Janina Gosseye

Dr Janina Gosseye is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Queensland. A leading historian of modern architecture and urbanism, she investigates post-war European and Australian architecture with particular attention to leisure infrastructure, shopping centres, welfare-state building programmes and oral-historical methods.

Research Focus

• Architecture of leisure and recreation (1950-1980)
• Shopping-centre typologies and urbanism
• Welfare-state architecture in Belgium and Australia
• Oral history as a tool for architectural research
• Cultural identity and built form

Across more than sixty publications—including two co-edited books and numerous journal articles—Gosseye has charted the evolution of post-war collective spaces, from Belgian cultural centres and Australian memorial swimming pools to British New-Town megastructures. Her work combines archival rigour with oral-historical insight, interrogating how architecture mediates social and political ideals.

Affiliation & Teams

Gosseye is an active member of the ATCH (Architecture, Theory, Culture, History) Research Centre at UQ, contributing to collaborative projects such as the Digital Archive of Queensland Architecture and the Hot Modernism: Building Modern Queensland 1945-1975 exhibition and publication.