Cirrus@Austlit

'Marian Macken is a writer, researcher, educator and artist trained in architecture, landscape architecture and visual art. Born in Sydney, Australia, Macken is Associate Professor at Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, New Zealand.  Her creative practice research and writing primarily focus on architectural drawing. Her work has been acquired by various international public collections of artists’ books and she has undertaken funded artist residencies and exhibited internationally. Her book Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice was published as part of the Routledge Design Research in Architecture series in 2018. Her next book, Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing: Line, Movement and Scale, co-authored with Carl Douglas, will be published as part of Bloomsbury’s Drawing In series.' (https://vagabondpress.net/collections/forthcoming/products/marian-macken-our-concealed-ballast)