Dr Jasper Ludewig
Lecturer
School of Architecture and Built Environment (Architecture)
- Email:jasper.ludewig@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4985 4054
Career Summary
Biography
My research is concerned with how architecture participates in systems of colonial governance and ecological imperialism with an emphasis on the nineteenth-century Tasman world. I analyse the spatial characteristics of colonial occupation and expansion, the relationship between political authority and private power, and the role played by buildings and other spatial practices in relation to the political economy of land. I work in archives, studying how architecture shows up within broader institutional projects, whether mining companies, missionary organisations, banks or government agencies. I am interested in what architecture does in these contexts: how it facilitates things like the law, capital and ideas about political order, and what this means for how buildings are conceptualised, designed, constructed and maintained, by whom and in whose interests.
My writing has been published in Architecture Beyond Europe, Journal of Architecture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Fabrications, Geographical Research and Architectural Theory Review. Commencing in 2024, I am a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project, Mapping the Frontiers of Private Property in Australia (DP240100395), which will document the first instance of the alienation of all Crown land in New South Wales. In 2023, I was the Society of Architectural Historians (US) H. Allen Brooks Fellow. In 2021, I was Research Fellow at the Architectures of Order LOEWE Research Cluster, co-hosted by the Goethe University Frankfurt, Technical University Darmstadt, the German Architecture Museum and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. In the same year, my research was awarded the David Saunders Founders Grant by the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. In 2017, I was Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and, in 2014, my research received the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President's Dissertation Medal. My first monograph, A Complicated Organism: The Architecture of the Global Moravian Network, 1722-1922 is due to be published in 2024 by the Centre for Critical Studies in Architecture at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
I pursue my broader interest in the architectural humanities as Associate Editor and Book Reviews Editor at Architectural Theory Review.
I teach research-led design studios in the undergraduate and postgraduate architecture degrees in addition to courses on the history and theory of architecture. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and have written and presented on architectural pedagogy in CIRCA: Journal of Architecture and Design, Architecture Bulletin and at the Conference of the Association of Architecture Educators (UK).
My Instagram handle is @jasplud. My Academia profile can be found here.
Please feel free to get in touch!
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
- Bachelor of Design in Architecture (Honours), University of Sydney
Keywords
- Architectural Humanities
- Architecture and Colonialism
- Architecture and Governance
- Architecture and Real Estate
- Architecture and Resource Extraction
- Transnational Histories of Architecture
Languages
- English (Fluent)
- German (Fluent)
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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330104 | Architectural history, theory and criticism | 50 |
330402 | History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture) | 30 |
430313 | History of empires, imperialism and colonialism | 20 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Architecture and Built Environment Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (1 outputs)
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2022 | Ludewig J, 'The Architecture of Governance: Mapoon, Weipa, Aurukun and the Moravian Settlement Model (1891-1919)', Camps, Cottages and Homes: A Brief History of Indigenous Housing in Queensland, The University of Queensland Anthropological Museum, St Lucia, Queensland 33-41 (2022) |
Journal article (16 outputs)
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2023 |
Leach A, Koehler M, Ludewig J, Stickells L, 'Editorial', Architectural Theory Review, 27 323-325 (2023)
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2023 |
Rogers D, Leach A, Ludewig J, Thorpe A, Troy L, 'Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia', Geographical Research, (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Ludewig J, 'The architecture of colonial jurisdiction: the annexation of Queensland's offshore islands', The Journal of Architecture, 28 1315-1358 (2023) [C1]
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2022 |
Horan C, Hudson PJ, Koehler M, Ludewig J, Thomas A, Yates A, 'Built Orders of Finance, Risk, and Racial Capitalism', Architectural Theory Review, 26 213-234 (2022) [C1] This issue of ATR considers numerous instances in which economic historians and historians of capitalism have turned to architecture as evidence of the workings of economic and fi... [more] This issue of ATR considers numerous instances in which economic historians and historians of capitalism have turned to architecture as evidence of the workings of economic and financial systems. This collective position paper stems from the attempt to engage more directly with these disciplines; an attempt that was first manifested in the symposium ¿Built Orders of Finance, Risk and Racial Capitalism,¿ held online in early 2022. How are built orders shaped by processes of financialization, actuarial calculations of risk and the conditions of racial capitalism? How do built orders mobilize specific economic regimes? What kinds of evidence can be enlisted to discern the constitutive relationships established and maintained between architecture and regimes of finance? What scales are implied in these relationships? What is involved in their historicization? This article invites future conversations between the fields of scholarship it canvases to more comprehensively apprehend the terms, conditions, and histories of financialized space.
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2022 |
Ludewig J, ' Lonely Dots : John Thomas Arundel and the Architecture of Greater British Enterprise in the Pacific', Fabrications, 32 340-367 (2022) [C1] The Victorian idea of a globe-spanning Greater Britain has been largely obscured by more recent discussions about ¿anglobalisation¿ and the so-called ¿Anglo World.¿ This paper pro... [more] The Victorian idea of a globe-spanning Greater Britain has been largely obscured by more recent discussions about ¿anglobalisation¿ and the so-called ¿Anglo World.¿ This paper proposes, however, that the political and philosophical positions vested in the idea of Greater Britain can have significant repercussions for understanding the historical relation between architecture and the state. It presents an architectural history of Greater British enterprise, arguing that, in the late-nineteenth-century Pacific, British imperial power relied both on liberal systems of law and politics, as well as the development of the capitalist economic system as a mode of governance in and of itself. The discussion follows the figure of John Thomas Arundel (1841-1919), an English businessman and trader, as he amassed significant interests in the guano and copra industries from the early 1870s on. To consider Arundel¿s business empire is to shuttle between multiple scales, traversing the various islands, companies and infrastructures involved in the extraction of certain raw materials over time. As the discussion intends to demonstrate, the spoils of this extraction were always designed to run along British lines, between British states and in the name of British ascendancy as the empire looked towards a new century of global governance.
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2020 |
Ludewig J, 'Mapoon Mission Station and the Privatization of Public Violence: Transnational Missionary Architecture on Queensland s Late-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Frontier', ABE Journal. Architecture beyond Europe, 17 (2020) [C1]
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Conference (10 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2022 | Ludewig J, Koehler M, 'Banking on Housing: Credit Foncier Loans and the State Savings Bank of Victoria, 1890 1936', ETH Zurich (2022) | ||
2022 | Ludewig J, 'Thick Lines: Architecture, Governance and the Problem of Scale in Colonial Queensland', Pittsburgh (2022) | ||
2022 | Ludewig J, 'Submerged Systems: Colonial Governance and Phosphate Extraction on Nauru and Angaur in German Micronesia (1902 1913)', Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand) and Technical University Munich (Germany) (2022) | ||
2021 | Chapman M, Matthews L, 'The Archive of Power: Drawings and Wangi Power Station', Proceedings of the 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Perth, WA (2021) [E1] | Nova | |
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Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2020 | Ludewig J, Securing Territory: Grey Architecture and the German Missions of Cape York, 1886-1919, University of Sydney (2020) | ||
2013 | Ludewig J, Made Ground: A Spatial History of Sydney Park, The University of Sydney (2013) |
Dr Jasper Ludewig
Position
Lecturer
School of Architecture and Built Environment
College of Engineering, Science and Environment
Focus area
Architecture
Contact Details
jasper.ludewig@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4985 4054 |
Links |
Personal webpage |
Office
Room | AG15 |
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Building | Architecture (A) |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |