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michael C tawa - Curriculum Vitae

The University of Sydney, Architecture, Design & Planning, Faculty Member
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 Fascimile +61 2 9351 3031 Mobile +61 402 914 785 E-mail [email protected] 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). 1   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. 2   —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. 3   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. 4   - `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. - 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. 5