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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

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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115 works between 1989 and 2024

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2013

Book Chapter

Le Corbusier‘s spirals: Figural planning and technique in architectural design

Moulis, Antony (2013). Le Corbusier‘s spirals: Figural planning and technique in architectural design. From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture. (pp. 120-125) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315881386

Le Corbusier‘s spirals: Figural planning and technique in architectural design

2013

Journal Article

One one one Eagle Street

Moulis, Antony (2013). One one one Eagle Street. Architecture Australia, 102 (1), 44-52.

One one one Eagle Street

2013

Conference Publication

Searching for open form: the pinwheel plan in the work of John Andrews

Moulis, Antony (2013). Searching for open form: the pinwheel plan in the work of John Andrews. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-5 July, 2013. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand.

Searching for open form: the pinwheel plan in the work of John Andrews

2012

Journal Article

An exemplar for modernism: Le Corbusier's Adelaide drawing, urbanism and the Chandigarh plan

Moulis, Antony (2012). An exemplar for modernism: Le Corbusier's Adelaide drawing, urbanism and the Chandigarh plan. The Journal of Architecture, 17 (6), 871-887. doi: 10.1080/13602365.2012.746043

An exemplar for modernism: Le Corbusier's Adelaide drawing, urbanism and the Chandigarh plan

2012

Journal Article

A night at the opera

Moulis, Antony (2012). A night at the opera. AA Files (64), 108-111.

A night at the opera

2012

Conference Publication

Seidler on tour 1955-1970: Sources and influences in the international context

Moulis, Antony (2012). Seidler on tour 1955-1970: Sources and influences in the international context. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Launceston, TAS, Australia, 5 - 8 July 2012. Launceston, TAS, Australia: University of Tasmania.

Seidler on tour 1955-1970: Sources and influences in the international context

2012

Book Chapter

Examples of educational practice

Moulis, Antony (2012). Examples of educational practice. Assessing creativity: supporting learning in architecture and design. (pp. 124-128) edited by Hedda Haugen Askland, Michael J. Ostwald and Anthony Williams. Sydney, Australia: Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT).

Examples of educational practice

2011

Journal Article

A unity of experience

Moulis, Antony and Micheli, Silvia (2011). A unity of experience. Architectural Review Australia (124), 78-85.

A unity of experience

2011

Journal Article

Santos Place

Moulis, Antony and Thomson, Sheona (2011). Santos Place. Architecture Australia, 100 (1), 59-65.

Santos Place

2011

Edited Outputs

Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

Antony Moulis and Deborah van der Plaat eds. (2011). Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand. 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 July 2011. Brisbane, Australia: School of Architecture, The University of Queensland.

Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

2011

Edited Outputs

Audience: Proceedings of the XXVIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

Antony Moulis and Deborah van der Plaat eds. (2011). Audience: Proceedings of the XXVIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. Audience: International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (28th, SAHANZ, 2011), Brisbane, Australia, 7 -10 July 2011. Brisbane, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Audience: Proceedings of the XXVIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

2010

Journal Article

Forms and techniques: Le Corbusier, the spiral plan and diagram architecture

Moulis, Antony (2010). Forms and techniques: Le Corbusier, the spiral plan and diagram architecture. Architectural Research Quarterly, 14 (4), 317-326. doi: 10.1017/S135913551100011X

Forms and techniques: Le Corbusier, the spiral plan and diagram architecture

2010

Journal Article

History, criticism, judgment, project

Leach, Andrew and Moulis, Antony (2010). History, criticism, judgment, project. Architectural Theory Review, 15 (3), 298-311. doi: 10.1080/13264826.2010.524305

History, criticism, judgment, project

2010

Conference Publication

'Sydney's Prometheus': Myth, shame and remediation at Joern Utzon's Sydney Opera House

Stead, Naomi and Moulis, Antony (2010). 'Sydney's Prometheus': Myth, shame and remediation at Joern Utzon's Sydney Opera House. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 30 June-2 July 2010. Newcastle, NSW, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

'Sydney's Prometheus': Myth, shame and remediation at Joern Utzon's Sydney Opera House

2010

Journal Article

Travels in the History of Architecture, by Robert Harbison

Moulis, Antony (2010). Travels in the History of Architecture, by Robert Harbison. The Journal of Architecture, 15 (4), 540-542. doi: 10.1080/13602365.2010.507535

Travels in the History of Architecture, by Robert Harbison

2010

Other Outputs

University of Queensland Centenary Architecture Campus Map

Moulis, Antony and Wilson, Andrew (2010). University of Queensland Centenary Architecture Campus Map. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: School of Architecture, The University of Queensland.

University of Queensland Centenary Architecture Campus Map

2010

Conference Publication

For Sydney: On Utzon, Le Corbusier and art for the Sydney Opera House

Moulis, Antony (2010). For Sydney: On Utzon, Le Corbusier and art for the Sydney Opera House. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, University of Newcastle, NSW, 30 June - 2 July 2010. Newcastle, NSW, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

For Sydney: On Utzon, Le Corbusier and art for the Sydney Opera House

2009

Conference Publication

Questions of authorship: Mayer's chandigarh plan and the work of Le Corbusier

Moulis, Antony (2009). Questions of authorship: Mayer's chandigarh plan and the work of Le Corbusier. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2009. Auckland New Zealand: SAHANZ.

Questions of authorship: Mayer's chandigarh plan and the work of Le Corbusier

2009

Book Chapter

Problems for architecture in the art of Le Corbuster

Moulis, Antony (2009). Problems for architecture in the art of Le Corbuster. Architecture, Disciplinarity and the Arts. (pp. 89-97) edited by Andrew Leach and John Macarthur. Belgium: A & S Books (University of Ghent).

Problems for architecture in the art of Le Corbuster

2008

Journal Article

Globalisation, theory and practice

Moulis, Antony (2008). Globalisation, theory and practice. Architectural Review Australia, 1 (106), 42-42.

Globalisation, theory and practice

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

Associate Professor Antony Moulis is:
Available for supervision

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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:

  • Alvar Aalto
  • Architectural theory and history
  • Architecture - modernist
  • Building design
  • Design - architecture
  • Drawing practice analysis in architecture
  • Le Corbusier - architecture
  • Modern architecture
  • Planimetrics - architecture

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