Rate My Professor Rowan Gower

Throughout his doctoral studies, Gower received notable awards from UNSW, including the Seidler PhD Scholarship (2016), which funded three years of PhD research at $35,000 per annum; the J.M. Freeland Prize (2020, $2,000) for significant research in the field of History/Conservation of the Built Environment; the PhD Submission Award (2019, $2,000) for submitting his thesis within 3.5 years; and the PhD Publication Award (2019, $5,000) for publishing in a top quartile FOR12 journal. His key peer-reviewed publications appear in Fabrications: 'At the Nexus of Architecture and Bureaucracy: The Role of the Commonwealth Department of Works in Designing and Constructing Australia’s Chancery Building in Japan' (2025, vol. 35, pp. 1-24) and 'From Colonial Revival to Architectural Regionalism: Representational Alteration in the Case of Australia’s Head of Mission Residence in New Delhi,' co-authored with Paul Hogben (2021, vol. 31, pp. 235-259). He has also presented at Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) conferences, with papers including 'Exporting Australian Architectural "Expertise" as a Matter of Policy' (2019, in Distance Looks Back: Proceedings of the 36th SAHANZ Conference, pp. 196-204) and 'Image Building: A Study of Australia's Domestic and Foreign Policy in Relation to Embassy Architecture' (2017, in Quotation: What does History have in store for Architecture today?). These contributions underscore his work at the intersection of architecture, policy, and bureaucracy.