Associate Professor
Mark Taylor

Biography

Associate Professor Mark Taylor teaches and researches in the Interior Design program at Queensland University of Technology. Previously he held teaching positions in the School of Architecture at Victoria University Wellington, NZ as Head of Interior Design, and at Manchester Metropolitan University where he coordinated the MA Interior Design. His research is widely published in journals and books and he has taught history and theory courses alongside design studios that utilise digital and analogue techniques and processes.
Design work has been published in, British Architecture, The Architects’ Journal, Designers Journal, World Architecture, Building Design and The RIBA Journal. His work has been exhibited at The Royal Institute of British Architects and The Royal Academy of Arts where in 1986 he received a Bovis/Architects’ Journal Award for Architecture, for work exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. Recently Mark had work exhibited at Melbourne Museum as part of the “Homo Faber: Modelling Ideas” exhibition (2007), and the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, Australian Pavilion – Abundant, Venice.
Mark is a member of an ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Priority Grant, with Michael J. Ostwald, Tony Williams and others for, Assessing Creativity: Strategies and Tools to support Teaching and Learning in Architecture and Design (2009-2011), and he recently secured an ARC Discovery Grant, with Margot Brereton, Laurie Buys and Paul Roe for, Cooperation and reciprocity at the local scale enabled by social and mobile technologies: an empirically derived theoretical framework (2011-2013).
Mark is a director of Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association (IDEA) and is editorial board member for Architectural Design Research, and Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture. He was recently awarded a two-year appointment as External Examiner Interior Design, UiTM, Malaysia. Mark regularly reviews manuscripts for international publishers and is co-author Moments of Resistance (Archadia, 2002), editor Surface Consciousness (John Wiley, 2003), co-editor (with Julieanna Preston) Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (John Wiley, 2006), and is editor for Interior Design & Architecture: Critical & Primary Sources, 4 vols. (Berg Publishers, 2012). He has book chapters in Diagrams of Architecture (John Wiley 2010), Performance Fashion and the Modern Interior (Berg Publishers 2011) and The Handbook of Interior Design (Berg Publishers 2012). 
Currently completing his PhD at University of Queensland, Mark recently co-convened (with Gini Lee) an international symposium entitled Interior Spaces in Other Places (2010) and is co-convening Flow: A Conference in Two Parts (Kingston, London 2011) and (Brisbane, Australia 2012) with Gini lee, Penny Sparke and Pat Brown.