Curriculum Vitae

Education

2011 - 2013
Master of Science in Urban Studies
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Thesis Title: "High-Rise Residential: How Architectural Design Affects Place-Making Processes in Two Pacific Rim Urban Regions"

2012
Exchange Semester in Master of Science in Urban Planning
University of Hong Kong

2010
Visiting Student for Peacebuilding Seminar in Nairobi, Maasai Mara, and Mombasa
University of Toronto

2006 - 2011
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science with an Extended Minor in English Literature
Simon Fraser University
Thesis Title: “The Surveillant Society: Assessing State and Citizen Surveillance Strategies in Canada”

Publications

Books

Al, Stefan (editor). Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. With contributing editors Carolyn Cartier, Cecilia Chu, Stan Lai, Gordon Matthews, Adam Nowek, David Grahame Shane, Barrie Shelton, and Jonathan Solomon. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Beekmans, Jeroen and Joop de Boer. Pop-Up City: City-Making in a Fluid World. Edited by Adam Nowek. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2014.

Journal Articles

Muller, Benjamin, Thomas N. Cooke, Miguel de Larrinaga, Philippe M. Frowd, Deljana Iossifova, Daniela Johannes, Can E. Mutlu, and Adam Nowek. "Ferocious Architecture: Sovereign Spaces/Places by Design." International Political Sociology 10, no. 1 (February 2016): 75 – 96.

Nowek, Adam. “American Junkspace: The Discourse of Contemporary American Architecture.” Amsterdam Social Science 6, no. 1 (May 2014): 87 – 101.

Book Chapters

Nowek, Adam. “The Anti-Vegas: Cataloguing Space in the World’s Top Gambling Destination.” In Macau and the Casino Complex. Edited by Stefan Al with contributing editors Natalia Echeverri and Kah Wee Lee. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press. Forthcoming in 2017.

Nowek, Adam. “The Prescience of Malls: A Glimpse Inside of Hong Kong’s Unique ‘Public’ Spaces.” In Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. Edited by Stefan Al with contributing editors Carolyn Cartier, Cecilia Chu, Gordon Matthews, Adam Nowek, David Grahame Shane, Barrie Shelton, and Jonathan Solomon. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Photography

Macau and the Casino Complex. Edited by Stefan Al with contributing editors Natalia Echeverri and Kah Wee Lee. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press. Forthcoming in 2017.

Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. Edited by Stefan Al with contributing editors Carolyn Cartier, Cecilia Chu, Gordon Matthews, Adam Nowek, David Grahame Shane, Barrie Shelton, and Jonathan Solomon. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Stefan Al. The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Forthcoming in 2017.

Conference Presentations

Roundtable: Security, Technology, and Architecture
18 February 2015
International Studies Association's 56th Annual Convention
New Orleans, United States

The View Imperative: Cultural Manifestations of Urban Planning in Vancouver
10 March 2012
Trash Talking: New Directions in Popular Culture and Creative Writing
University of Regina
Regina, Canada

American Junkspace: The Discourse of Contemporary American Architecture
12 March 2011
Trash Talkin': New Directions in Popular Culture and Creative Writing
University of Regina
Regina, Canada

Through the Looking Glass: An Exploration of Art, Sovereignty, and the Period Eye
10 April 2010
History Student Union Undergraduate Conference
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada

Group Exhibitions

Who Owns The Street?
Curator: Willem Jan Renders
Contributing photographer for the !melk/Stefan Al installation
20 February 2016 - 30 April 2017
Van Abbe Museum
Eindhoven, the Netherlands