Personal Details

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)

 

                                 Academic Degrees, Awards and Scholarships

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

 

                                 Academic Appointments

                                 Adelaide University

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

 

                                 McGill University

1995                                      Adjunct Professor

                                 Graduate program, Minimum-cost housing studies and research

1985-86                              Faculty Lecturer

 

                                 Invited lecturer at other institutions

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

 

                                 Visiting studio critic at other institutions

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

 

                         LEARNING AND TEACHING

                                 Courses taught (Undergraduate & Professional Degree Programs, Adelaide U.)

Lecture Courses

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.

 
                                 Design Studios                                          

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)

 

                                 Award-winning students

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

 

                                 Postgraduate Teaching, Research Training, and Coordination

                                 Postgraduate Coursework

2000, 2001        Strategies and Issues in Design Thinking in the Digital Age.

                                 Coordinator and Tutor. Seminar, MArch (Digital Media))

 
                                 Honours Supervision

2001                                 Cross-Cultural Thinking ‘Within’ Design Disciplines and Institutions:

1998, 2000                                 Colonialism, Globalism and the Modern Architectural Imagination

 
                                 Postgraduate Supervision

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)

 

                                 Postgraduate Coordination

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).

 

 

                         SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH

                                 Research appointment

                                 Delft University of Technology

1988-1989                        Post-graduate research fellow, Design Knowledge Systems (DKS), Faculty of Architecture

 

                                 Research Grants and Fellowships (total value: $100 900)

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)

 

                                 Publications

 

1. Books / Monographs / Symposia

1.1 Sole Author Work

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)

 

1.2 Joint Author Works

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))

 

1.3 Editorial Works

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)

 

 

2. Journal Articles

2.1 Refereed Journals

2.1.1 Sole Author Articles

“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.

 

2.2 Invited articles in other Journals etc.

2.1.1 Sole Author Articles

“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.

 

2.1.2 Joint Author Articles

“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%)

 

 

3. Other Publications

3.1 Conference Papers

3.1.1 Full papers in refereed proceedings (sole author)

“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.

 

3.1.2 Full papers in unrefereed proceedings

 “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.

 

 

3.1.3 Published abstracts of refereed conference papers

“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.

 

 

                                 Presentations

                                 Invited papers presented as a plenary speaker at international conferences/symposia

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.

 
                                 Other papers presented in local and international symposia and conferences

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.

 

Current Projects

·         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.

 

 

                         LEADERSHIP IN AND SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

                                 School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Adelaide U.

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

 

                                 Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)

2000-current         Deputy Director

1997-current        Member of the Management Committee

1996-97                              Working party on ‘cross-cultural’ design studies and research

 

                                 Faculty of PALACE

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)

 

 

                         PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

                                 Service to Academic and Professional Communities

                                Conference Planning/Convening

(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.

 

                                Refereeing/Moderating/Editing

·         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

 

Design Competition Jurist

2001        Charles Correa Gold Medal. Invited international Jurist for the First Annual award, Mumbai, India, January 2001

 

                                 Service to the Architectural Profession

2001-continuing        Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), G.G. Lawson Fellowship Committee, Adelaide University Advisor.

 

                                 Architectural Practice

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

 

                                 International Service

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)