Julieanna Preston is a Professor of Spatial Practice [1] at Massey University's College of Creative Arts in Wellington, New Zealand. Her practice draws from the disciplines of architecture, art and philosophy, and her background in interior design, building construction, landscape gardening and performance writing. [2]
Preston's work explores concepts of "vitality, agency, and hospitality". [3] Her work includes site-specific durational performances [3] and written publication in areas such as feminist philosophy, new materialism and spatial politics.
Preston gained a BArch from Virginia Tech in 1983 and an MArch from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1990. [1] [4] She has a PhD (by practice) from RMIT, [1] where her thesis, entitled Inertia: of interior, surface, matter and completed in 2013, explored the interior surface. [5]
From 2015 to 2018 she was Research Coordinator for the School of Design at Massey University.
She was a board member of The Architectural Centre Inc. in Wellington in 1998. [6]
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