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MARK TAYLOR

SIAL Visiting Research Fellow

contact: mark.taylor@qut.edu.au
website: http://www.arch.vuw.ac.nz/staff/mark_taylor/

Project Involvement

Politics of Water

Profile

Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington where he teaches courses in history, theory and criticism alongside a design studio. He has held previous lecturing positions at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Architecture, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and in the School of 3-Dimensional Design as Head of MA Interior Design.

Since graduating from Portsmouth Polytechnic and qualifying as an architect he has worked with various architects, generating a number of successful collaborations that include large-scale commercial projects and the relatively private and modest. These included several high quality retail schemes, published and exhibited in the 1980's, together with several unbuilt projects. This work has been published in (ed) Papadakis, A. C., British Architecture, The Architects’ Journal, Designers Journal, World Architecture, Building Design and The RIBA Journal.

His work has been exhibited at The Royal Institute of British Architects and The Royal Academy of Arts where in 1986 he received a Bovis/Architects’ Journal Award for Architecture, for work exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition , London .

He has recently guest edited a special issue of Architectural Design entitled Surface Consciousness (Chichester, John Wiley and Sons, March/April 2003). The theme represents a deeper dig into the philological shifts that are occurring with the onset of digital techniques and representations, and draws on a wide range of surface readings. The focus on surface is made in an effort to recognise a spatial condition that lies outside traditional architectural models that polarise surface and structure.

Mark Taylor has joint-authored Moments of Resistance (Sydney, Archadia Press, 2002) with Andrew Charleson and Julieanna Preston. The book discusses a research-by-design project focusing on firstly; the implications of earthquake strengthening historic architecture as a cultural, and political post-colonial act and secondly; the implications for the structure/ornament debate when secondary strengthening is added to a seemingly complete building. The publication includes two invited essays by Michael J. Ostwald and Gevork Hartoonian to provide an outsiders’ view. The authors’ have also published a number of conference and journal articles on the research project.

Mark Taylor is currently based at the University of Queensland where he is researching for his PhD thesis. This work concerns ninetetenth century writing on decoration and the home, and the spatial and social construction of ‘interior’ in turn-of-the-century amateur writing. Of particular interest is the conflation of body, dress and decoration as a reflection of woman, and the relationship between the interior and a domestic aesthetic that gave rise to a social and spatial construction outside patri-architectural culture. This work is interdisciplinary, drawing from philosophy, feminism, cultural and gender studies.

Prior to leave he taught final year design studio and each year alternates an elective course on gender and architecture, with a design course. In 2003 the design course was run in conjunction with SIAL and used web based communication systems as well as physical contact. Titled “Craters of the Moon” the outcomes of this studio can be found at here.

Recent Publications

Books
Taylor, M., (ed) “Surface Consciousness”, Architectural Design, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons ltd, Vol 73, No 2, April (2003)

Taylor, M., Preston, J. and Charleson, A. W., Moments of Resistance, Sydney, Archadia Press, (2002) pp.101

Book Chapters
Taylor, M., Surface Talk, in (ed) Mark Taylor, “Surface Consciousness", Chichester, John Wiley and Sons ltd, Architectural Design, Vol 73, No 2, March-April (2003) pp.30-35

Taylor, M., Scene 8, in (eds) Iain Borden and Sandy McCreery, “New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City”, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons ltd, Architectural Design, Vol 71, No 3 June (2001) pp60-63

Taylor , M., Preston, J. and Charleson, A. W., The Myth of the Matter: Parallel Surfaces of Seismic Linings, in (eds) Michael J. Ostwald and R. John Moore, Re-Framing Architecture: Theory, Science and Myth, Sydney, Archadia Press, (2000) pp.189-199.

Journal Articles – Refereed

Charleson, A. W., Preston . J. and Taylor, M., Architectural Expression of Seismic Strengthening, Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, California . August (2001) pp417-426

Taylor, M., Architecture and Interior: A Roam of One’s Own, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA) Refereed Design Scheme, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. (2001) pp14-22

Taylor, M., Reading Room/Writing Roam: Interior Design as Critical Commentary, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA) Refereed Design Scheme, Queensland University of Technology, Australia . (2001) pp70-83

Taylor , M., Polly Pocket: Domesticity, Popular Culture and the Interior, in (eds) Busfield, W., and Richards, P., 1997-1998 CHASA Refereed Design Scheme Catalogue, Nedlands, University of Western Australia, (2000). pp.41-47

Taylor, M., Frameworks: Seymour House, in (eds) Busfield, W., and Richards, P., 1997-1998 CHASA Refereed Design Scheme Catalogue, Nedlands, University of Western Australia , (2000). pp.49-57

Conference Papers – Refereed

Burry, J., Maher, A., Burry, M. C., and Taylor, M., Experiments in Sublimation in Design Education, in Proceedings of Design + Research: The Second International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australia, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, (2003)

Taylor M and North, M., Fitting in the House, in John Macarthur and Anthony Moulis (eds), ADDITIONS to architectural history: XIXth annual conference of the society of architectural historians, Australia and New Zealand, [Available CD-Rom] Brisbane, Queensland University, (2002). pp11.

Taylor, M., Measure for Measure: Masculinity, Proportion and the Architecture of the Ancients, Proceedings of Mathematics and Design 2001: The Third International Conference, Geelong , Australia July 3-5, (2001) pp404-414

Charleson, A. W., Taylor , M. and Preston . J., Envisioning Earthquake Architecture in New Zealand, Proceedings of the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering Technical Conference, Wairakei, New Zealand, 23-25 March, paper 3.01.01, (2001) (CD Rom) 7pp.