Faculty Leadership, Administrative Units, Dean's Unit, Interior Architecture

BArchSci (Syd), BArch (Syd) BFA COFA (UNSW)

As a member of the Faculty leadership team, I take a future-focused approach to educational excellence from the business perspective. This means positioning ourselves to stand out among our competitors nationally and globally.

I work to align our people authentically with the strategic direction of UNSW and to create innovative, world-class teaching and research products, but I’m also focused on creating a great workplace where people feel valued and are treated with respect always.

My research and teaching background mainly revolved around sustainable futures, design studio learning and teaching, and most recently higher education management and policy. I have practiced as an artist, architect and interior architect.

All roads, however, have led to a growing interest and skillset in leadership, and I am thrilled to now be in a position where I can guide, provide governance and influence the overall strategic direction, progress and culture of the Faculty.

Interior Architecture, Research Cluster Staff, Urban Typologies

PhD (USYD); B.Arch (USYD); B.Sc (Arch) (USYD).

My passion is interior architecture and I’m particularly interested in making sure the interior space is recognised as a vital agent for change in 21st-century urban areas.

As cities evolve and urbanisation increases people are spending up to 90% of their time indoors. When looked at from this perspective, we should really be thinking from the inside out. Interior architecture is as critical a profession as urban planning and architecture.

From my research background as an architectural historian, I try to contextualise the impact of historic interiors on our lives today. Central to this is the question, what can we learn from the past in order to understand and improve our interior spaces into the future?

Interior Architecture

2009 Architecture Registration, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, New South Wales, Australia
2006 MA Architecture, 1st class hons. University of New South Wales, Australia
2003 BA Interior Architecture, 1st class hons. University of New South Wales, Australia

Eva Lloyd is a lecturer in an 'Education-Focused' role within UNSW Built Environment, Interior Architecture program. She comes from a practice background, working as an architect and urban designer, in Cambodia and across South East Asia on community-based development projects. Projects involved collaboration with local and international NGO’s, grassroots organisations and private sector in work spanning from upgrades for tenure security with urban poor communities, to affordable housing, design advocacy, participative workshops and design education. Eva brings this experience into her educational role, now convening Design Studio courses that place emphasis on social agency and human-centred design within local and international contexts. She developed and leads an annual interdisciplinary urban design workshop connecting UNSW students with design students from the Royal University of Fine Arts, in Cambodia, to analyse and compare the use of public street space in Sydney and Phnom Penh. From this she has worked with a team of Interior Architecture staff members and students to launch a Professional Placement program and travel award, hosted by a local Cambodian arts NGO, and run as a collaborative experience for a student from UNSW in Sydney and from RUFA in Phnom Penh.

Associate Lecturer

Interior Architecture Program, UNSW Built Environment

Interior Technologies stream 1 - 4: 2015 - Current

Associate Lecturer

Lecturer and Course Convenor: INTA 2101 Design Practice 1 Enquire, 2302 Design Practice 6 Speculate, BENV6800 Professional Placements

Interior Architecture, Research Cluster Staff, Smart Cities, Design Research Collaboration

MArch, PhD

Laurence Kimmel is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Built Environment. She is an architect and presented her thesis in philosophy of architecture in 2006 at University Paris 10 Nanterre on the subject “Architecture as landscape”.

Her research focuses on boundaries and gradients between public and private space. Her book Architecture as Landscape (Paris: Petra, 2010) describes constructive experiences of architectures that are open towards the landscape.

Her research also addresses the notion of ‘critical practice’: interior architects, architects and urban planners that use the thinking tools of art and philosophy to underpin their practice.

The objects of research range through different countries (e.g. France, Germany and Brazil) and across different areas (architecture, interior architecture, art, landscape).

Interior Architecture

Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate), UNSW Australia Art & Design, Creative Robotics Lab
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), UNSW Australia Art & Design
Bachelor of Art Education, UNSW Australia Art & Design

Belinda Dunstan is an Associate Lecturer in the UNSW Faculty of Built Environment and a PhD candidate with the UNSW Art & Design Creative Robotics Lab. She received a Bachelor with Honours in Fine Art and a Bachelor of Art Education from UNSW, Australia. Belinda is the Course Convenor for Interior Architecture: Critical Perspectives and Computational Design: Urban Interaction.

Her current research interests are in social robotics, technology ethics, responsive environments, maker-hacker culture, rapid prototyping technologies and undergraduate tertiary education innovation.

Alanya is a member of teaching staff for the Interior Architecture program at UNSW BE where she contributes to a range of design practice and critical perspectives courses. Alanya has been an Education Focused academic since 2018 and has also been involved in the training of the faculty's sessional staff through the development and implementation of the BE UPskilled program. Alanya is also an advocate for mental health awareness and is the Built Environment Academic Disability Advisor, as well as faculty Disability Champion.

Alanya graduated from the Interior Architecture program at UNSW in 2003 with the University Medal and returned to the BE to complete her PhD in 2013 on the topic of celebrity architects, focusing on how the phenomenon of fame influences the architectural process.

Alanya’s industry experience spans from Sydney to Paris, where she has worked for a range of high profile studios including the atelier of Pritzker Prize winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, the architectural practice of Alec Tzannes AM, and the Australasian design firm Geyer. Her roles have incorporated interior design, workplace strategy, communications and research relating to knowledge transfer and trust building.

Alanya is also involved in local government and is a current elected Councillor for North Sydney Council.

As a registered architect with professional qand research ualifications in both interior design and architecture, Cathy’s design practice, scholarly research and teaching focuses on small-scale, economic urban, interior and temporary interventions, and DIY construction methodologies. Rather than seeing the interior as a site of architectural containment, she seeks the radical opportunities afforded by working with, within and beyond existing environmental structures. She is committed to issues of equity in the built environment and its associated educational processes. Cathy has taught in the subject areas of design, history and theory and construction at several Australian Universities, was recently a Visiting Professor at Carleton University (Winter 2019) and a Richard Rogers Fellow (Harvard University GSD, Fall 2018). Her scholarly research on DIY architecture and DIY urbanism has been widely published as book chapters and in international journals including Australian Feminist Studies,Architectural Histories, Interstices, Architectural Theory Review, IDEA and Design Ecologies.

She has a PhD in architectural theory and history (USyd) and is completing a PhD in urban studies with a Turnbull Foundation Women in Built Environment scholarship (UNSW, 2018-2020). This major research project concentrates on the stakeholder experiences of thetemporary occupation of vacant buildings as part of urban renewal processes.

Dr. Kate Dunn B.A. Visual Arts (USyd), Hons (SCU), Ph.D. Architecture (USyd) is the research leader in digital fabrication and material innovation at the UNSW Creative Robotics Research Lab. Kate’s research investigates experimental digital fabrication and robotics with a focus on the development of new and sustainable materials for digital fabrication. Kate’s research builds on traditional material processes and integrates them into emerging digital technologies for a range of industries including the Built Environment, Medicine, and Multi-Modal Data Visualisation. Kate convenes and teaches Design courses at UNSW Built Environment and has over 15 years undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in Australia’s leading Universities and has had over 45 exhibitions both nationally and internationally.