michael C tawa - Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Tawa
FAIA BScArch BArch (Hons) PhD Architect
Professor of Architecture
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA
Telephone +61 2 9114 1486
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born 1955, Alexandria, Egypt
qualifications
1993- Registration, Architects Board of SA, Registration #2241
1992 PhD UNSW
1980 BARCH(HONS) UNSW
1977 BScARCH UNSW
academic positions
2013-16 Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Newcastle University
(UK).
2012 Invited Professor in Residence, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton
University, Ottawa. (January-February)
2010- University of Sydney – Professor of Architecture
2006-2010 Newcastle University (UK) - Professor of Architectural Design, School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape
2004 Écoles des Haûtes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris: Invited Professor,
Centre de Recherches sur le Japon (February-March)
1995-2006 University of NSW - School of Architecture: Senior Lecturer.
1988-95 University of South Australia - School of Architecture: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer.
1977-86 University of NSW - School of Architecture: Tutor.
professional architectural experience & built work
1997-2007 Design Architect: Garie Surf Safety Centre, Royal National Park. Opened August 2007
(Project Architect - NSW Government Architect with Darryl Jackson Robyn Dyke
Architects).
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2003-4 Architect & builder (part): Residence, Paddington.
1999- Sustainable tourism projects, Ngaanyatjarra communities, Western Desert, Western
Australia.
1998 Architect & builder: Apartment, Darlinghurst.
1994 Architect: Ecotourism Camp, Gawler Ranges, SA (with P. Pholeros).
1991-2 Architect & builder: Residence, Adelaide.
1988-95 Own architectural practice, Adelaide
1980-3 Design Architect: Cromer Community Centre (with Peter Hale, Architect).
1980- Own architectural practice, Sydney
2001 TEN10: invited to participate in a retrospective exhibition, celebrating the 10th
anniversary of the University of South Australia, curated by Erica Green, UniSA Art
Museum, Adelaide.
2000 Warm Filters - writing for buildings: invited to participate in an exhibition, curated by Linda
Marie Walker, at the UniSA Art Museum, Adelaide.
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—Lux: invited to participate in an exhibition, curated by Terry Hoskin, at the UniSA
Art Museum, Adelaide.
1998 Andrew Boy Charlton Pool, Sydney: competition entry.
1996 University of the Future competiton - collaboration as Rhizome (Roderick Simpson, Peter
Stutchbury, Richard Baudin & others): selected to proceed to Stage 2.
1993 INSCAPE: invited to participate in an exhibition of staff work, curated by Erica Green,
University of SA Art Museum. Acquired by the Distance Education Centre, University
of SA.
esteem indicators
2017 Member, Central to Eveleigh Creative Place Strategy Advisory Group
—Member, AIA NSW Chapter Council
—Appointed Associate Dean (Indigenous) at the School of Architecture, Design and
Planning
—Public Domain/Public Art Consultant, Pemulwuy Project,
2016 Awarded the Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Education Strategic Award for
sustained contribution to raising awareness of indigenous culture, knowledge and values
across the University
—Editorial Board, Architectural Theory Review
2015- Member, Urban Growth NSW University Roundtable
2011-2016 Editor, Architectural Theory Review (with Lee Stickells and Naomi Stead)
—Member, Design Excellence and Design Review panels for Campus Infrastructure
and Services at The University of Sydney
2011 Member, NSW Chapter AIA Awards Panel, Single Housing
2012 Invited by Professor Roger Connah, Director Graduate Studies, as Professor in
Residence to the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University,
Ottawa (January-February 2012)
2011 Invited by Dr Elizabeth Presa, Director, Centre of Ideas, University of Melbourne, to
present two seminars
—Lecture on architecture and cinema, UNSW, 12 January 2011.
2008 Architect: Garie Surf Safety Centre, Garie Beach, Royal National Park. Premiated for 3
awards in the Master Builders Association of NSW Excellence in Construction Awards
2006-7 International bid awarded for Maldives Post-Secondary Education Development Project;
Maldives College of Higher Education, Male, Maldives – development of professional
courses in architecture following previous work in 2002-3.
2005 Elected Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (FRAIA)
2004 BHP Colorbond Steel Award (UNSW, joint with David Morris UniSA) for Patjarr
Aboriginal Community Visitors Centre, Gibson Desert, WA
2003-4 Architect: Garie Surf Safety Centre, Garie Beach, Royal National Park, Sydney, Australia.
Client: Garie Surf Lifesaving Club and National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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2002-3 Architecture Modula Curricula Development Advisor - Maldives Post-Secondary Education
Development Project; Maldives College of Higher Education, Male, Maldives, August 2002
& July 2003).
—Architectural advisor - Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Visitor Centre: convenor of
national Australian design competition, compilation of design brief, coordination of
competition judging & selection of finalists.
2001 Consultant: convenor and chair of the second Review of the National Framework for the
Design, Construction and Maintenance of Indigenous Housing (Client: Australian Government,
Department of Family & Community Services; November 2001).
—Editor: second edition of the National Indigenous Housing Guide (Client: Department of
Family & Community Services; November – December 2001):
http://www.facs.gov.au/indigenous/toc.htm
2000 Initiator and Coordinator, Built Environment Preparatory Program for Indigenous Students at
the University of NSW
selected publications
monographs
- Theorising the Project: A Thematic Approach to Architectural Design. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2011. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/agencies-of-the-frame-24
- Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2010. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/theorising-the-project-14
chapters in books
- `Consilient discrepancy: porosity and atmosphere in cinema and architecture.’
Architecture_Media_Politics_Society 11: 3 (March 2017),
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uclpress/amps/2017/00000011/00000003/art00001?crawler=true&mi
metype=application/pdf
- `Recuperative architectonics: matter, memory, immanence’, in Sandra Loschke (ed.), Materiality and
Architecture. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, 213-231.
- `From modesty to immodesty’, in Fatemeh Arefian and Seyed Hossein Moeini, (eds.), Urban Change
in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments. Cham: Springer International
Publishing, 2016, 61-70 (with Seyed Mahdi Khatami).
- `Mortarium: a provisional lexicon for masonry’, in Ron Ringer (ed.), Materiality: Brick and Block in
Contemporary Australian Architecture. Horsley Park: Dry Press Publishing, 2015, 540-553.
- `Recuperation’, in Simon Guy (ed.). Art, Sustainability and Place in the Work of Wolfgang Weileder.
Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2015, 175-200.
- Extraneous strangescapes', in Wolfgang Weileder, Meridiano. Bologna: Museo d'Arte Moderna di
Bologna, 2014, 30-34.
- `Unseemly projections: cinema/architecture,’ in Claudia Perren and Sarah Breen-Lovett (eds.),
Reverse Projections. Berlin: Broken Dimanche Press, 2013.
- `Limits of Fluxion,’ in Andrew Ballantyne and Chris Smith (eds.), Architecture in the Space of Flows.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, 217-234.
- `Framing the Parasite,’ in Richard Goodwin: Performance to Porosity. Fishermans Bend: Craftsman
House (Thames and Hudson, Australia), 2006.
papers in refereed journals
- `Interpreting the Islamic concept of piety into architecture.’ The International Journal of Religion and
Spirituality in Society, 5: 3 (2015): 43-51.
- `Vaporous circumambience: towards an architectonics of atmosphere.' Interstices 15: Atmospheres and
affects. Auckland: enigma: he aupiki, 2012.
- `Being (in the Midst of) Two: Interstice and deconstitution in cinema and architecture.’ Interstices 13:
Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History, 2012: 32-43.
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- `Place, country, chorography: towards a kinaesthetic and narrative practice of place.’ Architectural
Theory Review, 7: 2 (November 2002), 45-58.
- `Mapping: design.’ Architectural Theory Review, 3: 1 (April 1998), 35-45.
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papers in refereed conference proceedings
- `An ethical approach to Islamic urbanism’, in Proceedings of The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities,
Osaka. 3-6 April 2014. Nagoya: The International Academic Forum: 297-304, 2014 (with Glen Hill
and Seyed Mahdi Khatami).
- `An architectural interpretation of Islamic virtue’, in Proceedings of The North American Conference on
Arts & Humanities, Providence, 3-6 September 2014. Nagoya: The International Academic Forum:
57-64, 20145 (Seyed Mahdi Khatami).
- `Darker, slower eloquence’ in Stuart King, Anuradha Chatterjee and Stephen Loo (eds), Fabulation:
Myth, Nature, Heritage, 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New
Zealand. [Available CD-Rom] Launceston 2012. Launceston: SAHANZ/University of Tasmania,
2012.
- `Limit and leimma. What remains for architecture,’ in Limits, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of
the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand Melbourne 2004. Melbourne:
SAHANZ/RMIT, 2005: 455-460.
creative works and other publications
- `Anatomy of atmosphere', in Design and Research: Shared Territories, exhibition curated by Chatterjee,
Anurada; Macken, Marian and Fischer, Thomas. Design Research Institute, Xi’an Jiaotong
Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, 28 October - 11 November 2014 (20 minute film and
catalog).
- `(In)scape: film’, in Expanded Architecture at the Rocks 2013, curated by Perren, Claudia and Breen-
Lovett, Sarah. 136-138 Cumberland Street, The Rocks, 8 November 2013 (10 minute film).
- `9732: Wake up. Time to die’, in Mary Knights (ed.), Do Electric Crows Fly Over Adelaide. Adelaide:
South Australian School of Art Gallery, 2013.
- `Ambiguum analogum’, in Anderson, Ross (ed.), Analogue. Sydney: Freerange Press, 2013, 8-13.
- `Interstice’, (with Belqis Youssofzay) in Emergencity, curated by Zanny Begg, Tin Sheds Gallery, 2
August to 7 September 2013 (10 minute film).
- `Culture,’ in Claudia Perren (ed.), Panorama. Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, 2012: 12-
13.
- `Emergence and Architecture.’ Architectural Theory Review, 17: 1 (2012), 1-2.
- `Exchange on emergence.' Architectural Theory Review, 17: 1 (2012), 52-59 (interview with Jean-Luc
Nancy).
- `Untimely Prospects.’,Architectural Theory Review, 16: 2 (2011), 77-83 (editorial).
- `Hunter: outbound,’ in Alchemy, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, 2012 (10 minute film; with
Mireille Astore).
- `Reverie,’ in Claudia Perren (ed.), aMaze. Sydney: Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning,
2011: 8-13.
- `Entr’acte: interval. A review of Adrian Snodgrass' Thinking Through the Gap and Linda Marie
Walker's And so on, and.’ Architectural Theory Review, 16: 2 (2011), 124-135.
- `Siting the body,’ in Linda Marie Walker and Paul Hewson (eds.), Parallel 2 (1995),
http://va.com.au/parallel/x2/journal/michael_tawa/siting.html
languages
Fluent in French. Working knowledge of transliterating Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
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