Name: Peter Carleton SCRIVER
Date of
Birth: June 24, 1959
Place of
Birth: London, England
Citizenship: Canadian / British / Permanent Resident
of Australia
Address: (home): 11
Rosemont Street, Norwood, SA 5067, Australia
(work):
School of
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Adelaide University,
Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Contact: tel: (home)
+61-08-8331-1854 / (work) +61-08-8303-4586
fax: +61-08-8303-4377
e-mail: peter.scriver@adelaide.edu.au
Prof. Affiliations: Ordre des Architectes du Quebec/Order of Architects of
Quebec (OAQ)
Society
of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Society
of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)
Current
Position: Lecturer (Level B) and
Associate Dean (Research)
1994
Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD)
Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands
1991-1994
Doctoral Scholarhip of Les Fonds pour la Formation des
Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (les fonds FCAR), Government of Quebec
1990-91 Masters Scholarship of Les Fonds pour la
Formation des Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (les fonds FCAR), Government
of Quebec
1988-89
Netherlands Government Graduate Scholarship (for
postgraduate research in the Netherlands)
1984-85
A.F. Dunlop Travel Scholarship
McGill
University
(Architecture
and urban design in China, Japan and South-East Asia)
1984 Bachelor of Architecture (with Distinction)
McGill
University, Montreal
1984
University Scholar
McGill
University, Montreal
1983 Bachelor of Science (Architecture)
McGill
University, Montreal
1982 Wilson Truman Shaver Travel Scholarship
McGill University
(Early modern architecture and social housing in Holland and Belgium)
1980 Student Design Award
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal
2000
Awarded
tenure
1999
Contract
converted to continuing/tenurable status
1996-1999 Lecturer, Level B (limited term)
School
(formerly ‘Faculty’) of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
1995
Adjunct Professor
Graduate
program, Minimum-cost housing studies and research
1985-86
Faculty Lecturer
2000 National
University of Singapore, ArTT Forum, Faculty of Architecture, Singapore
2000 TVB
Habitat School of Architecture, New Delhi, India
2000 Vastu-Shilpa
Foundation, Ahmedabad, India
2000 DiAF
Forum, Bangalore, India
1999 Texas Technical University, School
of Architecture, International
Studio, Montreal
1997 Sir J.J. School of Art, Department
of Architecture, Mumbai, India
1997 University of Washington, Dept. of
Architecture, Seattle, USA
1996 Center for Environmental Planning
and Technology, Ahmedabad, India
1996 University of South Australia,
Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, Adelaide, Australia
1995 University of Calgary, Faculty of
Environmental Design, Calgary, Canada
1988-89, 1993 Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands
1991, 1993,
1995 School of Planning and
Architecture, New Delhi, India
1991 Vastu Shilpa Foundation for
Environmental Planning and Research, Ahmedabad, India
2000 Rizvi College of Architecture,
Mumbai, India
1999 Delft
University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands
1998, 1999 University of South Australia, Louis
Laybourne-Smith School of Architecture, Adelaide, Australia
1997 University of Washington, Dept. of
Architecture, Seattle, USA
1995 Carleton University, School of
Architecture, Ottawa, Canada
1995 Universite Laval, Ecole
d’Architecture, Quebec City, Canada
1995 Roger Williams University, School of
Architecture, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
1992, 1995 Le Faculte d’Ammenagement de
l’Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1990 The University of Manitoba School of
Architecture, Montreal studio, Montreal, Canada
2000-2002 20th
Century Architecture and Landscapes II/III (2000, 2001).
Coordinator,
principal Lecturer and Tutor
1997-2002 Arts
and Cultures of Asia II/III
Lecturer
1997-2001 Colonial
and Contemporary Issues in South Asian Architecture II/III Coordinator, sole Lecturer and Tutor
1996 Asian
Architecture and Landscapes II/III .
Coordinator,
sole Lecturer and Tutor
1996 Image
/ Text / Architecture I .
Coordinator
and principal Lecturer.
2000-2001 Offshore
Studio: Architecture 1A, L. Architecture 1C
Coordinator and
Tutor
1997-2000 Final
Project: Arch. IIIC, Arch. Project II, L. Arch. Project II
Coordinator and
Tutor
1997 Thinking
Between Cultures: Architecture IIIA
Coordinator
and sole Tutor
1996 Shanghai
2000: Architecture IIIC (U. Adelaide, 1996).
Supervisor/tutor.
Final studio project (6 students BArch):
1996 Naming
and Framing: Architecture IIIB.
Coordinator
and principal Tutor (*Citation, CHASA Refereed Design Scheme)
The following students have won major
national and international student design awards for graduating projects
undertaken in Final Project Studios
that I have coordinated:
Ben Willsmore Hassell Scholarship for Excellence in Landscape Architecture,
2001
Tristan Sterk FORM-Z Joint Study
Program Annual International Student Design Competition, Award of Distinction
(Architecture), 1999
John Endersby FORM-Z Joint Study
Program Annual International Design Competition, Award of Distinction (Urban
Design), 1999
Mladen Zujic RAIA/Colorbond Student Biennale, Finalist, 1997-98
Joanna Rees Catalyst Eco-Design Competition, First Place, 1997
2000, 2001 Strategies
and Issues in Design Thinking in the Digital Age.
Coordinator
and Tutor. Seminar, MArch (Digital Media))
2001 Cross-Cultural Thinking ‘Within’ Design Disciplines
and Institutions:
1998, 2000 Colonialism,
Globalism and the Modern Architectural Imagination
T. Wyeld (PhD),
“Single and Multi-User Distributed Digital Design Game Environments”
D. Watson (MDesign
Studies), “Image, Text, and the Production of Space”
K. Loveys (MArch),
“Maintenance of Cultural Significance in Architectural Conservation”
T. Nottle (MLArch), “The idea of the Mediterranean
and the construction of cultural landscape in South Australia and Western Australia.”
(Co-supervisor)
As Postgraduate Coordinator for the School
of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, since 1998, I have
been responsible for developing and coordinating a Structured Program of research training within the school with the
following key components:
·
PG/Staff
Research Seminar (coordinator)
·
Postgraduate
Student Forum (convenor)
·
Annual
Postgraduate/Staff research colloquium (convenor).
1988-1989
Post-graduate research fellow, Design Knowledge Systems
(DKS), Faculty of Architecture
2000
ARC Small Grant: “Design Reasoning in a Public Works
Department: A Cognitive-Historical Analysis”, ($8 000)
1999 Special Studies
Grant, Adelaide University ($1 500)
1998-99 Faculty
Development Grant, University of Adelaide ($1 600)
1997-98 University Research Scheme, University
of Adelaide: “Self, Place, and Imagination: Cross-Cultural Thinking in
Architecture” (with S. Akkach)($14 000)
1997-98 Faculty
Development Grant, University of Adelaide ($800)
1996-97 Faculty
Development Grant, University of Adelaide ($3 000)
1992-93 Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute grant
(for further archival research in India towards completion of doctoral study)
($5 000)
1990-91
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute junior research grant for
field research in India
($6 000)
1991-94 Les Fonds pour la Formation des
Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (les fonds FCAR), doctoral scholarship ($39
000)
1990-91 Les Fonds pour la Formation des
Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (les fonds FCAR), masters scholarship ($10
000)
1988-89 Netherlands Government Graduate
Scholarship (for postgraduate research in the Netherlands) ($12 000)
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, Publicatiebureau
Bouwkunde, Delft University of Technology, 1994.
(ISBN 90-5269-169-X (576 pages), published doctoral dissertation)
World Architecture1900-2000:
A Critical Mosaic, Volume VIII: South Asia, K. Frampton, R Mehrotra, K. K. Mumtaz, S. Kapadia,
R. Khosla, K. K. Ashraf, C. Anjalendran, China Architecture and Building Press
/ Springer-Verlag, Wien and New York, 2000, (10 %).
(ISBN 3-211-83291-2 (259 pages))
After the Masters:
Contemporary Indian Architecture, V. Bhatt, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad and New York, 1990, (50%).
(ISBN 0-94-414219-2 (221 pages))
Self, Place &
Imagination: Cross-Cultural Thinking in Architecture. Refereed Proceedings of Second
International Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern
Architecture(CAMEA), University of Adelaide, January 21-24, 1999, (33%).
(ISBN 0-8636-804-X (152 pages)
On What Ground(s)?. Refereed Proceedings of the Annual
conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New
Zealand (SAHANZ), Adelaide South Australia, July 17-20, 1997, (50%).
(ISBN 0-646-32751-8 (282 pages)
“Imperial Progress: On the Impracticality of Problem-Solving in
Colonial Indian Building Design”, Fabrications,
the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New
Zealand, volume 11, no. 2 (2001): 20-45.
“Naming and Framing: Design Thinking Between Cultures”, CHASA Refereed Designs 1995-1996,
inaugural edition (1997): 51-54.
“Building in a Global Garden”. (Review article) re. Building in the Garden: The architecture of
Joseph Allen Stein in India and California by Stephen White. Design Book Review 29/30 (Summer/Fall
1993): 70-75.
“An Imperial Vision by T.R. Metcalf, The Tradition of Indian Architecture by G.H.R. Tillotson, and The Indian Metropolis by Norma Evenson”,
(Review article) Design Book Review 20
(Spring 1991): 65-69.
“Chandigarh: Reflections on the Western Architectural Experience in
India”, The Fifth Column 2, 3 (Spring
1982): 28-31.
“Contemporary Indian Architecture: An Assessment”, V. Bhatt, Spacio e Societa / Space and Society 38
(April/May 1987): 112-135 (50%)
“Beyond Modernism: Notes on a Dutch Housing Experiment”, A. Sheppard, The Fifth Column 3, 2 (Winter 1983):
10-13 (90%)
“The Lesson of the East”, I. Lerner, The Fifth Column 2, 3 (Spring 1982): 4-5 (50%)
“Relocating Peter Collins in the Architecture of History”. Formulation
Fabrication: the architecture of history, (Refereed) Proceedings of the
Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians,
Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Wellington, Nov 2000, pp. 277-286.
“A Feel for the Game: Anticipating Modernism in the Architecture of
Colonial India”. Habitus 2000: A Sense of
Place, Perth, Sept. 5-9, 2000, CD-Rom.
“Company Towns: A Neo-colonial Perspective”. La Citta Nuova. Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 International
Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA),
Rome, May 29-June 2, 1999, pp. 291-295.
“Firmness, Commodity and Delusion in the design of a colonial built
environment”. Firmness, Commodity and
Delight: Questioning the Canons. Refereed Proceedings of Annual conference
of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ),
Melbourne, Sept. 26-29, 1998, pp. 309-316.
“Children of the Raj: Notes Towards a Spatial History of the
Anglo-Indian Community”. Building
Dwelling Drifting: Migrancy and the Limits of Architecture. Refereed Papers
from the 3rd ‘Other Connections’ Conference, University of Melbourne, June
26-29, 1997, pp. 291-299.
“Complicity and Contradiction in the Office of the Consulting Architect
to the Government of India, 1903-1921”. Loyalty
and Disloyalty in the Architecture of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
Selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the annual conference of the
Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ),
Auckland, October 2-6, 1996 (published 1997), pp. 93-101.
“Shifting Geographies? India, Computers and the Globalisation of
Architecture,” Tombesi, P., B. Dave. IITbuilt.
Kharagpur, India, January 15-18,
2002 (30%)
“Exploring Contemporary Architectural History and Theory through Games
of Form and Discourse,” T.G. Wyeld. Playful
Design Learning Forum 2001, University of Adelaide, November 14-15, 2002.
CDRom (50%)
“Designing for an ‘Other’: a pedagogical experiment in design-thinking
between cultures”. Proceedings of Traditions
and Modernity: Contemporary architecture in Southeast Asia and Beyond.
Jakarta, December 9-11, 1996.
“Decoding the Discourse: Late Modern Luddism and the Notion of a Third
World Architecture”. Cultures and
Technology. Proceedings of the XVII Congress of the International Union of
Architects (UIA). Montreal, May 27-June 1, 1990, pp. 415-422.
“Scaffolding or Skeleton: Empire building in the Public Works
Department of British India”. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of
Architectural Historians (SAH), Miami, June 14-18, 2000.
“Freedom With Constraints: Legacies of the Colonial PWD”. DisCONTINUOUS THREADS—Memory, Freedom and
Architecture in Contemporary India, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual
Arts, Architectural Forum, Mumbai, India, December 10-12, 1997.
“Rationalize, Standardize, Control: praxis and politics in the design
of a ‘well-tempered’ environment in Victorian India”. Canadian Society for the
Study of European Ideas, Centre Canadien pour l'Architecture/Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montreal, June 3, 1995.
“Standardization and Control: A cognitive view”. The Urban Scene, and the History of the Future. Proceedings of the
1994 International Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ACSA): London, May 1994.
1998 “Muddling Modernity: Colonial India
c.1935”. The Legacy of the Griffins: America, Australia, and India. University
of Melbourne, October 2-4, 1998.
1997 “Freedom with Constraints: Legacies of
the Colonial PWD”. DisCONTINUOUS THREADS—Memory, Freedom and Architecture in
Contemporary India, Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, Architectural
Forum, Mumbai, India, December 10-12, 1997.
2000 “Scaffolding or Skeleton: Empire building in the Public Works
Department of British India. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Miami, June 14-18, 2000.
1999 “Placing In-Between: Thinking Through
Architecture in Anglo-Indian Fiction”. Self, Place & Imagination:
Cross-Cultural Thinking in Architecture. Second International Symposium of the
Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of
Adelaide, January 21-24, 1999.
1998 “On Culture and Cultivation: Museums,
Conservatories and Empire”. Regarding the Museum of Economic Botany. Symposium
organised by the Centre for British Studies (CBS), University of Adelaide, Art
Gallery of South Australia, May 24, 1998.
1998 “Hothouses, Husbandry and the
Hybridisation of the Imperial Landscape” University of South Australia, Art,
Architecture and Design Research Group, History and Theory Research Seminar,
May 5, 1998.
1997 “Mogul’s Tudor: ‘Home’ and the Colonial
Plutocracy in the Twilight of Empire”. British Studies Into the 21st Century.
Symposium organised by the Centre for British Studies (CBS), University of
Adelaide, September 25-27, 1997.
1997 “Colonial Constructions and the Indian
Craftsman-Builder”. Inaugural Symposium of the Centre for Asian and
Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of Adelaide, July 17, 1997.
1996 “Complicity and Contradiction in the
Office of the Consulting Architect to the Government of India”. University of
South Australia, Art, Architecture and Design Research Group, History and
Theory Research Seminar, Aug. 21, 1996.
1995 “Rationalize,
Standardize, Control: praxis and politics in the design of a ‘well-tempered’
environment in Victorian India”. Canadian Society for the Study of European
Ideas, Centre Canadien pour l'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture,
Montreal, June 3, 1995.
1995 “Belief Change and Belief Choice: A
cognitive reconstruction of design intentionality in the British Indian
Department of Public Works." "Theatres of Decolonization".
Chandigarh, Jan. 6-10, 1995.
1994 “Artificial Precedents: On the invention
and uses of tradition as a heuristic device in architectural design reasoning”.
A.L.B.E.R.T.I. Euroconference on "Precedents in Creative Design".
Delft, December 15-16, 1994.
1994 “Standardization and Control: A
cognitive view”. A.C.S.A. International Conference: "The Urban Scene, and
the History of the Future". London, May 1994.
1992 “Polemics on the Periphery: The Rise of
Professional Conceptual Systems in British Indian Architecture", paper
presented at a symposium on "Power and Peripherality in Cultural
Conflicts". State University of New York at Binghamton, April 3, 1992.
1990 “Architecture or Arcadia?; Some
Observations on Post-Industrial Urbanism and the Post-Colonial City”. The Architecture of Cities , Calcutta,
November 24-28, 1990.
·
Architectural Design
Reasoning in a Public Works Department: A Cognitive Historical Analysis. Current ARC
funded project
·
Constructing Colonial India: Essays
on South Asian Architecture and Urbanism, 1800-1947. This
edited volume (P. Scriver and V. Prakash, eds) is going to Oxford University
Press in late 2001
·
The Scaffolding of
Empire: Architecture and Public Works in Colonial India, 1855-1921. This book is expected to go to Oxford
University Press in late 2001.
·
Authority and System:
The Royal Engineers and the Building of the British Colonial Empire. This book is
projected for completion in 2005. McGill Queens University Press has already
expressed interest in publishing it.
2001-current Associate Dean (Research)
2000-current Representative to Faculty Board (PALACE)
1999-current Library Coordinator
1999 Assessment Committee
1998-current Postgraduate Coordinator
1998-current Research and Higher Degrees Committee
(convenor, 2001-current)
1998 Selection Committee
1997-2000 Exhibitions Coordinator
1996-1998 International Student Adviser
1996-current Information Technology Committee
1996 Academic Committee
2000-current Deputy
Director
1997-current Member of the Management Committee
1996-97
Working party on ‘cross-cultural’ design studies and research
2000-current Architecture/PALACE Representative,
‘Study in Australia’ international student recruitment fair, India, April 2000
1999 Architecture/PALACE Representative,
Course Advisory Panel, Training Recognition Branch (Higher Education Unit,
Department of Education, Training and Employment, Government of South
Australia)
(2002)
De-Placing Difference:
Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography, Third International
Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA).
University of Adelaide, June 4-6, 2002. Co-convenor.
2000 Cultural
Significance: Construct or Criterion? Questioning Culture in Architectural
Conservation, CAMEA workshop No. 2. Adelaide University, July 7, 2000.
Co-convenor.
1999-continuing Research@Arch,
Annual Postgraduate/Staff Research Colloquium. School of Architecture,
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide. Convenor.
1999 Questioning
Culture in Design Education, CAMEA workshop No. 1 on cross-cultural design
learning. University of Adelaide, September 25, 1999. Co-convenor.
1998/1999 Self,
Place and Imagination: Cross-Cultural Thinking in Architecture, Second
International Symposium of the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture
(CAMEA). University of Adelaide, January 21-24, 1999. Co-convenor.
1997 Centre
for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) Inaugural Symposium, re.
current issues and approaches to cross-cultural research on Asian and
Middle-Eastern architecture and landscapes. University of Adelaide, July 17,
1997. Co-convenor.
1996/1997 On
What Ground(s)? SAHANZ’97: University of Adelaide and the University of
South Australia, co-hosts. Adelaide, July 17-20, 1997. Annual refereed
conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New
Zealand (SAHANZ). Co-convenor.
1994 ALBERTI Euroconference on “Precedent in
Creative Design”. Delft University of Technology, Dec. 15-16, 1994. Member of
the organising committee; speaker and plenary respondent for History and Theory
session.
·
Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New
Zealand (SAHANZ)
·
‘Other Connections’ biennial conferences
on postcolonial issues in architecture, urbanism and cultural theory.
·
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(SSHRC)
·
Fabrications, Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
·
Academy Editions/Wiley, London and New York
·
Mapin Publishing, Ahemedabad and New York
·
The Fifth Column, The Canadian Student Journal of Architecture
2001 Charles
Correa Gold Medal. Invited international Jurist for the First Annual award,
Mumbai, India, January 2001
2001-continuing Royal Australian Institute of Architects
(RAIA), G.G. Lawson Fellowship Committee, Adelaide University Advisor.
1992-95 Artist’s Studio and house extension,
Fredericton New Brunswick (A ‘design/build’ commission realized in
collaboration with Manon Asselin, David Smythe, and the client artist)
1991-92
Collaborative practice with G. Livesey and E. Carelli
(Atelier Domino), Montreal, in association with Rick Mather, Architects,
London, UK..
1988-89 Michel Vinois, architecte, Montreal.
1987 Adrian Sheppard, architect, Montreal
1985 Stein, Doshi and Bhalla, architects and
planners, New Delhi.
1984 Karl Fischer, Julia Gersovitz, and David
Covo, collaborating architects, Montreal.
1983 Richard Kaplin, architect, Montreal
1982 Bruce Anderson, architect, Montreal
1981 Arch-Aid (architectural student design
collaborative / community service), McGill University
1980
Wolfgang Triebsch, designer, Montreal
1978-79
Community development volunteer, Sri Lanka, (with the NGO,
Canada World Youth and The National Youth Service Corps of Sri Lanka).
Peter Scriver
(July 2001)