+ Publications
Articles published in Future West (Australian Urbanism); a biannual publication from the faculty of Design at UWA that addresses the need for a conscientious debate about architecture, planning, culture, and society across Western Australia and beyond.
It looks towards the future of urbanism, taking Perth and Western Australia as its reference point. Are there clues to be found in the west that can inform better city-making around the world?
2019 - Hislop, Kate, Felix Joensson, Daniel Martin and Jason Macarlino.“Interview with Brian Klopper,” Future West (Australian Urbanism), no. 6.
2018 - Joensson, Felix. “On the beach: from shack to sales pitch,” Future West (Australian Urbanism), no. 5, pp. 52-61
2017 - Joensson, Felix. “Charting Public Building in Perth,” Future West (Australian Urbanism), no. 4, pp. 33-35
2017 - Hislop, Kate, Felix Joensson, Daniel Martin and Jason Macarlino.“Land for Sail: How a yacht race turned Perth’s coastal landscape green,” Future West (Australian Urbanism), no. 3, pp. 26-35
2017 - Hislop, Kate, Felix Joensson, Daniel Martin and Jason Macarlino. “How did the America’s Cup instigate Perth’s green sand dunes?” Foreground: people places and the people who make them, www.foreground.com.au/cities/perth-and-americas-cup/
+ Conference papers
2018 - European Association for Urban History (EAUH): Urban renewal and resilience, cities in comparative perspective, Rome.
Joensson, Felix and Kate Hislop. “Fremantle: ‘reminders of a working port’.” Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Urban History Session: M18 Writing the Resilience of Port Cities (1800-2000), Aug 29 - Sep 1. 2018. Rome.
+ Teaching first year
Studio: First year, Design Semester 1, 2017
Studio coordinators: Felix Joensson, Jason Macarlino
These studios sought to explore the significance of the architectural object within a broad urban field.
Students were introduced to architectural spatial typologies through a series of compositional exercises that taught basic orthographic drawing and modelling techniques.
The first studio anticipated that the establishment of a heavy goods and resources port at Kwinana would further reduce the use of Fremantle as the State’s major port, we projected into the near future to imagine a series of small infrastructural insertions along the edges of Fremantle’s port.
This change will register a shift from a predominately working port, toward one geared for private leisure. With the population increase and the subsequent economic and social ‘revitalisation’ of Fremantle’s port, small transport links must be established between the new canal city and the historic economic centre of Fremantle around the West End.
Students were asked to conceive these links as a series of small ferry terminals between the north and south mole, at the scale of something akin to a suburban bus service at sea.
+ Teaching second year
Studio: Second year, Design Semester 2, 2022
Studio coordinators: Felix Joensson, Catherine Roden
This studio investigated the building typology of the “museum,” for a site in Collie, Western Australia.
It considered how different representational practices (the exhibit), interact with architectural space (the building). The spaces designed in this studio respond formally and materially to the experiences and movements of the human body and the objects in question.
We are concerned with the articulation of building elements, the character of a space, and the interaction of spatial qualities to programmatic requirements. Students were largely encouraged to work with physical models alongside drawing to develop a series of working iterations starting with a typological study of a given museum space.
Building on their analysis and study of an existing museum and “spatial detail,” project two saw students test their own ideas designing a small museum for one of four sites in Collie for the CFMEU (The Mining & Energy Union).
+ Research
A collection of essays both visual and written, including a thesis project mainly concerned with the suburban topographies of Perth.
+ God's at the Panel Beater 2014
These photographs are from a series of work looking at the emergence of Protestant churches within vernacular architectural types across Perth’s suburban landscape.
The photographs were made as part of my 2015 master of architecture dissertation titled - The architecture of free market religion: God’s at the panel beater, supervised by Philip Goldswain. The research consisted of three parts; a written thesis that was concerned firstly with a historical genealogy, secondly with geographical questions surrounding the appearance of these churches in Perth and thirdly with the implementation, and critique, of ‘documentary’ photography in a sustained research methodology concerning architecture.
The collection of photographs culminated in the creation of a photobook that was used not only as a descriptive device but an analytical tool.
It is part of my continued interest and photographic investment in the suburban landscapes of Perth.
