Rate My Professor Bowman Fletcher

James Bowman Fletcher is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. A practising architect, he also serves as an editor for Memo Review Architecture and currently coordinates and examines the Foundation Studio 2 unit as Chief Examiner. Fletcher earned his Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Architectural Design from the same faculty at Monash University, complemented by a Minor Thesis in Sociology from the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences. He has held his lecturing position since 2016.

His scholarly pursuits focus on the intersections of architecture and art, architecture and building, and architecture and words. Notable publications include the 2025 peer-reviewed article “Architecture, art and their relationship in Donald Judd’s Artillery Sheds and 100 untitled works in mill aluminium” in The Journal of Architecture (volume 30, issues 4-5, pp. 736-759). Other contributions encompass “Proportion and Arrangement in Donald Judd’s ‘Multicolored Works’ with Scale, Colour and Material Variation” (2025), with recent works appearing in Ardeth and Union. As a practising architect, Fletcher has realized projects such as the A House from Another House series (2020–present), Three Walls, Three Rooms (2022–2025), and earlier, the Apparatus Series (2016–2019) through co-founded practices 227768c and OCTA. In 2023, he was awarded Monash University’s Early Career Researcher Grant by the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice-President to support international fieldwork and archival research at the Judd Foundation and Chinati Foundation/la Fundación Chinati in Marfa, Texas. This effort culminated in curating the exhibition “Five Architectural Case Studies of the Chinati Foundation/la Fundación Chinati” there in 2024, now part of their permanent collection. Fletcher’s built works were featured in the 2025 “Parts of Practice” exhibition at The University of Melbourne’s Design Gallery. He has engaged in public discourse through panel discussions like “Parts of Practice: Pedagogies” and curator talks at Chinati Foundation.