Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

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Sandra Kaji-O'Grady is an Australian architectural academic and educator based in Brisbane. She was Professor of Architecture, Dean and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland until 2018. [1]

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Career

Sandra Kaji-O'Grady has played an extensive role in architectural academia and tertiary education in Australia. She was Head of School at University of Technology Sydney (2005–2009), Professor and Head of Discipline at the University of Sydney (2011) and was Professor, Head of School and Dean of Architecture at the University of Queensland (2013-18). She left the University of Queensland in December 2020. She currently sits on the editorial boards of Architecture and Culture, Studies in Material Thinking and Architecture Theory Review. [2] [3] [4]

Kaji-O'Grady resigned as Head of School from the University of Sydney "after the dean of architecture, design and planning, John Redmond, sent letters to more than 100 students at other universities guaranteeing them a place if they switched preferences to Sydney University – contravening anti-solicitation rules." [5] Almost the entire department supported her in demanding the dean's resignation. [5]

Kaji-O'Grady co-directed, with architect John de Manincor, the 2013 National Conference of the Australian Institute of Architects. [6] The conference, entitled Material, explored architecture's embrace of new materials [7] and "expand the discourse on materiality beyond phenomena and affect to explore political, environmental and technological concerns." [8] Kaji-O'Grady and De Manincor assembled a diverse assemblage of speakers, "from Matthias Kohler's research into robotics, to Kathrin Aste's sublime interventions in steel and concrete, to Cesare Peeren's radical approach to upcycling." [9] The 2013 conference was also notable for ensuring a gender-balance in speakers at the architecture conference. Kaji-O'Grady writes that her co-director John de Manincor constructed a colourful spreadsheet that allowed them "to organize potential speakers according to material sub-theme, nationality and geographical reach of projects, scale of practice and, of course, gender." [10]

Research

Sandra Kaji-O'Grady's research interests include contemporary laboratory buildings and the cross-fertilization between architecture, science and art in the 1960s and 1970s. [11] [12]

She was also part of the Australian Research Council-funded research project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work, and Leadership, led by Naomi Stead of the University of Queensland. One outcome of this research is publishing platform Parlour, which "brings together research, informed opinion and resources on women, equity and architecture in Australia." [13] Kaji-O'Grady writes that the "project began with the observation that while women are statistically more likely to leave the profession and significantly less likely to reach the upper echelons of architectural practice than men, there was wildly divergent representation of women across different practices." [14] Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, as part of Parlour, has made a significant impact on the Australian architectural profession by providing "employers, employees and industry bodies with a tool kit for addressing inequity in the workplace," [15] such as the informal promotion system that tends to favour males. [16]

Kaji-O'Grady is a member of the ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History) Research Centre, at the University of Queensland. [17]

Writing

Kaji-O'Grady has written extensively for both academic and popular journals, including The Journal of Architecture , Journal of Architectural Education , Architecture Theory Review, Architecture Australia, [18] Architectural Review Australia, Artichoke, Object Magazine and Monument. She made a significant contribution to Australian architectural theory in the publication Conditions, Connections and Change: Reviewing Australian Architectural Theory 1880–2000, which she co-authored with Julie Willis. [19] It employs "a chronological range to review the field of Australian architectural theory between 1880 and 2000." [20] With Chris L. Smith and Russell Hughes, she coedited the book Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions (2019) and coauthored (with Chris L. Smith) the book LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture(2019).

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References

  1. ↑ "Sandra Kaji-O'Grady". University of Queensland.
  2. ↑ "Editorial Board". Architecture and Culture. Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "People Involved". Studies in Material Thinking. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Architectural Theory Review Advisory Board". Architectural Theory Review. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 Rosenberg, Jen. "Uni caught out trying to poach students using private database". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  6. ↑ "Creative Directors". Material: 2013 National Conference. Australian Institute of Architects. 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra (May 2013). "Material Future". Architecture Australia. 102 (3). Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Norrie, Helen. "National Architecture Conference 2013". architectureau.com. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Mihaly, Warwick (21 June 2013). "Warwick Mihaly reviews Material". architectureau.com. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra (2 July 2013). "Getting the balance right". archiparlour.org.
  11. ↑ "Sandra O'Grady". Academia.edu. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra (2012). "Laboratory Myths: Collaboration and Transparency in the Architecture of Contemporary Science". Myth, Nature Heritage (29th Annual Conference of SAHANZ International Conference 2012) Eds. S. King, A. Chatterjee and S. Loo, Launceston. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  13. ↑ Clark, Justine. "Welcome to Parlour". archiparlour.org. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  14. ↑ Kaji-O'Grady, Sandra (September 2012). "Champions of Change: observations from research". Architecture Bulletin: 10–11. ISSN   0813-748X.
  15. ↑ Cremins, Niamh (10 June 2014). "Equity: not just Parlour talk". The Age. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  16. ↑ Alexander, Harriet (4 October 2010). "Mind The Gap". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "Staff, Centre for Architecture Theory Criticism History". School of Architecture. University of Queensland. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  18. ↑ "Sandra Kaji-O'Grady". ArchitectureAU. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  19. ↑ Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Julie Willis (2003). "Conditions, connections and change: reviewing Australian architectural theory 1880–2000". Architectural Theory Review. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  20. ↑ Stead, Naomi (22 August 2011). ""Between The 'is' and The ',is Not'"—On Theory, Criticism and The Radical". Architecture Theory Review. 16 (2): 84–91. doi:10.1080/13264826.2011.592249. S2CID   145460734.
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