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Andrew Steen
Andrew Steen
Lecturer
Architecture & Design
Room IC213, Inveresk Campus
+61 3 6324 4481 (phone)
Dr Andrew Steen is Lecturer in the Discipline of Architecture & Design in the School of Technology, Environments & Design. His key goal is to make people’s lives more meaningful by experiencing architecture.
Biography
Dr Andrew Steen has completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the Built Environment and Architecture, a Master and Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English Language (Communications and Linguistics) and Criminology (Sociology and Criminal Justice). He has worked in architectural practice, edited conference proceedings and journals, and developed extra-curricular filmmaking and creative writing practices. After teaching at three universities in south-east Queensland, Andrew joined the University of Tasmania in January 2016. He now considers himself Tasmanian.
General Responsibilities
Andrew is the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Architecture and Built Environments. He contributes to the development of clear, coherent, consistent and meaningful frameworks within the University of Tasmania’s architecture program. He takes a special interest in the wellbeing of A&D students and staff, and the collective vivacity of the Discipline. Working with Discipline, School, Faculty and University colleagues, Andrew is exploring interdisciplinarity, and the nature and contribution to society of architecture and other design fields. He hopes to impact the lives of all Tasmanians by inspiring richer, more complex, and more affective engagements with architecture.
Teaching Responsibilities
Andrew teaches into the B.ABE, Master of Architecture, and Bachelor of Design courses. He also supervises PhD, Masters and Honours students, runs Work–Integrated–Learning and Live Build “Learning–By–Making” electives, and brings selected students into exhibitions and curricular and extra-curricular workshops.
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Thesis Title | University | Date of Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | The Figures of Charles Jencks, 'Semiology and Architecture' | University of Queensland | 2016 |
| MPhil | Re Made in Tokyo | University of Queensland | 2011 |
| BArch | QUT | 2006 | |
| BBEnv | QUT | 2002 | |
| BA | University of Queensland | 2000 |
Memberships
Other
2010– present: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
Teaching
History and Theory of Architecture and Design; Design Studio.
Teaching expertise
Steen's History–Theory pedagogy concentrates on a critical engagement with the past and disciplined and rigorous process that allows for creative engagement with the present and future. Steen's Design Studio focus is on engagement with architectural referents — textual objects and/or typologies — and strategies of defamiliarisation.
Teaching responsibility
Course Coordinator, P3H http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/p3h-bachelor-of-architecture-and-built-environments.
Teaching into P3H http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/p3h-bachelor-of-architecture-and-built-environments;
D7C http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/d7c-master-of-architecture;
P3I http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/p3i-bachelor-of-design.
Unit Coordinator, KDA138 http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kda138-alterations,-collisions,-insertions;
KDA311 http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kda311-architecture-design-studio-5;
KDA319 http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kda319-interior-design-studio-5.
Teaching into KDA251 http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kda251-cultural-objects;
KDA720 http://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/units/kda720-professional-project.
View more on Dr Andrew Steen in WARP
Expertise
Semiotics / semiology in architecture || Charles Jencks || architectural discourse and culture || intellectual history of architecture
Research Themes
Andrew’s research contributes to the A&D research themes “Participatory Practices: Designing, Making, Engaging” and “Mediating Meanings: Critique, Framing, Proposition”, and the University theme, “Creativity, Culture and Society”. He has three current research projects: examining Modernist architecture in Tasmania; reframing relations to heritage architecture; and – in collaboration with external colleagues and the directors of MONA FOMA – developing a community engagement project. All his work aims to enrich culture, enliven society, and enlighten individuals through the medium of architecture.
Collaboration
Andrew is currently engaged in a collaboration with MONA FOMA and colleagues from MADA (Monash) looking to deploy architectural devices focused on sound and music into festivals and Tasmanian community settings. He is also responsible for overseeing the heritage architecture studio generously supported by the Dick & Joan Green Family Award.
Current projects
AUX ARCHS: This project investigates the significance of architecture and other aspects of mediated culture to Tasmanians, and seeks to develop infrastructure to encourage and enhance engagement in cultural activities in festival and everyday contexts. The approach is multidisciplinary, employing ethnographic and design-research practices to understand social reality, speculate transformations and assess impact.
Modernist Architecture in Tasmania: This embryonic project views 20th-century Tasmania as a laboratory for key and still-potent architectural ideas. Early research is focusing on company and social housing, and hopes to inform approaches to the state’s current housing provision issue.
Heritage in Tasmanian architecture: This embryonic project seeks to recast the concept of “heritage” within understandings of Tasmanian architecture. Preliminary work based on Port Arthur and Launceston’s CBD has looked to complicate established views based on standardised interpretation and capital-h “History”, and broaden and enrich the significance of built fabric.
Fields of Research
- Architectural History and Theory (120103)
- Architectural Design (120101)
- Design History and Theory (120301)
- Social and Cultural Geography (160403)
Research Objectives
- Communication (950299)
- Pedagogy (930201)
- Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design (970112)
- Arts and Leisure (950199)
- Commercial Services and Tourism (909999)
Publications
Andrew is an established contributor to SAHANZ (the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand), and has published in Fabrications, Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal – Annual Review, and Knowledge Cultures. He has forthcoming chapters in Place Meaning and Attachment: Authenticity, Heritage and Preservation (Routledge) and Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches (Bloomsbury).
Total publications
16
Journal Article
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Brown A, Steen AP, 'Fiction/non-fiction, or: Myth and the architect's architecture', Knowledge Cultures, 6, (2) pp. 76-95. ISSN 2327-5731 (2018) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2018 | Steen AP, 'The Persona of the Entomologist in Architectural Education', Design Principles and Practices, 12, (1) pp. 27-40. ISSN 1833-1874 (2018) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2015 | Steen AP, 'Radical eclecticism and Post-Modern architecture', Fabrications, 25, (1) pp. 130-145. ISSN 1033-1867 (2015) [Refereed Article] |
Chapter in Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Steen AP, 'Kurilpa Bridge', Semi-detached: writing, representation and criticism in architecture, URO Publications, N Stead (ed), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 80-83. ISBN 9780987228130 (2012) [Other Book Chapter] |
Review
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Steen A, 'Architecture and spectacle: a critique', Fabrications, 26, (1) pp. 126-128. ISSN 1033-1867 (2016) [Review Single Work] |
Conference Publication
(9 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Steen AP, 'The spirit of adhocism and brilliant selective editing', Proceedings of The 34th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, 05-08 July 2017, Canberra (2017) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2016 | Steen AP, 'Gold's heaviness and malleability', Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 33, Gold, 06-09 July 2016, Melbourne, pp. 648-656. ISBN 9780734052650 (2016) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2016 | Steen AP, 'Nice House, Woodland Lakes', A Colloquium on Ficto-Critical Approaches to a Writing Architecture, 04-05 August, Brisbane, pp. 1-10. (2016) [Keynote Presentation] | |
| 2015 | Steen AP, 'Guerrilla in the midst: the Universitas Project and a new type of institution', Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: Architecture, Institutions and Change, 07-10 July, Sydney, Australia, pp. 640-651. ISBN 9780646942988 (2015) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2014 | Steen AP, 'Operation Marginalia: translation of semiology and architecture', Proceedings of Translation: the 31st annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 02-05 July, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 345-354. (2014) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2013 | Steen AP, 'Jencks's semiological history: 'pop - non pop'', Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 02-05 July 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 3-15. (2013) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2012 | Steen AP, 'epigraphs, poetics, architectural history', Proceedings of Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage: The 29th Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, 05-08 July, Launceston, Australia, pp. 1035-1051. (2012) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2011 | Steen AP, 'Guide to Tokyo architecture', Proceedings of Audience: the 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 07-10 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia (2011) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2010 | Steen AP, 'The case of Made in Tokyo', Proceedings of Imagining: The 27th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 30 June - 02 July, Newcastle, pp. 409-413. (2010) [Refereed Conference Paper] |
Thesis
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Steen AP, 'The figures of Charles Jencks, 'semiology and architecture'' (2015) [PhD] | |
| 2011 | Steen AP, 'Re Made in Tokyo' (2011) [Masters Research] |
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
1
Total funding
Projects
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($3,402)
- Scheme
- null
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Power J; Brunton RJ; Dewsbury M; Sawyer M; Steen A
- Year
- 2019
Research Supervision
Andrew has supervised one doctoral completion Dr Loren Dyer, “Making and breaking the screen: a relational ontology of screen forms,” PhD thesis, 2018 – and is currently supervising three PhD students: Mr Matt Gunn, “Learning into a groundless architecture,” PhD research, 2018–; Mr Martin Bignell, “A pragmatist approach to prototypes,” PhD research, 2018–; and Mr Tatpong Krisadawat, “Analysing company housing in Tasmania,” PhD research, 2019–.
Current
3
Completed
1
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Mapping and Intervening in the Local: Bruny Island in the anthropocene | 2017 |
| PhD | Designing out Risk in Technology Transfer: Prototyping innovative applications of timber in complex buildings | 2018 |
| PhD | Analysing Company Housing in Tasmania | 2019 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Making and Breaking the Screen: A relational ontology of screen forms Candidate: Loren Patricia Dyer | 2018 |