Annette Condello

Biography

Annette Condello is a Senior Lecturer of Architecture at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Prior to her appointment, she was a postgraduate researcher at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). She completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2009. Her research examines the architectural transformation of luxury in the ancient world and its impact on the modern and contemporary West. Annette is also exploring the architectural dialogue with cuisine, spoils, landscape and fashion in Europe and Australasia; and Italian modernism in Latin America. And luxury as sustainability. Her book The Architecture of Luxury  was published by Ashgate in 2014. Her catalogue essay on the 'Cathedral, Abbey and Benedictine monastery' appears in the Augmented Australia: Regenerating Lost Architecture 1914-2014, Fundamentals 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. She co-edited with S. Lehmann the following book: Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi's Adaptive Reuse Projects (Springer, 2016). Recently, she was invited by ROTOR to present a lecture at the DECONSTRUCTION Symposium at TU Delft; and is guest-curating an exhibition with the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association, Brussels, and Cristiana Chiorino, ComunicArch Associates, Turin, in Perth.

Research Interest

"Architectural history and theory, sloth and landscape Mediterranean and Latin American modernism The architectural transformation of luxury in the ancient world and its impact on the modern and contemporary West. Cuisine, spoils, glamour and fashion in Southern Europe, the Americas, Australia, the Philippines and India Luxury as sustainability"