Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)
Founded in 1997, CAMEA's establishment coincided with major shifts in people's attitudes towards the built environment caused by unsettling changes in three areas: environment, technology, and culture.
Awareness of the long-term environmental consequences of modern urbanisation and industralisation has highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to a sustainable future; advanced communication technologies have called for new ways of perceiving and dealing with reality; and intense cross-cultural interactions have generated a strong demand for broader and more culture-sensitive modes of architectural thinking. CAMEA was founded to address the demand for new cross-cultural understanding of architecture in the context of these major global shifts.
Enquire Now- Areas of ResearchLearn about our research focus areas and supervision expertise
Islamic Culture and the Arab World
- History and Theory of Islamic Architecture and Landscapes
- Intellectual and Socio-Urban History of Early Modernity in Arab-Islamic World
- Cosmology, Mysticism and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
- Spatial Thinking and History of Science in the Islamic Tradition
India and Asia
- Modern Indian Architecture
- Modernity and Asian architectural historiography
- Colonial and contemporary issues in South and Southeast Asian architecture
- Australian-Asian exchange in architecture and the building industries
- Transnational networks of architectural production in Asia and Africa
- Design production and agency within institutional frameworks
- CAMEA membersMeet our academic research leaders
- Research ProjectsFind out about our current and recently completed research projects
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Adelaide Congress – CAMEA (1 to 4 July 2017)Download the program here.
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SABE 2016 Research Day – Fri 23 Sep 9.45am to 3pm @ BSS 534 Forum LTRESEARCH DAY is an event that showcases the research of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Students currently being undertaken at the University of Adelaide. The event will focus upon highlighting the significance and impact our research will have on a diverse range of areas from policy, practice and society. Environmental/economic/cultural lenses will be applied in […]
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INDIA BUILT – Fri 23 Sep, 3pm to 6pm Hub Central L5 MezzanineINDIA BUILT is an event that showcases the research on Indian urbanisation being undertaken at the University of Adelaide. The exhibition is being led by the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) featuring over 3 decades of research on contemporary Indian architecture and urbanisation. Other India related research in the fields of Economics, […]
