Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer Evelyn Taylor (; 12 April 1935 – 7 December 2015) was an Australian architect, professor, critic and author who made a significant contribution to writing on contemporary Australian, Japanese and South Pacific architecture.

Biography Australian by birth, Taylor began studying architecture at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University after taking a course in nursing. Her Master of Architecture (History) was in part by thesis entitled, An Inquiry into Some Aspects of Recent Unorthodox Trends in Architecture.

Professional career Taylor spent much of her working life in Europe, America and Asia, and taught in architectural schools throughout the world. She was awarded the inaugural Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) National Education Prize in 2000.

Taylor was a founding member of International Council on Monuments and Sites Australia, DOCOMOMO (Australian Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) Australia, and the Australian Architectural Association.

In 2010, Taylor was awarded the inaugural Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) National President’s Prize for her "lifetime commitment to architecture as a thinker, writer, critic and historian."

Selected publications An Australian Identity: Houses for Sydney 1953–63 (1972) John Andrews: Architecture a Performing Art (with John Andrews, 1982) Australian Architecture Since 1960 (1986) "Oceania" (ed.), World Architecture 1900–2000: A Critical Mosaic, Volume 10 (1999) Tall Buildings 1945–1970: Australian Business Going Up (2001) Fumihiko Maki: Space/City/Order/Making (2003) Architecture in the South Pacific: The Ocean of Islands (with James Conner, 2014)

Personal life Taylor's father, James Bogle, was a practicing doctor who also had an early career as a cricketer for Australia. She had two children. Her partner, architect and planner James Conner, survives her.