Gini Lee

Prof Gini Lee

School of Architecture and Built Environment

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Professor Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist, and following her formal retirement in 2020 is now Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. She was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture from 2011-2017. Her academic research and teaching engage with cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design, particularly in landscape design studio and theory that engages with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Her PhD The Intention to Notice: the collection, the tour and ordinary landscapes (2006), investigated ways in which designed landscapes are incorporated into the cultural understandings of individuals and communities. Focusing on the arid environments of Australia, her multidisciplinary research into the water landscapes of remote territories contributes to the scientific, cultural, heritage and Indigenous understanding and management strategies for fragile landscapes. As a Chief Investigator in the Place and Parametrics ARC 2017-2020 Gini contributed to transdisciplinary thinking and design practice and curation between digital and physical realms in heritage sites. Gini’s recent landscape curation and installation practice is an experiment with postproduction and Deep Mapping methods to investigate the cultural and scientific landscapes of remote and rural Australia, Scandinavia, global archipelagos and the arid lands of western USA. A co-editor of two books currently in press: Burry, M., Malpas, J., Lee, G., Roudavski, S., & Taylor, M., (2026), eds, Place and Parametricism: Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design, London: Bloomsbury Publishing and with Robert Crocker and Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Rethinking Waste through Design: In a World That is Already Full . As a Member of the South Australian Heritage Council she focuses on the heritage of remote and rural South Australia. 

Year Citation
2025 Burry, M., Lee, G., Malpas, J., Roudavski, S., & Taylor, M. (2025). PLACE AND PARAMETRICISM: Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design.

Year Citation
2025 Lee, G. (2025). TRAVELS IN/WITH/THROUGH HOMEPLACE. In Place and Parametricism Critical Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design (pp. 199-214).
2025 Taylor, M., & Lee, G. (2025). Section III: PLACE AND INTERIORITY – ATMOSPHERE, FEELING AND SPATIAL PRESENCE. In Place and Parametricism Critical Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design (pp. 137-142).
2025 Lee, G. (2025). Section IV: HOMEPLACE – ON THE NATURE OF EPHEMERAL TRACES. In Place and Parametricism Critical Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design (pp. 193-197).
2022 Lee, G. (2022). THE WATERLORE PROJECT: Mapping the sacred in cultural waters. In Water Lore Practice Place and Poetics (pp. 89-108). Routledge.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Park Life Circles : A Deep Learning Framework for Park System Design in Shanghai's Mega-Region Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yingxin Xia
2025 Co-Supervisor Park Life Circles : A Deep Learning Framework for Park System Design in Shanghai's Mega-Region Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yingxin Xia

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