Professor Charles Rice

Visiting Fellow, School of Architecture

Bachelor of Design Studies (Honours), Master of Research - Humanities & Cultural Studies, Doctor of Philosophy
Email: Charles.Rice@uts.edu.au
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Biography
Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He studied at the University of Queensland, the London Consortium (University of London), and the University of New South Wales. He is currently Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of Research Programs in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Design Practice at the University of Technology Sydney. He has also taught history and theory at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has held a visiting research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London, and has been invited to lecture at universities and cultural institutions internationally.

Professional
Deputy Editor (Book Reviews) The Journal of Architecture (Routledge)

Teaching areas
Architectural history and theory (BA[Arch])
Architectural design (MArch)

Research interests
The historical emergence of the domestic interior
The development of interior urbanism in the 1960s and 70s
Discourses of atmosphere in art and architecture
Walter Benjamin and architecture
Questions of evidence in architectural history

Research supervision: Yes

Supervision
Masters and PhD

Publications

Books

Rice, C.E. 2007, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity, 1, Routledge, London and New York.
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Book Chapters

Rice, C.E. 2009, ''So the flaneur goes for a walk in his room': Interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis' in di Palma, Vittoria; Periton, Diana; Lathouri, Marina (eds), Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City, Routledge, London, pp. 72-89.
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Rice, C.E. 2009, 'The Geography of the Diagram: The Rose Seidler House' in Sparke, P; Massey, A; Keeble, T; Martin, B (eds), Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today, Berg, Oxford and New York, pp. 131-143.
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Rice, C.E. 2009, 'The Inside of Space: Some Issues Concerning Heterogeneity, the Interior and the Weather' in Hensel, Michael; Hight, Christopher; Menges, Achim (eds), Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space in Architecture, Wiley, London, pp. 185-193.
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Rice, C.E. 2007, 'Critical Post-Critical' in Dorrian,M.; Fraser,M. Hill,J. Rendell,J. (eds), Critical Architecture, Routledge, Oxon, England, pp. 261-268.
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Rice, C.E. 2007, 'For a Concept of the Domestic Interior: Some Historical and Theoretical Challenges' in Hollis, Ed. et. al. (eds), Thinking Inside the Box: a reader in interior design for the 21st century, Middlesex University Press, London, UK, pp. 177-185.
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Rice, C.E. 2007, 'Interior / Image: Authorship and the spatialities of domestic life' in Anstey, T; Grillner, K; Hughes, R (eds), Architecture and Authorship: Studies in Disciplinary Remediation, Black Dog, London, pp. 74-81.
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Rice, C.E. 2006, 'Immersion et rupture: l'espace domestique de W.Benjamin' in Phillipe Simay (ed), Capitales de la modernite: walter Benjamin et la ville., Editions de l'eclat, Paris, France, pp. 153-168.

Rice, C.E. 2005, 'Photography's Veil: Reading Gender and Loos's Interiors' in Heynen, H; Baydar, G (eds), Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Constructions of Gender in Modern Architecture, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 281-295.
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Rice, C.E. 2005, 'Walter Benjamin's Interior History' in Benjamin, A (eds), Walter Benjamin and History, Continuum, London, UK, pp. 171-181.
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Journal Articles

Rice, C.E. 2010, 'On message: an interview with Michael Chertoff', Architectural Design, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 124-125.
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Lahoud, A., Rice, C.E. & Burke, A.J. 2010, 'Post-Traumatic Urbanism', Architectural Design, vol. 80, no. 5.

Rice, C.E. 2010, 'The space-time of pre-emption: an interview with Brian Massumi', Architectural Design, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 32-37.
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Rice, C.E. 2008, 'The atmosphere of interior urbanism - OMA at IIT (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)', Architectural Design, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 88-91.
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Rice, C.E. & Benjamin, A.E. 2007, 'Special Issue: Walter Benjamin and Architecture', Journal of Architecture, vol. 12, no. 5.

Rice, C.E. 2005, 'Evidence, experience and conjecture: reading the interior through Benjamin and Bloch', Home Cultures, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 285-298.
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Rice, C.E. 2005, 'Experience and criticality: returning to Federation Square', Journal of Architecture, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 323-333.
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Rice, C.E. 2004, 'At Federation Square', Journal of Architecture, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 105-120.
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Rice, C.E. 2004, 'Rethinking Histories of the Interior', The Journal of Architecture, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 275-287.
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Rice, C.E. & Penner, B. 2004, 'Special Issue: Constructing the Interior', Journal of Architecture, vol. 9, no. 3.

Rice, C.E. 2003, 'Bourgeois inhabitations: Theory and the historical emergence of the interior', Architectural Theory Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 143-151.
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Rice, C.E. 2003, 'The Doubleness of the Interior', Time + Architecture, vol. 19, no. 74, pp. 107-111.

Rice, C.E. 2002, 'The Antipodean Relation', Archis, vol. 6, pp. 32-39.

Major Reviews

Rice, C.E. 2007, 'Book Review: Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance', The Journal of Architecture, Routledge, London, pp. 340-344.

Rice, C.E. 2006, 'Book Review: Mies van der Rohe: the Krefeld Villas', The Journal of Architecture, Routledge, London, pp. 272-274.

Rice, C.E. 2006, 'Book Review: Visions of the City: Utopian, Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Urbanism', The Journal of Architecture, Routledge, London, pp. 623-627.

Rice, C.E. 2005, 'Exhibition Review: The Virtual Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2004.', Architecture Australia, Architecture Media, Melbourne, pp. 35-36.

Rice, C.E. 2004, 'Exhibition Review: Space and Image: Inside Hill End', Architecture Australia, Architecture Media, Melbourne, pp. 40-41.

Rice, C.E. 2003, 'Exhibition Review: Richard Glover: Tate Transformation, Bankside to Modern', Architecture Australia, Architecture Media, Melbourne, pp. 23-24.

Rice, C.E. 2002, 'Book Review: Architectural Philosophy', Architectural Theory Review, University of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 158-160.

Rice, C.E. 2002, 'Exhibition Review: John Horbury Hunt Ô++ Radical Architect, 1838-1904', Architecture Australia, Architecture Media, Melbourne, pp. 16-17.

Conference Papers

Rice, C.E. 2010, 'The Emergence of Interior Urbanism: John Portman's Peachtree Centre in Atlanta', Looking into the Modern Interior: History, Theory and Discipline in Education and Practice, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2010 in Looking into the Modern Interior: History, Theory and Discipline in Education and Practice - Abstracts, ed -, Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), U.S.A. & Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston, http://www.idec.org/events/documents/ModernInteriorsAbstracts.pdf, pp. 2-2.

Original Creative Works

Burke, A.J., Hewett, B.R., Rice, C.E., Lahoud, A., Jakovich, J., Perin, G.J. 2007, 'Museum of Ecological Succession', Canberra Parklands Design Compeition, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Cultural Festival.
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Broadcasts

Rice, C.E. 2006, 'The Emergence of the Interior', By Design, ABC Radio National.