By Professor Michael Ostwald

Journal articles

Dawes M; Ostwald MJ, 2012, 'Lines of Sight, Paths of Socialization: An Axial Line Analysis of Five Domestic Designs by Richard Neutra', International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 1, pp. 1 - 28

Philip WA; Ostwald MJ, 2012, 'Supporting creativity in architectural education: Examining the impact of leadership, management and staff development', Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 16, pp. 1 - 16

Ostwald MJ; Dawes M, 2012, 'Using Isovists to Analyse Architecture: Methodological Considerations and New Approaches', International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 3, pp. 85 - 106

Dawes M, 2012, 'Using Isovists to Analyse Prospect-Refuge Theory: An Examination of the Usefulness of Potential Spatio-Visual Measures', International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 3, pp. 25 - 40

Ostwald MJ, 2011, 'A Justified Plan Graph Analysis of the Early Houses (1975-1982) of Glenn Murcutt', Nexus Network Journal, 13, pp. 737 - 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-011-0089-x

Ostwald MJ, 2011, 'The Mathematics of Spatial Configuration: Revisiting, Revising and Critiquing Justified Plan Graph Theory', Nexus Network Journal, 13, pp. 445 - 470, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-011-0075-3

Williams AP; Ostwald MJ; Askland HH, 2011, 'The relationship between creativity and design and its implication for design education', Design Principles and Practices, 5, pp. 57 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v05i01/38017

Jalalian A; Chalup SK; Ostwald MJ, 2011, 'Architectural evaluation of simulated pedestrian spatial behaviour.', Architectural Science Review, 54, pp. 132 - 140

Ostwald MJ; Dawes M, 2011, 'Axial Line Analysis Revisited: Reconsidering its Value for Architecture.', International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 1, pp. 219 - 242

Ostwald MJ, 2011, 'Examining the Relationship Between Topology and Geometry: A Configurational Analysis of the Rural Houses (1984-2005) of Glenn Murcutt.', The Journal of Space Syntax, 2, pp. 223 - 246

Ostwald MJ; McPherson R; Dawes M, 2011, 'Neutra Through a Dark-Adapted Eye: Using design to investigate the relationship between concept, theory and form.', Ultima Thule: Journal of the Architectural Imagination, 1, http://www.ultimathule.com.au/index.php/ultima/article/view/3/8

Vaughan J; Ostwald MJ, 2011, 'The Relationship Between the Fractal Dimension of Plans and Elevations in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: Comparing The Prairie Style, Textile Block and Usonian Periods.', Architectural Science Research, 4, pp. 21 - 44

Vaughan J; Ostwald MJ, 2010, 'Using fractal analysis to compare the characteristic complexity of nature and architecture: Re-examining the evidence', Architectural Science Review, 53, pp. 323 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.3763/asre.2010.0024

Ostwald MJ, 2010, 'The politics of fractal geometry in Russian paper architecture: The intelligent market and the cube of infinity', Architectural Theory Review, 15, pp. 125 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2010.495447

Ostwald MJ, 2010, 'Ethics and the auto-generative design process', Building Research and Information, 38, pp. 390 - 400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2010.481172

Vaughan J; Ostwald MJ, 2010, 'A quantitative comparison between wright's prairie style and triangle-plan Usonian houses using fractal analysis', Design Principles and Practices, 4, pp. 333 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v04i04/37931

Ostwald MJ; Vaughan J, 2010, 'The mathematics of domestic modernism (1922-1934): An analysis of correlations between façade complexity, orientation, address and permeability', Design Principles and Practices, 4, pp. 143 - 162

Ostwald MJ; Tucker C; Chapman M, 2010, 'Re-Tracing History: Drawing the anti-monument', Interstices, 11, pp. 98 - 103

Chalup SK; Hong K; Ostwald MJ, 2010, 'Simulating Pareidolia of Faces for Architectural Image Analysis', International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM), 2, pp. 262 - 278

Chapman M; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'Unstable ground: Scientific frictions in the analytical techniques of Learning from Las Vegas', Architectural Science Review, 52, pp. 245 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.3763/asre.2009.0031

Chalup SK; Henderson N; Ostwald MJ; Wiklendt L, 2009, 'A computational approach to fractal analysis of a cityscape's skyline', Architectural Science Review, 52, pp. 126 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.3763/asre.2009.0015

Chapman M; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'Disfigured Ground: Architectural space and representation in the creative practices of Dada and Surrealism', SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ART HISTORY, 24, pp. 67 - 74, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000443821400005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Ostwald MJ; Vaughan J; Chalup SK, 2009, 'A Computational Investigation into the Fractal Dimensions of the Architecture of Kazuyo Sejima', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 3, pp. 231 - 244

Vaughan J; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'A Quantitative Comparison between the Formal Complexity of Le Corbusier’s Pre-Modern (1905-1912) and Early Modern (1922-1928) Architecture.', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 3, pp. 359 - 371

Chalup SK; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'Anthropocentric and Biocybernetic Computing for Analysing the Architectural Design of House Façades and Cityscapes.', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 3, pp. 66 - 80

Chalup SK; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing for Analysing the Architectural Design of House Façades and Cityscapes', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review, 3, pp. 65 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v03i05/37760

Mallie T; Ostwald MJ, 2009, 'Politics and the Cultural Centre: Representations of Australian Aboriginal Totems at Brambuk.', IDRP Interdisciplinary Design and Research (Special issue: Design and Politics), 3, pp. 1 - 16

Ostwald MJ; Chapman M, 2009, 'Psychic Automatism and Nonlinear Dynamics: Surrealism and Science in the Architecture Of Coop Himmelblau.', Radical Designist: A Design Culture Journal, (UNIDCOM – IADE – FCT), 3, http://www.iade.pt/designist/issues/003_06.html

Ostwald MJ, 2007, 'Rancière and the Metapolitical Framing of Architecture: Reconstructing Brodsky and Utkin’s Voyage', Interstices, 8, pp. 9 - 20

Chapman M; Ostwald M, 2006, 'Automated architecture: Violence and nihilism as strategies of 'making' in the tactics of Coop Himmelb(l)au', Architectural Research Quarterly, 10, pp. 241 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1359135506000340

Chapman M; Ostwald MJ, 2006, 'Migration, Power, and the Line: Ceremonies of Collective Transgression in the Spatial Archetypes of Elias Canetti', TDSR: Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments., XVIII, pp. 40

Ostwald MJ; Tucker C; Chapman M, 2005, 'The Fort', Architectural Design Research —The AASA Journal, 1, pp. 7 - 18

Ostwald MJ, 2004, 'Freedom of form: Ethics and aesthetics in digital architecture', Philosophical Forum, 35, pp. 201 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-806X.2004.00170.x

Ostwald M, 2004, 'Good urban design: Accidental, incremental or intentional?', Australian Planner, 41, pp. 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2004.9982343

London K; Ostwald M, 2004, 'Architectural Research Methods', Nexus Network Journal, 6, pp. 51 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-004-0006-7

Ostwald MJ, 2003, 'Seduction, subversion and predation: Surface characteristics', Architectural Design, 73, pp. 74 - 80

Ostwald M, 2003, 'Seduction, subversion and predation: Surface characteristics (The On-Line Training Centre for Victoria University of Technology, architecture by Lyons)', ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, pp. 75 - 80, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000182366600014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Ostwald MJ, 2003, 'Fractal Architecture: The Philosophical Implications of an Iterative Design Process.', Communication and Cognition, 36, pp. 263 - 295

Chapman M; Ostwald MJ, 2003, 'Traces of Nietzschean Philosophy in the early Architectural Speculations of Lebbeus Woods', Formwork, 6, pp. 29 - 50

Ostwald MJ; Wassell SR, 2002, 'Dynamic Symmetries', Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 4, pp. 123 - 131

Ostwald MJ, 2002, 'George Hersey, The Monumental Impulse: Architecture’s Biological Roots – (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999)', Nexus Network Journal, 4, pp. 138 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-002-0024-2

Ostwald MJ, 2002, 'Heresy’s The Monumental Impulse', Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 4, pp. 138 - 142

Ostwald MJ; Wassell SR, 2002, 'Nigel Reading—“Dynamical Symmetries: Mathematical Synthesis between Chaos Theory (Complexity), Fractal Geometry, and the Golden Mean”', Nexus Network Journal, 4, pp. 123 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-001-0009-6

Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Fractal Architecture: Late Twentieth Century Connections Between Architecture and Fractal Geometry', Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics, 3, pp. 73 - 84

Fleming S; Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Klaus-Peter Gast, Le Corbusier: Paris - Chandigarh. – Basel: Birkhäuser, 2000', Nexus Network Journal, 3, pp. 141 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-000-0014-1

Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), The Modulor and Modulor 2 – 2 volumes. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2000.', Nexus Network Journal, 3, pp. 145 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-000-0015-0

Fleming SP; Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Le Corbusier: Paris-Chandigarh', Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 3, pp. 141 - 144

Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Re-viewing the Modulor and Modulor 2 by Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)', Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 3, pp. 145 - 148

Ostwald MJ, 2001, 'Under Siege: The Golden Mean', Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 2, pp. 75 - 83

Ostwald MJ, 2000, 'Architecture and the Evil Eye: Coop Himmelblau and the Apotropaic Oculus Invidious', Interstices, 5, pp. 56 - 67

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