About
Dr. Anuradha Chatterjee is an Indian-born Australian academic practitioner in architecture and design based in Australia and India. She has over twenty years of experience in research, teaching and administration gained through various academic positions in Australia (University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, University of Tasmania, University of South Australia), China (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), and India (Manipal University Jaipur, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Pearl Academy and Sushant School of Architecture), where her focus has been on developing critical and research-based pedagogies in studio and history and theory subjects. She has held prominent academic leadership roles in India as Dean, Faculty of Design, Manipal University Jaipur; Dean Academics, Avani Institute of Design; and Head, Research and Innovation, Pearl Academy where she was responsible for institution building, establishing cultures of academic excellence, enhancing internationalisation initiatives and research outputs, and driving a high-performance culture based on inclusive and embodied leadership. Dr Chatterjee has also worked in professional practice in Australia, as Senior Research Executive at PTW Architects; Senior Architectural Researcher and Heritage Advisor at Cracknell and Lonergan Architects; and Guest Curator, Customs House, Sydney. She has an active and diverse research record, and her publications speak to an expansive field of research inquiry. Dr Chatterjee is Regional Editor Asia Pacific, TEXTILES: Cloth and Culture; a Registered Architect at the Council of Architecture, India; and an Associate of Australian Institute of Architects.
- bell hooks
Books
- Anuradha Chatterjee, ed, Architectures of Ageing in Place. London: Routledge, Hardback (Contracted, Forthcoming 2025)
- Anuradha Chatterjee (Area Editor, Asia, 98000 words), Karen Burns and Lori Brown (Chief Editor). The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015. London: Bloomsbury, Forthcoming April 2022
- Anuradha Chatterjee. John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture. London: Routledge, Hardback 2017, Paperback 2019
- Anuradha Chatterjee, ed. Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques, and Practices in Art, Architecture, and Design. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Hardback 2014, Paperback 2018
- Anuradha Chatterjee. Built, Unbuilt, and Imagined Sydney. New Delhi: COPAL Publishing, 2015
Catalogues and Proceedings
- Anuradha Chatterjee, Madhavi Desai and Kush Patel. Instant Proceedings: Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India Symposium (Digital). Calicut: Avani Institute of Design, 2020
- Anuradha Chatterjee, Marian Macken, and Thomas Fisher, eds. Shared Territories: Design Research Exhibition Catalogue. China: Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, 2014
- Anuradha Chatterjee, Stuart King, and Stephen Loo, eds. Proceedings of Fabulation: Myth Nature and Heritage: The 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Launceston, 05-08 July. Launceston: University of Tasmania, 2012
- Anuradha Chatterjee. “Interaction: Sydney Architecture Festival, Exhibition Catalogue.” Customs House, 2012
- Anuradha Chatterjee. “From Form to Formless,” Exhibition Catalogue. Customs House, October 2010
John Ruskin and Architectural Theory
My PhD (published as journal articles and a peer reviewed book John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture, Routledge, 2017) reveals and constructs Ruskin’s ‘theory’ of the adorned wall veil, which positioned architecture as a dressed female body.
Feminist Readings in Architectural History and Theory
Feminist philosophy was at the centre of my graduate design project on housing for migrant mine workers, which proposed a distinctive hybrid organization of row housing and cluster as an argument against the separation of public and private realms.
- AMPS Routledge Pedagogy Award, 2023 https://amps-research.com/routledge-pedagogy-award/
- Funding for Appointment of Research Associate, The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015, School of Architecture, Syracuse University, 2020
- ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme (for outstanding women researchers in the humanities) The University, 2019
- Architecture Theory Criticism History Research Centre, University of Queensland Travel Grant 2018
- Visiting Academic, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 23-27 September 2018
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: Research Support Grant, 2013
- Research Development Fund, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, 2013
- David Saunders Founders Grant, Society of Architectural Historians Australia, and New Zealand, 2008
- Education Arts and Social Science Early Career Researcher Support Program, University of South Australia, 2000 AUD, 2008, two awarded per year
Professor and Dean
School of Design and Innovation
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor and Dean, School of Design and Innovation