Julian Worrall

>>>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<<<Julian Worrall is an Australian architect, scholar, and critic, with an international reputation as an interpeter of the architecture and urbanism of contemporary Japan.After an early practice career in Sydney leading to architectural registration in NSW, Julian won a Japanese MEXT scholarship in 2000 to pursue research on Japanese urbanism at the University of Tokyo. After completing his PhD in 2005, he returned to practice, working as an architect and urbanist with Klein Dytham in Tokyo and Rem Koolhaas's OMA in Rotterdam, before returning to Tokyo in 2008 to accept an academic post at Waseda University. He took up his present position at the University of Adelaide in 2014.His work, pursued through a mix of scholarly research, critical writing, and design practice, is broadly concerned with the construction of alternative modernities, particularly as seen through the lens of the East Asian metropolis. While unequivocally rooted in the intellectual soil of the university, his activities have striven to connect the often segregated realms of teaching, research, and practice.A prominent architecture writer, Julian is a contributing editor for the influential design journal Icon (UK) and former architectural columnist for Japan's leading English-language newspaper The Japan Times, with translations of his writing appearing in seven languages. He has been invited to speak or contribute to major institutions of architectural culture and education globally, including V&A Museum London; MAK Museum of Applied Art Vienna; Strelka Institute Moscow; Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation Sydney; Venice Architecture Biennale; Chicago Architecture Biennial, and MoMA New York. Recent contributions to major exhibitions include "A Japanese Constellation" (New York, MoMA, 2016) and "Eastern Promises: Contemporary Architecture and Spatial Practice in East Asia" (Vienna, Hatje Cantz, 2013).