Dr Jasper Ludewig

Jasper Ludewig is Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Newcastle, where he teaches across history and theory, as well as design subjects. His research is concerned with the architectural, infrastructural and territorial configurations of colonial governance in the Australian context, which he seeks to situate within a global frame. His doctoral dissertation is a piece of archival research that considers the role of missionary architecture as an instrument of regulation on the British colony of Queensland's late-nineteenth-century northern frontier. His writing has been published and cited in Architecture Beyond Europe, Architectural Theory Review and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. In 2017, he was Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and in 2014, he was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) President's Medal for his writing. He is Associate Editor at Architectural Theory Review and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He welcomes research students working on questions of architectural history, historiography, colonial architecture and infrastructure, as well as other allied fields.