Skip to content
Curtin University
Humanities

Staff Profiles

[
Log in to edit profiles]

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Dr Lynn Churchill

PhD (Curtin) BArch(Hons1) (Curtin) 

Image of Staff Member
    • Role:
    • Senior Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Dept Architecture & Inter Architecture
    • Location:
    • Architecture and Planning 646
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 2264

Dr Lynn Churchill, B.Arch, PhD.

Lynn is Senior Lecturer Interior Architecture Curtin University (since 2009). Her roles include PhD supervision, Chair of Communication and Critique Stream, Supervision of undergraduate thesis students and coordination of design, research and theory units. Design studio programs devised and coordinated by Lynn demonstrate her commitment to creating and developing student engagement in ‘real world’ problems in collaboration with key people in practice, governance and industry. In 2008. 2009 and 2011 in collaboration with governance and practice, Lynn curated a series of public exhibitions of student work that challenged the position of Interior Architecture in the realm of the city, public space, left over spaces and micro economic strategy. She is interested in the value of an interdisciplinary approach to learning and working. In 2010, Lynn co-coordinated a Curtin University sponsored forum where representatives from Architecture and Interior Design practice and industry met with Curtin Academics and students to consider, critique and stimulate the process of revising the Interior Architecture Curriculum in relation to industry and practice. Prior to joining Curtin, Lynn was a Sessional Academic in architectural design and theory with both Curtin University and University Western Australia while at the same time she undertook her PhD (completed 2007) and practiced architecture with RAD Architecture where she remains a practice principle (since 2002). 

EXHIBITIONS 

  • 2011 MATRIX: Boomtown Interior Provocations exhibition of  drawings and scaled Interior architecture models at the Perth Town Hall, Hay Street, Perth, WA, 21-16 February 2011. C0-curator (with Kim Thornton-Smith Director Geyer) of original 8 works by 4th yr Honours Interior Architecture students’ visions of pleasure, intimacy and intricacy in the city. Accompanied by catalogue with invited essays, edited by Lynn Churchill.

    2009 Seminalconstellation+4 exhibition of drawings and scaled Interior architecture models at the Kings Street Arts Centre, Murray Street, Perth, WA, 10 – 22 December 2010. Curator of original 78 works by 3rd yr and 4th yr Honours Interior Architecture students imagining and speculating on designs for adaptive re-use and revitalization of leftover, failed and abandoned Perth City buildings and urban space.

    2009 Trespass3 at ‘Ocupations: Negotiations with Constructed Space’, International Conference at the University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, 2-4 July 2009. Curator and creator CDROM and 6 metre long montage of original works by 3rd yr Interior Architecture students speculating on designs and micro economic strategies for flexible transformations of 3 inner Perth city disused laneways and adjacent buildings.

    2008 Trespass2 exhibition of 22 drawings at Council House, Perth, WA, 24 – 28 November 2009. Catalogue Designer and editor and Curator of original works by 3rd yr Interior Architecture students speculating on designs and micro economic strategies for flexible transformations of 3 inner Perth city disused laneways and adjacent buildings. Accompanied by catalogue with invited essays, edited by Lynn Churchill.

    2005 Transgressions of Domestic Space at the Breadbox Gallery, 235 James Street, Perth, WA, 19 – 25 May 2005. Curator and creator of original works including photographs, a sounds scape and 6 short films in collaboration with Reena Tiwari. The work documents the history of the Wedge Island community.

    2005 Object to be Destroyed: critical architecture at the Breadbox Gallery, 235 James Street, Perth, WA, 2 – 7 February 2005. Curator and creator of original works shown in a joint exhibition with 9 of my undergraduate architecture students

    2004 Shack Architecture – a produced landscape Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle 6 – 13 Feb 2004. (exhibition of  95 works reviewing the value of ‘shack’ architecture in the Australian tradition of beach-side squatter communities. Curator and contributor of work in collaboration with Reena Tiwari).

    2003 The First All-Glass House after Rachel Whiteread at Curtin University of Technology, Hayman Road, Bentley, WA, 6-7 Nov 2003. (3 works within a joint exhibition) 

    2002 The Body + The Farnsworth House: Part II, Anatomical Sectioning at Curtin University, H

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Book Chapters :

2011  (Co-authors, Nancy Spanbroek, Annalise Lemm) ‘Provocation from the Interior’ in SURGE: Western Australian Interiors, eds Lynn Churchill and Nancy Spanbroek, Paper and Pencil Press, Perth, Western Australia. (in progress)

2011   ‘Provocation from the Interior’ in SURGE: Western Australian Interiors, eds Lynn Churchill and Nancy Spanbroek, Paper and Pencil Press, Perth, Western Australia. (in progress)

2011  (Co-author Vaelei Walkden-Brown) ‘IA, Gen Y + the Interior City of the Future’ ‘Provocation from the Interior’ in SURGE: Western Australian Interiors, eds Lynn Churchilll and Nancy Spanbroek, Paper and Pencil Press, Perth, Western Australia. (in progress)

2011 ‘Fear and Desire, Ghosts and Dreams’ in Conversations from the Edge, eds Nancy Spanbroek and Anne Farren, Paper and Pencil Press, Perth, Western Australia.

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

2010 ‘Trespass,’ in Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space,’ The Proceedings of International Conference at the University of Brighton, UK.

2010 ‘Farnsworth and the Anatomy of Occupation,’ in Occupation: Negotiations with Constructed Space,’ The Proceedings of International Conference at the University of Brighton, UK.

2004 (co-author Reena Tiwari)‘Transgressions of Domestic Space at the Frontline Between Everyday and Extra-Everyday, and Between Nature and Culture,’ in SAHANZ 04: Limits, The Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, SAHANZ, Melbourne.

2004 (co-author Reena Tiwari) ‘Shack Architecture: a produced Landscape,’ in OELandscapes, e-journal, The Proceedings of the On The Beach: Interdisciplinary Encounters Conference, Fremantle.

2003 ‘Translating a Methodology: Enabling Studio Based Research’ in Design + Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the Association of Architectural Schools of Australasia, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

2003 ‘“People Live in Their Space With a Temerity that is Frightening […] It’s Baffling How Rarely the People Get Involved in Fundamentally Changing Their Place by Simply Undoing It.”’ in SAHANZ 03: Progress, The Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, SAHANZ, Sydney.

2002 ‘Her Ambition in Middle Age to Build a Weekend Country House for Herself Prompted Her to ask the Museum of Modern Art to Recommend an Architect’ in Additions to Architectural History, The Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, CD Rom, SAHANZ, Brisbane.

2002 ‘Conveying Sensation: Joyriding an Architectural Object’, in Undisciplined Thoughts, pp. 229-244, Black Swan Press, Perth, Western Australia.

 

Research Interests

The focus of Lynn's research concerns shifting ideas about human occupation, how we live and work and the spaces we create. Spatial politics and economics of intimate space, cultural, social, work and living spaces are in flux. Drawing widely across disciplines fro history, philosophy, politics, economics, health, education, culture and beyond, Lynn and her students are exploring the broad context of contemporary human occupation and the implications for the constructed environment. 

Research Projects

2011 (Curtin) Research Project in collaboration with Geyer and sponsored by City of Perth: Matrix Boomtown Interior Provocations. (ongoing)

2011 (Curtin and beyond) Interdisciplinary Research Project: Health cluster (ongoing) 

2004, 2003, 2002 (Curtin)(Lynn Churchill in collaboration with Reena Tiwari) Research Project: Wedge Island. Our research project, ‘SHACK’ Architecture: a produced landscape, examined a conservation dilemma occurring along the WA coastline. Wedge is a coastal squatter settlement of some 360 shacks, located about 150 kilometres north of Perth. The settlement had become a focus of attention from not only both local and regional political forces, but also the Department of Conservation and Land Management. The two factors at issue were: first, the fragile ecology of the sand dunes; and second, the issues of equality of access and sovereignty. As a consequence of foregrounding these factors, procedures were instigated to remove the squatters and their shacks and possibly replace them with the generic holiday / tourist cottage. A third, previously unrecognised issue became the specific interest of our project: the cultural and aesthetic significance of the produced landscape at Wedge. Wedge’s particular culture and aesthetic not only contest the systemic rules and values within which most of us make our way, but they also project differentiation. They project life / culture on the edge of a vast, isolated, physically and psychologically challenging continent. The question (problem) our project adds to the vision of Wedge’s future concerns the significant value of cultural and aesthetic factors inherent in the existing built environment at Wedge. 2004 $5,000.oo: Lotterywest Grant Category: Year of the Built Environment Project: Towards the publication of research and the construction of a website Shack Architecture: a produced landscape (completed July 2005) 2004 $20,000.oo Liveable Communities Grant Category: Built Environment Research Unit Funding Curtin University of Technology Project: research, publication and exhibition Shack Architecture: a produced landscape (completed May 2005) 2003 $2,500.oo Women in Research Seeding Grant Curtin University of Technology Project: research, refereed publication and exhibition Shack Architecture: a produced landscape (Project completed February 2004)

COS Profile

Please enter data here

Teaching - Undergraduate

  • Research Studio 421 supervision
  • IA Extreme Complex and Bizarre Studio 322
  • IA Contexts 222
  • IA Ephemeral Environments Studio 221

Teaching - Postgraduate

  • PhD supervision

Teaching - Administration

CHAIR - Critique and Communication Stream

Coordinator - 3rd Year

Graduate Studies Committee: Ethics Coordinator

Memberships

  • MDIA - National Director DIA, Chair DIA (WA) AWARDS Committee, DIA (WA) Council member.
  • FORM
  • AIA

 

Awards

  • 1998 BUCCHAN GROUP PRIZE The student gaining Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) degree who, in the opinion of the Board of Examiners, has achieved the highest overall standard of performance in the Bachelor of Architecture course. 
  • 1998 CAMERON CHISHOLM + NICOL PRIZE The student gaining the highest standard of architectural design in the unit Architectural Dissertation 599 in the 5th year of the Bachelor of Architecture course.
  • 1998 JAMES HARDIE PRIZE The graduand having achieved the best academic results in units of the Professional Studies stream in the final year of the Bachelor of Architecture.

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Churchill, L. 2011. Fear and Desire, Ghosts and Dreams. In Conversations from the edge, eds Nancy Spanbroek and Anne Farren, 31-38. Perth, WA: Paper and Pencil.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Churchill, L, and Tiwari, R. 2004. Shack ARchitecture: a produced landscape. Landscapes 2: 1-13.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Churchill, L. 2010. Farnsworth and the Anatomy of Occupation. OCCUPATION: Negotiations with Constructed Space, 02/07/2010. Brighton, UK: University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design: Interior Architecture and Urban Studies Programme.
  • Churchill, L. 2010. Trespass: Exhibition of Works Created by 3rd Year Interior Architecture Students at Curtin University, Western Australia in 2008. OCCUPATION: Negotiations with Constructed space, 02/07/2010. Brighton, UK: University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design: Interior Architecture and Urban Studies Programme.
  • Tiwari, R, and Churchill, L. 2004. Transgressions of domestic space: At the frontline between everyday and Extra-everyday, And between Nature and Culture. 21st Annual SAHANZ, 01/09/2004. Victoria: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.
  • Churchill, L. 2003. People Live in their space with a temerity that is frightening. 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 01/10/2003. New South Wales: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Churchill, L. 2003. Translating a Methodology: Enabling Studio Based Research. Design and Research: Project Based Research in Architecture, 01/09/2003. Victoria: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia,.

Major Creative Works

  • Churchill, L. 2010. Brisbane Street Residence: design of realised (constructed) building. Perth Western Australia: Australian Institute of Architects (WA Chapter).

Individual Exhibition of Creative Works

  • Tiwari, R, and Churchill, L. 2005. Transgressions of Domestic Space at the Breadbox Gallery. 235 James Street, Perth, WA: Breadbox Gallery.

Curating an Exhibition

  • Churchill, L. 2011. Risk and Discomfort for a Sensuous City. Bentley, WA: SOBE Curtin University.
  • Spanbroek, N, Churchill, L, Farren, B, and Doney, R. 2009. Fremantle on the edge. Bentley, WA: Curtin University of Technology.
  • Churchill, L. 2009. Seminal Constellation + 4 Studio. Perth: Curtin.
  • Tiwari, R, and Churchill, L. 2004. 'Shack' Architecture: a produced landscape. Western Australia: Western Australian Maritime Museum.