Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning

Professor Philip Goad

BArch (Hons) PhD (Melb)

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Professor of Architecture

Email: p.goad@unimelb.edu.au

 

Professor Philip Goad is internationally known for his research and is an authority on modern Australian architecture. Philip has worked extensively as an architect, conservation consultant, and curator. Philip is an expert on the life and work of Robin Boyd, and has held visiting scholar positions at Columbia University, Bartlett School of Architecture (London) and UCLA (Los Angeles). Philip is a past editor of Fabrications, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, and is a contributing editor to Architecture Australia. Along with Associate Professor Julie Willis, he is the editor of the proposed Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture.

 

Current Teaching Responsibilities

702-503 Architectural Design 5A

702-617 Crisis in Complexity

 

Current Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Dean

 

Research Interests

 

Funded Research

Project Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920–1970 (with Dr Hannah Lewi and Associate Professor Julie Willis (and Professor Kate Darian-Smith & Assoc. Professor John Murphy, the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne))
Year: 2006–2008
Source: ARC Discovery Project grant

 

Project Leading the world: modern hospital design in Australia 1925-1960 (with J Willis)
Year: 2006
Source: Melbourne Research Grants Scheme

 

Project The unwritten history of Australian Modernism (with A McNamara (QUT) & A Stephen (Powerhouse Museum, Sydney))
Year: 2003-2005
Source: Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Grant

 

Project Nationalism and Identity: Government Architecture in Australia 1900 –1950 (with J Willis)
Year: 2000-2002
Source: Australian Research Council (ARC) Large Grants

 

Project Architecture from WWII: Australian Architects and the Allied Works Council (with J Willis)
Year: 2000
Source: Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Grants

 

Awards Received

Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media, from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects for Melbourne Architecture, The Watermark Press, Sydney, 1999 (2000).

Joint RAPI Award for Excellence (1994)

RAIA President’s Award (1991)

 

Recent Publications

Books

Goad PJ & Pieris AD. 2005. New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture. Sydney, Australia: Pesaro Publishing. Goad, P., 2000, Architecture Bali: Architectures of Welcome, Pesaro Publishing, Sydney

Goad PJ, Wilken RC & Willis JL. 2004. Australian Modern: the Architecture of Stephenson and Turner. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne UP).

Goad PJ. 2003. Judging architecture: issues, divisions, triumphs, Victorian architecture awards 1929-2003. Melbourne, Australia: Royal Australian Institute of Architects, RAIA Victoria.

Goad PJ. 2001. New Directions in Australian Architecture. Sydney, Australia: Pesaro Publishing.

 

Book chapters

Goad PJ. 2002. New land, new language: shifting grounds in Australian attitudes to landscape, architecture and modernism. In M Treib (ed), The architecture of landscape, 1940-1960. Philadelphia, United States of America: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 238-269.

Goad PJ. 2003. A concise history of future houses: On the 'other' side of the world. In GL London (ed), Houses for the 21st Century. Sydney, Australia: Pesaro Publishing, pp. 68-73.

Goad PJ. 2003. An ongoing preoccupation: Australia and the small house. In GL London (ed), Houses for the 21st Century. Sydney, Australia: Pesaro Publishing, pp. 54-59.

Goad PJ. 2004. Becoming Bates Smart, 1995-2003. In PJ Goad & B Starr (eds), Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture. Melbourne, Australia: Thames and Hudson, pp. 244-294.

Goad PJ. 2004. Moderate Modernism. In PJ Goad & B Starr (eds), Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture. Melbourne, Australia: Thames and Hudson, pp. 146-213.

Goad PJ. 2004. Reflection and Transformation, 1977-95. In PJ Goad & B Starr (eds), Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture. Melbourne, Australia: Thames and Hudson, pp. 214-242.

Willis JL & Goad PJ. 2004. Modernism from Empire: the Charting of an Australian Government Architecture 1901-1950. In K Darian-Smith, PA Grimshaw, KJE Lindsey & SF MacIntyre (eds), Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production - Institutions. Melbourne, Australia: RMIT Publishing, pp. 822-839.

Goad PJ. 2001. Competition and Circumstance: Urban Legacies of the Olympics. 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. 143-163.

 

Refereed journal articles

Goad PJ & Willis JL. 2003. Invention from war: A circumstantial modernism for Australian architecture. Journal of Architecture. 8(1):41-62.

 

Refereed conference papers

Goad PJ. 2005. Homes in the Sun: Climate and the Modern Australian House, 1945-1965. In A Leach & G Matthewson (eds), Celebration: XXII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand . 137-139. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Goad PJ. 2003. Progress and reform: Robin Boyd and the Australian city 1944-1971. In M Gusheh & N Stead (eds), Progress: The proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 124-129. Sydney, Australia: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Willis JL & Goad PJ. 2002. The Imaging of Government 1918-1945: Modernity, Tradition or Progress. In J MacArthur & A Moulis (eds), Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 1-10. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Goad PJ & Willis JL. 2001. War and the Necessity of Invention: A Circumstantial Modernism for Postwar Australian Architecture. In H Lewi (ed), In the Making: Architecture's Past. 74-83. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

Willis JL & Goad PJ. 2001. Revisiting the Search for an Australian Style: Late Nineteenth Century Arguments for a National Idiom. In H Lewi (ed), In the Making: Architecture's Past. 66-73. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).

 

Contributions to Major Reference Works

Goad PJ. 2002. Modernism. In R Aitken & M Looker (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, pp. 411-412.

Goad PJ. 2002. Stevens, John Martin. In R Aitken & M Looker (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, pp. 569.

 

Research Supervision

 

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