Dr Anoma Kumarasuriyar

Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Areas of expertise- Studio Based pedagogies
- Project-led tecahing
- Design education
- History, theory, criticism
- Asian Architecture and Culture
- Cultural sustainability
- Japanese studies
- Heritage and conservation
- Prefabricated housing
- Architecture in non-western cultures.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Discipline
Architecture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Selected publications
- Kumarasuriyar A, Nielsen D, (2013) Newstead House: the social history, culture and architecture of a bygone era, Sharing Cultures: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intangible Heritage, pp. 3-12.
- Loh S, Kumarasuriyar A, (2013) Cross-cultural learning experiences in architectural education, ICERI2013 Proceedings: 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, pp. 4399-4405.
- Nielsen D, Kumarasuriyar A, (2012) Nature's muses in Bruno Taut's Glashaus, Design and Nature VI: Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering [WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Volume 160], pp. 49-60.
- Kumarasuriyar A, Nielsen D, (2012) Tangible cultural heritage and adaptive reuse: the old government house, Brisbane, Australia, Heritage 2012 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Volume 3, pp. 1857-1866.
- Shah R, Franz J, Kumarasuriyar A, (2012) Existential place-making: The dialogical realms of design for dwelling with disability, Presented at: Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (43rd), pp. 1.
- Kumarasuriyar A, (2011) Tea ceremony and Sukiya: negating social hierarchy, Proceedings of the Sharing Cultures 2011, 2nd International Conference on Intangible Heritage, pp. 449-458.
- Guaralda M, Kumarasuriyar A, Robertson E, Barbeler A, (2011) Urban maze: A typological investigation in porous morphology and dynamic pedestrian networks, Presented at: Eighteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Urban Morphology and the Post-Carbon City, pp. 150.
- Nielsen D, Fleming M, Kumarasuriyar A, Gard S, (2010) Digital design communication: measuring learner technological prowess and self-efficacy in problem resolution, Proceedings of 4th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, pp. 003595-003605.
- Nielsen D, Fleming M, Kumarasuriyar A, (2009) An innovative learning model for teaching architectural technology using building information modelling: A Queensland University of Technology perspective, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, pp. 5216-5227.
- Fleming M, Gard S, Kumarasuriyar A, Nielsen D, (2009) What are students' understandings of how digital tools contribute to learning in design disciplines?, Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation, pp. 1-11.
QUT ePrints
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