Dr Glen Hill

Title: Associate Professor
Name: Glen Hill
Position: Associate Professor; Coordinator, M. Arch Sustainable Architecture Studio; Head of Architecture and Allied Arts Discipline
Location: Room 324, Wilkinson Building (G04), 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 2773
Email:

Academic History

1997-2000 Associate Lecturer in History and Theory, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
2001- Lecturer in History and Theory, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
2004- Senior Lecturer in History and Theory, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
2009- Associate Professor in History and Theory, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney

Current Teaching
Coordinator of the Sustainable Stream of the M. Arch
Design teacher in Sustainable Stream of the M. Arch
Coordinator of the Honors units of the M. Arch
Teaching the research methods class for M. Arch Honors candidates

Current Research and Supervision
Research on the interrelations among sustainable design, place, technology and fashion, using the lens of contemporary continental thinkers, particularly Martin Heidegger.

Research Portfolio

Researcher: Dr Glen Hill
Classification: Associate Professor Level B
Function: Teaching/Research
FTE: 100%
School: Architecture
Commenced with Institution: 11/4/97
Commenced current job: 1/1/2000

Funded Projects
2007 Teaching Improvement Fund Grant:
"Proposal for Evaluating the Advantages and Disadvantages of Students Working in Small Groups in a Design Studio Context."

2006 Teaching Improvement Fund Grant:
"Improving the Induction and Integration of Research Students in the Faculty of Architecture"
with Duanfang Lu (CI), John Gero, Densil Cabrera, Rafael Pizarro

1999 Chief Investigator. University Research Grant (URG). Research Area:
“Interpretive strategies for studying the indigenous architecture of the Chittagong Hill Tracts”

1992 Second Investigator. Research Grant from the Council of the City of Sydney:
(Chief Investigator: Professor G. P. Webber). Research Area: Control of Building by Floor Space Ratio within the City of Sydney: Review of Methods of Measurement 1957-1991. Submission to the Central Sydney Planning Inquiry, April 1992

Graduate Research Supervision (Current)
Nikolina Bobic (FT)
Simon Weir PhD (FT)
Fontaine Liu PhD (FT)
Matthew Conlon PhD (FT)
Sing D’arcy PhD (FT)
Bell, Graham PhD (FT)
Jennifer Gamble PhD (FT)
Russell Rodrigo PhD (FT)
Dagmar Reinhardt PhD (FT)
Haris Dzonlagic PhD (FT)
Sam Ridgeway PhD (PT)
Scott Hill (PT)
Chris Abel (PT)

Graduate Research Supervision (Graduands)
Stephen Loo (PhD)
Jennifer Gamble (PhD)
Scott Colman (PhD)
Dr Susan Stewart (PhD)
Dr David Week (PhD)
Dr Stan Fung (PhD)
Amanda Jean (Mphil)
Maggie Zhaou (Mphil associate)

Higher Degree Examiner for:
Igea Troiani PhD (QUT),
C. L. Smith PhD (U of Newcastle)
Scott Drake PhD (U of Canberra)
Tonkin Cameronwise PhD (Usyd, Philosophy Dept)
Favia Marcello PhD (Usyd, Architecture Dept)
Nina Hamilton PhD (U of Tasmania)
Melissa Wilson MArch (U of Adelaide)
Jun Cai MArch (U of Adelaide)
Anuradha Chatterjee (UNSW)

Refereeing
Refereeing papers for SAHANZ annual conferences: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Refereeing papers for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
Refereeing papers for Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney.

Publications

Books

• Glen Hill. Design, Heidegger and the Earth: The Unsustainability of Sustainable Design. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., 2008.
• Glen Hill and Ross Thorne. Urbanscope. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1978.

Chapters in Books

• Glen Hill, "Wilkinson Building", in Trevor Howells (ed.) University of Sydney Architecture, Sydney, The Watermark Press, 2007.
• Glen Hill, "Designing Waste." In Design for Sustainability: A sourcebook of integrated, eco-logical solutions, edited by Janis Birkeland. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2002.
• Glen Hill.  "Process Not Product".  In AASA Refereed Design Scheme1999-2000, edited by Bill Busfield and Patrick Beale. Perth: Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts The University of Western Australia, 2003.
• Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma. "Thwarting the Indigenous Custodians of Biodiversity." In Bangladesh: Land, Forest and forest People, edited by P. Gain, 123 - 137. Dhaka: Society fro Environment and Human Development, 1995.

Journal Articles

• Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma, "Writing Post-nationalist Histories Within the Walls of Nationalism: The Case of Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh", Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA), Vol. 39-40, 2007-08: 250-263.
• Glen Hill, "Heidegger, Technology and the Impossibility of Sustainable Design." Currently being reviewed.
• Glen Hill, "Saving the Earth with Poetry: A Reading of Heidegger's ...Poetically Man Dwells...". Currently being reviewed.
• Glen Hill. "Is Design the Danger? Theorising Heidegger's Distrust of Design in Modernity." Architectural Theory Review 8, no. 2 (2003): 71-95.
• Glen Hill. "Architectural History Research after Postmodernism." Architectural Theory Review 5, no. 2 (2000): 72-88.
• Glen Hill. "Fashioning Architects: Clothed in the Rhetoric of Rationalism." Architectural Theory Review 4, no. 2 (1999): 40-51.
• Glen Hill. "Heidegger's Absent Presence in Design: A Response to Snodgrass and Coyne's 'Is Designing Hermeneutical'." Architectural Theory Review Vol. 2, no. No. 2 (1997): 1-16.
• Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma. "Of Other Universities: The Contested Space of the Ancient Viharas of Bangladesh." Architectural Theory Review Vol. 2, no. No. 1 (1997): 167-185.

Conference Papers

• Glen Hill, "God, Heidegger and Sustainable Design", Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto Japan, June 26-29, 2009. Full paper accepted.
• Glen Hill, "Are Sustainable Architectural Technologies Sustainable: What Heidegger never said about Rainwater Tanks," 5th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Sustainable Theory, Theorizing Sustainability, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, September 4-5 2009. Full paper accepted.
• Glen Hill, "Design without Causality: Heidegger's Impossible Challenge for Ecologically Sustainable Architecture", 4th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation, University of Technology Sydney 2007.
• Glen Hill, 'Joining the White Flight from Idleness: The Design of Public Space in Aboriginal Redfern', Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Panorama and Paradise, Adelaide 2007.
• Glen Hill, 'Dreaming the Block: Three Decades of Architectural Imagining for Redfern's Indigenous Community', Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Contested Terrains, Perth, 2006.
• Glen Hill. "Out of Place in the Landscape: Questioning the Architectural Rhetoric of Place." Additions to Architectural History, Brisbane 2002.
• Glen Hill. "There is No Place Like Home (Anymore)." De-placing Difference: Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography, Adelaide 2002.
• Hill, Glen, and Kabita Chakma. "Using Architectural History to Invent a Nation: the Case of the Indigenous Architecture of the Chittagong Hill Tracts." Formulation Fabrication: the Architecture of History, Wellington New Zealand 2000.
• Glen Hill. "Masked by the Rhetoric of Rationalism: Or Why Architectural Reviewers Can't Say 'Wow'!" SAHANZ Thresholds, Hobart and Launceston 1999.
• Glen Hill. "Architecture in Chaos: Using New Architecture to Authorise New Sciences." Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Wellington, New Zealand 1998.
• Glen Hill and Jenny Ernawati. "Taman Sari: Tourist 'Consumption' of a Sultan's Pleasure Garden." Paper presented at the 3rd International Forum (UNESCO), Melbourne 1998.
• Glen Hill. "The Ontology of Waste: Heidegger and the Chimera of Technological Progress." CATALYST Designing Eco-Solutions Conference, Canberra, Australia 1997.
• Glen Hill. "Earth: The Groundless Ground of Architectural History." Paper presented at the On What Grounds?, Adelaide 1997.

Book Reviews

• Glen Hill, "Book Review: Heidegger for Architects, by Adam Sharr," Architectural Theory Review 13, no. 1 (2008): 115-118.
• Glen Hill. "Book Review: A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction to Defuturing, by Tony Fry." AR Australia 70 (2000).
• Glen Hill. "Green Architecture: Book Review." Architecture Bulletin, December (1991): p. 18.

Peer Esteem/Standing

• Design for house at Wiseman's Ferry cited in the AASA Refereed Design Scheme: Glen Hill. "Process not Product." In AASA Refereed Design Scheme 1999-2000, edited by Patrick Beale Bill Busfield, 66-71. Perth: Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia, 2003
• Member of Organizing Committee for the 20th annual Conference of the Society for Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, held in Sydney, Australia October 2-5, 2003.
• 1999-2002 Served on the Board of the Eco Design Foundation, a respected nonprofit organization working toward ecological sustainability in all aspects of the built environment.
• 2003-2005: Refereed abstracts and papers for SAHANZ (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand) conferences and for the SAHANZ journal, Fabrications.
• 1999-present: Editor of Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney.
• 2007-present: Corresponding Editor for Design Philosophy Papers Journal.

Architectural Practice

1982 Registered as an Architect
1980-1985 Architect with Hall Bowe and Webber Pty Ltd
1986-1992 Associate Director of Hall Bowe and Webber Pty Ltd
1992- Continuing to undertake a limited number of private architectural commissions in parallel with research and teaching
Design cited in the AASA Refereed Design Scheme:
Glen Hill. “Process not Product.” In AASA Refereed Design Scheme 1999-2000, edited by Patrick Beale Bill Busfield, 66-71. Perth: Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia, 2003

Architectural Competitions
Runner up in the Urban Consolidation Open Architectural Competition for Medium Density Housing, 1986
Involved in the preparation of the winning scheme for the Queens Square Bicentennial Competition, Macquarie Street, 1988

Design Architect for a range of buildings, including:
House for June Jeremy, Wiseman’s Ferry
Terrace Houses, Erskineville
Duplex, Annandale
Shopping Centre, East Hills
Dental Surgery, Wingham
Hassall House, Dudley
Tipping House 1, Seaforth
Tipping House 2, Manly
Hayes Gordon House, Neutral Bay
Sievert House, Mudgee
Hill House, Maitland
Dual Occupancy Houses, Grays Point
Alexander House, Mosman (unbuilt)
Country Club Hotel, Shoal Bay (unbuilt)
Cluster Housing, Bilgola Beach (unbuilt)

Job captain during the design and documentation of a range of buildings, including:
Automated Warehouse, 21st Supply Battalion, Moorebank
Munition Filling Factory facilities, Pyrotechnics Section, St Marys
North Sydney Technical College, Stage 7
Additions to the Town Hall, Mudgee
Winmalee High School
Farmers Grascos rural offices
Office building refurbishment, Milsons Point
Shops, Mosman
Hotel, Potts Point
Bucknell house, Seaforth
Deshon/Grahame semi-detached houses, Neutral Bay
Fitout Contract, National Acoustics Laboratory, Chatswood
House alterations and additions, Bundanoon
Hotel, Potts Point (unbuilt)
Hotel, Warrawong (unbuilt)
Iver Bucks medium density housing development, Bowral (unbuilt)
Power Station, Tuggerah (unbuilt)

The contract administration of a range of buildings, including:
Shopping Centre, East Hills
Office building refurbishment, Milsons Point
Shops, Mosman
Additions to Sydney Kindergarten Teachers College, Waverley
Refurbishment for the Marionette Theatre of Australia, The Rocks

Involved in the development of planning shcemes for projects including:
Power Station, Tuggerah
Avilion Tourist Development, South Stradbroke Island
Urban Design, Blacktown CBD
Grandstand, Sydney Cricket Ground
Winning competition entry for Queens Square Development, Macquarie Street
Warehouse Facility, 21st Supply Battalion, Moorebank