Book Launch & RoundTable: The Urbanism of Metabolism:
Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow

RAFFAELE PERNICE

Raffaele Pernice is an architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia. He received a PhD in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo and a M.Arch from the University IUAV of Venice, Italy. Dr. Pernice’s research concentrates on modern and post-modern urban and architectural theories and history, with a focus on the contemporary urbanism of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been recipient of several competitive international grants and fellowships from the Japan Foundation, the MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), among others.

GEVORK HARTOONIAN

Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architecture’s Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017. Hartoonian’s forthcoming book is titled, The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate (Routledge, Jun 2023).

PETER POULET

Professor Peter Poulet is director of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Cities Institute, Australia. He is an architect with over 35 years of experience in the private, public and the university sector and a practicing and exhibiting visual artist. His professional background includes his current role as Central City District Commissioner for the Greater Cities Commission, delivering the NSW Government’s vision for Sydney’s future and his previous appointment as NSW Government Architect from 2012 to 2018.

DANIEL BARBER

Professor Daniel A. Barber is a historian and theorist focused on environmental dimensions of architecture’s past, present, and future. He is especially interested in how the pedagogy and practice of architecture are adapting to climate instability. He received his PhD in Architecture (History and Theory) from Columbia University, and a Master of Environmental Design (MED) from Yale University. He has held fellowships through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the Princeton University High Meadows Environmental Institute, and at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, among others.

SHAOWEN WANG

Shaowen Wang is a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia as well as an active tutor at the University of Sydney and the University of Canberra in Design Studio and History & Theory courses between 2007 and 2018. She has tutored studios at all levels and led graduation studios and has developed course content and lectured for computational design theory (2015 to 2018) at UNSW. Before arriving in Australia, she had worked on medium and small scales projects: synagogues, private schools, mixed-use tall buildings, and houses in New York. She has been the studio convenor for the graduation studio at M. Arch level and for the first year of B. Arch since 2018.

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