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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES emergent design technologies and practices about » news | postgrad | projects | publications | teaching | practice | staff | resources | links PROJECTS page 1 | page 2 | page 3  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) Lecture supported by: RMIT Design Research Institute (DRI)  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.   VISITING INTERNATIONAL STUDIO nCertainties RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 1 2012 Studio Leader: Francois Roche w/ Gwyllim Jahn   RMIT ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR TOM KOVAC APPOINTED CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF MARIBOR2012 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) exhibitions and events in Terminal 12 Program Series Maribor2012, European Capital of Culture Creative Director: Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture, RMIT Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research) Curator: Fleur Watson, RMIT Architecture + Design PhD candidate Maribor, Slovenia, throughout 2012 Director and curator Tom Kovac and Fleur Watson are currently leading a group of international thinkers and educators investigating the future of the city of Maribor in Slovenia, which has been named European Capital of Culture for 2012. Events include: 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City)
a multidisciplinary project inviting visionary ideas for the Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture. "2112Ai [ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCE] is composed of several events and multidisciplinary discussions with leading architects, designers, artists, engineers,technologists and architectural schools which are part of the “100YC” [100 Year City] EXHIBITION. The goal of the project is to outline a series of visionary projects that would transform post-industrial Maribor into a technologically oriented city of the future. Director of 2112Ai Tom Kovac explains, the goal is to discover possible patterns of global changes, complexity, risk and unpredictability, which question the sensitivity and logic of determining the effects on architecture, urban planning and life. 2112Ai strives for a multidisciplinary way of thinking as a key ability, which enables the creation of balanced and flexible architectural conditions. Bringing together knowledge and dynamics of different fields brings results in the field of architectural integrity, innovation, development and progress. It speaks in favour of a wide range of possibilities, from simple presumptions to extreme speculative optimism with which it shows numerous forms which could in the future reshape the planet and change the face of architecture and the global economy in the 21st century." This project will investigate and identify disruptive patterns of global change and envisage impacts on architecture, urbanism and life in the extreme future – demonstrating how new forms of practice are responding to external demands on architecture. This project brings together 100 visionaries including progressive international architecture schools under the directorship of many of the world’s most innovative architects. Each school is invited to propose a visionary project or master plan for the City of Maribor and work within trans-disciplinary teams that may include architects, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists and urbanists amongst others. Participating RMIT Architecture design studios and elective leaders/exhibitors include: Prof Leon van Schaik, Assoc Prof Paul Minifie, Assoc Prof Vivian Mitsogianni, Lecturer Roland Snooks and RMIT Architecture students. In addition to the European Capital of Culture program being held in Maribor, a curated selection of the submitted master plan visions will also be presented within the Australian and Slovenian Pavilions at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.  RMIT ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR TOM KOVAC APPOINTED CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF VENICE BIENNALE SLOVENIAN PAVILION EXHIBITION Creative Director: Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture, RMIT Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research) Curator: Fleur Watson, RMIT Architecture + Design PhD candidate Slovenia Pavilion Galleria A+A, Venice September-November 2012 Exhibited projects include: 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) Director and curator Tom Kovac and Fleur Watson are currently leading a group of international thinkers and educators investigating the future of the city of Maribor in Slovenia, which has been named European Capital of Culture for 2012. As part of the Maribor2012, European Capital of Culture festivities, 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) will investigate and identify disruptive patterns of global change and envisage impacts on architecture, urbanism and life in the extreme future – demonstrating how new forms of practice are responding to external demands on architecture. 2112Ai 100YC brings together 100 visionaries including progressive international architecture schools under the directorship of many of the world’s most innovative architects. Each school is invited to propose a visionary project or master plan for the City of Maribor and work within trans-disciplinary teams that may include architects, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists and urbanists amongst others. A curated selection of the submitted master plan visions will be presented within the Slovenian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in conjunction with a related exhibition in the Australian Pavilion. RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS, ALUMNI AND STUDENTS INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE VENICE BIENNALE AUSTRALIAN PAVILION EXHIBITION Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture Creative Directors: Anthony Burke, UTS, Offshore Studio Gerard Reinmuth, UTS, Terroir Architects, Alumni RMIT Master of Architecture by Research Australian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale September-November 2012 RMIT affiliated Exhibitors include:  2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture, RMIT Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research) Fleur Watson, RMIT Architecture + Design PhD candidate Director and curator Tom Kovac and Fleur Watson are currently leading a group of international thinkers and educators investigating the future of the city of Maribor in Slovenia, which has been named European Capital of Culture for 2012. As part of the Maribor2012, European Capital of Culture festivities, the project 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) will investigate and identify disruptive patterns of global change and envisage impacts on architecture, urbanism and life in the extreme future – demonstrating how new forms of practice are responding to external demands on architecture. A curated selection of the submitted master plan visions will be presented within the Australian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in conjunction with a related exhibition in the Slovenian Pavilion. Participating RMIT Architecture exhibitors include: Prof Leon van Schaik, Assoc Prof Paul Minifie, Assoc Prof Vivian Mitsogianni, Lecturer Roland Snooks and RMIT Architecture students.  Upperpool Studio Transformer M.Architecture (Prof) Upperpool Studio, Sem 1, 2012 Studio Leaders: Karl Fender, Director: Fender Katsilides; Jose Alfano; Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture Forthcoming exhibitions: 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) in Maribor Capital of Culture 2012, Slovenia Australian Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012  Upperpool Studio Volatile Tectonics M.Architecture (Prof) Upperpool Studio, Sem 1, 2012 Studio Leader: Roland Snooks, RMIT Architecture Lecturer. Practice: Kokkugia Forthcoming exhibitions: 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) in Maribor Capital of Culture 2012, Slovenia Australian Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress, "Pedagogical Frameworks for Emergent Digital Practices in Architecture" in Tuba Kocaturk and Benachir Medjdoub (Eds) Distributed Intelligence in Design London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 The book contains the papers developed from the presentations at the Distributed Intelligence in Design Symposium, held in Salford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligence refers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of different individuals in different organisations, with different backgrounds and experience, and the symposium discussed the media, technologies and behaviours required to support their successful collaboration. The book focusses on: * how parametric and generative design media can be coupled with and managed alongside Building Information Modelling tools and systems * how the cross-disciplinary knowledge is distributed and coordinated across different software, participants and organizations * the characteristics of the evolving creative and collaborative practices * how built environment education should be adapted to this digitally-networked practice and highly distributed intelligence in design The chapters address a range of innovative developments, methodologies, applications, research work and theoretical arguments, to present current experience and expectations as collaborative practice becomes critical in the design of future built environments INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress "Pedagogical frameworks for digitally networked architecture," in 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design, Salford Quays, UK, May 7-8, 2009. Convenor: Tuba Kocaturk, University of Salford This symposium was hosted by the University of Salford, UK in partnership with Bentley Systems and the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures. Invited Speakers included: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Cristiano Ceccato, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK; Former Director of Gehry Technologies Matias del Campo, SPAN Architects, Austria Sean Hanna, UCL Bartlett, UK Lars Hesselgren, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Smart Geometry, UK Martin Riese, Gehry Technologies, Hong Kong Hugh Whitehead, Foster and Partners, UK  PUBLIC LECTURE "Volatile Formation" Roland Snooks, Practice: Kokkugia The emergence of complexity theory over the last four decades has radically altered our understanding of formation and the volatility of their processes. The conceptualisation of form has shifted from the macro scale to a concern for the operation of the complex systems that underlie formation. Kokkugia's experimentation with these non-linear systems as architectural design strategies has lead to a series of open-ended research trajectories that generate their own specific set of problems and internal conflicts. Venue: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Room 68 (Lecture Theatre) Swanston Street, Melbourne Times: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM Contact: Vivian Mitsogianni 61 3 9925 3510 These methodologies have emerged from an understanding of swarm intelligence and operate through the self-organisation of multi-agent systems. Design intent operates within these methodologies through the interaction of local behaviours rather than the explicit description or parametric manipulation of form and organisation. Behavioural design methodologies represent a shift from ‘form being imposed upon matter’ to ‘form emerging from the interaction of localised entities within a complex system’. Designing through non-linear behavioural systems challenges the hierarchies that are embedded within architecture, and has radical implications for the generation of tectonics and their attendant affects. Speaker Bio: Roland Snooks is a director of the architecture practice Kokkugia, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania where he is a Senior Researcher at the Nonlinear Systems Organisation (NSO), and the George Isaacs Distinguished Fellow at USC. Roland is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute and has previously directed design studios and seminars at SCI-Arc, UCLA, RMIT University and Victorian College of the Arts. Roland's current design research is focused on emergent design processes involving agent-based techniques. Roland holds a B.Arch from RMIT University and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship. He was named the Australian Curator for the 2008 and 2010 Beijing Biennials. Roland's work with Kokkugia has been published widely including recent articles in: AD, 306090, Domus, L'Arca, World Architecture, Urban Environment Design, Urban Flux, Parametric Prototypes and Contemporary Digital Architecture. Kokkugia's work has been exhibited internationally at venues in: London, New York, Paris, Melbourne, Moscow, Kiev, Turin, Philadelphia, San Francisco Shanghai, Xian and Beijing. Kokkugia were nominated for the Chernikhov Prize in 2006 and 2010. The practice is currently working on projects in the US, China, UK and Mexico.  ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE BEIJING 2010: SCHOOLS EXHIBITION RMIT Architecture: Advanced Technologies and Emergent Practices RMIT Architecture Curators: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer in Students Exhibition ABB Co-Curators: Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo Machinic Processes: Architecture Biennale Beijing ABB 2010 Venue: 798 Space, Beijing Dates: 15 October – 31 October 2010 RMIT Architecture Exhibitors include Tom Kovac, Paul Minifie, Gretchen Wilkins, Leanne Zilka, John Cherrey and RMIT Architecture students INVITED SCHOOLS RMIT Architecture, Australia Bartlett, UK AA, UK Yale University, USA University of Pennsylvania, USA Rice University, USA Princeton University, USA Pratt Institute, USA MIT, USA Harvard GSD, USA Columbia GSAPP, USA USC, USA UCLA, USA SCI-Arc, USA Paris Malaquais, France IAAC, Spain ETH Zurich, Switzerland DIA, Germany CITA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark Berlage Institute, Netherlands Hyperbody TU Delft, Netherlands die Angewandte, Austria Tokyo University, Japan University of HUNAN, China University of Hong Kong, China SCUT, China Tsinghua University, China  Will Hosikian, RMIT Architecture student RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN A SCI-ARC EXCHANGE STUDIO x_tremes Studio SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA Semester 2, 2009 Studio Leader: Tom Kovac, RMIT Prof of Architecture; Director, Kovac Architecture Studio Tutor: Farzin Lofti-Jam, RMIT Architecture Alumni A group of RMIT Architecture students travelled on exchange to SCI-Arc and participated iwith SCI-Arc students in the x-tremes studio led by RMIT Professor Tom Kovac who is a SCI-Arc Visiting Faculty member. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA  EXHIBITION Nascent Present Exhibition Works from the RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Polarity Curator: Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Associate Professor. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon Architects STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009: Sampling the Future Venue: RMIT Building 45, 33 Lygon Street (corner of Earl Street opp Trades Hall) Dates: 15-25 July 2009 Invited exhibitors include: Mark Burry, RMIT Innovation Professor, Director, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory. Director, RMIT Design Research Institute Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Tim Schork, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) alumnus Phd in Architecture (SIAL) candidates. Practice Director: Mesne James Gardiner, Phd in Architecture (SIAL) candidate Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design. Practice Director: Kovac Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sam Rice, RMIT Master of Architecture (professional) alumni. Practice Directors: Cache Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture Associate Professor. Practice Director: Minifie Nixon Architects Vivian Mitsogiani, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer. Practice Director: M@ Architecture Greg More, Research Fellow, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Paul Morgan, Practice Director: Paul Morgan Architects Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Lecturer Leanne Zilka, RMIT Architecture Lecturer DESIGN STUDIO Responsive Architecture Workshop Studio Leader: Dominik Holzer and James Gardiner Upperpool Design Studio RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional), Semester 02, 09. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer SEAM 2009 Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney September 17 & 18, 2009  INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CURATION RMIT Architecture Exhibition with Prix Studio, die Angewandte, Vienna Spots on School Exhibition in Visions: Beyond Media Festival, 2009 RMIT Curator: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 9-17, 2009   EXHIBITION FORUM Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 11, 2009  INVITED INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Pedagogical frameworks for digitally networked architecture," in 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, UK, May 7-8, 2009. This symposium was hosted by the University of Salford, UK in partnership with Bentley Systems and the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures. Invited Speakers included: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Cristiano Ceccato, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK; Former Director of Gehry Technologies Matias del Campo, SPAN Architects, Austria Sean Hanna, UCL Bartlett, UK Lars Hesselgren, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Smart Geometry, UK Martin Riese, Gehry Technologies, Hong Kong Hugh Whitehead, Foster and Partners, UK The participants in this symposium have been commissioned to contribute chapters to the book "Distributed Intelligence in Design", to be published through Wiley in 2010.  RMIT ARCHITECTURE/DIE ANGEWANDTE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN STUDIO EXTREMES STUDIO RMIT Architecture, Melbourne / Die Angewandte, Vienna November 2008 - January 2009 Studio Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design Wolfgang Prix, Studio Prix, University of Applied arts, Vienna Practice Director: Coop Himmelblau Particpating Schools: RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Die Angewandte, Vienna  BOOK CHAPTER "SIAL, RMIT School of Architecture & Design", in Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent, Neil Spiller (ed), London: Thames and Hudson, 2008 ISBN 0500342474 ISBN-13 978-0500342473 List of Contributers SIAL is the only university research group included in the book. Featured researchers and practices include: Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) / RMIT School of Architecture & Design; Enric Ruiz-Geli / Cloud9; servo; Mark Goulthorpe / dECOi; Christian Kerrigan, Greg Lynn FORM; Preston Scott Cohen; Asymptote Architecture; EMERGENT... Published SIAL postgraduate students include: Rory Hyde, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture, 2005. PhD in Architecture, SIAL, current candidate. Practice: BKK. Supervisor: Mark Burry Hank Haussler, PhD in Architecture, SIAL, 2007. Supervisors: Mark Burry, Brent Allpress | ||||||||
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