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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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2003
Journal Article
Coastal Palace
Moulis, A. and Thomson, S. (2003). Coastal Palace. Houses, 35, 6-12.
2003
Journal Article
Spatial Mutability
Moulis, A. (2003). Spatial Mutability. Houses, 34, 74-79.
2003
Journal Article
Subtropical Revision
Moulis, A. (2003). Subtropical Revision. Houses, 33, 32-37.
2003
Journal Article
Exploring Architecture
Moulis, A. and Thomson, S. (2003). Exploring Architecture. Houses, 32, 85-97.
2003
Conference Publication
Geometry into drawing: Appropriation and technique in Beaux-Arts practice
Moulis, A. (2003). Geometry into drawing: Appropriation and technique in Beaux-Arts practice. The 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: SAHANZ Progress 2003, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3-6 October 2003. Sydney, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand.
2003
Journal Article
Le Corbusier's Horizon: Technique and the architectural plan
Moulis, A. (2003). Le Corbusier's Horizon: Technique and the architectural plan. Architectural Theory Review, 8 (2), 132-140.
2002
Journal Article
Cultural Infrastructure: The Queensland Millennium Arts Competitions
Moulis, A. and Thomson, S. (2002). Cultural Infrastructure: The Queensland Millennium Arts Competitions. Architecture Australia, 91 (4), 18-22.
2002
Conference Publication
Mediating place: Le Corbuster's spiral museums and labyrinthine form
Moulis, A. (2002). Mediating place: Le Corbuster's spiral museums and labyrinthine form. Constructing Place: A Conference Analysing the Processes, Histories and Impacts of Place-making, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 12-14 April 2002. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom: University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape.
2002
Edited Outputs
Additions to architectural history: Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
J. P. Macarthur and A. Moulis eds. (2002). Additions to architectural history: Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. XIX Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, 4-7 October, 2002. Brisbane, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand.
2002
Conference Publication
Introduction
Moulis, Antony and Macarthur, John P. (2002). Introduction. XIX Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, 4-7 October, 2002. Brisbane, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-175-5-1
2002
Book Chapter
Le Corbusier, the museum projects and the spiral figured plan
Moulis, A. (2002). Le Corbusier, the museum projects and the spiral figured plan. Celebrating Chandigarh. (pp. 348-357) edited by Takhar, Jaspreet. Ahmedabad: Mapin publishing.
2002
Other Outputs
Drawing experience : Le Corbusier's spiral museum projects
Moulis, Antony (2002). Drawing experience : Le Corbusier's spiral museum projects. PhD Thesis, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/223688
2001
Journal Article
Everyday Animation
Moulis, Antony (2001). Everyday Animation. Architecture Australia, Sept/Oct.
2001
Journal Article
Tewantin house
Moulis, A. (2001). Tewantin house. Monument, Special, 108-110.
2001
Conference Publication
Reading diacritical marks: Experience, the body and architectural drawing
Moulis, A. (2001). Reading diacritical marks: Experience, the body and architectural drawing. Darwin, 30th September - 3rd October, 2001. Darwin: SAHANZ.
2001
Journal Article
Brolga Theatre, Queensland
Moulis, A. (2001). Brolga Theatre, Queensland. Monument (45), 80-81.
2000
Conference Publication
Le Corbusier’s World Museum as origin of his symbolic practice
Moulis, A. (2000). Le Corbusier’s World Museum as origin of his symbolic practice. Proceedings of the seventeenth annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand Conference (SAHANZ), Wellington, New Zealand, 13 - 17 Nov, 2000. Wellington, New Zealand: SAHANZ.
2000
Conference Publication
The horizon as production in the work of Le Corbusier
Moulis, Antony (2000). The horizon as production in the work of Le Corbusier. Habitus 2000: A Sense of Place, Perth, 5th - 9th September, 2000. Perth: Curtin University of Technology.
2000
Book Chapter
Le Corbusier’s theory of vision and the architectural plan
Moulis, A. (2000). Le Corbusier’s theory of vision and the architectural plan. Re-Framing Architecture: Theory, Science and Myth. (pp. 155-162) edited by Michael Ostwald and John Moore. Sydney: Archadia Press.
1999
Journal Article
Urbanity
Moulis, Antony (1999). Urbanity. Architecture Australia, 88 (3).
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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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
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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
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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
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Between Beaux-Arts, Tradition, and Modernism: The École des Beaux-Arts and the Expression of Iranian National Identity through Architecture (1926--1941)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Manu P. Sobti
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
The Decorative Strategies of Mary Haweis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Survivors: Women in Architecture in Queensland (1975-2000); Interpreting Histories and Building Content in a Digital Archive.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
The Museum as Storyteller: Designing Socially Inclusive Narrative Environments
Associate Advisor
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
The Houses of Hayes and Scott (1946-1984)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
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2015
Master Philosophy
A Cyclone-Proof Community Centre for Atherton: Tropical Monumentality to Enable Resilience in Far North Queensland Communities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Andrew Wilson, Emeritus Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Images in Space & Space in/within Images: Charting a Shifting Dynamic in Architecture from Disembodied Viewpoint to Embodied Viewer
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
RS (Robin) Dods 1868-1920: The Life and Work of a Significant Australian Architect
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
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2004
Doctor Philosophy
On the object of the museum and its architecture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Macarthur
Media
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- Drawing practice analysis in architecture
- Le Corbusier - architecture
- Modern architecture
- Planimetrics - architecture
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