Paul Walker is associate professor and deputy dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
A respected critic, Walker regularly reviews contemporary architecture in Australia and New Zealand. He has contributed to Architecture New Zealand since its inception in 1986, and a regular contributor to Architecture Australia.
Walker has researched and written widely on architectural history and historiography in New Zealand and other post-colonial contexts. With Justine Clark, he co-authored Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern, published in 2000.
Walker holds BArch (Hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked with Athfield Architects in Wellington, and from 1989 to 1999 he taught architectural design and theory at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington.
OccupationAcademicLocationMelbourne, Australia
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Roy Grounds’ iconic National Gallery of Victoria now houses the gallery’s international collection in substantial new interiors by Mario Bellini and Metier 3.
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AIA/Burne Hocking Weimar’s work on the Calder freeway engages with the context and fleeting modes of visuality of the freeway. Review by Paul Walker.
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Icons – 20th Century Australian Architecture suggests certain ways of approaching architecture, architectural photography, and the idea of the icon. Review by Paul Walker and Justine Clark.