The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Simon Anderson

Dean/Head of School/Winthrop Professor
School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts

Contact details

Address

School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts
The University of Western Australia (M433)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2589

Fax

6488 1525

Email

Simon.Anderson@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BArch Syd., BSc BA W.Aust, RAIA

Biography

Winthrop Professor Simon Anderson has been appointed to lead the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts as its Dean from 2010 to 2014.

Key objectives during his appointment will be the roll out of the University's New Courses 2012 – Knowledge for a Changing World, the internationalisation of the Faculty and the creation of a significant academic-practitioner model of University tenure.

Simon Anderson has taught and practised architecture at The University of Western Australia (UWA) since 1989. He has: won University and national awards and citations for excellence in teaching; won awards, prizes and commendations for buildings and competition designs for residential, multi-residential, institutional and industrial buildings; curated major architectural exhibitions; exhibited buildings and projects internationally; written on contemporary Australian architecture; authored expert opinions; produced competition briefs; been an elected councillor of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) for a decade. Additionally he has numerously and frequently been a design award juror, design competition judge, and professional journal editor and advisor. In 1990-2 he co-ordinated a library aid program for University of Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

More recently:

his work has been exhibited at the 10th and 11th International Architecture Exhibitions, La Biennale di Venezia 2006 and 2008

he won in 2007 the architectural competition for a world’s best practice eco-resort at Ningaloo

he won, with ALVA Winthrop Professor Geoffrey London, the 2007 AIA Sisalation Prize

in 2007 Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford described his (with Hassell) 2004 Gravity Discovery Centre as the ‘best science (education) centre in the world.’

in January 2008 he was Artist in Residence at the Arthur & Yvonne Boyd Centre for Australian Art

in 2008 he edited with Victorian Government Architect and Winthrop Professor Geoffrey London the volume Housing Australia published by AIA and accompanied by a national touring exhibition

in 2009 he was awarded The President’s Award by AIA(WA) for his outstanding contribution and support to Architecture.

In 2007 Architectural Review Australia conducted a survey that called for the nomination of projects that represent the highest achievements in Australian architecture from the past quarter of a century, and the nomination of individuals who have been a significant influence in Australian architecture in the last 25 years. Simon Anderson was one of only nine architects represented in both categories.

Current architectural commissions comprise 5 projects in development with 5 projects on site.

Future research

Concreto Houses in Urban/Space Housing S. Harrison (ed.), Thames & Hudson, London (H) (forthcoming)

‘Julius Elischer’, ‘Gordon Finn’, ‘Brian Klopper’, ‘Krantz & Sheldon’, ‘Peter Breuchle’, ‘Marshall Clifton’, ‘E. J. Henderson’, ‘Iwan Iwanoff’, ‘Parry & Rosenthal’, ‘Henry Reveley’, Geoffery Summerhayes’, ‘A. E. Clare’ in The Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture P. Goad & J. Willis (eds), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

‘City and suburbs, density and diffusion, absence and excess: Western Australian architecture 1976-2007’ in Perth Architecture G. London (ed.), Watermark Press, Sydney (forthcoming)

‘Factory House’ in Architecture Australia 2011, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 78-82

‘Factory House(s) in The Architect 2011, no. 1, p. 7-12

Raymond Jones Architectural Projects exhibition catalogue, S. Anderson & A. Murray (eds), Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts UWA 2011, 150 pp.

‘Experiments in Space, Structure and Environmental Design: The Life and Architecture of Raymond Jones’ in Raymond Jones Architectural Project exhibition catalogue, S. Anderson & A. Murray (eds), Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts UWA 2011, pp. 10-15

‘Interview with Raymond Jones’ in Raymond Jones Architectural Project exhibition catalogue, S. Anderson & A. Murray (eds), Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts UWA 2011, pp. 16-19 (with A. Murray)

Memberships

Registered Architect 1988 (Architects Board of Western Australia)

Associate Royal Australian Institute of Architects 1988-2001

Fellow Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2001-current

Honours and awards

AIA Multiple Residential Architecture Commendation for Concreto Houses 2009

AIA(WA) The President’s Award 2009

AIA Small Project Architecture Commendation for Cosmology Gallery, Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingin 2008

Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust, Arthur & Yvonne Boyd Centre for Australian Art, Shoalhaven January 2008

RAIA Sisalation Prize 2007 (with G.London)

Proposition 6707: A Design Competition for a World’s Best Practice Sustainable Eco Resort at Ningaloo Reef First Prize 2007

RAIA Architecture Design Commendation for Baird Avenue House 2007 (with K. Hislop)

UWA Carrick Award Nominee 2006

Building for Diversity Design Competition Second Prize 2005

RAIA Architecture Design Award for Killarney Street House 2005

UWA Excellence in Teaching Award for Individual Teaching 2004

RAIA Ecologically Sustainable Development Commendation for Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingin 2004 (with Spowers)

Housing Concept Design Competition Commendation, Goldfields Esperance Development Commission 2001

Research profile

Research profile and publications