Professor Michael Chapman

Professor Michael Chapman

Professor

School of Architecture and Built Environment (Architecture)

Career Summary

Biography

Michael Chapman currently runs Studio 7 in the Masters of Architecture, and teaches Architectural History and Theory 3 at the University of Newcastle. He is also a member of the NSW Architects Registration Board. His research is concerned with the theory and politics of architecture, with an emphasis on the domains of aesthetics, art theory, critical theory, avant-garde studies, psychology, neuroscience, communication theory, drawing and modernism. His PhD (2011) investigated the relationship between architecture and Dada and Surrealism, through an exploration of the political and historical implications of the historical avant-garde, and their significance within the cycles of contemporary architectural production. His current research investigates the relationship between architecture and representation, with an emphasis on the role of ideology, psychology, emotion and politics in framing the relationship between individuals and the built environment.  He is currently a supervisor to eleven post-graduate students and has won numerous awards for his teaching, research and creative practice. In 2010 he was part of a team of three that was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant, worth over AUD$500 000 over four years and in 2012, he was awarded the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship by the Board of Architects in NSW. He has recently returned form the prestigious IAS Durham Fellowship, which supported a multi-directional investigation of architectural (and ideological) "cosmologies", centering on the relationship between universal structures in philosophy and cycles of architectural production (and representation). As well as his theoretical research, Michael remains deeply committed to creative practice as research. He is also undertaking a second creative-practice PhD at RMIT, which explores the condition of architects named Michael. He is a key contributor to the creative PhD stream within SABE at UoN. Michael's creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Federation Square, the State Library of NSW and the Museum of Melbourne. He is also actively engaged in architectural practice, producing work that which focuses on residential architecture product design and art collaborations and installations.

Research Expertise
architecture, architectural theory, architectural history, art history, marxism, psychology, avant-garde studies, modernism

Teaching Expertise
architectural design, architectural theory, architectural history, creative practice

Administrative Expertise
architecture

Collaborations
Michael works across the fields of architecture, art theory and political science

Qualifications

  • PhD (Architecture), University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Science (Architecture), University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Architecture (Honours), University of Newcastle
  • Master of Architecture, University of Newcastle

Keywords

  • Architectural Design
  • Architectural History
  • Architectural Theory
  • Architecture
  • Art Theory
  • Avant-Garde
  • Dada
  • Design Research
  • Drawing
  • Marxism
  • Modernism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Surrealism

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Professor University of Newcastle
School of Architecture and Built Environment
Australia
Professor University of Newcastle
School of Architecture and Built Environment
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/4/2011 - 1/7/2012 Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) University of Newcastle
Australia
1/2/2014 - 1/7/2016 Head of Discipline (Architecture) University of Newcastle
Australia
1/7/2011 - 1/7/2013 Secretary Executive Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)
Australia
1/1/2003 - 1/1/2019 Director hrmphrdt architecture
Australia
1/8/2016 - 1/2/2019 Program Convenor (Master of Architecture) UoN
Australia

Membership

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/1/2012 -  Membership - European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
United Kingdom
1/4/2011 - 1/7/2012 Member of the Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee University of Newcastle
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
Australia
1/4/2010 - 1/12/2011 Member of the Faculty Board as representative for architecture University of Newcastle
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
Australia
1/1/2010 -  Membership - Australian Institute of Architects Australian Institute of Architects
Australia
1/1/2010 -  Membership - Society of Architectural Historians Society of Architectural Historians
Australia
1/1/2009 -  Membership - Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)
Australia
12/7/2019 -  Membership: International Society for the Study of Surrealism International Society for the Study of Surrealism
United Kingdom

Professional appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/4/2019 -  Board Member NSW Architects Registration Board

Awards

Recipient

Year Award
2012 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship
Unknown

Recognition

Year Award
2013 Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
University of Newcastle
2000 RAIA Design Medal
Unknown

Research Award

Year Award
2014 PVC Award For Excellence in Research
University of Newcastle
2013 PVC Award for Excellence in Research Creative Works
University of Newcastle
2007 Excellent Paper Award: "Fore and Against"
Unknown
2005 FEBE Postgraduate Research Prize: "Architecture and Hermaphroditism"
University of Newcastle

Scholarship

Year Award
2016 IAS Durham Fellowship
Durham University

Teaching

Code Course Role Duration
ARBE 3200 History and Theory in the Built Environment 3
FEBE, UoN 		Course Co-Ordinator 25/2/2019 - 12/8/2019
ARBE 6231 Architecture Studio 7
FEBE, UoN 		Course Co-Ordinator 25/2/2019 - 12/8/2019
ARBE6234 Architecture Studio 10
UON

This course prepares students for the practice of architecture. Through the consideration of architectural practice as a research based enquiry, a self-directed architectural project is prepared and communicated as a developed design, and then documented technically as detailed architecture. The final design of the project is communicated as architecture as research.

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/ARBE6234

 Course Co-Ordinator 17/7/2017 - 30/11/2017
ARBE6233 Architecture Studio 9
UON

This course prepares students to enter the profession of architecture. Through the consideration of architectural practice as a research-based enquiry, the student initiates an elective architectural project and develops its brief, conceptual basis and schematic resolution with regard to a planning regulatory framework.

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/ARBE6233

 Course Co-Ordinator 13/2/2017 - 13/6/2017
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2007 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, Residue: Architecture as a Condition of Loss, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, 285 (2007) [A1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker

Chapter (13 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2017 Chapman MJ, 'Architecture and the Neo-Avant-Garde: some theories of history in architectural criticism', This Thing Called Theory, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 147-157 (2017) [B1]
2014 Chapman MJ, '(De)Compositions: Intersections of Architecture and Music in the Abstract Films of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling', Music in Architecture: Architecture in Music, Center for American Architecture and Design, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78-91 (2014) [B1]
2010 Chapman MJ, 'Agency and automatism: Some strategies of irresponsibility in architecture', Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures, Routledge, London 141-153 (2010) [B1]
2010 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'The erotics of fieldwork in learning from Las Vegas', Architecture and Field/Work, Routledge, London 22-34 (2010) [B1]
DOI 10.4324/9780203839447
2010 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'Ostwald-Tucker-Chapman', Homo Faber: Modelling, Identity and the Post Digital, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), RMIT, Melbourne, VIC 66-71 (2010) [B2]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2010 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, Tucker CC, 'Cardboard architecture/paper architecture: Rethinking the load-bearing capacity of the model', Homo Faber: Modelling, Identity and the Post Digital, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria 28-41 (2010) [B1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2009 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Curated desires: Film photography and the visual transformation of urban space in surrealism', Curating Architecture and the City, Routledge, London 39-50 (2009) [B1]
DOI 10.4324/9780203876381
Citations Scopus - 1
2007 Chapman MJ, 'Strategies against architecture: Spatial tensions in Einsturzende Neubauten', In the Place of Sound: Architecture, Music, Acoustics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne 83-97 (2007) [B1]
2004 Chapman MJ, 'Shanghai World Financial Center', Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture: Volume 1, A-F, Routledge, New York 1197-1198 (2004) [B2]
2004 Chapman MJ, 'Bank of London and South America', Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture: Volume 1, A-F, Routledge, New York 163-164 (2004) [B2]
2004 Chapman MJ, 'Raimund Abraham', Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York 4-5 (2004) [B2]
2004 Chapman MJ, 'Brasilia', Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York 163-164 (2004) [B2]
2004 Chapman MJ, 'Palace of the Soviets', Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York 969-970 (2004) [B2]
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Journal article (28 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2020 Burke T, Chapman M, 'Withdrawing', Architecture Bulletin, 77 (2020)
2019 Chapman M, 'Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions', FABRICATIONS-THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 29 298-300 (2019)
DOI 10.1080/10331867.2019.1602751
Citations Web of Science - 1
2017 Chapman MJ, 'Against the Wall: Ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe s monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht', Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society, 29 199-213 (2017) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/08935696.2017.1316121
2016 Chapman M, Askland HH, Chambers J, Awad R, 'Architecture and ethnography: reflections on the structure and organisation of architectural practice', The International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice, 10 (2016) [C1]
DOI 10.18848/2325-162X/CGP
Co-authors Hedda Askland
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Imaginary Architectures: the contemporary utopias of Nobson and Strange Town', Parol - Quaderni d'arte e di epistemologia, 28 1-10 (2016)
2015 Smith CD, Chapman M, 'Contributory Economies, Design Activism and the DIY Urbanism of Renew Newcastle', IDEA Journal, 2014: Design Activism: Developing Models, Modes and Methodologies of Practice 66-79 (2015) [C1]
2014 Chapman M, Roberts J, 'Industrial Organisms', Fabrications, 24 72-91 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/10331867.2014.901137
2014 Chapman MJ, '(dis)Functions: Marxist Theories of Architecture and the Avant-garde', Contemporary Aesthetics, 12 --- (2014) [C1]
2014 Chapman MJ, 'Slicing Life: Collage and Its Role as a Neo-Avant-Garde Strategy in Architectural Representation', The International Journal of Visual Design, 7 1-11 (2014) [C1]
2014 Askland HH, Awad R, Chambers J, Chapman M, 'Anthropological quests in architecture: Pursuing the human subject', Archnet-IJAR, 8 284-295 (2014) [C1]

© 2014 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research. In this paper, we explore what architectural practice and, more specifically, the architectural research doma... [more]

© 2014 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research. In this paper, we explore what architectural practice and, more specifically, the architectural research domain, may gain from the theoretical and methodological premise of anthropology and ethnography. The paper explores a historical link between anthropology and architecture as academic disciplines, arguing that the disciplines are aligned through anthropology's search for understanding the conditions of humanity and architecture's role in forming these very conditions. We do not intend to explicate the individual disciplines but are interested in the crossover between the two and, more specifically, what insights anthropology and ethnography may offer to the discipline of architecture. We consider the relationship between anthropology and architecture, as both a research domain and a profession, and question how anthropology-as an approach to research more so than a discipline-can contribute to the advancement of architectural practice and research.

DOI 10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i3.424
Citations Scopus - 5
Co-authors Hedda Askland
2013 Chapman M, 'Bloody fingerprints: Tschumi and the avant-garde', Architectural Research Quarterly, 17 293-302 (2013) [C1]
DOI 10.1017/s1359135514000116
2013 Chapman MJ, 'Dividing Lines: Space and Image as Strategies of the Avant-Garde', International Journal of the Image, 3 27-34 (2013) [C1]
2013 Chapman MJ, 'Fusion and the Avant-Garde', Fusion, (2013) [C1]
2012 Chapman MJ, '(re) Findings: Discovery and memory in the architecture and legacy of surrealism', Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 13 51-59 (2012) [C1]
2012 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Avian Monstrosities: Hatching and dispatching the machined interior', Ultima Thule: Journal of Architectural Imagination, 2 1-18 (2012) [C1]
2010 Chapman MJ, Tipping RK, 'Local produce: Some 'Transnational' currents in materiality, art and economy', The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 4 135-147 (2010) [C1]
2010 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'Re-tracing history: Drawing the anti-monument', Interstices, 11 99-103 (2010) [C2]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2009 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Psychic automatism and nonlinear dynamics: Surrealism and science in the architecture of Coop Himmelblau', The Radical Designist, - 1-12 (2009) [C1]
2009 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Unstable ground: Scientific frictions in the analytical techniques of Learning from Las Vegas', Architectural Science Review, 52 245-253 (2009) [C1]
DOI 10.3763/asre.2009.0031
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
2009 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Disfigured ground: Architectural space and representation in the creative practices of Dada and Surrealism', South African Journal of Art History, 24 67-74 (2009) [C1]
2009 Chapman MJ, 'Spatial entrails: Themes from surrealism and psychoanalysis in the interiors of Sugar Suite', IDEA, 2009 96-109 (2009) [C1]
2007 Chapman MJ, Lehmann S, 'Chandigarh, Corbusier and the crowd: Architecture and spatial congestion in Northern India', Indian Architect & Builder, 20 120-122 (2007) [C2]
2007 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Automated architecture: Violence and nihilism as strategies of 'making' in the tactics of Coop Himmelb(l)au', ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 10 241-248 (2007) [C1]
DOI 10.1017/s1359135506000340
2007 Chapman MJ, Lehmann S, 'Congestion & movement: Cities, crowds & Chandigarh', Design Philosophy Papers, 1-9 (2007) [C1]
2005 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'The Fort', Architectural Design Research, 1 7-18 (2005) [C1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2003 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Traces of Nietzschean Philosophy in the early Architectural Speculations of Lebbeus Woods', Form/Work, 6 29-50 (2003) [C1]
2003 Chapman MJ, 'Origins, Imitation, Conventions', Nexus Network Journal, 5 153-156 (2003) [C2]
2003 Chapman MJ, 'Architecture and Science', Nexus Network Journal, 4 133-135 (2003) [C2]
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Conference (63 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2021 Ludewig J, Chapman M, 'A Fish Called Wonde: drawing archives of the Wangi Power Station', University of Western Australia (2021)
Co-authors Jasper Ludewig
2019 Ednie-Brown P, Chapman M, George B, 'Architectural 'Aesthetic Incunabula': Empathic Drawing as a movement toward Environmental Enrichment', https://www.scribd.com/document/446489205/BoK-2019-Conference-Presenter-Abstracts, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia (2019)
Co-authors Pia Edniebrown, Beth George
2019 Chapman M, George B, 'Surrogate Drawings: theories and practices of empathy in collaborative drawing', Unitec, Auckland (2019)
Co-authors Beth George
2019 Chapman M, 'Survival Mechanisms: the ruined anthropocentric landscapes of Lebbeus Woods', University of Exeter (2019)
2019 Chapman M, George B, Ednie-Brown P, 'Full Tilt: architectural enrichment in Claude Parent s Living Laboratories', Deakin University (2019)
Co-authors Pia Edniebrown, Beth George
2018 Chapman MJ, 'Troubled bridges: absence and memory in the architectural machines of Eadweard Muybridge', Presence: Interstices, Auckland (2018)
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Respondent Architectures: Theories of Reception in Contemporary Design Culture', http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/cellam/eam-2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/BookletCongressEAM.pdf, Rennes 2, Rennes (2016)
2016 Chapman M, Nilsson M, Reilly W, Walker R, Ware S, Tucker C, 'Architecture and Recovery: Understanding the role of domestic residential spaces in assisting and enhancing stroke recovery', Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, Salk Institute, la Jolla, California (2016)
Co-authors Chris Tucker, Warren Reilly
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Architecture and Dada: conflict, negation and spatial production in 1920s Berlin', Bucharest, Central University Library (BCU) (2016)
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Productions of Space: nostalgia and memory in industrial heritage', Taiwan (2016) [E3]
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Innovation and Marxism: Architectural production within late capitalism', Project to Practice: Innovating Architecture. AASA 9th International Conference, University of Technology, Sydney (2016) [E1]
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Space and Politics in El Hombre de al Lado [The Man Next Door]', The Edwards, Newcastle West (2016)
2016 Chapman MJ, Walker, Nilsson M, Ware S, Reilly, Tucker C, 'Architecture and Recovery', Salk Institute, San Diego (2016)
Co-authors Michael Nilsson, Rohan Walker
2016 Burke TG, 'The Sorcerers Apprentice: Experimental Territories of Architecture and Film in Moholy-Nagy s Light Play ', University of Newcastle (2016)
2016 Ford HCM, ''Destroy, it Said: History's Palimpsestic Space in Jia Zhanke's Early Films'', The Edwards, Newcastle West (2016)
Co-authors Hamish Ford
2016 Chapman MJ, 'Space and Politics in El Hombre de al Lado [The Man Next Door]', The Edwards, Newcastle West (2016)
2015 Chapman MJ, 'Architecture and the Neo-Avant-Garde: some theories of history in architectural criticism', Leeds (2015) [E3]
2014 Chapman MJ, 'Fresh Windows: Commodity, Consumption and the Architectural History of Decadence', Yes (abstracts), University of Oxford (2014) [E3]
2014 Chapman MJ, 'Industrial Evolutions: Cycles of Architecture and Urbanism in Key Australian Industrial Port Cities', Abstracts, Gijón (2014) [E3]
2013 Chapman MJ, 'Found Subjects: the architectural object within a (spatial) knowledge society', 2013 Interstices Under Construction Symposium, Auckland (2013) [E3]
2013 Chapman MJ, 'Obsolescence and Progress: Radical Histories of Modernism in Architecture', Altermative Modernism: abstracts, Cardiff (2013) [E3]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Against the wall: Ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe's monument to Rosa Luxemburg', Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence: Ninth International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, London, UK (2012) [E3]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Love nests: Erotic concerns in (and between) the architectures of Frederick Kiesler', Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes, Parkville, Melbourne (2012) [E3]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Blindsides: The cinematic landscapes of Hans Richter', Flow 2: A Conference in Two Parts, Melbourne, Australia (2012) [E3]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Negative tactics: The architectures of Dada and Surrealism', Material Meanings: The Third Bi-annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Canterbury, UK (2012) [E3]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Between the lines: Collage and image as avant-garde strategies in architecture in the 1970s', Nieznane: The Thread to the Unknown: Third International Conference on the Image, Poznan, Poland (2012) [E3]
2012 Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'Visualizing place as the suburbs become the 'nearly urban'', Proceedings of the Conference - Designing Place (2012), Nottingham, UK (2012) [E1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Magical mirrors: Reflections on the industrial subject in Mechanization Takes Command', 29th SAHANZ Conference 2012 Conference Proceedings, Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage, Launceston (2012) [E1]
2012 Chapman MJ, 'Production lines: The fetishisation of industry in the architectures of Max Ernst', 39th Annual ICOHTEC Conference, Barcelona (2012) [E3]
2011 Chapman MJ, 'Cutting edges: Radical peripheries in the architectures of Lissitzky and Richter', Abstracts from the 8th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, Belfast, Ireland (2011) [E3]
2011 Chapman MJ, 'Loose threads: Architecture and bondage in the perversions of Tschumi, Battaille and Sade', Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and Desire Conference, Brisbane, QLD (2011) [E3]
2011 Chapman MJ, 'Audience slaves: Architecture and medium in El Lissitzky's Pressa installation', Proceedings of the XXVIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia (2011) [E1]
2011 Chapman MJ, Awad R, 'Blurred edges: Multidisciplinary structures of management in Diller, Scofidio + Renfro', Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Geelong, Vic (2011) [E1]
2011 Chapman MJ, 'Outmodernisms: Industrialization and the forgotten histories of the avant garde', Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intangible Heritage: Sharing Cultures 2011, Tomar, Portugal (2011) [E1]
2011 Chapman MJ, Jozefiak SA, Ostwald M, '(En)closures: Intangible histories of the suitcase and hotel room', Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intangible Heritage: Sharing Cultures 2011, Tomar, Portugal (2011) [E1]
2010 Chapman MJ, 'Suitcase utopias: Problems of miniaturization and regulation in the prosthetics of transit', Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Beirut, Lebanon (2010) [E3]
2010 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Utopian voyages in the postpolitical era: Analyzing the visions of the Russian paper architects', Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, Beirut, Lebanon (2010) [E1]
2010 Chapman MJ, 'Excessive baggage: the architecture of the suitcase in surrealism and its aftermath', Unsettled Containers: Aspects of Interiority 2010 Interstices Under Construction Symposium, Auckland (2010) [E3]
2010 Chapman MJ, Lowe DJ, 'Space cadets: Imaginary trajectories in Lissitzky's Pressa installation', Imagining ... Proceedings of the 27th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2010) [E1]
2010 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Conference editors', Imagining ... Proceedings of the 27th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2010) [E4]
2010 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'The politics of labour: Dissent and dissensus in the architecture of Brodsky and Utkin', Imagining ... Proceedings of the 27th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2010) [E1]
2009 Chapman MJ, 'Love is a battlefield: Architecture and desire in the spatial fields of Marcel Duchamp', Field/work: 6th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), Edinburgh, Scotland (2009) [E3]
2009 Chapman MJ, 'Entrails: Drawing and architectural space in the transgressive experiments of Dada', Interstices Under Construction Symposium 2009: The Traction of Drawing: Abstracts, Auckland, NZ (2009) [E3]
2009 Chapman MJ, 'Alien doubles: Magic, myth and taboo in the spatial experiments of Frederick Kiesler', Cultural Crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference, Auckland, NZ (2009) [E1]
2008 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'The politics of labour: Ranciere and the depiction of toil in the etchings of Brodsky and Utkin', Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu, Brisbane, QLD (2008) [E3]
2007 Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Homosexuality and the Star Hotel: Exploring the traces of Queer Space in Newcastle in the 1970s', Conference Proceedings - Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries, Sydney (2007) [E1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2007 Chapman MJ, 'Architecture and Hermaphroditism: Gender ambiguity and the forbidden antecedents of architectural form', Queer Spaces: Centres and Peripheries. Conference Proceedings, Sydney (2007) [E1]
2007 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Fore and against; Science, aesthetics and the visual complexities of figure-ground in urban analysis', Towards Solutions for a Liveable Future: Progress, Practice, Performance, People. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne (2007) [E1]
2007 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Prosthesis, technology and trauma in the machinist fetishes of Oma's Villa at Bordeaux', Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation: IVth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia 2007, Sydney (2007) [E1]
2006 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Migration, Power and the Line: Ceremonies of Collective Transgression in the Spatial Archetypes', Traditional Dwellings and Settlements: Working Paper Series, Bangkok, Thailand (2006) [E1]
2006 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, Tucker CC, 'Deconstructing Las Vegas: Scientific Frictions in Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour', Challenges for Architectural Science in Changing Climates: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, Adelaide, Australia (2006) [E1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2006 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Strategies Against Architecture: Traces of Deconstruction in the Spatial Interrogations of Einsturzende Neubauten', Architecture, Music, Acoustics Proceedings, Toronto, Canada (2006) [E1]
2006 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Architecture, Music and the Crowd in the Pink Floyd's The Wall', Architecture, Music, Acoustics Proceedings, Toronto, Canada (2006) [E1]
2006 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Privileging the Sketch: Coop Himmelblau, Nonlinear Dynamics and the Psychogram', Proceedings of the Conference: Wonderground Design Research Society International Conference 2006, Lisbon, Portugal (2006) [E1]
2006 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Circularity, Power and the Technologies of Seeing: Panopticism and its Antithesis as Spatial Archetypes of Visual Contraception in Space', Proceedings of the Conference: Wonderground Design Research Society International Conference 2006, Lisbon, Portugal (2006) [E1]
2005 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, 'Paper Architecure; Design Thinking and Research', Drawing Together: Convergent Practices in Architectural Education, Brisbane (2005) [E1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2005 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Aesthesis and Architectural Composition', Proceedings of The Dresden International Symposium of Architecture 2004, Germany (2005) [E1]
2005 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'The Crowd and the City: Acts of Collective Transgression in Urban Space', Cities: Grand Bazaar of Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey (2005) [E2]
2004 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, Tucker CC, 'Semiotics, Interpretation & Political Resistance in Architecture', Contexts of Architecture, Launceston, Tasmania (2004) [E1]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2004 Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, 'Cinematic Views: John Lautner's Architecture and Masculine Spatial Types', Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne (2004) [E1]
2004 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'The Underbelly of an Architect: Discursive Practices in the Architecture of Douglas Darden', Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne (2004) [E1]
2003 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Fortifying Sisyphus, or the Architectural Machinery of Modern Punishment (1820-1870)', Progress, University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture (2003) [E1]
2002 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, 'Laying Siege to the Stadtkrone: Nietzsche, Taut and the Vision of a Cultural Aristocracy', Additions to Architectural History, Brisbane (2002) [E1]
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Creative Work (23 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2020 Burke T, Chapman M, Jozefiak S, Lowe D, Tucker C, COALFACE, Watt Space Gallery (2020)
2020 George B, Chapman M, Commonplace, UON Gallery (2020)
Co-authors Beth George
2019 Chapman M, Martin K, Chatterbox, Honeysuckle Foreshore (2019)
2019 Chapman M, George B, Martin K, Wise E, Projective Cast, Studio One: Toi Tu (2019)
Co-authors Beth George
2019 George B, Chapman M, Mullen K, Ednie-Brown P, Surrogate Drawing, Deakin University (2019)
Co-authors Pia Edniebrown, Beth George
2019 Chapman M, George B, Flatman N, Foulcher N, Dead Matter, Wattspace, [Forthcoming] (2019)
Co-authors Beth George
2019 Chapman M, George B, Flatman N, Foulcher N, Dead Matter, Wattspace, [Forthcoming] (2019)
Co-authors Beth George
2018 Chapman M, Tucker C, Animal Farm, UoN Gallery (2018)
2018 Chapman M, Ware SA, Peripheries: research in architecture and the built environment, Watt Space, Newcastle (2018)
2016 Chapman MJ, Lowe D, Mulconda House, Dungog (2016) [J1]
2016 Ware S, Burke T, Donaldson A, Chapman M, Lowe D, Heath A, Research Through Design, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (2016) [J2]
2013 Chapman MJ, Tucker C, Mediocracy, The University Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J1]
Supanova
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2013 Chapman MJ, Bingo, The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2012 Chapman MJ, Lowe D, 74 Memorial Drive, Memorial Drive, Bar Beach, Newcastle (2012) [J1]
Supanova
2012 Chapman MJ, Workload: Study for Machine of Exploitation, Art Systems Wickham Gallery, Wickham, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2]
2012 Chapman MJ, (Dis)mantle Pieces, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2012) [J2]
2011 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, To the Islands, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia (2011) [J1]
Supanova
2011 Chapman MJ, Ostwald M, Avian Monstrosities, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia (2011) [J2]
2010 Chapman MJ, Love is a Battlefield, The Lockup Cultural Centre, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2010) [J2]
2008 Tipping RK, Chapman MJ, Local Produce: Back to the City, backtothecity.com.au, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [J2]
2008 Chapman MJ, Love on the Rocks, Australian Institute of Architects, Barton, ACT, Australia (2008) [J2]
2004 Tucker CC, Ostwald M, Chapman MJ, Lichen Street Pole, Images Publishing, Brisbane + Melbourne (2004) [J2]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
2003 Ostwald M, Tucker CC, Chapman MJ, Tracings, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle (2003) [J2]
Co-authors Chris Tucker
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Other (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2013 Askland HH, Awad R, Chapman M, Johnson L, Nield L, 'Structures of architectural practice: an ethnographic study of architectural practice in Sydney', (2013)
Co-authors Hedda Askland

Report (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2013 Chapman MJ, 'de-Relics: Architectures of Industrialisation', Board of Architects, NSW, 132 (2013)

Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Burke T, Exquisite Drawing Machines: A Tinkerer s Guide, University of Newcastle, Australia (2019)
2017 Tucker C, Urban Vague and the Wanderer, University of Newcastle (2017)
Co-authors Chris Tucker
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 13
Total funding $743,379

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20201 grants / $9,709

Singleton Civic Centre Public Space Project$9,709

Funding body: Singleton Council

Funding body Singleton Council
Project Team Doctor Chris Tucker, Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Research Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo G2000827
Type Of Funding C2210 - Aust StateTerritoryLocal - Own Purpose
Category 2210
UON Y

20182 grants / $145,170

Placemaking in Honeysuckle$135,797

Funding body: Hunter Development Corporation

Funding body Hunter Development Corporation
Project Team Professor Sue Anne Ware, Doctor Jane Shadbolt, Doctor Nicholas Foulcher, Doctor Warren Reilly, Professor Michael Chapman, Mr Nicholas Flatman, Ms Amber Sauni
Scheme Newcastle Port Community Contribution
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2018
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1800360
Type Of Funding C2210 - Aust StateTerritoryLocal - Own Purpose
Category 2210
UON Y

Cosmologies: Architecture, Philosophy and Drawing - Durham IAS Fellowship$9,373

Funding body: Durham University

Funding body Durham University
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Small Research Consultancy
Role Lead
Funding Start 2018
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1800322
Type Of Funding C3212 - International Not for profit
Category 3212
UON Y

20131 grants / $1,500

Alternative Modernisms, Cardiff 15-19 May 2013.$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2013
Funding Finish 2013
GNo G1300794
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20124 grants / $32,500

Spaces of Production: tracing the morphologies of industrialisation and urbanism through a comparative analysis of figure and ground.$11,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Pilot Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2012
Funding Finish 2012
GNo G1200347
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

Structures of Architectural Practice: an ethnographic study of six design practices in Sydney.$10,000

Funding body: NSW Architects Registration Board

Funding body NSW Architects Registration Board
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman, Doctor Hedda Askland, Mr Ramsey Awad, Associate Professor Lindsay Johnston, Professor Lawrence Nield
Scheme Project Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2012
Funding Finish 2012
GNo G1200828
Type Of Funding Other Public Sector - State
Category 2OPS
UON Y

Structures of Architectural Practice: an ethnographic study of six architectural design practices in Sydney$10,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman, Doctor Hedda Askland, Mr Ramsey Awad
Scheme Linkage Pilot Research Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2012
Funding Finish 2012
GNo G1201026
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

29th Annual SAHANZ Conference, University of Tasmania, 5-8 July 2012$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2012
Funding Finish 2013
GNo G1200549
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20111 grants / $1,500

Sharing Cultures: Second international Conference on intangible Heritage, Tomar, Portugal, 3 - 6 July 2011$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2011
Funding Finish 2012
GNo G1100681
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20101 grants / $546,000

Recomputing the canon: using computational methods to develop an alternative understanding of the history of 20th century architecture.$546,000

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Professor Michael Ostwald, Dr NING Gu, Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2010
Funding Finish 2013
GNo G0190062
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON Y

20091 grants / $1,500

Field/Work: 5th Annual Conference of AHRA, Edinburgh, 20-21 November 2009$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2009
Funding Finish 2010
GNo G0900070
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20082 grants / $5,500

Architecture, Myth and Psychoanalysis$3,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme New Staff Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2008
Funding Finish 2008
GNo G0189773
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

AGENCY - Fourth Annual Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), Sheffield, 14/11/2008 - 16/11/2008$2,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Michael Chapman
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2008
Funding Finish 2008
GNo G0189685
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y
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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed3
Current10

Current Supervision

Commenced Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2021 PhD Socially and Environmentally Responsible Improvisational Architecture - An Almanac for a Prototype PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2020 PhD Is an International Best-Practice Approach to Inclusion and Accessibility in the Built Environment, that Enhances Universal Design and the Aims of United Nations Policies on Sustainable Urban Design, a Reality in Developing Countries? PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2019 PhD The Continued Survival of the Modernist Project Expressed Through Contemporary Architecture, Painting and Installation PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2019 PhD The Architecture of Lend Lease Homes 1961-1976 PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2019 PhD Ruins and the Architectural Imaginary PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2018 PhD Planes of Immanence: New Possibilities for Ubiquitous Sheet Materials PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2018 PhD Decoding Architecture Through the Photograph. The Act of Representation and Politicisation in the Architectural Image PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2017 PhD Drawing Thought PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2016 PhD Another Way: Designing and Building in Remote Aboriginal Communities Through Self Empowerment Processes PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2012 PhD Architectural Environments, Emotion, and Portable Brain Imaging: Investigating Emotional Responses to Spatial Environments with Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNiRS) PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2019 PhD Exquisite Drawing Machines: A Tinkerer’s Guide PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2019 PhD Glitch: Practicing Improper Production in Architecture PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2017 PhD Urban Vague and the Wanderer PhD (Architecture), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
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Professor Michael Chapman

Position

Professor
School of Architecture and Built Environment
College of Engineering, Science and Environment

Focus area

Architecture

Contact Details

Email michael.chapman@newcastle.edu.au
Phone 16272
Fax 16913

Office

Room AG28
Building Architecture
Location Callaghan
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
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