Dr Annette Condello (PhD, the University of Western Australia) is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Currently, Annette is the DBE Co-Director of Research and Creative Practice. She was the School’s former Director Graduate Research and Director International for two years. Annette was invited as Visiting Professor at DICATAM, the University of Brescia, Italy, and held a Mexican Government Fellowship at UNAM, Mexico City. Annette was invited by the International Union of Architects and contributed her research on Sustainable Luxury in Cities at the World Urban Forum (wuf10) in Abu Dhabi.

Annette has published 4 books: The Architecture of Luxury (Routledge, 2014), co-authored and co-edited book Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Reuse Projects (Springer Publishers, 2016), and Pier Luigi Nervi and Australia: Outback Modernism (Black Swan Press, 2017). And recently authored Building Around Architecture: Francesco Outside the Mainstream (AMAG Publisher, 2022).

Annette’s Humanities Research Awards include: the Curtin University Early Career Researcher Award in 2012; two Book Awards, in 2015 and 2017; and two Chapter of the Year Awards in 2017 and 2022.