Julian Worrall

School of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

>>>Note: From January 2019 Dr Worrall takes up the position of Professor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania. He maintains an honorary Adjunct Associate Professor role at the University of Adelaide. He continues to supervise postgraduate students at U.Adelaide; prospective doctoral students can reach him at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania: julian.worrall[at]utas.edu.au

Career
Publications
Supervision
Professional Activities
Contact

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2019 - ongoing	Professor of Architecture; Head of School	University of Tasmania
2019 - ongoing	Adjunct Associate Professor	University of Adelaide
2014 - 2019	Associate Professor, Architecture and Urban Design	University of Adelaide
2012 - 2014	Associate Professor	Waseda University
2007 - 2009	Assistant Professor	Waseda University
2007 - 2007	Architect	Office for Metropolitan Architecture
2006 - 2006	Architect	Klein Dytham Architecture

Awards and Achievements

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2022	Nomination	Nomination for Creative Directorship, Australia Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2023	La Biennale di Venezia	Italy	1000
2017	Award	PIA Commendation - Outstanding Student Project (Tertiary)	Planning Institute of Australia (South Australia)	Australia	-
2000	Scholarship	Monbusho Scholar	Ministry of Education, Japan	Japan	¥2,400,000 per annum for 4.5 years

Language Competencies

Language Competency

Japanese Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Education

Date Institution name Country Title

2002 - 2005 University of Tokyo Japan PhD

1994 - 1996 University of Adelaide Australia B.Architecture(Hons.1)

Language	Competency
Japanese	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2002 - 2005	University of Tokyo	Japan	PhD
1994 - 1996	University of Adelaide	Australia	B.Architecture(Hons.1)

Certifications

Date	Title	Institution name	Country
2000	National Certificate of Architectural Practice (No. N050)	Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA)	-
—	Registered Architect - Practitioner	Architectural Practice Board of South Australia	Australia

Research Interests

Architectural Design Architectural History and Theory Architecture Art Theory and Criticism Asian Cultural Studies Social and Cultural Geography Studies of Asian Society Urban Design

Journals

Year	Citation
2021	Cheng, H., & Worrall, J. (2021). Unfolding China’s Urban Development: The Implementation of Public Art in Beijing and Shanghai. Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, 3(1), 1-14. DOI Scopus1
2020	Worrall, J. D. (2020). Terrace House near Demachiyanagi. Architecture Australia, (Jan/Feb 2020), 96-101.
2020	Worrall, J. (2020). Architectural archeology: Install House - Partners Hill. Architecture Australia, 109(4), 78-83.
2019	Worrall, J. D. (2019). Precisely calibrated: AGT Southern Crop Breeding Centre. Architecture Australia, 108(1), 86-92.
2018	Worrall, J. (2018). Monument to the People's Heroes, Shanghai. Icon, 104-105.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). The Good Architect. Architecture Australia, March 2017(2), 110-112.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). Of Mountains and Water. Icon, (168), 106-113.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). Island Universe. Icon, 174, 82-92.
2017	Boven, T., Ariga, T., & Worrall, J. (2017). Culture-led Reuse of Former Elementary Schools: A Survey of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial′s Involvement in Tokamachi, Japan. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 16(1), 61-66. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2017	Worrall, J. D. (2017). 'Tokyo: A Biography': Tracing the life of a city. The Japan Times, 22.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). House in Hamilton. Architecture Australia, 106(2), 78-84.
2016	Worrall, J. (2016). Le Corbusier's Japanese ghost lives on in Ueno. The Japan Times, B6.
2016	Worrall, J. (2016). In Praise of Privacy. Dirty Furniture, (3).
2016	Worrall, J. (2016). Harbin Opera House. Icon, (151), 70-75.
2015	Worrall, J. D. (2015). Japan's fertile architectural evolution. The Japan Times, (01/30), 12.
2015	Worrall, J. D. (2015). Adelaide High School New Learning Centre. Architecture Australia, (Sept/Oct 2015), 80-87.
2014	Worrall, J. D. (2014). Venice Biennale lays down the past. The Japan Times, 13.
2014	Worrall, J. (2014). Architecture detectives. Icon, 134, 58-63.
2012	Worrall, J. (2012). Metabolism, the city of the future. Icon, 103, 97.
2012	Worrall, J. (2012). Six of the Best. Icon, 103, 65.
2010	Worrall, J. (2010). Sensing Nature. Icon, 88, 74-75.
2010	Worrall, J. (2010). Tokyo Apartment. Icon, 85, 46-52.
2010	Worrall, J. (2010). Bringing the outside in: the work of Suppose Design Office. Domus, 934, 61-63.
2010	Worrall, J. (2010). Miyajima Office in Hiroshima. Domus, 933, 27-32.
2010	Worrall, J. (2010). China’s World Expo. Icon, 85, 41-44.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). The Significance of Sou Fujimoto. 2G, 50, 10-23.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). Ofunato Civic Centre and Library. Icon, 77, 64-72.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). Camouflage: dissolving boundaries, resolving worlds in Sejima and Nishizawa. Domus, 931, 30-31.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). A sculpted chunk. Icon, 74, 38-39.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). The Primitive Houses of the Future. Domus, 922, 14-25.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). Kim Jong Il on Architecture. Icon, 71, 78-79.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Kuma at Kyoto University. Domus, 920, 66-69.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Ishigami in Kanagawa. Domus, 913, 20-29.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Crane House. Domus, 191, 84-87.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Space for your Future. Domus, 910, 5.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). House N in Japan. Domus, 917, 63-68.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). MVRDV Gyre. Icon, 56, 30-31.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Incinerators in Japan. Domus, 918, 104-110.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). A white forest in a grey field. Icon, 59, 38-41.
2007	Worrall, J. (2007). Native Alien. Monument, 77, 96-100.
2007	Worrall, J. (2007). Principle of relativity. Domus, 909, 44-49.

Books

Year	Citation
2021	Worrall, J., & Konrad, A. (2021). Japan Works / Japan Wākusu. Amsterdam: Roma Publications.
2021	Worrall, J., & Konrad, A. (2021). Japan Works / Japan Wākusu. Amsterdam: Roma Publications.
2010	Worrall, J., & Solomon, E. (2010). 21st Century Tokyo: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture. Japan: Kodansha.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2022	Worrall, J. (2022). An Eternal Return? Considering the Temporality and Historicity of Metabolism. In R. Pernice (Ed.), The Urbanism of Metabolism Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow (pp. 184-194). Routledge. DOI
2022	Worrall, J. (2022). AN ETERNAL RETURN?: Considering the Temporality and Historicity of Metabolism. In The Urbanism of Metabolism: Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow (pp. 184-194). Routledge. DOI
2021	Cheng, H., & Worrall, J. (2021). The influence of public art in developing Chinese urban public space: Current trends and future directions. In Y. Mahgoub, N. Cavalagli, A. Versaci, H. Bougdah, & M. Serra-Permanyer (Eds.), Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (pp. 157-165). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI Scopus5
2020	Worrall, J., & Cheng, H. (2020). Harbin Opera House, 2010-15. In A. Radford, A. Srivastava, & S. Morkoc (Eds.), The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings (Revised and expanded edition ed., pp. 340-345). London: Thames and Hudson.
2020	Toland, A., Cate Christ, M., & Worrall, J. D. (2020). DigitalXPlace. In D. Hes, & C. Hernandez-Santin (Eds.), Placemaking Fundamentals for the Built Environment (pp. 253-274). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI Scopus10
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). The Passion of Shigeru Ban. In G. Sherman (Ed.), The Inventive Work of Shigeru Ban (pp. 27-37). Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.
2015	Worrall, J. (2015). In the arena of alternative modernities. In E. Gardner, & C. Fruneaux (Eds.), Tokyo Totem - A Guide to Tokyo トーキョー・トーテム主観的東京ガイド (pp. 170-176). Tokyo: Monnik & Flick Studio.
2015	Worrall, J. (2015). Time in the city of temporal monuments. In E. Gardner, & C. Fruneaux (Eds.), Tokyo Totem - A Guide to Tokyo トーキョー・トーテム主観的東京ガイド (pp. 150-151). Tokyo: Monnik & Flick Studio.
2013	Worrall, J. (2013). Nature, publicness, place - towards a relational architecture in Japan. In C. Thun-Hohenstein, A. Fogarasi, C. Teckert, & MAK Wien (Eds.), Eastern promises: contemporary architecture and spatial practices in East Asia (pp. 85-99). Germany: Hatje Cantz.
2012	Worrall, J. (2012). Chim↑Pomの空間戦術：私共空間のアート=Chim↑Pom's spatial tactics: an art of public space. In C. Pom, & K. Abe (Eds.), Super Rat (pp. 218-224). Japan: Parco Publishing.
2012	Worrall, J. (2012). Base and superstructure in Toyo Ito. In J. Turnbull (Ed.), Toyo Ito: forces of nature (pp. 120-130). Princeton, USA: Princeton Architectural press.
2012	Worrall, J. (2012). High resolution urbanism: scalar diversity at Kichijoji. In D. Radovic, & D. Boontharm (Eds.), Small Tokyo (pp. 80-87). Japan: International Keio Institute (IKI).
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). 2G 50 Sou Fujimoto. In Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Julian Worrall (Ed.), The Significance of Sou Fujimoto (pp. 10-23). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Gustavo Gili.
2007	Worrall, J. (2007). Flagship Store. In Sculpture Projects Muenster 07 - Catalogue (pp. 363-364). Westfälisches Landesmuseum.

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2020	Cheng, H., Worrall, J., & Srivastava, A. (2020). Public Art, Public Sphere, and Urban Development in the Chinese Metropolis. In ICCREM 2020: Intelligent Construction and Sustainable Buildings (pp. 206-2015). online: American Society of Civil Engineers. DOI Scopus1
2020	Shroff, M., & Worrall, J. (2020). Building Upon: A designer's approach to adaptive reuse. In What if? What next? Speculations on History's Futures. The 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand,. Perth.
2019	Cheng, H., & Worrall, J. D. (2019). The Development Strategies of Public Art in Metro Architectural Space of Mega Cities in China. In ICCREM 2019 : Innovative Construction Project Management and Construction Industrialization (pp. 250-255). Banff, Alberta, Canada: American Society of Civil Engineers. DOI
2016	Boven, T., Worrall, J. D., & Ariga, T. (2016). A Japanese Cultural Management Approach to Reconceptualise the Countryside - The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Case. In From knowledge to development: New university challenges for a contemporary urban development”. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015	Worrall, J. D. (2015). A Tale of Two (Sub)cities: Shimbashi and Shibuya. In AAS Annual Meeting Abstracts 2015. Chicago.
2015	Worrall, J. D. (2015). Between Contact and Spectacle: Considering Encounter within Entangled Geographies. In Rethinking Encounters: Islam and the West. Adelaide.
2011	Worrall, J. (2011). Producing Places, Consuming Sites at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. In EAJS - European Association of Japanese Studies Conference #13.
2011	Worrall, J. (2011). The Possibilities of an Island: Rebuilding Culture in the Inland Sea. In AAS - Association of Asian Studies Conference 2011.
2011	Worrall, J. (2011). Travelling iguanas: cosmopolitanism in contemporary Japanese architecture. In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 28th Annual Conference (pp. 1-10). Brisbane, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). Metabolism as Ruin: Constructions of Time in Contemporary Japan. In JSAA - Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference 2009.
2009	Worrall, J. (2009). Railway Urbanism and Public Space. In 7th Inter-Asia Cultural Typhoon Conference 2009.
2008	Worrall, J. (2008). Soft Borders: Contemporary Architecture in Japan. In EAJS - European Association of Japanese Studies Conference #12.
2005	Worrall, J. (2005). Loyal Dogs and Fountains of Love. In ASCJ - Asian Studies Conference Japan 2005.
2005	Worrall, J. (2005). Trains, Stations, and Urban Public Space in Postwar Tokyo. In EAJS - European Association of Japanese Studies Conference #11.

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2016	Worrall, J. D., & Bailey, J. (2016). Architectural speculations on the Library of the Future. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of ALIA National 2016 Conference. Adelaide.
2016	Worrall, J. D. (2016). Still Lives in Mobile Homes: Contemporary Fluidity of Existence in Japan. Poster session presented at the meeting of Japan Now: Inspired by Tradition [Lecture Series]. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Original Creative Works

Year	Citation
2017	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Metabolist Time. Description: N/A. Extent: 28.
2017	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Ubara Beachouse. Description: Timber and steel-framed house overlooking the Pacific Ocean clad in charred cedar ("shou sugi ban"). Location: Ubara village, Katsura City, Chiba Prefecture Japan. Site area: 95.13m2; Building Footprint: 55.60m2; Gross Floor Area: 98.32m2. Extent: Site area 95.13 metre square.
2016	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Cumulonimbus. Description: N/A. Extent: Installation mounted around three inverted tetrahedral structures 3.5m on a side..
2016	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature. Description: N/A. Extent: 850 words.
2016	Authors: Worrall J. Title: The Deep Field: Resolving a Japanese Constellation. Description: N/A. Extent: 11.
2016	Authors: Worrall J. Title: The Deep Field: Resolving a Japanese Constellation. Description: N/A. Extent: 11.
2016	Authors: Worrall J. Title: The Nakwon Principle. Description: Publication accompanying the exhibition in the South Korean national pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.. Extent: 7 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: The Quiet Cosmopolitan. Description: N/A. Extent: 7 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Australia House. Description: N/A. Extent: 10 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Comunita ricostruite [Rebuilding communities]. Description: N/A. Extent: 10 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Serpentine Pavilion. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: House K by Sou Fujimoto. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Post-disaster Japan. Description: N/A. Extent: 10 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Entità galleggianti = Floating constituencies. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Realizing the Real: Home-For-All. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Rebuilding communities. Description: Photography : Edmund Sumner. Extent: 10 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Making places real: Jackson Slattery at the Setouchi Triennale. Description: N/A. Extent: 2 pages.
2013	Authors: Worrall J. Title: The Game of Life. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2012	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Un rifugio per tutti: shelters for all. Description: Article in Italian and English. Extent: 8 pages.
2012	Authors: Worrall J, Kuma K, Yamamoto R. Title: Home for all - Nach der Katastrophe. Die Rückkehr zum Wesentlichen. Description: N/A. Extent: 6 pages.
2012	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Toda House. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2012	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Kadare Cultural Centre. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2012	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Spatial Binaries. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Rainbow Bank. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2011	Authors: Worrall J, Barrie A. Title: Unity in Adversity - On disasters in New Zealand and Japan. Description: N/A. Extent: Unknown.
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Omishima Museum. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Tokyo after the Quake. Description: N/A. Extent: 8 pages.
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Roku Museum. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Teshima Art Museum. Description: N/A. Extent: 2 pages.
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: SN House. Description: N/A. Extent: ..
2011	Authors: Worrall J. Title: Island Odyssey. Description: N/A. Extent: 30 pages.

Curated or Produced Public Exhibition or Events

Year	Citation
2018	Hours, V., Mauduit, F., Souteyrat, J., Tardits, M., & Worrall, J. (2018). Japan - Archipelago of the House (No. Of Pieces: 28 day exhibition) [Exhibition]. Adelaide, South Australia: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). Archaeology of the Smart City (No. Of Pieces: 22 A1 full-colour panels (H840mmxW597mm)) [Exhibition]. Adelaide.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). Archaeology of the Smart City (No. Of Pieces: 22 A1 full-colour panels (H840mmxW597mm)) [Exhibition]. Adelaide.
2017	Worrall, J. (2017). Archaeology of the Smart City (No. Of Pieces: 22 A1 full-colour panels (H840mmxW597mm)) [Exhibition]. Adelaide.
2016	Worrall, J. (2016). Adelaide 2050 Urban Futures (No. Of Pieces: 29 x A1 panels (W594mm x H840mm); 1:1000 urban model (3.2m x 1.9m) in timber, foam; projections. 51 day exhibition.) [Exhibition]. Adelaide.
2014	Worrall, J. (2014). City Tales (No. Of Pieces: 6 month period) [Exhibition]. Japan and Amsterdam.

Theses

Year	Citation
2005	Worrall, J. (2005). 都市としての鉄道：20世紀東京の鉄道から生み出された公共空間. (PhD Thesis, University of Tokyo).
1993	Worrall, J. (1993). Faraway: Japan in Western Architectural Discourse, 1886-1992. (PhD Thesis).

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2018	Principal Supervisor	Public Art in the Chinese Metropolis: A Comparative Study of Art in Public Space in Beijing and Shanghai	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Han Cheng
2017	Principal Supervisor	Architectural Design: Research by Practice	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Anthony Quentin Donald Coupe
2017	Principal Supervisor	Design by Research that Investigates the Capacity of Architecture to Facilitate New Types of Social Situations Through Denaturalisation of 'Normal' Behaviour	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Richard Joseph Le Messurier
2017	Principal Supervisor	Architectural Design: Research by Practice	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Anthony Quentin Donald Coupe

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2017 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Unlocking Physical Spaces	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Richard Joseph Le Messurier
2015 - 2024	Co-Supervisor	Between Before and After: Architecture in a Time of Crisis	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Athanasios Lazarou

Memberships

Date Role Membership Country

1997 - ongoing Member Australian Institute of Architects Australia
Consulting/Advisories

Date Institution Department Organisation Type Country

2015 - ongoing Office for Design and Architecture South Australia - Cultural or historical Australia

Date	Role	Membership	Country
1997 - ongoing	Member	Australian Institute of Architects	Australia

Date	Institution	Department	Organisation Type	Country
2015 - ongoing	Office for Design and Architecture South Australia	-	Cultural or historical	Australia

Email: julian.worrall@adelaide.edu.au

Julian Worrall

Appointments

Awards and Achievements

Language Competencies

Education

Certifications

Research Interests

Journals

Books

Book Chapters

Conference Papers

Conference Items

Original Creative Works

Curated or Produced Public Exhibition or Events

Theses

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Memberships

Consulting/Advisories

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