CAMEA

The Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) was founded in 1997. It is a research centre with a short history but wide ambitions. CAMEA’s establishment coincides with major shifts in peoples’ attitudes towards the built environment caused by unsettling changes in three areas: environment, technology, and culture.

  • Awareness of the long-term environmental consequences of modern urbanisation and industrialisation has highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to a sustainable future;
  • Advanced communication technologies have called for new ways of perceiving and dealing with reality; and
  • Intense cross-cultural interactions have generated a strong demand for broader and more culture-sensitive modes of architectural thinking.
CAMEA has been founded to address the demand for new cross-cultural understanding of architecture in the context of these major global shifts.

Website: www.architecture.adelaide.edu.au/camea