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Dr Silvia Micheli
Dr

Silvia Micheli

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Overview

Background

Dr Silvia Micheli (BArch Politecnico di Milano; PhD, IUAV, Venice) is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Program Convener of the Bachelor of Architectural Design. She joined The University of Queensland in 2012 after 5-year of teaching and research at the Politecnico di Milano.

Dr Micheli's design research is cross-disciplinary, focusing on the notion of ‘productive city’ and how small-scale projects can enhance liveability and resilience in our communities. Her forthcoming co-authored book, House, Precinct and Territory: Design Strategies for the Productive City (ORO, 2024) discusses concrete scenarios for urban production. Dr Micheli is concurrently investigating strategies to enhance urban horticulture and farming practices through design to increase food security in the urban environment.

Dr Micheli is an accomplished scholar with a strong track record in contemporary architectural studies and a wide range of outputs, including exhibitions, NTROs and publications. She is co-curator of the forthcoming exhibition on the work of AIA gold medallist Enrico Taglietti, in partnership with the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG). She co-designed the Blue Bower Pavilion, recipient of the Crossroads Prize at the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, as a manifesto of urban resilience during COVID19. In 2018, Silvia's co-designed the multi-awarded residential building One Room Tower, a demonstration project for the densification of the city.

Amongst Dr Micheli’s publications, there is her co-authored critical book on the mechanism of cultural production in late 20th century, Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture between History, Politics and Media (Bloomsbury, 2023); the co-edited volume Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation (URO, 2018), that reflects on the influence of Italian design culture on Australian architecture; the co-edited book Aalto beyond Finland: Buildings, Projects and Network (Helsinki, 2018), which explores the global reach of the work of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and her contribution to the travelling exhibition catalogue Alvar Aalto: Second Nature, (Vitra Design Musem, 2014), with an essay on the impact of Italian urban culture on Aalto’s design approach.

Contextually, Silvia has also co-authored the book Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985–2015 (Turin, 2013), which reflects on the mechanisms of architectural production in contemporary Italy; co-edited the volume Italia 60/70. Una stagione dell’architettura (Padua, 2010); solo-authored the volume Erik Bryggman 1891–1955. Architettura Moderna in Finlandia (Rome, 2009). Her first co-authored book, Lo spettacolo dell'Architettura: Profilo dell'ArchistarÓ, looks at the power of media in the making of design culture.

Dr Micheli has a range of international collaborations with cultural institutions, such as the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Triennale di Milano, Centre Pompidou, MAXXI Museum, Alvar Aalto Foundation and Vitra Design Museum. She has also liaised with prestigious academic institutions, including Seoul National University, Berlage Institute, Politecnico di Milano and University of Manchester. In 2019, Dr Micheli was Visiting Professor at the School of Art and Design at the Guangdong University of Technology, China.

Since 2016, Dr Micheli has assisted to secure DFAT funding to foster UQ students mobility in the Asia Pacific Region, liaising with international academic and industry partners in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul.

Dr Silvia Micheli is a registered architect (Board of Architects, Lecco, Italy) and member of the editorial board of the Springer book series Transnational Histories of Design Cultures and Production.

Availability

Dr Silvia Micheli is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, unknown

Research interests

  • Urban farming and agriculture

    Looking at urban farming in tropics and subtropics and related design strategies to improve urban production.

  • Productive City

    House as a place of production; Working from home: Spaces and urban implications; Production and mobility

  • Italian Architecture

    Postmodern and contemporary Italian architecture; interaction of politics, media and architecture.

  • Modern Finnish Architecture

    I am interested in how Finnish modern architecture has travelled across and beyond Finland and which cultural vehicles have allowed for Finnish design to spread abrod.

Works

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66 works between 2003 and 2024

1 - 20 of 66 works

2024

Book

House precinct territory: design strategies for the productive city

Luna, Rafael, Yim, Dongwoo, Doyle, John, Crist, Graham, Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Akhgar, Peyman (2024). House precinct territory: design strategies for the productive city. San Francisco, CA, United States: ORO Editions.

House precinct territory: design strategies for the productive city

2024

Conference Publication

Place and the intangible in the Making of Canberra: Enrico Taglietti’s Cinema Center (1964–66)

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Rigney, Virginia (2024). Place and the intangible in the Making of Canberra: Enrico Taglietti’s Cinema Center (1964–66). This is Modernism Symposium, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 16 February 2024. Adelaide, SA, Australia: School of Architecture, Unitec l Te Pūkenga, and the Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.

Place and the intangible in the Making of Canberra: Enrico Taglietti’s Cinema Center (1964–66)

2023

Conference Publication

Experiments in space and pedagogy: Enrico Taglietti’s educational architecture for Canberra and open plan

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Rigney, Virginia (2023). Experiments in space and pedagogy: Enrico Taglietti’s educational architecture for Canberra and open plan. Making a City by Design: Canberra and the CCAE, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 16 November 2023.

Experiments in space and pedagogy: Enrico Taglietti’s educational architecture for Canberra and open plan

2023

Book

Paolo Portoghesi: architecture between history, politics and media

Micheli, Silvia and Szacka, Léa-Catherine (2023). Paolo Portoghesi: architecture between history, politics and media. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. doi: 10.5040/9781350117167

Paolo Portoghesi: architecture between history, politics and media

2023

Journal Article

The Changi-Marina Bay corridor: green strategies for Singapore’s soft power

Micheli, Silvia and Brugman, Johanna (2023). The Changi-Marina Bay corridor: green strategies for Singapore’s soft power. Architectural Research Quarterly, 27 (1), 61-71. doi: 10.1017/s1359135522000598

The Changi-Marina Bay corridor: green strategies for Singapore’s soft power

2023

Conference Publication

Re-thinking homes as productive spaces for improved resilient communities

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony, Akhgar, Peyman, Ayoko, Remi and Kastelle, Tim (2023). Re-thinking homes as productive spaces for improved resilient communities. Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental Resilience, London, United Kingdom, 23-24 March 2023. London, United Kingdom: Counterarchitecture, in collaboration with UEL and Arup.

Re-thinking homes as productive spaces for improved resilient communities

2023

Conference Publication

The productive house and suburban entrepreneurialism: rethinking the domestic space for urban resilience

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony, Ayoko, Remi and Akhgar, Peyman (2023). The productive house and suburban entrepreneurialism: rethinking the domestic space for urban resilience. Livable Cities: A Conference on Issues Affecting Life in Cities, New York, NY United States, 14-16 June 2023.

The productive house and suburban entrepreneurialism: rethinking the domestic space for urban resilience

2022

Book Chapter

Inside becomes outside: Queensland’s domestic landscape

Micheli, Silvia and Paine, Ashley (2022). Inside becomes outside: Queensland’s domestic landscape. The new Queensland house. (pp. 12-19) edited by Cameron Bruhn and Katelin Butler. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames & Hudson.

Inside becomes outside: Queensland’s domestic landscape

2022

Book Chapter

The International call: Italian design, culture, politics, and economics at the 1972 MoMA exhibition and beyond

Micheli, Silvia and Ciccarelli, Lorenzo (2022). The International call: Italian design, culture, politics, and economics at the 1972 MoMA exhibition and beyond. Italian imprints on twentieth-century architecture. (pp. 207-220) edited by Denise Costanzo and Andrew Leach. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. doi: 10.5040/9781350257757.ch-016

The International call: Italian design, culture, politics, and economics at the 1972 MoMA exhibition and beyond

2021

Other Outputs

House: from Consumption to Production

Hotston, Paul, Micheli, Silvia and Moulis, Antony (2021). House: from Consumption to Production.

House: from Consumption to Production

2021

Conference Publication

Process of a global triangulation of cultures: how Alvar Aalto's design methodology crossed the Asia pacific

Micheli, Silvia and Sarvimaki, Marja (2021). Process of a global triangulation of cultures: how Alvar Aalto's design methodology crossed the Asia pacific. 16th International Docomomo Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 29 August - 2 September 2021. Tokyo, Japan: Docomomo.

Process of a global triangulation of cultures: how Alvar Aalto's design methodology crossed the Asia pacific

2021

Book Chapter

The Autonomoue Edge in the (Pandemic) City

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Hotston, Paul (2021). The Autonomoue Edge in the (Pandemic) City. Seoul Biennale Blueprints – Archived Works of the Global Studios. (pp. 311-326) Seoul, Korea: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

The Autonomoue Edge in the (Pandemic) City

2020

Journal Article

Shifting strategies: Australian architects and the future of Chinese cities

Violett, Paul and Micheli, Silvia (2020). Shifting strategies: Australian architects and the future of Chinese cities. Architecture Australia (Jan-Feb), 56-59.

Shifting strategies: Australian architects and the future of Chinese cities

2020

Other Outputs

Blue bower

Phorm Architecture + Design, Micheli, Silvia and Moulis, Antony (2020). Blue bower.

Blue bower

2020

Journal Article

Come together: the evolving social role of libraries

Laaksonen, Esa and Micheli, Silvia (2020). Come together: the evolving social role of libraries. Griffith Review (69), 246-252.

Come together: the evolving social role of libraries

2020

Conference Publication

The ecology of (sub)tropical residential architecture in urban Vietnam and Australia

Micheli, Silvia (2020). The ecology of (sub)tropical residential architecture in urban Vietnam and Australia. Urban Tropicality: 7th International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 5-8 December 2019. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.

The ecology of (sub)tropical residential architecture in urban Vietnam and Australia

2020

Journal Article

“I Made a Choice”: Enrico Taglietti citizen of the world in Canberra

Micheli, Silvia (2020). “I Made a Choice”: Enrico Taglietti citizen of the world in Canberra. Fabrications, 30 (3), 346-370. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1827788

“I Made a Choice”: Enrico Taglietti citizen of the world in Canberra

2019

Other Outputs

Rivers and waterfronts

Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra and Micheli, Silvia (2019). Rivers and waterfronts. 2019 Seoul biennale of architecture and urbanism: Collective city. (pp. 263-265) Seoul, South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Rivers and waterfronts

2019

Journal Article

Designing the global city: design excellence, competitions and the remaking of central Sydney

Micheli, Silvia (2019). Designing the global city: design excellence, competitions and the remaking of central Sydney. Planning Perspectives, 34 (4), 750-751. doi: 10.1080/02665433.2019.1620047

Designing the global city: design excellence, competitions and the remaking of central Sydney

2018

Book Chapter

Thinking Italian in postmodern Australia

Micheli, Silvia and Macarthur, John (2018). Thinking Italian in postmodern Australia. Italy/Australia: postmodern architecture in translation. (pp. 6-10) edited by Silvia Micheli and John Macarthur. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Uro.

Thinking Italian in postmodern Australia

Funding

Past funding

  • 2015 - 2016
    UQ Advancing Women Researchers Grant 2015 Round 1 - Dr Silvia Micheli
    UQ Advancing Women Researchers Grants
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Revealing Brisbane's urban identity: Public space, infrastructure and architecture at South Bank from Expo '88 to the G20
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Recovering the historical roots of post-war regionalism in Australian architecture: the Scandinavian and Italian legacy
    UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
    Open grant

Supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Wildly productive urban landscapes: Exploring the agency of public urban landscapes in creating healthy cities and community engagement

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Susanne Schmidt, Professor Jonathan Corcoran, Dr Liz Brogden

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Mobility Culture and Micro-scale Living Patterns: Re-conceptualization of Land Use and Movement Patterns in Australian Cities

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Yan Liu, Dr Dan Luo

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Improving food production, convenience, and the comforts of agricultural architecture

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Neena Mitter, Dr Liz Brogden, Professor Paul Gauthier

  • Master Philosophy

    Data-Driven Urban Evaluation of Australian cities through the lens of Micromobility

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Dan Luo

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

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  • architectural design
  • productive city
  • urban agriculture
  • urban food security
  • urban resilience

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