Personal information

Verified email domains

Architecture, Architectural Representation, Photography
New Zealand

Biography

Dr Annabel Pretty is the Discipline Leader for the Master of Architecture Professional (MArch Prof.) and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Unitec Te Pūkenga, whose research investigations are located at the intersections between architecture, photographic representation of architecture, encompassing the diverse cultures associated with the reproduction, mediation, and reception of architecture.

The research trajectory includes supervising thesis students on the professional Master’s, whose projects lie within art, architecture, and social architecture. Current research has sought to investigate—the hyperreal photomontage representations of architectural possibilities. Recent study involved a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning, Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland) titled “Sublime Follies: Unveiling the Realm of Multiple-Reality Architecture”. 

Visual representation and production can be found on Instagram at @annabelpretty and @sublime_follies and writing @unreliable_landscapes.

Representing Unitec New Zealand at the Cumulus Association on the Executive Board for two terms for the period 2010-2016 (Cumulus is the only global association to serve art and design education and research). A Cumulus Fellow since 2016 and Professional Member of DINZ (PDINZ) since 2012 and current Aotearoa New Zealand PhotoForum member. 

Activities

Works (25)

Sublime Follies: Unveiling the Realm of Multiple-Reality Architectures

2024 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Annabel Pretty
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Surplus Reality: GenAI and the Post-Truth Architectural Milieu of Representation

COTAA 1 [Collection of Texts about Architecture ]
2024-11-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Annabel Pretty
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Creating resilience through empowering Self-Build Strategies in a Myanmar refugee camp

How can Design Enhance the Quality of Life: 55th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2022, P. Izadpanahi and T. Glusac Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: Annabel Pretty; Myint San Aung
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Rethinking: Humanising: Isolation: Aotearoa New Zealand (A Novel Approach to Design)

Back to Human Scale: Rethinking Living Spaces for Tomorrow, Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa,, Departamento de Arquitectura e Urbanismo e Design da Universidade Lusófona do Porto. (Ed.), Lisbon, Portugal (pp. 01-07)
2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: Annabel Pretty; Celine Ladegourdie
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

The Rabbit, the Ermine and the Gaze: Art as a mechanism to create awareness of scientific issues

Perspectives in Biosecurity, Unitec ePress, Volume 5, 5-16
2021 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Enigmatic Assemblages: Follies at the Intersection of Architecture and Photography

Asylum 2021, Unitec ePress
2021-12-21 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Evaluating Great Zimbabwe through Analytical Drawing

International Symposium on Modern Heritage of Africa – MoHoA: Centre for African Studies, Heritage Hub, University of Cape Town (UCT)
2021-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Annabel Pretty; Bianca Muponda
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Ambiguous Assemblage: Sublime Architectural Narratives.

URBAN ASSEMBLAGE: THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, AI AND BIG DATA.
2021-06 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Psalm

Asylum 2020, 4/4 Unitec ePress
2020 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

An artisan village, Surat, India : safeguarding the art & craft heritage of India

Avlokita Agrawal, Rajat Gupta (Ed.), Revisiting the Role of Architecture for 'Surviving’ Development. 53rd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2019 (ANZAScA). (pp. 771-780)
2019 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85088381968

Part of ISSN: 22093850
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty
grade
Preferred source (of 3)‎

Happy Chappy Healing House: Can the spaces and environments within a children's hospital be designed to create hope: a case study in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China

IASDR 2019 International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 - Design Revolutions, Manchester, United Kingdom
2019 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Folly-tecture: Speculative visionary follies.

Ngā Tūtaki: Encounters - Architecture Day, AAANZ Conference 2019, Ngākau Māhaki Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae Unitec Institute of Technology.
2019-12 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Ephemeral Crossroads: seven lamps, six years, seven lux-pavilions

P. Rajagopalan and M.M Andamon (Ed.), Engaging Architectural Science: Meeting the Challenges of Higher Density: 52nd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2018. The Architectural Science Association and RMIT University, Australia. (pp. 737–744)
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Relevance of Renaissance architectural theories today : together.

In Césaap; Claire Brunet (Ed.), Cumulus Conference Proceedings Paris 2018 – To get there: designing together , Vol. Cumulus Conference Proceedings Series 03/2018 Paris (pp. 144-161).
2018-03 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

The Gordian Knot of Architectural Studio Praxis

Spaces and Pedagogies: New Zealand Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference 2017
2017 | Conference abstract
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Design dialogues. Ambiguity of “Design” within Architectural Studio

The Journal of Public Space
2017-12-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2206-9658
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty
grade
Preferred source (of 2)‎

Encountering the pedagogy of live and interactive architectural projects

The Journal of Public Space
2017-12-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2206-9658
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Re-solved. Iterating design solutions by understanding failure

The Journal of Public Space
2017-12-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2206-9658
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Book Review: Leap Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation

Dialectic
2017-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2572-7001
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Architectural Prefabrication Pavilions as a site for cultural diversity

Nottingham Trent University, 'In this Place" Cumulus Association Biannual International Conference
2016 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

The Tribal Longhouse of Innovation

Proceedings of the AASA 9th International Conference - Project to Practice: Innovating Architecture
2016 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Learning by planning: Collaboration across the environment

Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 - Open Design for E-very-thing: Exploring New Design Purposes - Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong
2016-11 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

"Design" and "Design" the verb, noun, prefix and suffix : architecture studio teaching as an epitome of design methodologies

8th International Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
2015 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Iterating success : learning to change through understanding failure

8th International Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
2015-10 | Conference paper
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty

Incubating + Scaling - Transitional Large Fabrication Architectural Design Propositions, in a post Earthquake Environment

The Virtuous Circle: Design Culture and Experimentation organized by Poltecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy on June 3 – 7, 2015.
Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Annabel Pretty