Lisa Findley

Lisa Findley 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 crosses 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, both as an architectural journalist and as an academic, in pursuit of an ever-increasing understanding of the roles architecture and space play within the dynamics of culture and power.

She is a contributing editor to Architectural Record and has written for numerous other publications, including Architecture magazine, Harvard Design Magazine, World Architecture, Architecture Australia, Architecture South Africa, and Baumeister. She is author of the book Building Change: Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Agency (Routledge, 2005) and the essay "Architecture and the Representation of Culture: The Tjibaou Cultural Center" in The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Equity (Routledge, 2007).