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NEWS ARCHIVE » current | 12 | 11 | 10 | 09 | 08 | 07 | 06 | 05 | 04 | 03 | 02- 2008  EXTREMES STUDIO RMIT Architecture, Melbourne / Die Angewandte, Vienna November 2008 - January 2009 Studio Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture Wolfgang Prix, Die Angewandte, Vienna. Practice Director: Coop Himmelblau  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO Post-Oil Cities: International Architecture Workshop 7, Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IAAC), Barcelona, 2008 RMIT Architecture Advanced Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 2, 2008 Workshop hosts: Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya Workshop website: www.iaac.net Design workshop collaborations will be undertaken with students and faculty from RMIT Architecture, Melbourne, France, Japan and Spain. RMIT Architecture Workshop Leaders: Paul Minifie, Jan van Schaik, Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture with Ignasi Perez Arnal; Ricard Fayos; Josep Anton Acebillo; Vincente Guallart; Vincens Arrablo; Borja Ferrater; Carlos Ferrater; Benedetta Tagliabue; Manuel Castells; Miguel Barcelo; Manuel Sangenis; Josep Maria Rosello; Alica Framis; Manuel Bailo; Lluis Sabadell; Belinda Tato; Jospe Lluis Mateo; Edward Bru; Hitoshi Abe PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Australia Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France Migayi University, Sendai, Japan Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai, Japan Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain    PROPOSED RMIT CAMPUS PROJECT RMIT Design Hub Architects: Sean Godsell Architects Practice Director: Sean Godsell, RMIT Master of Architecture alumnus Project under development: 2008-2011 DESIGN HUB AWARDED $28.6 MILLION FEDERAL FUNDING Funding boon for better teaching and learning RMIT Openline News December 12, 2008 RMIT will get $28.6 million from the Federal Government’s Education Investment Fund to build a collaborative research facility, the Design Hub, and $16.7 million from the new one-off Teaching and Learning Capital Fund for Higher Education. This large high-rise urban project on the old CUB site is to house the new RMIT Design Hub, an interdisciplinary design research facility. The building has been designed to attain the highest standards of sustainable design and will employ an innovative operable solar cell cladding system forming a climactically responsive second skin that will reduce the need for cooling in summer and heating in winter. It is integrated with the other new building developments on the CUB site to contribute to a comprehensive water recycling system. RMIT PROPERTY SERVICES PROJECT PAGE RMIT Design Hub and CUB site development project page RMIT Design Hub Architects: Sean Godsell Architects CUB site Commercial, Retail and Residential Development Developer: Grocon Architects: NHArchitecture, Masterplanning and Building 2 Ashton Raggatt McDougall, Office Tower Denton Corker Marshall, Office Tower Minifie Nixon, Mixed-use Retail, Residential, Commercial McBride Charles Ryan, Commercial INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION NEWS ITEM ON RMIT DESIGN HUB BUILDING Millions view innovation, RMIT-style RMIT Openline News Sep 10, 2008 More than 210 million TV viewers across China and south-east Asia have watched this Phoenix Satellite Television news segment on RMIT University’s innovative Design Hub, designed by RMIT Architecture alumnus Sean Godsell  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ALUMNI WIN TIMBER AWARD Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Adrian Iredale, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Finn Pedersen, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Practice Directors: Iredale Pedersen Hook Sheep House, Victoria Winner: Environmental Commitment Award at the Australian Timber Design Awards, 2008  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ALUMNI RECIEVE AR(UK) AWARD Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Adrian Iredale, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Finn Pedersen, RMIT Master of Architecture (research by project), 2008 Practice Directors: Iredale Pedersen Hook Perth Zoo Orangutan Enclosure Honourable Mention: AR(UK) Award for Emerging Architecture, 2008 (pdf) AR(UK): List of AR Award winners, 2008 ABC RADIO INTERVIEW Alan Saunders, interview with: Finn Pedersen, Practice Director, Iredale Pedersen Hook; Leif Cocks, Perth Zoo BY DESIGN ABC Radio National, December 2008 audio podcast Finn Pedersen (iph) and Leif Cocks from Perth Zoo appeared on By Design with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National to discuss the project.  SHANGHAI ART AND ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE EXHIBITION "RMIT Architecture + Design and Art Postgraduate Research by Project" Education Exhibition, Shanghai Art and Architecture Biennale, 2008 Opening: 8 September Dates: 9 September - 16 November 2008 Artistic Director: Zhang Qing Biennale Curators: Julian Heynen and Henk Slager RMIT Curators: Adrea Mina, Brent Allpress, RMIT School of Architecture + Design Lesley Duxbury, RMIT School of Art Exhibition Design: Stuart Geddes, Chase and Galley RMIT Exhibitors: RMIT School of Architecture + Design Postgraduate Candidates - Han Li, Shane Murray, Paul Minifie, Sue Anne Ware, Roger Kemp, Scott Balmforth, Gerard Reinmuth, Qinghseng He, RMIT School of Art Postgraduate Candidates - Fleur Summers, Bianca Hester, Maria Esther Pena Briceno, John Waller, Philippa Murray, Mon-Xi Wu, Roseanne Bartley, Robin Kingston EXHIBITION CATALOGUES ONLINE Brent Allpress, "Postgraduate Architecture and Design Research by Project at RMIT," Lesley Duxbury, "Postgraduate Art Research by Project at RMIT," Catalogue Essays in RMIT Architecture + Design and Art Postgraduate Research by Project, Exhibition Catalogue, Education Exhibition, Shanghai Art and Architecture Biennale, 2008    RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS NATIONAL STUDENT BIENNALE PRIZE Daniel Griffin, RMIT Architecture Student "On the Ground [Maternity Hospital + Epigenetic Research Facility_Jenin_West Bank 2050]” RMIT Architecture Major Project Design Thesis Supervisors: Greg More and Karen Burns joint winner: RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Award, 2008 This is the primary and most prestigious national Australian undergraduate student competition. RMIT Architecture student Daniel Griffin has won the RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Prize, 2008. Griffin explores ways of hybridising Arabic and Western architectures, and digitally investigates systems of inter-relationships in a traditional urban context. He shares the $8,000 prize with co-winner Jade Myers of the University of Queensland.  Sam Perversi-Brooks, RMIT Architecture student "Stockholm Syndrome" RMIT Architecture Upperpool Studio Supervisor: Lyndsay Holland finalist: RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Award, 2008  Augustine Savage, RMIT Architecture student "Urban Perspectives: RMIT Design Hub Building, 55 Swanston Street, Melbourne" RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Supervisor: Jan van Schaik finalist: RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Award, 2008 159 students from 16 Australian architecture schools entered the competition. 3 RMIT Architecture students were finalists, including the joint winner Daniel Griffin. The 10 finalists will take part in a national travelling exhibition.  RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WIN VENICE BIENNALE PAVILION IDEAS COMPETITION Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sam Rice, RMIT Architecture students & Peter Kuhnell, Practice: SPF15+ Pre-professional winners: Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition Competition Images (pdf) Open online portfolio This online published pdf is best viewed on a fast broadband connection. The optimum settings for reading the publication are: - Change view mode: Presentation view - View in full screen mode Judges: photographer John Gollings, architect and writer Norman Day, architect Bridget Smyth and artist Callum Morton A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition. In an open competition, conceived to add momentum to growing support for the replacement of the current building, architects were invited to submit a conceptual proposal of their vision for a new Australian Pavilion. The unrestrictive nature of the project has encouraged some radical architectural solutions and aims to excite the imagination of both the public and the authorities. EXHIBITION Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition Exhibition Heide III: Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 28 June - 3 August 2008  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC SHORTLISTED FOR RIBA PHD RESEARCH AWARD Pia Ednire-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer "The Aesthetics of Emergence" PhD in Architecture, RMIT Architecture, 2007 Supervisors: Leon van Shaik and Peter Downton Shortlisted Finalist: RIBA President's Awards for Research: PhD Award, 2008 All entries were assessed in terms of how they contribute new knowledge and understanding to architecture, in terms of originality, significance and rigour. The winning pieces must be regarded as an exceptional contribution to architectural knowledge. RIBA President's Awards for Research winners will be notified in November 2008  RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS WIN PREMIER'S DESIGN AWARD, 2008 Paul Minifie and Jan van Schaik Practice: Minifie Nixon "Australian Wildlife Centre, Healesville" winner: State of Design Premier's Design Awards, Cultural Award, 2008 Judge’s Comment: “This is an outstanding example of design innovation in the area of complex geometries/mathematics and architecture that has been effective in delivering excellent outcomes for the client. Contemporary architecture is littered with twisted hulks that had as their unfortunate origin, a metaphor in mathematical models such as the Möbius Strip or fractal geometries. This building however, uses such models intelligently to generate rich spatial, material and pattern outcomes.” RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS WIN RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008  RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008 Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Director, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio with Marika Neustupny, Lucinda McLean "Elwood House" winner: RAIA VIC State, Residential Architecture, Alterations and Additions, Architecture Award, 2008 ARTICLE Paul Walker, "Elwood House, NMBW Architecture Studio," in Architecture Australia, July/August 2008  RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008 Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Director, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio with Marika Neustupny, Lucinda McLean and RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory "Pioneer Museum Plaza," Jeparit winner: RAIA VIC State, Regional Prize, 2008 RAIA VIC State, Small Project, Architecture Award, 2008  RAIA VICTORIA STATE AWARDS 2008 Peter Corrigan, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Adjunct Professor Practice: Edmond and Corrigan with Maggie Edmond "Lux Residence Alterations," Caulfield winner: RAIA VIC State, Small Project, Architecture Award, 2008  RESEARCH SEMINAR Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Robyn Barnacle, RMIT Graduate Research Office "Project-based postgraduate models: Architectural design research by and through projects" Centre for Research in Learning and Change UTS, Sydney, Australia 12.30-2pm, Tuesday, 20th May, 2008 Convenors: Alison Lee and David Boud This seminar discusses and situates the RMIT Architecture & Design postgraduate research program as a case study of the research by project model. Related Publication:  Brent Allpress and Robyn Barnacle, "Projecting the PhD: Architectural design research by and through projects," in Changing Practices in Doctoral Education, edited by David Boud and Alison Lee, London: Routledge Press, 2008  RECENT GRADUATE WINS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN KOSOVO Suzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 & Nicholas Searle, Practice: Searle Waldron "IN>CREASE" Winners: International Competition of the Mobility Center Ferizaj/Urosevac, Kosovo, May 2008 UN-Habitat Kosovo: United Nations Human Settlements Programme - Announcement of the competition winners - Competition website The Design Competition was set up as one of the six Demo–Projects of the Municipal Spatial Support Programme (MuSPP) for collecting creative ideas to turn a city vision into action. This Demo-project is a joint initiative and co-funded by the Municipality of Ferizaj/Urosevac and UN-HABITAT-MuSPP (sponsored by Sida). The International Spatial Design Competition for the Mobility Centre Project is aimed at retrieving creative ideas from spatial and urban designers all over the world. The competition attracted 43 entries from 22 countries. The Mobility Centre Project in Ferizaj/Urosevac aims at integrating all urban transport modes into one central hub, which should become a catalyst for the overall regeneration of the urban centre. ARTICLE Arkitera.com Article describing the competition brief    RECENT GRADUATE SELECTED FOR NATIONAL DESIGN CENTRE EXHIBITIONSuzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 Practice: Searle Waldron with Nicholas Searle "Do Not Crop" Annual Graduate Exhibition ShowBox Gallery National Design Centre Federation Square 5-27 June 2008 What does a designer’s world look like? The National Design Centre’s exhibition Do Not Crop showcases the work of design graduates of all disciplines from 2006 and 2007, highlighting the work they have produced since completing their studies. RELATED NEWS: RECENT GRADUATE SUZANNAH WALDRON HAS REWORKED HER RMIT ARCHITECTURE UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN THESIS MAJOR PROJECT AS A FIRST ROUND WINNING ENTRY FOR MOCAPE-SHENZHEN MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION, CHINA » VOLUME UP Suzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 & Nicholas Searle, Practice: Searle Waldron First Round Winners: MOCAPE-Shenzhen Museum of International Design Competition, China » AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY RMIT Architecture Major Project Design Thesis, Semester 2, 2006. Suzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 Supervisor: Brent Allpress + | ||||||||
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