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Julian Worrall

0000-0002-9733-0887

Professor of Architecture (Architecture; Built environment and design; Architectural history, theory and criticism; History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture))

Tasmania, Australia

Professor of Architecture, University of Tasmania (2019~). Australian architect, scholar, critic and curator with an international reputation as an interpreter of the architecture and urbanism of contemporary Japan. PhD in Architecture (Urban History) from the University of Tokyo (2005). Architectural experience spans global architectural practice, incl. OMA (Rotterdam) and individual creative practice. Academic experience at UNSW; Waseda U; Sophia U; U Adelaide. Author of numerous scholarly articles and publications, incl. "21st Century Tokyo" (Kodansha, 2010): "Japan Works" (Roma, 2021). Contributor to exhibitions at major institutions of architectural culture, including V&A (London); MAK (Vienna); MoMA (New York); La Biennale (Venice). Criticism published and translated widely, including Domus (Milan); Abitare (Milan); Arch Plus (Berlin); Architecture Australia (Melbourne), Japan Times (Tokyo), Icon magazine (London). Creative Director, Australia Pavilion, La Biennale 2023 (Venice).

Publications

  • https://discover.utas.edu.au/Julian.Worrall
  • Architectural archeology: Install House - Partners Hill
  • Public Art, Public Sphere, and Urban Development in the Chinese Metropolis
  • Terrace House near Demachiyanagi
  • Culture-led Reuse of Former Elementary Schools: A Survey of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial′s Involvement in Tokamachi, Japan
  • Architecture detectives
  • Making places real: Jackson Slattery at the Setouchi Triennale
  • Nature, publicness, place - towards a relational architecture in Japan
  • The Nakwon Principle
  • Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature
  • Le Corbusier's Japanese ghost lives on in Ueno
  • Harbin Opera House
  • The Deep Field: Resolving a Japanese Constellation
  • Time in the city of temporal monuments
  • Comunita ricostruite [Rebuilding communities]
  • Australia House
  • House K by Sou Fujimoto
  • 'Tokyo: A Biography': Tracing the life of a city
  • The Passion of Shigeru Ban
  • The Good Architect
  • House in Hamilton
  • Island Universe
  • DigitalXPlace
  • Metabolist Time
  • Archaeology of the Smart City
  • In Praise of Privacy
  • Harbin Opera House, 2010-15
  • The Development Strategies of Public Art in Metro Architectural Space of Mega Cities in China
  • Precisely calibrated: AGT Southern Crop Breeding Centre
  • Monument to the People's Heroes, Shanghai
  • Of Mountains and Water
  • A Japanese Cultural Management Approach to Reconceptualise the Countryside - The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Case
  • Adelaide 2050 Urban Futures
  • City Tales
  • Japan's fertile architectural evolution
  • Post-disaster Japan
  • Entità galleggianti = Floating constituencies
  • Between Contact and Spectacle: Considering Encounter within Entangled Geographies
  • A Tale of Two (Sub)cities: Shimbashi and Shibuya
  • In the arena of alternative modernities
  • Venice Biennale lays down the past
  • Still Lives in Mobile Homes: Contemporary Fluidity of Existence in Japan
  • Architectural speculations on the Library of the Future
  • Adelaide High School New Learning Centre
  • Realizing the Real: Home-For-All
  • Cumulonimbus
  • Japan - Archipelago of the House
  • Ubara Beachouse
  • The Influence of Public Art in Developing Chinese Urban Public Space: Current Trends and Future Directions
  • Building Upon: A Designer’s Approach to Adaptive Reuse
  • Japan Works
  • A white forest in a grey field
  • The Primitive Houses of the Future
  • Railway Urbanism and Public Space
  • Ofunato Civic Centre and Library
  • MVRDV Gyre
  • Soft Borders: Contemporary Architecture in Japan
  • Kuma at Kyoto University
  • Six of the Best
  • The Game of Life
  • The Quiet Cosmopolitan
  • Serpentine Pavilion
  • Teshima Art Museum
  • Base and superstructure in Toyo Ito
  • Rainbow Bank
  • Ishigami in Kanagawa
  • A sculpted chunk
  • 2G 50 Sou Fujimoto
  • Camouflage: dissolving boundaries, resolving worlds in Sejima and Nishizawa
  • Flagship Store
  • Home for all - Nach der Katastrophe. Die Rückkehr zum Wesentlichen
  • Incinerators in Japan
  • Miyajima Office in Hiroshima
  • China’s World Expo
  • Bringing the outside in: the work of Suppose Design Office
  • 21st Century Tokyo: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture
  • Chim↑Pomの空間戦術：私共空間のアート=Chim↑Pom's spatial tactics: an art of public space
  • High resolution urbanism: scalar diversity at Kichijoji
  • Travelling iguanas: cosmopolitanism in contemporary Japanese architecture
  • Tokyo after the Quake
  • The Possibilities of an Island: Rebuilding Culture in the Inland Sea
  • SN House
  • Roku Museum
  • Producing Places, Consuming Sites at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
  • The Significance of Sou Fujimoto
  • House N in Japan
  • Crane House
  • Metabolism as Ruin: Constructions of Time in Contemporary Japan
  • Kim Jong Il on Architecture
  • Space for your Future
  • Un rifugio per tutti: shelters for all
  • Tokyo Apartment
  • Sensing Nature
  • Toda House
  • Spatial Binaries
  • Kadare Cultural Centre
  • Metabolism, the city of the future
  • Rebuilding communities
  • Island Odyssey
  • Unity in Adversity - On disasters in New Zealand and Japan
  • Omishima Museum
  • Principle of relativity
  • Native Alien
  • 都市としての鉄道：20世紀東京の鉄道から生み出された公共空間
  • Trains, Stations, and Urban Public Space in Postwar Tokyo
  • Faraway: Japan in Western Architectural Discourse, 1886-1992
  • Loyal Dogs and Fountains of Love

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