Mark Taylor

Biography

Dr Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at University of Newcastle, Australia. He has twice held visiting professor positions at UiTM Malaysia, as external examiner and research facilitator. His research on the designed interior is widely published in books and journals, and he has convened several conferences on the modern interior. Design work has been published in both professional and scholarly journals and exhibited nationally and internationally including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, Melbourne Museum, Australia and the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, Australian Pavilion – Abundant, Venice. He has also contributed an essay to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Mark is an editorial board member for Architectural Design Research, and Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, and editor Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (John Wiley, 2006), and editor Interior Design & Architecture: Critical & Primary Sources, 4 vols. (Bloomsbury 2013). He is currently editing Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and FLOW: Between Interior and Landscape (Bloomsbury 2017). He held an ARC Discovery Grant, with Margot Brereton, Laurie Buys and Paul Roe for, Cooperation and reciprocity at the local scale enabled by social and mobile technologies: an empirically derived theoretical framework (2011-2013). Following a period as Acting Head of School Architecture and Built Environment (2013-2015), he is currently Associate Dean Research (Acting) in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

Research Interest

Architectural Design