Prof. Dr. Anoma Pieris

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Anoma Pieris

Anoma Pieris is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean Research at the Melbourne School of Design. Her recent books include the multi-authored Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (Berghahn 2024); with Lynne Horiuchi, The Architecture of Confinement: incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022); and the anthology: Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (Architext 2019). In 2022, she was guest curator for the Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia 1947-1985”. Anoma’s recent work is on war cemeteries across the Indo Pacific region.