I'm a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and this year was appointed as the Director of the Architecture Discipline. I have an extensive teaching record in architectural design and history and am currently the coordinator of the Housing Stream in the Master of Architecture degree. I entered the university from a background in practice and continue to engage with the profession as a critic and collaborator.

As a researcher I aim to ascertain ways in which global architectural trends are developed in local contexts and are, in the process, uniquely transformed. My focus is on the innovative translations of modern and contemporary architectural ideas as they move between the dominant centres of modernist thought in Europe/America, and the marginal, yet robust, sites of modernist practice such as Australia, Iran and Bangladesh.

I work with multiple primary research materials – historical archives, interviews, drawings and the buildings themselves and employ interdisciplinary methods to interrogate the relationship between the design process and the social and political contexts in which the built fabric is constructed and gains meaning.

I live with my husband, my daughter and Sylvie the cat, in the inner Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay. My expressive eyebrows and unruly hair have been known to inadvertently reveal my inner feelings - so much so that my friend Brett designed me as a bespoke emoji!