Gregory Cowan
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Gregory Cowan
Gregory Cowan, (born September 25, 1965) is an Australian architectural educator who grew up in Dianella, Western Australia, and currently lives in Bloomsbury, London, UK.
During secondary schooling at Morley Senior High School, he was guitarist in teenage rock band The Bullies, before attending Curtin University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (honours) [link] and practicing architecture in Australia and Austria. He gained a Master of Architecture (research) from the University of Adelaide [link] and has taught in Perth, Darwin, Kuala Lumpur, Vienna and London.[link]
Gregory Cowan writes about ephemeral, mobile and collaborative architecture, and politically motivated, informal, collapsible, popular architecture and occupations of urban space, as published in the dissertation Nomadology in Architecture [link], and as cited in the book Unsettling the City (Nicholas Blomley 2006). [link]
Community of Science profile: [link]
Publications:
Cowan 2005 "Occupying the street: Urban design and politics redifined through street activism” (Online:[link])
Cowan 2004 "Street Protest Architecture - Dissent Space in Australia" Bad Subjects (online:[link])
Cowan 2002 "Architecture and The Tent in Australia" (Online: [link])
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