Naomi Stead

Naomi Stead is an architectural academic, scholar and critic, based in Queensland, Australia. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia.[1]

Early years and education

Naomi Stead was born in February, 1975, and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied architecture at the Louise Laybourne School of Architecture, University of South Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture with first class honours in 1998. Stead's PhD, ‘On the Object of the Museum and its Architecture’, was conferred by The University of Queensland in 2004.[2]

Academic career

Stead began her academic career at the University of Technology, Sydney (2001–2009) and became a research fellow at the Research Centre ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History), University of Queensland in 2009, later becoming a senior research fellow. In 2015 she took up an academic position as Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Queensland.[1] Stead has also undertaken a number of research fellowships, including Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, Linkoping University (October 2007 – February 2008), and Honorary Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (June – December 2005).

Stead describes her academic research as engaged with the following areas:

Stead was a researcher with John Macarthur on the project The Cultural Logic of Queensland Architecture: Place, Taste and Economy.[3]

Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: women, work and leadership

Stead initiated and led the Australian Research Council funded project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership (2011–2014).[4] This involved eight researchers – Stead, Karen Burns, Justine Clark, Gill Matthewson, Amanda Roan, Gillian Whitehouse, Julie Willis and Sandra Kaji-O'Grady – and sought map women’s participation in the architectural profession in Australia, to understand why women are under-represented at senior management level, and to identify concrete strategies for change. The project resulted in scholarly publications and in the advocacy and activism project Parlour: women, equity, architecture.[5][6][7] This also led to the Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice.[8]

Architectural criticism

Architectural criticism by Stead has been published in a wide range of professional journals and magazines, including Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Monument, Architecture Review Australia, Pol Oxygen and [Inside] Australian Design Review.[9][10] She was a contributing editor to Architecture Australia from 2003 to 2012 and is a regular columnist for Places magazine.[10][11] Stead has also written scholarly work on the history and future of architectural criticism and edited the anthology Semi-detached: Writing, representation and criticism in architecture (2012).[12][13][14][15]

Contributions to public and academic culture

Stead contributes to public and academic culture in a range of ways. She is an expert member of the National Committee for Gender Equity of the Australian Institute of Architects.[16] She has edited academic journals, including Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research,with Prof Johan Fornas and Dr Martin Fredriksson;[17] Architectural Theory Review, with Dr Lee Stickells and Prof Michael Tawa (2011 – 2014), and was on the Executive Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) from 2003 to 2005.

Stead has also convened and co-convened a number of conferences. These include:

Stead also regularly speaks at public and professional events on architecture and the built environment and has done a number of radio interviews.[23][24][25]

Exhibitions

Stead has curated a number of architectural exhibitions:

Selected publications

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Associate Professor Naomi Stead - UQ Researchers". researchers.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. Naomi, Stead, (2004-01-01). "On the object of the museum and its architecture". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  3. "The Cultural Logic of Queensland Architecture: Place, Taste and Economy - UQ Researchers". researchers.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  4. "Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership - Architecture Theory Criticism History - The University of Queensland, Australia". atch.architecture.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  5. "Parlour - women, equity, architecture.". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  6. Smith, Michael. "Gender equality: Reading between the lines". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  7. Cremins, Niamh (2014-06-10). "Equity: not just Parlour talk". The Age. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  8. "Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  9. "Naomi Stead". Australian Design Review.
  10. 1 2 "Naomi Stead". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  11. "Naomi Stead | Places Journal". Places Journal. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  12. Stead, Naomi (2012-01-01). Semi-detached : writing, representation and criticism in architecture / edited by Naomi Stead. Melbourne: Uro Media. ISBN 9780987228130.
  13. "New Belle-Lettrism and the Future of Architectural Criticism". Places Journal. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  14. Stead, Naomi (2007). "Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian Context". Critical Architecture. London: Routledge. pp. 76–8.
  15. Stead, Naomi; Macarthur, John (2009). "The Judge is Not an Operator: Historiography, Criticality and Architectural Criticism". www.oasejournal.nl. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  16. "National Committee for Gender Equity - Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  17. "Home | Culture Unbound". www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  18. "Hung Out to Dry". University of Queensland School of Architecture. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  19. "Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture - Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  20. Kalms, Nikki (31 October 2013). "Transform: Altering the Future of Architecture". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  21. "Lost in Conversation". Lost in Conversation (in en-US). Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  22. "Writing Architecture: A Symposium on Innovations in the Textual and Visual Critique of Buildings". IAWIS/AIERTI (in en-US). Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  23. "Spotlight on gender inequality in architecture". Radio National (in en-AU). Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  24. "The Conversation: Naomi Stead". Radio National (in en-AU). Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  25. "The Plan – Rachel Hurst & Dr Naomi Stead". Radio Adelaide (in en-US). Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  26. "Portraits of Practice - Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  27. "New Parlour exhibition features women in architecture at work | Architecture And Design". Architecture And Design. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  28. Le, Phuong. "Portraits of Practice". The Red and Black Architect. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  29. "Hung out to dry - UQ Art Museum - The University of Queensland, Australia". www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  30. "Hung Out To Dry: the exhibition". School of Architecture. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  31. Stead, Naomi (2010). "The Visual Sociology of Architects". Architecture Australia 99 (4). Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  32. Stickells, Lee (2009). "Mapping Sydney". Architecture Australia 98 (8). Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  33. Stead, Naomi (2009). Mapping Sydney: Experimental Cartography and the Imagined City. Sydney: Local Consumption Publications.
  34. "RIBA Announce 2015 Shortlists for President's Awards for Research". RIBA. 21 July 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  35. "Australia’s shortlist of 2016 Venice Biennale pavilion proposals". Bustler. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  36. "Parlour LIVE! - Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.

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