By Professor Stephen Loo

Books

Rawes P; Loo S; Mathews T, 2016, Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts, I. B. Tauris

, 2013, Deleuze and Architecture, Frichot H; Loo S, (ed.), Edinburgh University Press, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/88922

Book Chapters

Loo S, 2025, 'An-archive and the performative making of parametric homeplaces', in Burry M; Malpas J; Lee V; Roudavski S; Taylor M (ed.), Place and Parametricism

Bobic N; Haghighi F, 2024, 'The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II', in , Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003112471

Loo S, 2024, 'The Butcher of Nang Lerng: To Eat / to Speak Justice, and the Space of Becoming-Political', in Bobic N; Haghighi F (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics: Volume II: Ecologies, Social Participation and Marginalities, Routledge, New York and Oxon, pp. 153 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003112471-13

Loo S, 2022, 'Careful Whispers of the Butcher, or the Dark Image of Thought', in Colless E; Eastwood D; Lehmann C; Thomas P (ed.), Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 128 - 134

Sellbach U; Loo S, 2018, 'The blind & deaf highway woman', in Hilevaara K; Orley E (ed.), The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315561059

Loo S; Sellbach U, 2016, 'Mistress O and the bees: biopolitics and the performance of a makeshift poetics', in Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts, I.B. Taurus and Co., Ltd., pp. 81 - 104, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/109440

Loo S; Sellbach U, 2015, 'A Picture book of invisible worlds: semblances of insects and humans in Jakob von Uexküll's laboratory', in Broglio R; Young F (ed.), Being Human: Between Animals and Technology, Routledge, London; New York, pp. 42 - 61

Sellbach U; Loo S, 2015, 'Insects and other minute perceptions in the baroque house', in Deleuze and the Non/Human, pp. 103 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137453693.0010

Loo S, 2015, 'De-signing as bio-technological endosymbiosis', in De-signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice, Lexington Books, pp. 163 - 177, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/106811

Sellbach U; Loo S, 2015, 'Insects and other minute perceptions in the Baroque House', in Deleuze and the Non/Human, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 103 - 121, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/104938

Loo S, 2013, 'Design-ing ethics: The good, the bad and the performative', in Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice, pp. 10 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203123973

Loo S, 2013, 'Design-Ing Ethics: The good, the bad and the performative', in Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice, pp. 10 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203123973-8

Loo S, 2013, 'Abstract Care', in Deleuze and Architecture, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 245 - 261, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/88931

Frichot H; Loo S, 2013, 'The Exhaustive and the Exhausted - Deleuze AND Architecture', in Deleuze and Architecture, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1 - 11, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89567

Loo S, 2012, 'The (Not So) Smooth Flow Between Architecture and Life', in Architecture in the Space of Flows, pp. 199 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203721018-19

Loo S, 2012, 'Design-ing ethics', in Design and Ethics: Reflection on Practice, Routledge, pp. 10 - 19, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/89585

Loo S, 2011, 'The (Not So) Smooth Flow Between Architecture and Life', in Architecture in The Space of Flows, Routledge, pp. 199 - 214, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/76481

Loo S, 2007, 'Responding by Mimicry, or Three Frames Towards Becoming a Visual Animal', in Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, pp. 161 - 189, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/63173

Loo S, 2004, 'Choose Technology, Choose Economics: The Ethico-Aesthetic Obligation of the Arts and Humanities', in Innovation and Tradition: Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, pp. 58 - 70, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61530

Journal articles

Parker A; Loo S, 2023, 'Counterpointing Care: Performing with fungi in three (in)different acts', Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 27, pp. 241 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2022.2198872

Loo S, 2022, 'On the Political Biology of Eating and Performing (with) Food', Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 27, pp. 93 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2022.2092284

Loo S, 2022, 'Careful Whispers of The Butcher, or the Dark Image of Thought', Figshare, Dark Eden Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.16993339.V4

Loo S, 2021, 'Animation, or the careful whispers of eating between life and death', Techniques Journal, 1, https://techniquesjournal.com/careful-whispers-or-animated-cuts-of-eating-matter-and-techniques-for-dark-thinking/

Teal R; Loo S, 2018, 'A Pedagogy of the Concept: Rereading an Architectural Convention through the Philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari', International Journal of Art and Design Education, 37, pp. 211 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jade.12095

Loo S; Sellbach U, 2015, 'Insect affects: the big and small of the entomological imagination in childhood', Angelaki, 20, pp. 79 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1065125

Loo S; Sellbach U, 2013, 'A picture book of invisible worlds: semblances of insects and humans in Jakob von Uexküll’s laboratory', Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 18, pp. 45 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2013.783441

Loo S; Sellbach U, 2013, 'Eating (with) insects: insect gastronomies and upside-down ethics', Parallax, 19, pp. 12 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2013.743290

Duff C; Jacobs K; Loo S; Murray S, 2013, 'The role of informal community resources in supporting stable housing for young people recovering from mental illness: key issues for housing policy-makers and practitioners', AHURI Final Report Series, 199, pp. 1 - 92, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/82746

Loo S, 2012, 'Emergent molarities: resistances on the molecular plane of biology and digital architecture', Architectural Theory Review, 17, pp. 60 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2012.667869

Loo S; Malpas J, 2012, 'Interstices 13: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts', Interstices 13: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/81710

Loo S, 2012, 'Introduction: Technics, memory and the architecture of history', Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 13, pp. 4 - 9, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/81711

Loo S, 2011, 'the business of being a university', Architecture Bulletin, Learning Curves, Nov - Dec 2011, pp. 8 - 9, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/76730

Duff C; Murray S; Alic N; Loo S; Jacobs K, 2011, 'The role of informal community resources in supporting independent housing for young people recovering from mental illness', AHURI Positioning Paper, Online, pp. EJ - EJ, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/74809

Loo S; Hinds MJ, 2010, 'A Weekend Away: Tasmanian Architectural Narratives Weekend', Architecture Australia, 99, pp. 15 - 16, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/68317

Loo S, 2010, 'School of fine Furniture', Architecture Australia, 99, pp. 80 - 84, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/68313

Loo S, 2010, 'Summoning Daena: drawing the parallel', Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 11, pp. 40 - 48, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/68319

Loo S; Gibson R, 2009, 'The Given (Interior) World', IDEA, Journal of the Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2009, pp. 72 - 83, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/62229

Loo S, 2008, 'Aldo Iacobelli: From time to time we talk to the moon', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 28, pp. 90 - 90, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/63671

Loo S, 2008, 'Irigaray for Architects', Architectural Theory Review, 13, pp. 119 - 122, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/54142

Walker LM; Loo S, 2007, 'And the Open Bridge: Labour, Enchantment, There Forever', Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/ijara.v0i0.331

Loo S, 2007, 'Bringing art, research and people together, Anne and Gordon Museum of Art, University of South Australia', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 7, pp. 72 - 73, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61425

Loo S, 2007, 'Cinematic Multitude, Indeterminate Urbanism', Kerb: RMIT Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2007, pp. 60 - 65, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/63174

Loo S, 2006, 'Possible words: The Architecture of the Imagination, Architecture Symposium', Architecture Review Australia, 096, pp. 32 - 34, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61711

Comber B; Nixon H; Ashmore L; Loo S; Cook J, 2006, 'Urban Renewal from the Inside Out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community', Mind, Culture and Activity, 13, pp. 228 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327884mca1303-5

Loo S, 2005, 'AnUneven Social Topography: State Library of South Australia, Guida Moseley Brown and Hassekk Architects', InDesign, 20, pp. 164 - 173, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61508

Loo S, 2005, 'Multi-Function Citizenship: Mawson Centre and Garth Bloomer Building, UniSA, Russell & Yelland and Guida Moseley Brown Architects', InDesign, 23, pp. 184 - 191, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61504

Loo S, 2005, 'Other Small Ecologies: Troppo Architects, Adelaide Affordable Eco-Housing Competition', Architecture Australia (official national journal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects), 94, pp. 25 - 28, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/61501

Loo S, 2005, 'The anxiety of relations: risk in Heidegger’s experience with language for architecture and philosophy', The International Journal of the Humanities, 3, pp. 51 - 58, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/62270

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