Dr Kirsty Volz
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Kirsty Volz is a keen collaborator who enjoys working with professionals from all backgrounds to problem solve Australia's housing futures. She advocates design-led solutions for housing, especially the role that architects have to play in redesigning the way we live in, build and procure houses in Australia.Kirsty's research emerged from her PhD on histories of Australian housing procurement, including the Workers' Dwelling Board program. She is now looking into the future and how Modern Methods of Construction (like pre-fab) will serve as an integral solution to our current housing crisis. Most recently, she completed project #23 with the Building 4.0 CRC on barriers and opportunities in the Australian housing market for prefabricated housing.
Alongside her research, Kirsty is a practising architect in Queensland and maintains current knowledge of best practice for residential design.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Keywords
Housing Design, Residential Architecture, Design Governance, Design Led Policy for the Built Environment
Research field
Architecture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
- Master of Arts (Research) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Masters of Architecture (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Design (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor Built Environment (Queensland University of Technology)
- Diploma of Architectural Technology (Gold Coast Coll. of Adv. Ed.)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Institute of Architects
Experience
Kirsty's research has real-world engagement with architects, builders, developers, local and state government. An example of this impact is her delivery of the Toowoomba Regional Council Warm Temperate Climate Building Design Guidelines
Publications
- Brown, A. & Volz, K. (2021). The horror of the homicidal floor: Destabilized elements of interior architecture. In P. Kirkham & S. Lichtman (Eds.), Screen Interiors : From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias (pp. 259–279). Bloomsbury Visual Arts. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207332
- Volz, K. & Brown, A. (2020). Heritage and Housing in the Post-Political City: Sydney's Sirius Building. In A. Paine, SH. & J. MacArthur (Eds.), Valuing Architecture: Heritage And The Economics Of Culture (pp. 228–245). Valiz. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205354
- Volz, K., (2020). Reconsidering 'Minor' Archives: The Case of Australian Architect Nell McCredie. Architectural Histories, 8(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207262
- Volz, K., (2019). Natural disasters, undesign and the absent interior. In G. Sade, G. Coombs & A. Mcnamara (Eds.), Undesign: Critical practices at the intersection of art and design (pp. 175–185). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114433
- Volz, K., (2017). Claiming domestic space: Queensland's interwar women architects and their labour saving devices. Lilith: a Feminist History Journal, 2017(23), 105–117. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114447
- Stafford, L. & Volz, K. (2016). Diverse bodies-space politics: towards a critique of social (in)justice of built environments. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, 34, 1–17. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95413
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kirsty, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Building A Better Built Environment for Older Australian's Ageing-in-place
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP230101313
- Start year
- 2023
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
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