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Prof

Julie Willis

Dean, Architecture, Building & Planning
Architecture, Building and Planning
architecture
arts & humanities
science & technology
generic health relevance
design
social sciences
life sciences & biomedicine
patient experience
hospital environment
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Prof

Julie Willis

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Architectural historiography
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Projects

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Designing for wellbeing: realizing benefits for patients through best practice hospital design

The environmental design of healthcare facilities has been shown to directly affect the wellbeing of patients and their families. Poorly des..

2014 - 2019
Completed
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Designing for wellbeing: realizing benefits for patients through best practice hospital design

The environmental design of healthcare facilities has been shown to directly affect the wellbeing of patients and their families. Poorly des..

2014 - 2019
Completed
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Monash Health Ref: RES-17-0000-444L ARC Linkage Project: Designing for Wellbeing: Realising Benefits for Patients through Best Practice Hospital Design

2018 - 2018
Completed
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Birthing Digital Heritage at the Royal Women’s Hospital Site

2016 - 2016
Completed
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Designing Australian Schools: a spatial history of innovation, pedagogy and social change

This project will provide understanding of the design, educational and environmental motivations underpinning modern Australian schools in t..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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EQUITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE PROFESSION: WOMEN, WORK AND LEADERSHIP

This project will develop strategies to maximize women's participation in architecture, improving human resource practices within architectu..

2011 - 2014
Completed
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Setting the Standard: Australia's role in modern hospital design 1925-1960

The national benefit of this project will be the greater understanding of how the built form - from the micro to the macro level - of Austra..

2007 - 2011
Completed
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LEX 32516 RESEARCH COLLABORATION AGREEMENT (ALFRED HEALTH)

2018
Active
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"Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970"

This cross-disciplinary project will construct an historical account of the interconnections between the network of governmental policies an..

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LEADING THE WORLD: MODERN HOSPITAL DESIGN IN AUSTRALIA 1925-1960

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Projects

Project Types

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Research Grant

3

Research Contracts

2

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Forms of environmental support: The roles that contemporary outpatient oncology settings play in shaping patient experience

Ahmed H Sadek, Julie Willis

Journal article  |  2022  |  BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION

This article examines key aspects of built environment that shape the experience of patients undergoing intravenous anti-cancer tr..

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The four pillars: the architecture of the government school in Australia 1835-1885

Julie Willis

Journal article  |  2021  |  OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION

The government school has held an integral part in the Australian idea of progressive society, a locus of community definition and..

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Travel á la Mode: Australian Architects and the Changing Nature of the International Tour

Julie Willis, Katti Williams

Journal article  |  2021  |  Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

For Australian architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the pull to centres of architectural culture was s..

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From exigency to civic pride: the development of early Australian hospitals

Julie Willis

Book Chapter  |  2021

The idea of the hospital as a dedicated place for the care of the sick has a long history in Western civilization, stretching back..

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Atmospheric inclusiveness: creating a coherent and relatable sense of place for a children’s hospital

R McLaughlan, J Willis

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Architecture

The atmosphere of a paediatric hospital has been shown to impact a patient’s degree of comfort and their willingness to return for..

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Shifting Health Paradigms and Infrastructure in Australia

Karen Daws, Julie Willis

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Are we measuring what we ought to measure? A review of tools assessing patient perception of the healthcare built environment and their suitability for oncology spaces

Ahmed H Sadek, Julie Willis

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Healthcare built environments are increasingly considered an important contributor to patient satisfaction and wellbeing. Neverthe..

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Mercy Hospital

Julie Willis

Reference Work  |  2020

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Architecture and the Modern Hospital Nosokomeion to Hygeia

Julie Willis, Philip Goad, Cameron LOGAN

Book  |  2019

More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populat..

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Ways to harness the built environment of ambulatory cancer facilities for comprehensive patient support: A review of the literature

Ahmed Sadek, J Willis

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Nursing Studies

Objective: To review patient experiences of the architectural elements conducive to a supportive or healing-promoting environment ..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Architecture
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Historical Studies
Construction Planning
Heritage
Urban and Regional Planning
Sociology
Construction Design
Biological Psychology

News

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From army barracks to shopping malls: how hospital design has been a matter of life and death

Julie Willis

Welcome to the first article of our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medica..

December 1, 2019
conversation Article
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Building equity into architecture

Julie Willis

Our designed spaces have an enormous impact on day-to-day life. Sometimes overtly, and sometimes very subtly, our built environments sheph..

November 13, 2019
pursuit Article
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Designing for wellbeing in children’s hospitals

Stephanie Liddicoat, Julie Willis, Alan Pert, Philip Goad, Rebecca McLaughlan

“I like the window because it’s bright and sunny and it makes you forget all about being in hospital and being poked and prodded with needl..

May 31, 2019
pursuit Article
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Australia’s top 10 iconic architectural sites

Julie Willis, Jefa Greenaway, Paul Loh, Rebecca McLaughlan, Hannah Lewi, Alan Pert, Donald Bates, Philip Goad, Valerie Francis, Anoma Pieris

Architecture shapes our cities. It creates iconic skylines, signals great civilisations and builds must-see landmarks which define entire c..

December 14, 2017
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

University of Melbourne
2012

The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media
2005

Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning Teaching Excellence Award
2004

Year of the Built Environment Exemplar, RAIA
2002

National Association of Women in Construction City of Melbourne Crystal Vision Award
2002

The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media
2003

Samuel H Kress Foundation Fellowship

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Dean, Architecture, Building & Planning

Architecture, Building and Planning

Ordinary Member

Society of Architectural Historians

Ordinary Member

National Association of Women in Construction

Ordinary Member

DoCoMoMo (International Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Building, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Architecture

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Planning & Design

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

McGill University

Canada