Julia Gatley

Julia Gatley is an architect, academic, architectural historian and author from New Zealand. As a historian and author Gatley has contributed knowledge about New Zealand's built landscape. She is the author of the book Athfield Architects about one of New Zealand's most well-known contemporary architects Ian Athfield and is a regular commentator about New Zealand's architectural history.

Biography Gatley studied architecture at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) graduating in the 1980s. She received a Master of Architecture from VUW for her thesis "Labour takes command : a history and analysis of state rental flats in New Zealand 1935–1949". Her PhD was from Melbourne University for her thesis "Sex and the slum : imperialism and gender in nascent town planning, Australia and New Zealand, 1914–1919".

Gatley was a New Zealand Historic Places Trust conservation advisor after study. One building she researched while she was there is the Karitane Products Society Building in Wellington designed in the 1920s by William Gray Young. Gatley met Ian Athfield when she at age 21 while she was studying in Wellington. Gatley also contributes to the website Architecture Now and the magazine Architecture New Zealand. The book Snapshot 500: Architecture + Women New Zealand (2013) co-edited with Sara Lee included documentation of the way women's careers has been covered in 'architectural history and the architectural press' which is a valuable contribution to feminist knowledge.

As an academic, Galtey has been a lecturer at the University of Tasmania and in 2006 became an associate professor at the University of Auckland at the School of Architecture and Planning, where was the Head from 2016 to 2018. Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington (2014) co-author with Paul Walker ISBN 9781869408152

Academic papers

Selected publications:

Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: Why Central Auckland’s Largest Post-War Urban Renewal Scheme Could Not Be Stopped by Julia Gatley and Luciana Guerra Santos Mota, Planning Perspectives, 2022 Vulnerable, Even the Best of Them: New Zealand’s Modern Heritage Buildings, Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, pp. 443–59, 2019 Beyond Futuna: John Scott, Modern Architecture and Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. Singapore: Springer, pp. 607–35, 2018 The heritage identification of modern public housing: the New Zealand example, Journal of Architecture, 2010 What’s in a Name?: The First House in New Zealand Architectural Discourse, Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 2009 Alison Shepherd (nee Sleigh), ARIBA: “Success of New Zealand Lady Student” Revisited, Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2007

Awards

Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, Early Career Research Excellence Award, 2009 New Zealand Institute of Architects, President's Award for Services to Architecture, 2009 Elected Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (FNZIA), 2021 University of Auckland, Early Career Research Excellence Award, 2010