Associate Professor Peter Scriver
Associate Professor/Reader
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Peter Scriver is a founding member of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at the University of Adelaide, where he has taught Modern Architectural History, Theory and Design and directed postgraduate research since 1996. Scriver is a critical authority on the architectural history of modern India. His theoretical interests focus on cultural and cognitive relationships between architecture, building, planning and urban design, and the institutional frameworks and professional networks in which these disciplines operate. In addition to his pioneering work on postcolonial India, Scriver is also an expert on colonial modernity. His extensive historical research on the British Indian Department of Public Works has examined its instrumental role in the propagation and institutionalization of modern architectural and engineering knowledge in colonial India and beyond. His on-going work on transnational professional networks and exchanges of architectural knowledge and expertise -- between Australia and Asia in particular -- continues to contribute to critical scholarship on colonial and modern architectural history, and the broader cultural, institutional and political-economic frameworks of its production.
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Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2014 Research Award ARC Linkage Grant Australian Research Council Australia -
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Sobti, M. P., & Scriver, P. (2022). Personal Journey or Tectonic Practice: Thick Descriptions of ‘Curated’ Residential Interiors by Four Indian Architects. Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 32(1), 82-109.
2022 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2022). Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity, edited by Vera Simone Bader; and One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash, by Vikramaditya Prakash,. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 2021 Scriver, P. (2021). Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka: Porous Nation. FABRICATIONS-THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 31(1), 144-146.
2021 Lozanovska, M., Kulić, V., Gzowska, A., Bujas, P., Scriver, P., Srivastava, A., . . . Zimmerman, C. (2021). Forum: Cold War Architecture Historiography. Fabrications, 31(2), 279-294.
2020 Scriver, P. C. (2020). Critical Historiographer. Veranda: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, 2(1), 63-74. 2019 Scriver, P. C., Srivastava, A., & Lu, D. (2019). Re- Asia : Architecture as Tactic. Architecture Theory Review, 22(3), 301-308.
Scopus2 WoS12019 Scriver, P. (2019). Whither Internationalism?. ABE Journal, (14-15), 1-4.
2019 Scriver, P. (2019). Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism. ABE JOURNAL, (14-15), 5 pages. 2018 Scriver, P. (2018). Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire. FABRICATIONS-THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 28(2), 285-288.
WoS12018 Malaque, I., Bartsch, K., & Scriver, P. (2018). Thriving in the slums: progressive development and empowerment of the urban poor to achieve secure tenure in the Philippines. Architectural Science Review, 61(5), 313-318.
Scopus3 WoS32017 Scriver, P., Srivastava, A., & Westbrook, N. (2017). Architecture as method: A report on the adelaide congress 2017. Fabrications, 27(3), 425-428.
2017 Ismail, M. N., Sapian, A. R., Scriver, P., & Rashid, M. (2017). Translation of social citizenship to architecture and built environment: A methodological review. Planning Malaysia, 15(1), 235-244.
Scopus12017 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2017). Monuments to a nation’s journey. Indian Express. 2016 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2016). Building Utopia: Fifty Years of Auroville. Architectural Review, 239(1431), 98-104. 2016 Scriver, P., Bartsch, K., & Rashid, M. (2016). The space of citizenship: drifting and dwelling in “imperial” Australia. Fabrications, 26(2), 133-157.
Scopus3 WoS22015 Scriver, P. (2015). Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia. FABRICATIONS-THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 25(2), 292-294.
2010 Scriver, P. (2010). Constructing colonial and contemporary South Asia: A view from Down Under. Fabrications, 19(2), 35-57.
WoS12007 Tombesi, P., Dave, B., Gardiner, B., & Scriver, P. (2007). Rules of engagement: testing the attributes of distant outsourcing marriages. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 3(1), 49-64.
Scopus6 WoS12006 Scriver, P. (2006). Statements of Intent: Folio/05-Transitions, Final Project, Adelaide University, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Place, 1(6 - Feb / Mar), 20. 2006 Scriver, P. (2006). Placing in-between: Thinking through architecture in the construction of colonial-modern identities. National Identities, 8(3), 207-223.
Scopus9 WoS52006 Scriver, P. (2006). Possible Worlds - Peter Scriver reviews this year's Architecture Symposium at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, which gave the opportunity to reflect on radical projections of the future. Architecture Australia, May/June, 27-28. 2004 Scriver, P. (2004). Mosques, ghantowns and cameleers in the settlement history of colonial Australia. Fabrications, 13(2), 19-41.
2003 Tombesi, P., Bharat, D., & Scriver, P. (2003). Routine production or symbolic analysis? India and the globalisation of architectural services. The Journal of Architecture, 8(1), 63-94.
Scopus212003 Scriver, P., & Wyeld, T. (2003). Exploring Architectural Discourse and Form through Game-like On-line Learning Strategies. International Journal of Design Computing, 5, www 1.
Scopus22002 Scriver, P. (2002). Geometries of power: imperial cities of Delhi. Architecture Australia, July/Aug. 2001 Scriver, P. (2001). Imperial progress: On the impracticality of problem-solving in colonial Indian building. Fabrications, 11(2), 20-45.
1997 Scriver, P. (1997). Naming and framing: Design thinking between cultures. CHASA Refereed Designs 1995 and 1997, 1996 Edition, 51-54. 1993 Scriver, P. (1993). Building in a Global Garden”. review of Building in the Garden: The architecture of Joseph Allen Stein in India and California by Stephen White. Design Book Review, (29/30), 70-75. 1991 Scriver, P. (1991). An Imperial Vision by T.R. Metcalf, The Tradition of Indian Architecture by G.H.R. Tillotson, and The Indian Metropolis by Norma Evenson. Design Book Review, (20), 65-69. 1987 Bhatt, V., & Scriver, P. (1987). Contemporary Indian Architecture: An Assessment. Spacio e Societa / Space and Society, (38), 112-135. -
Books
Year Citation 2015 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2015). India: Modern Architectures in History. Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press. 2007 Scriver, P. (Ed.) (2007). The scaffolding of empire : 4th International Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture. University of Adelaide. 2007 Scriver, P., & Prakash, V. (Eds.) (2007). Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon. Routledge.
DOI Scopus232002 Frampton, K., & Mehrotra, R. (2002). World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic. Springer. 2000 Akkach, S., Fung, S., & Scriver, P. (Eds.) (2000). Self, place & imagination : cross-cultural thinking in architecture. Centre for Asian & Middle Eastern Architecture, University of Adelaide. 1997 Society of Architectural Historians, A. A. N. Z. C. (1997). On what Ground(s)? SAHANZ 97. 1990 Bhatt, V., & Scriver, P. (1990). After the masters. Univ of Washington Pr. -
Book Chapters
Year Citation 2024 Bartsch, K., Rashid, M. M., & Scriver, P. (2024). The First Aussie Mosques: Mediating Boundaries despite the ‘White Australia’ Policy. In F. Karim, & P. Blessing (Eds.), The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture (pp. 77-110). Intellect. 2023 Scriver, P. (2023). Placing In-between: thinking through architecture in the construction of colonial modern Identities. In S. Pandya (Ed.), After Belonging: Architecture, Nation, Difference. Routledge.
DOI2023 Scriver, P., & Moulis, A. (2023). Open Form and Design Thinking in the Early Andrews Practice, 1964–1967. In P. Walker (Ed.), John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense. Boston: Harvard Design Press. 2022 Scriver, P. (2022). Innovation and the prospect of the ‘post-national’ in the Architecture of Expo’67. In C. Moyse, & S. Palmer (Eds.), Expo67 and its World: Staging nations in the crucible of globalization (pp. 213-236). McGill-Queens U Press. 2022 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2022). Infrastructure and Industry. In M. Stierli, A. Pieris, & S. Anderson (Eds.), The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 (pp. 116-121). New York: MoMA. 2022 Scriver, P., Srivastava, A., & Guedes, P. (2022). Neo-Gothic in India: Autonomy, Fusion, Exuberance. In B. Borngässer, & B. Klein (Eds.), Global Gothic: Gothic Church Buildings in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Vol. 20, pp. 98-109). Leuven: Leuven University Press. 2021 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2021). Discourse and Development in Postcolonial Indian Architecture. In D. Lu (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History. Routledge. 2020 Srivastava, A., & Scriver, P. (2020). Transnational Tactics: A View from across the Indian Ocean. In P. Meuser, & A. Dalbai (Eds.), Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives, Questions and Concepts (pp. 258-261). Berlin: DOM Publishers. 2020 Srivastava, A., Scriver, P. C., & Nash, J. (2020). Religion as conceptual scaffolding for architecture. In P. Babie, & R. Sarre (Eds.), Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion (pp. 245-261). Singapore: Springer.
DOI Scopus12019 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2019). Cultivating Bali Style: A Story of Asian Becoming in the Late Twentieth Century. In J. -H. Chang, & I. B. Tajudeen (Eds.), Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power (pp. 85-106). Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. 2019 Bartsch, K. A., & Scriver, P. (2019). The House of Stars: Astronomy and the architecture of new science in early modern Lucknow (1831-49). In S. Akkach (Ed.), 'Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam (pp. 59-77). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
DOI2018 Scriver, P., & Srivastava, A. (2018). Brutalism in South and South East Asia. In O. Elser, P. Kurz, & P. C. Schmal (Eds.), SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey (1st ed.). Frankfurt: Park Books. 2016 Srivastava, A., & Scriver, P. (2016). Internationalism and Architecture in India after Nehru. In A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010 (pp. 379-400). Routledge.
DOI Scopus12014 Srivastava, A., & Scriver, P. (2014). Internationalism and architecture in India after Nehru. In E. Haddad, D. Rifkind, & S. Deyong (Eds.), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010 (1 ed., pp. 379-400). Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2007 Scriver, P., & Prakash, V. (2007). Between materiality and representation: Framing an architectural critique of colonial South Asia. In P. Scriver, & V. Prakash (Eds.), Colonial Modernities Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (pp. 3-25). USA: Routledge.
DOI Scopus332007 Scriver, P. (2007). Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India. In P. Scriver, & V. Prakash (Eds.), Colonial Modernities Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (pp. 69-92). USA: Routledge.
DOI Scopus252007 Scriver, P. (2007). Stones and texts: The architectural historiography of colonial India and its colonial-modern contexts. In P. Scriver, & V. Prakash (Eds.), Colonial Modernities Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (pp. 27-50). USA: Routledge.
DOI Scopus62002 Scriver, P. (2002). On place. In De-placing difference: architecture, culture and imaginative geography (pp. 3-8). Adelaide: Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, the University of Adelaide. -
Conference Papers
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Theses
Year Citation 1994 Scriver, P. (1994). Rationalization, Standardization, and Control in Design: A cognitive historical study of architectural design and planning in the Public Works Department of British India, 1855-1901. (PhD Thesis, Delft University of Technology).
Peter Scriver is a multiple grant recipient, currently leading an ARC Linkage project with the South Australian Museum and International Islamic University of Malaysia that examines the impact of ‘Afghan’ cameleers on the settlement history of colonial and early 20th century Australia:
ARC Linkage Project (2014-2017): The Architecture of Australia’s Muslim Pioneers (with K. Bartsch (CI), P Jones (PI), M Rashid (PI),)
Other completed projects include:
ARC Discovery Project (2012-2014): Making architectural identity: the architecture of John Andrews (with P. Walker, P. Goad, A. Moulis, M. Lobsinger, and P. Scrivano)
ARC Discovery Project (2005-2006): Digital Outsourcing in Architecture: Opportunities for Australian Firms, or Perils for Australian Workforce?. (with P. Tombesi, B. Dave, and B. Gardiner),
Courses taught (Undergraduate & Professional Degree Programs, Adelaide U.)
Courses (seminar/tutorial based)
2014- History Theory 3 (B. Arch Studies 3rd yr)
Coordinator, principal Lecturer
2013- Designing Research (MArch/MLArch/MPlanning professional degree programs)
Coordinator, principal Lecturer, tutor
2009-12 Masters Seminar A (MArch/MLArch professional degree programs)
Coordinator, principal Lecturer, tutor
2009-11 State of the City (Masters of Planning program)
Co-Coordinator and Lecturer
2009-11 Architectural Histories and Theories in the Modern Era II/IV
Coordinator, and principal Lecturer
2006-08 Cultures, Histories and Designed Environments in the Modern Era II/IV
Coordinator, and principal Lecturer
2000-02, 04-05 20th Century Architecture and Landscapes II/IV
Coordinator, and principal Lecturer
1997-2002 Arts and Cultures of Asia II/III
Lecturer
1997-2011 Colonial and Contemporary Issues in South Asian Architecture II/III
Coordinator, and principal Lecturer
1996 Asian Architecture and Landscapes II/III
Coordinator, sole Lecturer and Tutor
1996 Image / Text / Architecture I
Coordinator and principal Lecturer.
Design Studios
2014- Studio Cultures (M.Arch 1st yr)
2012-13 Studio Architecture (M.Arch 2nd yr)
2009-11 Design Studio (2nd yr)
Coordinator and unit leader: “Movements/Models/Masters”
2001, 2002, 2012, Offshore Studio:
2014 (2014) Designing Between Cultures: Java and Bali
(2012) Designing Between Cultures: Malaysia and Singapore
(2002) Placing in-between, Calgary, Canada
(2001) Post-earthquake re-construction, Bhuj and Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Coordinator and principal tutor
1997-2000, 2004-5 Final Project: Arch. IIIC, Arch. Project II, L. Arch. Project II
Coordinator and/or Tutor
1997 Thinking Between Cultures: Architecture IIIA
Coordinator and sole Tutor
1996 Shanghai 2000: Architecture IIIC (U. Adelaide, 1996).
Supervisor/tutor. Final studio project (BArch):
1996 Naming and Framing: Architecture IIIB.
Coordinator and principal Tutor (*Citation, CHASA Refereed Design Scheme)
Postgraduate Design Studio
1994-95 Strategies and issues in squatter settlement up-grading: Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Co-Coordinator and tutor, Studio and seminar, MArch/MdipArch (Miniinum-Cost Housing Program, McGill University)
Postgraduate Coursework
2000-2002 Strategies and Issues in Design Thinking in the Digital Age.
Coordinator and Tutor. Seminar, MArch (Digital Media))
2006-2007 Advanced Studies in Architecture/Landscape Architecture. Coordinator
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Co-Supervisor The Mosque in Australia after 1945 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ahmad Tariq Hakimi 2021 Principal Supervisor Beyond ‘Sydney School’: NSW Architects and Asian Transnational Networks, 1950s-80s Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Anna Louise Corkhill 2017 Co-Supervisor Building Modern Sri Lanka: New Town and Mahaweli Architectural Unit Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Nirodha Kumari Meegahakumbura Dissanayake 2017 Principal Supervisor Relearning the Limits of Growth: An Inter-disciplinary Coherence of Urban Planning and Water Cycles in Dhaka City Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Mehbuba Tune Uzra -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2021 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Water-Culture, Adaptation and Design in the Dwelling Practices of Underprivileged Rural-Urban Migrants: A Study of Korail/Dhaka, Bangladesh Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Sadia Afrin 2017 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Purity, System, Comfort: A Micro-historical Study of Change in Built Form and Cultural Practice, with Particular Respect to Water Use in the Modern Residential Architecture of the Bengali Muslim Upper-Middle Class (1950 – 2000) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Mehbuba Tune Uzra 2016 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Space, Gaze and Femineity: Representation of Women in Architectural Spaces in Persian Miniature Painting (Timurid to Safavid eras) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Sareh Abooali 2014 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Provoking Consciousness
Towards a Bioregional Understanding of Local Character: Urbanisation of the Fringe at Willunga Basin, South AustraliaDoctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Pragathi . 2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Evaluating New Towns in the Context of Mega Projects: A Case Study of the Mahaweli Architectural Unit, Sri Lanka (1983-1989) Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Nirodha Kumari Meegahakumbura Dissanayake 2013 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Between Before and After: Architecture in a Time of Crisis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Athanasios Lazarou 2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor To Flow, or to Fortify? Water, Development, and Urbanism in Building a Deltaic Metropolis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Fahmid Ahmed 2012 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Multi-step Transition in Housing Provision and Progressive Development of Urban Settlements: Case of Davao City, Philippines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Isidoro III Malaque 2011 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Pattern, Contingency and Lifestyle: The Houses of Troppo Architects Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Jessica Huang 2010 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Conservation of Heritage Curtilages in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Nadiyanti Mat Nayan 2009 - 2013 Co-Supervisor The Rationale of Architectural Discourses in Post-Independence Egypt: A Contrapuntal Reading of `Alam Al-Bena'a (1980-2000) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Marwa Moustafa El-Ashmouni 2007 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Romaldo Giurgola in Australia and the ‘Other’ Modern Tradition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Stephen Schrapel 2006 - 2009 Principal Supervisor Encountering Materials in Architectural Production: The Case of Kahn and Brick at IIM Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Amit Srivastava 2006 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Architectural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century A Study of Three Gateway Cities: Istanbul, Aleppo and Lucknow Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Elise Kamleh 2005 - 2005 Co-Supervisor Re-Thinking Islamic Architecture A Critique of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Through the Paradigm of Encounter Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time APrf Katharine Bartsch 2005 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Social Housing for Culturally Diverse Groups: A Users' and Providers' Perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael David Findlay 2004 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Julie Nichols 2003 - 2008 Principal Supervisor 'Indian Architecture' and the Production of a Postcolonial Discourse: A Study of Architecture + Design (1984-1992) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shaji Kannanchira Panicker 2002 - 2006 Principal Supervisor A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Selen Morkoc 2000 - 2002 Principal Supervisor Maintaining Cultural Significance: An Interpretive Analysis of Architectural Conservation in South Australia Master of Architecture Master Full Time Ms Kirsty Loveys 1999 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Communicating Design Using 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments and Online Chat Master of Architecture Master Full Time Mr Theodor Wyeld 1998 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Mediterranean Influences on Horticultural and Garden Developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938 Master of Landscape Architecture Master Part Time Mr Trevor Nottle
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