Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Dr David Beynon
  Phone   +61 3 522 78310
Email   david.beynon@deakin.edu.au
Position   Senior Lecturer
Campus   Waterfront

Dr. Beynon investigates architecture as a social and cultural practice. His research is concentrated in
three broad areas.
The first concerns migrant, diasporic and hybrid architectures in contemporary Australian cities.
The second involves comparison of the architectural form and geometry of early temples in South and
Southeast Asia
The third looks at the impact of Asian contemporary culture on architectural and urban form.

Research interests

  1. Migrant, diasporic and hybrid architectures
  2. Asian architectural and urban form
  3. Cultural aspects of the contemporary built environment


Career

2011 (current) - Part-time Senior Lecturer/Part-time Architect in Practice
2002-2010 - Lecturer (Senior Lecturer since 2005)
1995-2002 - Architect in Practice
2002 - PhD in Urban Design (University of Melbourne)
1990 - B.Arch [Hons] (University of Melbourne)

Key publications

Beynon, D. (2005) Melbourne’s Third-World-looking Architecture [Book] Suburban Fantasies: Melbourne Unmasked

Beynon, D (2008) Refusal of Home? Architecture ex-patriota Interstices

Beynon, D (2002) Cannibal Tastes: The Architecture of Non-European Migrants in Australia, De-Placing Difference: Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography

Beynon, D. (2010) Defining Cultural Sustainability in Multicultural Built Environments The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability

Datta, S. and Beynon, D. (2005) On Recovering the Surface Geometry of Temple Superstructures International Journal of Architectural Computing

View entire list of audited publications

Professional activities

Registered Architect in Victoria (ARBV)
Partner alsoCAN Architects, Richmond, Victoria

Related links

Writings on Architecture (pdfs of journal articles/book chapters/conference papers)
www.alsocan.com.au/publicity-w ritings.html

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Mimi Abdul GhaniCommon Platform; 3-D Visualisation and GIS for Malaysian Planning Authority Stuart HanafinParametric modelling of architectural form and geometry  

 

Masters students

Student nameThesis title Lauren O'BrienThe Chinese history of Bendigo and its architectural significance (completed) Sumita Jayapalasingam Malaysia's Terraced Housing - Towards an Environmentally Sustainable Future (completed)  

 

Teaching areas

Architectural Design
Architectural History
Architectural Practice


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8th February 2013