Lisa Findley

Lisa Findley is a professor and chair of the Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Program at CCA, where she teaches design studios and special topic seminars. In spring 2010, Lisa and coteacher Peter Anderson took a group of CCA students to Shanghai as part of their Advanced Studio, titled StitchLink:Shanghai.

Lisa is a registered architect who writes primarily in public venues to expand the discussion about architecture and its position as a visual and cultural practice in a rapidly changing world. Her architectural education was underpinned by undergraduate work in environmental science and policy as well as political theory. As a result, her reading, research, and writing cross over into many other fields, including cultural geography and anthropology, cultural and postcolonial studies, landscape architecture, natural history, and cartography. She is a frequent participant in conferences related to architecture, geography, and cultural studies.

Lisa has taught and lectured at universities in Malaysia, Australia, and South Africa as well as throughout the United States. She has traveled extensively as an architectural journalist and academic, in pursuit of an ever-increasing understanding of the roles architecture and space play within the dynamics of culture and power.

An active architectural journalist, Lisa has written for numerous publications, including Architecture magazine, Architectural Record, Harvard Design Magazine, World Architecture, Architecture Australia, Architecture South Africa, Baumeister and Places Journal. She is author of the book Building Change: Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Agency (Routledge, 2005) and the following recently published essays: "Architecture and the Representation of Culture: The Tjibaou Cultural Center" in The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity (Routledge, 2007), "Once Again by the Pacific: Returning to Sea Ranch" with coauthor Tim Culvahouse in Judging Architectural Value (Minnesota 2007) and “Red and Gold: Two Apartheid Museums and the Spatial Politics of Memory in the 'New' South Africa” in South of Cancer (forthcoming from Routledge, 2011).

With coeditors Marco Cenzatti and Abidin Kusno, Lisa was a theme editor for the new issue (63:2 spring 2010) of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) titled Changing Asia. Lisa served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education from 2004–10 and as a contributing editor to Architectural Record from 2003–10.