Julieanna Preston


Julieanna Preston is a Professor of Spatial Practice at Massey University's College of Creative Arts in Wellington, New Zealand. Her practice draws from the disciplines of architecture, art and philosophy, and her background in interior design, building construction, landscape gardening and performance writing.

Practice

Preston's work explores concepts of "vitality, agency, and hospitality". Her work includes site-specific durational performances and written publication in areas such as feminist philosophy, new materialism and spatial politics.

Career

Preston gained a BArch from Virginia Tech in 1983 and an MArch from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1990. She has a PhD from RMIT, where her thesis, entitled Inertia: of interior, surface, matter and completed in 2013, explored the interior surface.
From 2015 to 2018 she was Research Coordinator for the School of Design at Massey University.
She was a board member of The Architectural Centre Inc. in Wellington in 1998.

Performances

RPM Hums Murmur IN COLD HEAT Attending Waning bit‐u‐men‐at‐work Stirring Stillness: Aesthetic variations on a concrete plane Auē Reconciliation of Carboniferous Accretions Becoming Boulder Sounding Out Vacancy Meeting, you in detail Moving Stuff BALE
  • ''No Fixed Seating''

Publications

Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions
  • 'Dear Rosa'
  • 'Surface Demonstrations'
  • 'An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Ficto-Critical Approaches to Design Practice Research', (with Megg Evans, Ceri Hann, Zuzana Kovar, Sean Pickersgill, Michael Spooner and Hélène Frichot, in FOOTPRINT,, pages 69–96, January 2012.
  • 'Blazing Inter-Alia: Tropes of a Feminist Interior Practice'
  • 'Fossicking for Interior Design Pedagogies'

As editor

Interior Atmospheres Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, co-edited with Mark Taylor. Interior Economies
  • ''Moments of Resistance''