Paul Memmott

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Paul Memmott
AO
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)architect, anthropologist, academic
Known forDirector of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland

Paul Christopher Memmott AO is an Australian architect, anthropologist, academic and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. He is an expert on topics related to Indigenous architecture and vernacular architecture, housing, homelessness and overcrowding.

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Early life

Paul Memmott was born to married couple Estelle "Cootch" Powell and Harry Memmott [1] who were both pottery artists. [2] [3] He took art classes from Mervin Moriarty before enrolling at the University of Queensland. His program was influenced by student protests of human rights at the university in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as lecturers who considered art and architectural psychology as integral to the discipline. [4] He tutored in art and exhibited as part of the Contemporary Art Society, Queensland. [5] He graduated with a B.Arch in 1972.

Career

As part of his professional placement Memmott worked for the Queensland State Works Department and was recruited to join a project organised by Nugget Coombs to visit Mt Isa and Cloncurry where an Aboriginal community centre was to be constructed. He and fellow students formed a group called the Aboriginal Development Group as they looked at the fringe camps of the region, many before they were destroyed. [4] [6] The group would become the precursor of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. His analysis of Indigenous design led to a post graduate scholarship on the spatial behaviour of Aboriginal people in North West Queensland. Memmott studied social anthropology in 1974 and commenced his PhD, with Bruce Rigsby as one of his supervisors. [6] He helped establish an Aboriginal Data Archive in 1976. [2] [7] He completed his PhD in 1979 at the University of Queensland. He established a research consultancy practice in 1980, for architectural and anthropological work. This led to work in Aboriginal land rights claims, native title claims and submissions to courts. Memmott is a lecturer at the University of Queensland and is a Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the university. [8]

Memmott has published over 300 publications and has supervised over 50 postgraduate students.

Exhibition work

Awards

Honours and recognition

Published works

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References

  1. ↑ "Mervin Feeney 1914-2013" (PDF). Western Suburbs Clayworkers Newsletter. August 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Digital Archive of Queensland Architecture". qldarch.net. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "* Cootch Memmott". Flickr. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Digital Archive of Queensland Architecture". qldarch.net. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. ↑ Fridemanis, Helen (1989). "Contemporary Art Society, Queensland Branch, 1961-1973 : a study of the post-war emergence and dissemination of aesthetic modernism in Brisbane. B.Sc Thesis". espace.library.uq.edu.au. doi:10.14264/uql.2020.764 . Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 "Paul Memmott- 2014 Fellow Elect - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "TIMESTYLE". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 29 January 1984. p. 8. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Professor Paul Memmott - UQ Researchers". researchers.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "Meston's Wild Australia Show 1892-1893". Mandana Mapar. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "Camps, cottages, and homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland". University of Queensland. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "Aboriginal architecture expert receives Stanner Award". UQ News. 27 March 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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  13. ↑ "Australian projects to hit the world stage at Venice Architecture Biennale". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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