{"id":10875,"date":"2015-12-03T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:33:00","slug":"women-in-architecture-caroline-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/women-in-architecture-caroline-stalker\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Architecture: Caroline Stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caroline Stalker, Director, Architectus and Adjunct Professor, School of Design, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Caroline is an architect, urban designer, communicator and leader of teams for complex architectural, master planning and urban design projects. Her career spans 27 years and a range of project types demonstrating a sustained passion for enhancing people’s connection to the natural world and each other through design, and a keen sensibility for integrating architecture into its urban setting. Caroline\u2019s work has been recognized in both AIA and PIA awards, and she is an Honorary Life Fellow of the Urban Design Alliance of Queensland, a member of The Queensland Board for Urban Places and the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Urban Design Committee.<\/p>\n

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What do you enjoy most in the practice of architecture? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Designing, building, communicating, thinking well \u2013 working from the big idea through to the detailed, thinking across scales. I work a lot on urban-scaled projects which means it can be many years before the thinking is translated into something built, so when that does happen it is particularly special. My career and interests have always focussed on the public realm, public life, nature in the city, building communities. Working with communities, clients and clever project teams on potentially transformative urban design is a real privilege.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us about a key project that you have been involved in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2008 I\u2019ve been involved as a urban designer\/master planner and architect at James Cook University in Townsville\u2019s Discovery Rise. Located and built on the edge of Townsville in the 1960s when Universities were ‘a place apart’, in this century JCU is the keystone of an important Townsville employment hub and  is now seeking to reinvent itself as an energetic community of living and learning. JCU have had real clarity of purpose and understanding about the importance of great design and urban realm in achieving this. I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with JCU to establish an overarching master plan, design guidelines, detailed master plans for residential villages and the town centre. The master plan advances a concept of Dry Tropical Urbanism, where buildings are more like perforated green shade screens than solid volumes, and the public spaces of Discovery Rise offer respite and invite occupation even on very hot days. It\u2019s a looser-fit urbanism than the walled urbanism of southern cities that emphasises landscape integration with mega-shade trees and woven or layered shade to mark and create urban places.  We have also completed a number of detailed master plans for the different precincts within Discovery Rise: the Mt Stuart St precinct and the Ideas Market; Discovery Village and Discovery Central West. Mt Stuart St and the Ideas Market are the heart and soul of Discovery Rise; Mt Stuart St is a shady slow speed people street, connecting with the Ideas Market; a mixed-use grand courtyard where JCU and the city meet. Discovery Village posits new models of medium density housing for Townsville, taking the idea of a three dimensional lattice to create housing forms where ‘cool tanks’ of air are created and cross ventilation is supported horizontally and vertically.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also been the architects for the first building of the new town centre, the Clinical Practices building.  It offers clinical practice, commercial and teaching spaces. It also contains a fresh food market, bottle shop, chemist, cafe;  all essential ‘starters’ for a new town centre. The design creates a filigree screen to the street edge, marking the corner strongly with the ‘brain coral’ screen, alluding to JCU’s research prowess – and progressive approach to its campus, which we have taken exceptional pleasure in being able to support over the years.  I feel very lucky to have been able to have an ongoing role, not only doing the design framework but then to be part of implementing the buildings, streets and spaces<\/p>\n

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What is the biggest challenge you have faced as a woman in architecture and how did you overcome it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juggling very young children and architecture can be tricky \u2013 during this period of my life I stepped into an urban design role in a planning practice that worked very well, I had terrific bosses.   More recently probably guilt and stress about not putting enough time into my teenage children.  (Actually they are just fine; I\u2019d still like to see more of them, but given their age I accept the feeling may not be mutual).   Very early on in my career I was sexually harassed; I think that was extremely common 30 years ago and is much less so now. I have encountered quite direct sexism at different times \u2013 it can be very demoralising.  But again I believe this is much less prevalent and acceptable now. I\u2019ve been part of the generational change, and would now always suggest to other women that they \u2018find their people\u2019 \u2013 the workplaces where the culture fits the way they need to work and supports them \u2013 and those workplaces are more the norm now.<\/p>\n

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Who do you look up to in the architecture profession?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty broad church.  Anyone who practices with integrity, clarity and depth of humanity.  Brit Andresen because she taught me well and I admire her intellect and ethics.  WOHA for their great clarity and skill. Erskine and Ted Cullinan\u2019s practice were early career heroes for their blend of social and design concerns. Kuma for poetic minimalism, also SANAA. Snohetta because they are collaborative but also great designers. The current crop of Spanish \u2018critical regionalists\u2019 for their humanistic and climatically oriented architecture.<\/p>\n

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What is a typical day at work involve for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Constant juggling of priorities \u2013 leading projects, the practice, client relationships, meetings, presentations, business development. If I\u2019m lucky a bit of quiet design or thinking\/writing work.<\/p>\n

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What are you looking forward to in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next great project that is always just around the corner!<\/p>\n

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What do you see as your core strength in the practice of architecture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe my key strengths to be in the areas of strategy and conceptual thinking, then driving those ideas through to realisation in collaboration with other skilled people. I\u2019m a reasonably strong communicator who can bring people together around a shared design vision. My ability to think at the urban scale and drive that down into the detailed scale consequences of that thinking is also useful and I understand not super-common. And in the end I really like doing it, despite the difficulties, hours, all the challenges we all face in the profession, I fundamentally really love being an architect.  So enthusiasm and consistency are probably strengths too.<\/p>\n

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The University of Queensland Women\u2019s College team at a project inception meeting in the Architectus  Brisbane office. From left interior designer Bill McIlwraith, co-director Elizabeth Watson Brown, director Caroline Stalker, architect Jennifer Palmer, graduate architect Jessica Spresser, former director Mark Jones<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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