Current News 18 March 2009 PROPOSED NEW RMIT CAMPUS PROJECT ANNOUNCED: RMIT Swanston Academic Building. Designers: Lyons Architects. Budget: $200 m. Lyons Practice Director Carey Lyons is an RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor 10 February 2009 VICTORIAN BUSHFIRES: Our thoughts are with the communities, families and friends affected by the Bushfires that have taken a horrific toll in lives and property across Victoria since Saturday. Michelle Black, architecture design studio staff member and partner of RMIT academic Richard Black, has been in the frontline fighting the Bushfires in her role as a Castlemaine CFA volunteer. Our support goes out to the fire and emergency services and volunteers who are battling the blazes threatening towns and communities across regional Victoria and providing relief to the survivors. Victoria Bushfire Appeal donations can be made to the Red Cross by phone or online: ph: 1800 811 700; http://www.redcross.org.au 30 January 2009 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN STUDIO: Extremes Studio, RMIT Architecture/ die Angewandte Studio 2008-2009, Melbourne-Vienna, Studio Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design; Wolfgang Prix, Practice Director: Coop Himmelblau. 12 December 2008 RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ALUMNI WIN AWARDS: Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Adrian Iredale & Finn Pedersen, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008, Practice Directors: Iredale Pedersen Hook, have won an Australian Timber Design Award and recieved an honourable mention in the AR(UK) Awards for Emerging Architecture, 2008 29 July 2008 RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS NATIONAL STUDENT BIENNALE PRIZE. RMIT Architecture student Daniel Griffin has won the RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Prize, 2008. RMIT Architecture students Sam Perversi-Brooks and Augustine Savage were finalists. 159 students from 16 Australian architecture schools entered the competition. | Selected Projects | Current/Upcoming Events 18 July 2009 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: RMIT Architecture Exhibition with die Angewadte, Vienna, in Spots on Schools Exhibition, Beyond Media Festival 2009 VENUE: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy. DATES: July 9-17, 2009 26 July 2009 STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009: Sampling the Future. Events and exhibitions include: Built Systems, 2040 City - Design Laboratory, RMIT Architecture & Design Exhibition & RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Research and Practice Exhibition. VENUE: RMIT Building 45. OPENING: 16 July, 6.30 pm. EXHIBITION DATES: 16-25 July 2009, 1-6 pm daily. | ||
