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CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2012

Local RMIT Architecture events are listed below. For international events see RMIT Architecture News

For further Events information contact:
email: architecture@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9925 9799

RMIT ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN - SIAL PUBLIC LECTURE
Philip Beesley
Quasimetabolic Systems
Venue: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Room 68 (Large Lecture Theatre)
Time: Monday 23 April 2012
5:30pm - 6:30pm (please arrive 10 minutes prior to start of lecture)

Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Series explores the possibilities of environments that possess near-living qualities. Upcoming installations in Wellington, Sydney, Madrid and Trondheim demonstrate the technical progress and design methods currently being developed at his studio which further pursue integrated protocell chemistry, distributed kinetics and acoustics, and evolutionary control systems. How might near-living qualities influence interactive architecture? Drawing connections to Roman and Greek atomists and Romantic theory, Beesley will discuss how the behaviours of his installations challenge both Humanist conceptions of environment and expansion of human domain.

Philip Beesley is a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. He was educated in visual art at Queen’s University, in technology at Humber College, and in architecture at the University of Toronto. At Waterloo he serves as Director for the Integrated Group for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing. His Toronto-based practice PBAI is an interdisciplinary design firm that combines public buildings with exhibition design, stage and lighting projects. The studio’s methods incorporate industrial design, digital prototyping, and mechatronics engineering.

Beesley is engaged in the rapidly expanding technology of responsive architecture. He has authored and edited eight books and has been featured by Artificial Life (MIT), LEONARDO, WIRED, and in a series of TED talks. His work was selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture, and he has been recognized by the Prix de Rome in Architecture, VIDA 11.0, FEIDAD, two Governor General’s Awards and as a Katerva finalist.

www.philipbeesley.com
RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL)

Supported by:
RMIT Design Research Institute (DRI)

DRI DESIGN CHALLENGE COMPETITION EXHIBITION
DESIGN CHALLENGE 2011 : HOMELESSNESS
In 2011 the RMIT Design Research Institute ran the annual Design Challenge Competition with the Theme: Homelessness." View the Finalist responses to the challenges of Homelessness & hear them talk through their proposals.

Exhibition : running from 14th ~ 21st April 2012
Venue: Riverside Terrace, Federation Square Flinders Street, Melbourne
Date: Saturday 14 April 2012
Times: 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Contact: Peter Holmes +(61 3) 9925 4619
RMIT Design Research Institute (DRI)

AHURI/RMIT CONFERENCE
Homelessness Research Conference
Venue: Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Times: Thursday 19 – Friday 20 April 2012, 9am-5pm
Partner: National Homelessness Research Network

RMIT ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE
Vladimir Belogolovsky
HARRY SEIDLER - The Art of Collaboration

6-8 pm Friday 23 March
8.11.68, RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Lecture Room 68
free entry

This lecture traces the life and work of Sydney architect Harry Seidler (1923-2006), his key role in bringing International Modernism and Bauhaus principles to Australia, identifies his distinctive architectural style, and reveals long-lasting collaborations with leading creative figures of the 20th century, including with architects Marcel Breuer and Oscar Niemeyer; artists Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Charles Perry, and Frank Stella; engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and photographer Max Dupain. In almost sixty years, Seidler realized over 160 of his designs — from houses to mixed-use multi-story towers and prominent government commissions — all over Australia, as well as in Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Apart from the architect’s creative achievements, the lecture will focus on Seidler’s life, a fascinating journey from his motherland of Austria to England, Canada, the United States, Brazil, and finally, to Australia, where he settled in 1948, becoming one of this country's most accomplished architects.

The following key projects will be discussed: Rose Seidler House (1950), the architect’s house (1967), Australia Square Tower (1967), and Grosvenor Place (1988) – all in Sydney; Edmund Barton Building (1974) in Canberra, Embassy of Australia (1977) in Paris, HSBC Competition project (1979) and Hong Kong Club (1984) – both in Hong Kong, Shell Headquarters (1989) in Melbourne, Lincoln Centre (1996) in Kuala Lumpur, and residential complex Wohnpark Neue Donau (1998) in Seidler’s native Vienna.

Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project, organizes, curates, and designs architectural exhibitions worldwide. Trained as an architect at Cooper Union, he is the American correspondent for the Russian architectural journal TATLIN and has authored several books, including Felix Novikov, Green House, and Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985. His exhibitions include: Chess Game at the Russian Pavilion at the 11th Architecture Venice Biennale (2008), a retrospective of architect Ángel Fernández Alba at the Royal Botanical Gardens (Madrid, 2009),G reenHouse (Moscow, 2009), and American Institute of Architects Today (Moscow, 2010). He is currently working on a book, Harry Seidler (Rizzoli, 2014) with foreword by Kenneth Frampton, introduction by Chris Abel, and tribute by Norman Foster. He is curating a Harry Seidler traveling exhibition to go to Tallinn, Riga, Paris, Houston, North Carolina, and Sydney from 2012 to 2014.

Intercontinental Curatorial Project
http://www.curatorialproject.com

RMIT ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM
SPECULATIVE FORMATION

The RMIT School of Architecture and Design and the Design Research Institute invite you to a symposium titled "SPECULATIVE FORMATION: complex systems and non-linear design strategies".

Venue: RMIT, Building 8, 368 Swanston Street, Level 11, Room 68
Time: Friday 09 March 2012, 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
Free admission

Supported by:
DRI Future Fabric of Cities - Speculative Architecture Laboratory

The symposium will explore the role of computation within highly speculative approaches to architectural design. The discussion will address the volatile nature of complex systems and their indeterminacy in opposition to the role of computational design in exercising hierarchical control. The symposium brings together international and local architects and critics who are exploring complex systems of formation.

Presentations and panel discussions will include:
Andrew Benjamin, Francois Roche, Camille Lacadee, Ezio Blasetti, Anthony Burke, Dave Pigram, Vivian Mitsogianni, Paul Minifie, Pia Ednie-Brown, Tim Schork, Tom Kovac, and Roland Snooks.

ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE LAUNCH
POST 03 - "Memory".
Drinks and complementary magazine copy.
Guest speakers include Tony Lee & Tania Davidge from Open Haus.

Thursday March 08, 6-8 pm.
Venue: Dear Patti Smith Gallery, L2, 181 Smith St, Fitzroy.

POST Magazine website

POST is an RMIT Architecture student initiated magazine. Architecture journals traditionally critique buildings just after completion, contributing to their portrayal as static and uncontaminated objects.

POST sits outside of this convention, revisiting spaces. It explores architecture as an ever-involving process, acknowledging that the success of a space largely depends upon its relationship with the inhabitant. POST aims to represent multiple attitudes towards architecture from inhabitant through to practitioner; architect, developer, builder, artist, interior designer, writer etc.

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
Life Architecturally
profiling McBride Charles Ryan
ABC1, 10pm Tues 28 Feb, 2012
Online:
ABC I-View, till March 13, 2012

Architect Robert McBride and Interior Designer Debbie Ryan are the Directors of the award winning Melbourne practice McBride Charles Ryan. Rob McBride is an alumni of the RMIT Architecture program and subsequently undertook a Master of Architecture (Research by Project) in the Invited stream at RMIT. He is an Adjunct Professor in the RMIT Architecture program.

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