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Associate Professor Antony Moulis
Associate Professor

Antony Moulis

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Overview

Background

Antony Moulis is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland, where he teaches and researches across the fields of architecture, urbanism and design. His current research focuses on productive cities and urban retrofit as drivers of positive community change, as featured in the jointly-authored book House, Precinct, Territory: Design Strategies for the Productive City (ORO, 2023) which addresses urban innovation and adaptation in the Asia-Pacific. He is internationally recognised for his work on architectural design practice and patterns of global knowledge transfer. Recent books include the co-authored John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense (Harvard University Press, 2023), which investigates strategies of ecological design in the international context; the sole-authored Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism (Routledge, 2021) a first account of the modern architect’s reception, encounters and global networks in Australasia, and the co-edited 4-volume anthology, Le Corbusier: Critical Concepts in Architecture (Routledge, 2018), a detailed historiographic survey of writings on, and by, the architect from 1920 to the present. Moulis' research through design involves active collaboration with industry and architectural and urban practices. Co-designed built and speculative projects highlighting micro-urban and resilience strategies for contemporary cities have been awarded, exhibited and published internationally including through journals such as Architecture Australia, The Architectural Review, and GA Houses: the recent books The New Queensland House (Thames & Hudson, 2022) and 33 Documents of Contemporary Australian Architecture (URO, 2022); and exhibited at 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Moulis oversaw UQ Architecture's participation in the Water Sensitive Cities CRC – a national team of academics and designers developing strategies for urban intensification and green infrastructure. His architectural writing and research spans professional and academic journals, including critical commentary on contemporary architecture.

Awards

The Productive Edge - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

  • 2025 Architecture Australia Prize for Unbuilt Work - Special Mention

One Room Tower - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

  • House of the Year, Brisbane Region, Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018
  • Brisbane Regional Commendation, Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations and Additions), Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018
  • State Award, Residential Architecture - Houses (Alterations and Additions), Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2018

Blue Bower - phorm architecture+design with Silvia Micheli and Antony Moulis

  • Crossroads X Prize, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021
  • Greater Brisbane Region Commendation, Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2023
  • State Commendation for Small Project Architecture – Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland Awards 2023

Memberships and Roles

Past President, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) (2013-2015)

Member, Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)

Member, European Architectural History Network

Head of Architecture & Program Director, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture (2004-2008)

Availability

Associate Professor Antony Moulis is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Design Studies, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Energy transitions and productive cities: emerging design strategies

    The adaptation of the city to clean energy creation and localised work practices is shifting the city’s sites of production, as well as working behaviours. This research examines the opportunities created by this shift through evidence-based scenario building. It identifies strategies for transitioning architectural and urban spaces supporting communities through the economic and social redesign of cities.

  • Urban infill housing: Design strategies for the micro-context

    This collaborative research identifies the micro-context of inner city ex-suburban locations as a territory for investigation of urban densification. It reveals the potential of the single house site to enact new strategies of development related to flexibility, resilience and domestic production.

  • Architecture on the global periphery: flows of cross-cultural exchange

    This research follows contacts and exchanges occurring between European architects and the so-called global periphery. Such contacts are set against the broader story of architect's careers, questioning received interpretations of the transfer of design methods and current assumptions about the influence of major architects in national contexts beyond Europe including Australia, New Zealand and Iran.

  • From 20th to 21st century: perspectives in architectural design practice

    This research considers the emergence of techniques in architectural design practice in the 20th century and their formation, lineage and influence. Architects who work has been examined in respect of technique include Le Corbusier, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, John Andrews and Jorn Utzon. The research examines the connections and relationships between techniques from the early 20th century and their implications in contemporary practice.

  • Water Sensitive Architecture and Urban Design

    This is undertaken with a national team of academics and designers collaborating within the Water Sensitive Cities CRC. Through design-based research with colleagues at Monash and UWA the work is examining the issues and processes involved in delivering best practice water sensitive urban design through demonstration precinct-scale development and redevelopment projects which are dedicated to the provision of urban intensification and green infrastructure in major cities and new regional contexts.

Research impacts

In 2015 the Sydney Opera House acquired the 1960 Le Corbusier tapestry, Les Dés Sont Jetés (‘The Dice Are Cast’) for permanent display in the Sydney Opera House. Research by Moulis in 2010 uncovered the tapestry, which had been lost for half a century, identifying it as originally designed and produced by Le Corbusier in response to a personal commission from Jorn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House, to produce artworks for the decoration of the building. The tapestry represents Utzon's early vision for the incorporation of artwork within the building's interiors, offering a rare but tangible link to the architect's initial conception of one of the most famous buildings of the 20th century.

Works

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116 works between 1989 and 2025

1 - 20 of 116 works

2025

Journal Article

The Beaux-Arts System and the Construction of Iranian Architectural Modernism in the Twentieth Century

Akhgar, Peyman and Moulis, Antony (2025). The Beaux-Arts System and the Construction of Iranian Architectural Modernism in the Twentieth Century. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 84 (1), 39-63. doi: 10.1525/jsah.2025.84.1.39

The Beaux-Arts System and the Construction of Iranian Architectural Modernism in the Twentieth Century

2024

Book

House, precinct, territory: design strategies for the productive city

Crist, Graham, Doyle, John, Luna, Rafael, Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Yim, Dongwoo (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

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

Book

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense

Walker, Paul, Lobsinger, Mary Lou, Scriver, Peter, Moulis, Antony, Goad, Philip and Scrivano, Paolo (2023). John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense. Cambridge, MA United States: Harvard Design Press.

John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense

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

2023

Journal Article

2022 NGV Architecture Commission: Pericles, Pentelic Marble and the Parthenon

Moulis, Antony (2023). 2022 NGV Architecture Commission: Pericles, Pentelic Marble and the Parthenon. NGV Magazine (39), 62-65.

2022 NGV Architecture Commission: Pericles, Pentelic Marble and the Parthenon

2022

Journal Article

Review of Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 : edited by Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad, Melbourne, Thames & Hudson, 2019, 336pp., $89.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781760760151

Moulis, Antony (2022). Review of Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 : edited by Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad, Melbourne, Thames & Hudson, 2019, 336pp., $89.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781760760151. Fabrications, 32 (3), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2154431

Review of Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 : edited by Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad, Melbourne, Thames & Hudson, 2019, 336pp., $89.99 (hardback), ISBN 9781760760151

2022

Other Outputs

Blue Bower

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony, Hotston, Paul, White, Nicola and Parsons, Lily (2022). Blue Bower.

Blue Bower

2021

Journal Article

The legacy of the ecole des Beaux-Arts in twentieth-century Iran: the architecture of Mohsen Foroughi

Akhgar, Peyman and Moulis, Antony (2021). The legacy of the ecole des Beaux-Arts in twentieth-century Iran: the architecture of Mohsen Foroughi. Journal of Architecture, 26 (7), 945-968. doi: 10.1080/13602365.2021.1976247

The legacy of the ecole des Beaux-Arts in twentieth-century Iran: the architecture of Mohsen Foroughi

2021

Other Outputs

Blue Bower: The Autonomous Edge

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony, Hotston, Paul, White, Nicola and Parsons, Lily (2021). Blue Bower: The Autonomous Edge.

Blue Bower: The Autonomous Edge

2021

Other Outputs

Blue Bower: 1:1 wall prototyping

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony and Hotston, Paul (2021). Blue Bower: 1:1 wall prototyping.

Blue Bower: 1:1 wall prototyping

2021

Other Outputs

Productive Edge: House from Consumption to Production

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

Productive Edge: House from Consumption to Production

2021

Other Outputs

Making tight

Micheli, Silvia, Moulis, Antony, Doyle, John, Crist, Graham, Luna, Rafael and Yim, Dongwoo (2021). Making tight. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT.

Making tight

2021

Book Chapter

Roots - UNESCO Le Corbusier

Moulis, Antony (2021). Roots - UNESCO Le Corbusier. UNESCO Art Collection Selected Works. (pp. 397-398) Paris, France: UNESCO.

Roots - UNESCO Le Corbusier

2021

Other Outputs

The Autonomous Edge in the (Pandemic) City

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

The Autonomous Edge in the (Pandemic) City

2021

Book

Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: art, architecture and urbanism

Moulis, Antony (2021). Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: art, architecture and urbanism. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315591728

Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: art, architecture and urbanism

2020

Journal Article

Book review: Time, history and architecture: essays on critical historiography

Moulis, Antony (2020). Book review: Time, history and architecture: essays on critical historiography. Fabrications, 30 (2), 289-291. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1758294

Book review: Time, history and architecture: essays on critical historiography

2019

Book Chapter

The reverse river delta of Brisbane

Leardini, Paola, Ozgun, Kaan and Moulis, Antony (2019). The reverse river delta of Brisbane. In time with water: design studies of 3 Australian cities. (pp. 217-277) edited by Nigel Bertram and Catherine Murphy. Perth, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.

The reverse river delta of Brisbane

Funding

Past funding

  • 2013 - 2018
    Urban Intensification & Green Infrastructure: Towards a Water Sensitive City
    CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2014
    Making architectural identity: the architecture of John Andrews (ARC Discovery Project DP120100341 administered through The University of Melbourne)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant
  • 2005
    Movement Lines and Plan Forms: The Impact of Human Circulation Diagrams on 20th Century and Contemporary Architectural Planning
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Square Transformations: Reading Frank Lloyd Wright's plan in the Australian House of the 1950s and 1960s

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Timothy O'Rourke, Dr Fred Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira

  • Master Philosophy

    Le Corbusier's media of design: an inquiry of drawing, representation and design ideation through architectural case studies

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Alex Bevan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Climate, resource and culturally responsive strategies for tropical buildings: Comparative study of educational buildings in post-war West Africa within the global context.

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn, Dr Andrew Wilson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Climate, resource and culturally responsive strategies for tropical buildings: Comparative study of educational buildings in post-war West Africa within the global context.

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn, Dr Andrew Wilson

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Associate Professor Antony Moulis directly for media enquiries about:

  • Adaptive housing
  • Architectural theory and history
  • Building design
  • Drawing practice analysis in architecture
  • Le Corbusier - architecture
  • Modern architecture
  • Productive cities
  • Urban resilience

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