teaching and supervision
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Architecture design studio
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Architectural and urban design history and theory
Current research students
| Project title | Research student |
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| People Built for Architecture: Knowing the "User" with Architectural Handbooks | Thomas ESSEX-PLATH |
Selected grants
2017
- Aquarian Green: Building new ways of living in the 1970s counterculture; Stickells L; State Library of New South Wales/Research Grant.
2015
- International Alternative Architecture Research Platform; Stickells L, Castillo G, Scott F, Sadler S; Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant.
2011
- New tools and techniques for learning in the field: Studying the built environment; Stickells L; Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)..../Innovation and Development Grants.
Selected publications & creative works
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