Tarsha Finney

Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture
Course Director - Bachelor of Design in Architecture, School of Architecture
Research Assistant, School of Architecture

Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Arts
Email: Tarsha.Finney@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8112
Fax: +61 2 9514 8051
Room: CB06.05.90 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Biography

Tarsha Finney is an architect and an urbanist. Her research interests cross several areas: domesticity and the problem of multi-residential housing with specific knowledge of the cities of New York, Beijing and Sydney; architectural typology and notions of disciplinary specificity and autonomy; and the architectural urbanism of innovation in cities. In 2003, whilst completing a Masters degree in Housing and Urbanism at the Architectural Association London, Tarsha won the Michael Ventris Memorial Award which enabled her to conduct primary research in China looking at the Danwei Live work unit implemented by the Communist government following the 1949 revolution. In 2004 Tarsha commenced doctoral studies at the Architectural Association with the Thesis: Repetition and Transformation: The Housing Project and the constitution of the Urban Field. New York 1935-1971. Supervisors Architectural Association: Lawrence Barth (AA) and Dr. Nikolas Bullock (Cambridge University). This work has now been transferred to UTS Supervisors Dr Sandra Kaji-O’Grady.(UTS) and Dr Charles Rice (UTS).

Community Involvement and Practice
In 2009 Tarsha curated Urban Futures: Ideas of the City at the UTS gallery, an exhibition of the work of Diploma Unit 6 at the Architectural Association, London. She also convened a concurrent symposium Urban Futures: Architectural Type and the Urban Plan held at Customs House in Sydney. Since 2007 she has been a guest Juror at UNSW, the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, Nottingham University, the Architectural Association London and throughout the School of Architecture at UTS. Tarsha frequently writes for practice journals such as Monument. Prior to commencing postgraduate study in the UK in 2002, Tarsha ran an architectural practice in Sydney focused on residential and small commercial projects. In 2000 Tarsha won the National Association of Women in Construction NSW Chapter Mallesons Stephen Jacques Merit Scholarship for outstanding student.

Teaching areas

11514 MArch Design Studio: Urban projections. Adelaide: Urban Domestic.
11247 Architectural Histories and Theories, current events and debates. The Architectural Event.
11307 Special Project – The Western Desert Art Institute, Alice Springs.
11215 Architectural Design: Making

Research interests

Senior Research Assistant with Dr Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, Head of School and with Dr Martin Kornberger of the School of Marketing at UTS on an ARC Industry Linkage The Architecture of Academic Research. During her time in the doctoral program at the Architectural Association Tarsha was involved in a number of small focused research groups across the field of architecture and urbanism – including ‘Transformation and urban change’ (2007 led by Lawrence Barth), ‘Rethinking Architectural Urbanism’ (2005, 2006 led by Lawrence Barth), ‘Size and Scale’ (2005 Led by Marina Lathouri and Mark Cousins).

Publications

Book Chapters

Finney, T.L. 2008, 'Centrality and Dispersal: Domesticity and the City' in Flores, Ricardo; Prats, Eva (eds), Through the Canvas: Architecture Inside Dutch Paintings, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 116-119.

Journal Articles

Finney, T.L. 2012, 'Guest Editorial: Human Capital, Not just a Gender Issue', Architecture Bulletin, vol. -, no. Sept-Oct.

Finney, T.L. 2008, 'Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York', Journal of Architecture, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 515-518.

Conference Papers

Finney, T.L. 2009, 'The Architecture of Academic Research: Symposium', Customs House, Sydney, October 2009.

Original Creative Works

Finney, T.L. 2009, 'URBAN FUTURES', URBAN FUTURES: Ideas of the City and URBAN FUTURES: Architectural Typology and the Urban Plan., nil, UTS Gallery.
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Other research activity

Finney, T.L. 2010, 'CO-ISOLATED', Shed 29 South Sydney Corporate Park, Burke Road Alexandria, Australian Galleries, http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/news-events/eventarchive-detail.cfm?ItemId=20899.
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