Contributor Profile

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.
Occupation Academic Location Melbourne, Australia