Anna Johnson

Associate Professor Anna Johnson

Associate Professor

Details

  • College: School of Architecture & Urban Design
  • Department: School of AUD
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • anna.johnson@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Anna Johnson is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the School of Architecture & Urban Design RMIT.

Supervisor projects

  • EXPLORING A NOVEL APPROACH TO URBAN CARE: (CO)CURATING AS AN EMERGING URBAN PRACTICE
  • 7 Aug 2025
  • Medium of Care: Making With Bio-Based Materials
  • 21 Mar 2025
  • Practising Critical Socio-spatiality in Hanoi
  • 13 Feb 2025
  • Exploring Aquatic Architecture in the Mekong Delta as a Climate Adaptation Solution for Flood-prone Communities
  • 30 Aug 2024
  • The Architect as Editor 2.0
  • 12 Feb 2024
  • Architecture of Co-making: Practices of Questioning Ownership and Undisciplining
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Living together: Urban transformations in Ho Chi Minh City
  • 18 Aug 2023
  • Formaldehyde Manatees
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • Relational Materials
  • 17 May 2022
  • Atlas of a Slow Traveller
  • 7 Apr 2022
  • The fictional architecture of fictional architects whose first name is Michael
  • 3 Sep 2021
  • Modelling Associations. Bridging Practices
  • 23 Aug 2021
  • The architecture of Nation-State borders: Exhibiting the Korean Demilitarize Zone as a Proving Ground
  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Vernacular Toolbox; Strategies for Modernizing Traditional Houses in Rural China
  • 20 Jan 2020
  • Autobryksformation Towards a New Approach to Brick Expressionism | Methods for Unique Idiosyncrasies Inarchitectural Material Systems | A Practice in the Making
  • 28 Aug 2019
  • Re-Programming Infrastructure for Public Space Opportunistic Planning as Urban Strategy for Macau
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • Gardens, A Journey; Show Gardens as Design Laboratories
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • Gratis
  • 1 Jan 2017
  • Concrete Approximations: Material Responsiveness for an Augmented Experience of Space
  • 5 Aug 2016
  • Through the Looking-Glass A Synthetic Practice Model of Technê and Poïesis in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
  • 1 Aug 2016
  • PARALLEL WORKS: Learning from Hong Kong and Asia as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice
  • 1 Aug 2016

Teaching interests

Architectural Design Studio, Major Project Students, and PhD candidates, 20th Century Western History, Architecture and urbanism in Asia Pacific region and speculative contextual specificities. I work with critical writing and generative design, and the relationship between digital and analogue.

Research interests

Architecture

 

- Generative Reciprocities between landscape, (place) and architecture, between ecological, social occupation and typological adjustments

- Contemporary Australian architecture, housing and local vernaculars
- Asian architecture and questions of identity and contemporary vernaculars, suburban developments and the architect
- Design practice research.

 

Along with Associate Professor Richard Black, Anna has co-authored Living in the LandscapeUrban Sanctuary, and Neeson Murcutt Neille: Setting Architecture, all by Thames and Hudson. Anna has authored many publications on architecture and design practice research and also has an interest in narrative-based readings of site and their generative translation in rereading's of context  through both text and architecture.

 

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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