Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning

Professor Kim Dovey

AArch (Curtin) MArch (Melb) PhD (Berkeley)

Head of Architecture

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

Email: k.dovey@unimelb.edu.au

Web: www.placeresearch.net/

 

Professor Kim Doveyhas been engaged for over 20 years in research on social issues in architecture and urban design. His theoretical focus incorporates conceptions of 'place', constructions of meaning and spatial analysis. Specific studies include tall buildings, shopping malls, housing, the politics of public space and Aboriginality in architecture. Books include 'Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form' (Routledge, 1999) and 'Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront' (Routledge, 2005). Kim is the recipient of a number of ARC grants and is currently engaged in a project entitled 'What is Urban Character?'

Kim has been a keynote speaker at a number of international conferences and held Visiting Professor or Scholar positions at Berkeley, UCL (Bartlett), City University of New York and the Universities of Minnesota and Nottingham. Locally he has engaged in public debate and broadcast widely in the mass media. He has received a number of awards for published work including the Australia Award for Urban Design.

 

Current Teaching Responsibilities

702-421 Urban Design Theory

 

Current Administrative Responsibilities

Head of Architecture

 

Research Interests

 

Funded Research

Project What is Urban Character?: Defining, Constructing and Regulating Urban Place Identity.
Year 2003-5
Source Australian Research Council Discovery Grant

 

Project Metropolis on the Move: Melbourne, 1982-2000
Year 2000
Source Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Grant

 

Recent Publications

Books

Dovey KG. 2005. Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne 's Urban Waterfront. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.

Dovey, K., 2005, Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront, London: Routledge,

Dovey, K. 1999, Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form, London: Routledge

 

Book chapters

Dovey, K. 'Home as Paradox' in: Rowles, G. & Chuadhury, H. (eds) Home and Identity in Late Life, New York: Springer, 2005, pp.361-70.

Dovey K.G. 2002. The silent complicity of architecture. In J Hillier & EV Rooksby (eds), Habitus: a sense of place. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, pp. 267-280.

Dovey K.G. 2001. The Aesthetics of Place. In B Cold (ed), Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within architecture and environmental aesthetics. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, pp. 93-101.

Dovey KG. 2001. On Politics and Urban Space. In J Barrett & C Butler-Bowden (eds), Debating the City: An Anthology. Sydney, Australia: Historic Houses Trust of NSW and University of Western Sydney, pp. 53-69.

Jacobs, J., Dovey, K. & Lochert, M. 'Authorizing Aboriginality in Architecture', in Lokko, L. (ed) White Papers, Black Marks, London: Wiley, 2000, pp.218-35.

Dovey, K., 2000, 'Aboriginal Cultural Centres’, in Kleinert, S. & Neale, M. (eds) The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 419–423.

 

Refereed journal articles

Stevens, Q. & Dovey, K. 2004. 'Appropriating the Spectacle: Play and politics in a leisure landscape', Journal of Urban Design, 9 (3), pp.351-65.

Dovey KG & Dickson SN. 2002. Architecture and freedom? Programmatic innovation in the work of Koolhaas/OMA. Journal of Architectural Education. 56(1):5-14.

Dovey KG & Sandercock L. 2002. Hype and hope: imagining Melbourne's Docklands. City. 6(1):83-101.

Sandercock L & Dovey KG. 2002. Pleasure, politics and the 'public interest': Melbourne's riverscape revitalization. Journal of the American Planning Association. 68(2):151-164. Dovey KG. 2001. Memory, Democracy and Urban Space. Journal of Urban Design. 6(3):265-282.

Dovey, K. 'Memory, Democracy and Urban Space: Bangkok’s Path to Democracy', 2001. Journal of Urban Design, 6 (3), pp.265-82.

Dovey KG, Fitzgerald JL & Choi Y. 2001. Safety Becomes Danger:dilemmas of drug-use in public space. Health and Place. 7:319-331.

Dovey, K., 2000, 'Redistributing Danger: Enclosure and Encounter in Urban Design’, Australian Planner 37(1):10–13

Dovey, K., 2000, 'Myth and Media: Constructing Aboriginal Architecture', Journal of Architectural Education 54(1):2–6.

 

Refereed conference papers

Woodcock, I., Dovey, K. & Wood, S. 2004. 'Limits to Urban Character', in Edquist, H. & Frichot, H. (Eds) LIMITS: SAHANZ Proceedings, Vol 2, Melbourne, pp.545-550.

Dovey KG. 2002. Architectural insinuations: on the waterfront with ARM, NFK, DCM, LAB. In J MacArthur & A Moulis (eds), Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 1-11. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Dovey KG. 2002. Dialectics of place: authenticity, identity, difference. In S Akkach (ed), De-Placing Difference: Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography. 45-52. Adelaide, Australia: Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)

 

Keynote Addresses

'Re-thinking Place Theory' Environmental Design Research Assn, Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, May, 2003.

 

Research Supervision

 

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