Professor Graham Brawn
BArch (NSW) MArch (Ill) FRAIA
Professor of Architecture
Email: grahamwb@unimelb.edu.au
Professor Graham Brawn joined the Faculty in 1980 after a distinguished career in his practice in North America. This practice was a forerunner of today’s strategic facility planning and design. The practice worked across Canada and in North West USA in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, health, education and urban design. During this time he was co-designer of a finalist entry in an international design competition for Australia’s Parliament House (1980). Since 1992, he has been a principal designer and consultant with a national architectural practice. During this time he was co-designer of a finalist entry in the international competition for the Museum of Victoria, and principal planner and design adviser for an award-winning juvenile justice centre in Western Australia. Presently, he is intrigued by the relationships between the quotidian aspects of institutional life and the appropriate symbolism, imagery and environmental settings of an accommodating architecture.
Professor Brawn's research interests include facility management and design, post-occupancy evaluation, urban design theory, recreation facilities, prison design, design processes and writing of briefs. His specific area of interest is an appropriate architecture for the social and cultural imperatives of indigenous peoples in institutional settings.
Current Teaching Responsibilities
702-645 Design Programming & Evaluation 1
702-641 Advanced Design Studio C
Research Interests
- facility management and design,
- post-occupancy evaluation,
- urban design theory,
- recreation facilities,
- prison design,
- design processes and writing of briefs
- appropriate architecture for the social and cultural imperatives of indigenous peoples in institutional setting
Awards Received
- Joint winner of the 2002 RAIA Victorian Chapter President's Award for his contribution (on behalf of the Faculty) to the International Architects lecture series conducted in the 1980s.
- Awarded the FM Knowledge Excellence Award 2002 at the National Conference of the Facilities Management Association of Australia.
Recent Publications
Book chapters
Brawn GW. 2003. Results and reforms. In PJ Goad (ed), Judging architecture: issues, divisions, triumphs, Victorian architecture awards 1929-2003. Melbourne, Australia: Royal Australian Institute of Architects, RAIA Victoria, pp. 22.
Refereed journal articles
Kaya S, Heywood CA, Arge K, Brawn GW & Alexander K. 2004. Raising Facilities Management's Profile in Organisations: Developing a World-Class Framework. Journal of Facilities Management. 3(1):65-82.
Refereed conference papers
Heywood CA, Smith J, Brawn GW & Missingham GK. 2004. Innovation in Facilities Management Practice using a Performance Approach. In R Ellis & M Bell (eds), Construction and Building Research: Proceedings of RICS COBRA 2004. 1-12. London, United Kingdom: RICS Foundation
Reports to Government and NGOs that are Publicly Available
Arge K, Heywood CA, Kaya S, Alexander K & Brawn GW. 2002. World Class FM - Case Study Report. For Centre for Facilities Management. Salford, United Kingdom: University of Salford.