Rate My Professor Lee Stickells

Lee Stickells is Professor of Architecture in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He serves as Deputy Head of School, Deputy Dean (Academic), and Academic Director for the Garry and Susan Rothwell Chair in Architectural History. Stickells earned his PhD, Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours), and Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Western Australia, along with a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the University of the West of England. With professional experience in urban design, he teaches courses in architectural design, urban design, and architectural humanities.

His research focuses on architectural history and theory, urban design and theory, public art, urban studies, urban sociology, and community participation and engagement. Current projects explore histories connecting architecture to socio-cultural shifts in mobility and environment. Key publications include the co-edited book Sydney School: Formative Moments in Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney (with Andrew Leach and others, 2019), co-editor of The Right to the City, and articles such as "Tents and trespass: material practices unsettling private property", "Exiting the Grid: Autonomous House Design in the 1970s" (2015), "Conceiving an architecture of movement" (2010), "Little living labs: 1970s Student Design" (2021), "Negotiating Off-Grid" (2015), and "Architecture, Environment, History: Questions and Consequences" (2018). He has contributed to journals including Fabrications, Architectural Theory Review, and Architectural Histories. Stickells holds editorial roles as Board Member for the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Advisory Board Member for Art Architecture Design Research (Spurbuchverlag), and Editorial Committee Member for Architectural Theory Review. His scholarship shapes architectural education, historiography, and discourse on urbanism and environmental history in Australia.