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I am a Professor and Head of Division for Architecture at LSBU. I am an architect and academic with nearly 30 years experience of working in a university (including architecture practice) gained in the UK (London, Oxford and Plymouth), China (Suzhou), Germany (Münster) and Australia (Brisbane and Melbourne).
My three key areas of research are 1) the social production of architecture; 2) architecture and media (focusing on publishing and filmmaking) and; 3) architectural labour, neoliberalism and sustainable ecologies. I study architecture from a sociological perspectives to determine the conditions in which architecture is, and architects are, socially, culturally and economically produced. My books include: 'The Politics of Making' (2017/2007); 'Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture' (2017); 'Architecture Filmmaking' (2019); 'Visual Research Methods in Architecture' (2021); and 'Spaces of Tolerance' (2021), and ‘Work-life Balance in Architecture’(2024).
I was a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand (SAHANZ), and Chair of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA). I remain an AHRA Steering group member. In AHRA, I initiated and founded the interdisciplinary award-winning journal, 'Architecture and Culture' for which I was editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2023. I have given invited keynote addresses and lectures in Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Copenhagen, Karlsruhe, Melbourne and have been interviewed on radio.
Throughout my academic life I have supervised 100s of dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and some have won awards. I am a supervisor of PhDs and PhDs by Design and have supervised PhDs to completion, so I welcome potential PhD students reaching out to me. I have examined PhDs in Ireland, Australia, Portugal and the UK. I am an External Examiner at the University of Westminster and Cardiff University and have examined Part 2 courses at the University of Sheffield, and Birmingham School of Architecture. I was an invited juror for The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A) (Dissertation) prize and was recipient of a Research Excellence Award in 2017.
In 1996, I became a registered architect in Australia. In 2008, I cofounded Original Field of Architecture (OFA) in Oxford with my husband, Andrew Dawson. I began co-teaching studios with Andrew Dawson in 1998. We have two children, Lola and Valentino.
Courses taught
Architect Apprenticeship (Architecture MArch)
Architecture - MArch
Architecture - PhD
Postgraduate Research Supervision
Current
Mr Amirali Kalantari | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
Miss Andrea Martina Tiberi | Doctoral Research Project | PhD |
Mr Spyridon Kaprinis | Architectural Anatopism: From Deep Typology to Flexible Machine | PhD |
Andrea Tiberi | PhD |
The Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
The Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Funder | Year won | Project | Role |
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Landscape Research Group | 2023 | Landscape Research Group | Co-Investigator |
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfac20/current
Architectural Design, Technology, History and Theory
Design-led Research
Not a One-Size-Fits-All Architectural Education
Troiani, I. (2023). Not a One-Size-Fits-All Architectural Education. in: Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture London Riba Publishing.
Work-life Balance in Architecture
Troiani, I. (2024). Work-life Balance in Architecture. London Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
The Elephant in the Room: How neoliberal architecture education undermines wellbeing
Troiani, I. (2021). The Elephant in the Room: How neoliberal architecture education undermines wellbeing. Charrette AAE. 7 (2), pp. 11-35.
Tolerance in the Peer Review of Interdisciplinary Research in Architectural Journal Publishing
Troiani, I. and Ewing, S. (2019). Tolerance in the Peer Review of Interdisciplinary Research in Architectural Journal Publishing. Architecture and Culture. 7 (1), pp. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1584421
Academic capitalism in architecture schools: A feminist critique of employability, 24/7 work and entrepreneurship
Troiani, I. (2017). Academic capitalism in architecture schools: A feminist critique of employability, 24/7 work and entrepreneurship. in: Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C. and Runting, H. (ed.) Architecture and Feminisms London
Introduction: Transdisciplinary Urbanism and culture
Zaman, Q.M. and Troiani, I. (2017). Introduction: Transdisciplinary Urbanism and culture. in: Springer.