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DR ANOMA DARSHANI PIERIS



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/pierisa.html
Work: 48366
Room: 133A
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of California - Berkeley 31-Dec-2003
Bachelor of Science University of Moratuwa 31-Dec-1989
Master of Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1993
Master of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1994

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Society of Architectural Historians 31-Dec-2004
Other (Award) Institute of Postcolonial Studies 31-Dec-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

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
CHANGI: THE POLITICS IF P.O.W. HERITAGE SITES Chief Investigator AUST ARMY Army History Research Grants Scheme 02/08/2006
ASIAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS Chief Investigator ARC ASIA PACIFIC FUTURES RESEARCH NETWORK Project Grant 10/04/2008
INTERNATIONAL PLANNING AND HISTORY SOCIETY CONFERENCE CHICAGO USA JULY 2008 Chief Investigator THE IAN POTTER FOUNDATION Travel/Conference Grants 19/05/2008

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 2007

Books

  • Imagining Modernity: The Architecture of Valentine Gunasekara
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Stamford Lake(Pannipitiya)
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Book Chapters

  • The Trouser Under the Cloth:  Personal space in colonial-modern Ceylon
    Year: 2007
    Book: Colonial Modernities: Building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Imagining Modernity: The architecture of Valentine Gunasekara
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Ceylankan
    Volume: X
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 25-27
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  • Modernism at the Margins of the Vernacular:  Considering Valentine Gunasekara
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Grey Room
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 56-85
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Scraps and Patches of POW History at the Australian War Memorial
    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: 1-13
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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  • The Hidden Hand of Colonial Capital: Penal Labour and Public Works
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fourth International Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) 2007
    Conference Publication: The Scaffolding of Empire. Fourth International Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) 2007
    Page numbers: 105-124
    Publisher: Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Is Sustainability Sustainable?
    Year: 2006
    Book: Tropical Sustainable Architecture
    Publisher: Elsevier(Oxford)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • JCY: The Architecture of Jones Coulter Young
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Pesaro Publishing(Sydney)
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  • New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Pesaro Publishing(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • On Dropping Bricks and Other Disconcerting Subjects: Unearthing Convict Histories in Singapore
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 77-93
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Singapore: Mok Wei Wei's Subjectivity
    Year: 2004
    Journal: TAASA Review: Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 10-11
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  • Stealth Housing in Asia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Singapore Architect
    Volume: 223
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 38-47
    Publisher: Singapore Institute of Architects
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  • WOHA
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Architectural Review Australia
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 78
    Publisher: Niche Media(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Crisis of Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of a Virtual Nation
    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: 383-387
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Beyond the vernacular house
    Year: 2003
    Book: Houses for the 21st Century
    Publisher: Pesaro Publishing(Sydney)
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  • Outside the tropical house
    Year: 2003
    Book: Houses for the 21st Century
    Publisher: Pesaro Publishing(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Tikiri Banda Dunuwila: A reluctance to Labour


    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Ceylankan
    Volume: 21
    Issue: vi
    Page numbers: 13-15
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  • Book Review
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Architectural Education
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 76-77
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  • Red Alert
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Singapore Architect
    Volume: 219
    Page numbers: 54-56
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  • The Perils of Association? John Thomas Keyt
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Ceylankan
    Volume: 22
    Issue: vii
    Page numbers: 24-26
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