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A/PROF JULIE WILLIS



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/willisj.html
Work: 8344 7192
Fax: 8344 5532
Room: 212
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Associate Professor Julie Willis is an authority on the history of Australian architecture 1890-1950 and has undertaken significant projects researching architecture during wartime and its subsequent impact on practice and production, and the embodiment of nationalism and identity in Australian government architecture. She is currently involved in major projects examining the development of modern hospital architecture in Australia and the importance of small public buildings in community and civic identity. With Professor Philip Goad, she is an editor of the proposed Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture. Her work on the history of women architects in Australia garnered significant attention, being awarded a commendation in the category of Best Art Book Published in 2001, by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, the National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media in 2002, and named a Year of the Built Environment Exemplar in 2004. Julie is past editor of the refereed journal Fabrications and now a member of its editorial board, and a member of the advisory board of Architectural Theory Review.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Australian architectural history Australia
History and theory of 20th century architecture Australia
Architecture and modernism Australia
History of government and public architecture Australia
History of health and hospital architecture Australia
Architecture and war Australia
History of architectural practice Australia
History and theory of women in architecture Australia
Architectural historiography Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Canada McGill University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Planning & Design University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Bachelor of Architecture University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Society of Architectural Historians Ordinary member 01-Jan-1999
Member National Association of Women in Construction Ordinary member 01-Jan-1999
Member DoCoMoMo (International Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Building, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) Ordinary member 01-Jan-1999
Member Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand Ordinary member 01-Jan-1995

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning Teaching Excellence Award 31-Dec-2005
Other (Award) National Association of Women in Construction City of Melbourne Crystal Vision Award 31-Dec-2002
Other (Award) The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media 31-Dec-2002
Other (Award) Year of the Built Environment Exemplar, RAIA 31-Dec-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

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Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
"Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Setting the Standard: Australia's role in modern hospital design 1925-1960 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Modern exchange: architectural networks
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: Cultural Crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Page numbers: 1260-1275
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • A myth in its making: federation style and Australian architectural history
    Year: 2008
    Book: Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History of Australia and New Zealand
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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  • Signs of the times: lighting, letters and logos
    Year: 2008
    Book: Modern Times: the Untold Story of Modernism in Australia
    Publisher: Powerhouse Publishing(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • A bigger picture: reframing Australian architectural history
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 7-23
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  • In memorium: George Richard Tibbits (1933-2008)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 118-119
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Civic Heart: Empowered Citizenship and Post-war Public Modernism
    Year: 2007
    Event name: XXIVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (2007)
    Conference Publication: Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Invention from War: a circumstantial modernism for Australian architecture


    Year: 2006
    Book: Narrating Architecture
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Hospitals and Healthcare
    Year: 2006
    Book: Stephenson&Turner
    Publisher: Balasoglou Books(Auckland)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Contesting significance: the case of the modern Australian hospital 1930-1950
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Contested Terrains. XXIII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historian, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2006
    Conference Publication: Contested Terrains. XXIII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historian, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2006
    Page numbers: 591-597
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • In Australia, Between America and Europe, Beaux Arts and Modernism, Scholarship and Qualification: the Melbourne University Architectural Atelier, 1919-1947
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Architectural Education
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 13-22
    Publisher: MIT Press(Massachusetts)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Celebrating the Everyday: Modernism, Citizenry and Civic Identity in Australian Architecture, 1930-1950
    Year: 2005
    Event name: XXII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Celebration: XXII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 379-384
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Australian Modern: the Architecture of Stephenson and Turner
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne UP)(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • Designed Reinvention, 1918-45
    Year: 2004
    Book: Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture
    Publisher: Thames and Hudson(Melbourne)
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  • Modernism from Empire: the Charting of an Australian Government Architecture 1901-1950
    Year: 2004
    Book: Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production - Institutions
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Conscious Design: the Melbourne University Architectural Atelier 1919-1947
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 43-62
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Essential war material, modernist harbinger: unseasoned hardwood and its implications for the Post-war Australian city
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Sixth International DOCOMOMO Conference
    Conference Publication: The Modern City Facing the Future, Conference Proceedings of the Sixth International DOCOMOMO Conference
    Page numbers: 273-282
    Publisher: DOCOMOMO International(Paris)
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  • Style/Scale/Status/Site: the Sensibility of Architectural Eclecticism
    Year: 2004
    Event name: LIMITS: the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: LIMITS: Proceedings from the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 533-538
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • 1888 Building
    Year: 2003
    Book: Treasures: Highlights of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Chemistry Building
    Year: 2003
    Book: Treasures: Highlights of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Old Arts Building
    Year: 2003
    Book: Treasures: Highlights of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Conditions, Connections and Change: reviewing Australian architectural theory 1880-2000
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Architectural Theory Review
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 219-229
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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  • Invention from war: A circumstantial modernism for Australian architecture
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Journal of Architecture
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-62
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Machines for Healing
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Architecture Australia
    Volume: Vol 91, No 4
    Issue: July/August 2002
    Page numbers: 46-47
    Publisher: Architecture Media Pty Ltd(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Imaging of Government 1918-1945: Modernity, Tradition or Progress
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Women Architects in Australia 1900-1950


    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Revisiting the Search for an Australian Style: Late Nineteenth Century Arguments for a National Idiom
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 18th Annual SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: In the Making: Architecture's Past
    Page numbers: 66-73
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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  • The architectural history web-source: Learning through composition and role-play
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 18th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
    Conference Publication: Short Paper Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
    Page numbers: 157-160
    Publisher: Biomedical Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • War and the Necessity of Invention: A Circumstantial Modernism for Postwar Australian Architecture
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 18th Annual SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: In the Making: Architecture's Past
    Page numbers: 74-83
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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