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discourse » news | postgrad | projects | teaching | publications | staff | resources | links ARCHITECTURE PUBLICATION PROJECTS monographs, edited books, book chapters, journal articles, catalogues page 1 | page 2 | page 3 RMIT University Press Design Research Series Publications:  DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES PUBLICATIONS Design Research Series RMIT University Press, Melbourne, inaugurated in 2009 RMIT University Press is an imprint of RMIT Publishing, an independent academic publisher of books, academic journals and online publications. Submit a proposal Recent publications:  DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES BOOK Aaron Betsky At Home in Sprawl: Selected Essays on Architecture Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2011 ISSN / ISBN: 9781921426865 Internationally-acclaimed architectural writer and curator Aaron Betsky is particularly concerned that we understand the global phenomenon of urban sprawl, arguing that we cannot stop it, but must figure out how to do it better in a social, aesthetic, and environmental sense. In At Home in Sprawl, using such disparate examples as California and the Netherlands, he offers possible building blocks for better sprawl. He also believes that buildings are no longer enough to make us at home in the modern world, and that architects must look beyond such structures to landscapes, interiors, and imaginary structures to find appropriate and critical architecture.  DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES BOOK Richard Goodwin Porosity: The Architecture of Invagination Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2011 ISSN / ISBN: 9781921426865 This book changes our view of cities as collections of individual buildings. By prejudicing public space and finding previously undefined public spaces within them, “Chiastic Space”, it presents ideas for a radically transformed western city. By studying, defining and indexing these spaces, Sydney-based artist and architect Richard Goodwin has found “what a building desires” to do next in its determination to facilitate new technologies, new building-to-building connections and demands on its program. Forthcoming Titles: DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES BOOK Andrew Benjamin Architectural Projections Melbourne: RMIT University Press (forthcoming 2012) ISBN 9781921426940  DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES BOOK Mel Dodd, Fiona Harrisson, Esther Charlesworth, eds. Live Projects, Designing For People, Melbourne: RMIT University Press (forthcoming 2012) Architecture Publications by RMIT Academics:  BOOK Jane Burry, RMIT SIAL Assoc Professor & Mark Burry, ; Director, DRI; Director, SIAL The New Mathematics of Architecture London: Thames and Hudson, 2012 ISBN 9780500290255 In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before. This in-depth survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers a thorough overview of the most exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid texts, hands-on experience and constructed projects. The result is a rich compendium of the thinking and building behind today’s most exciting architecture. MINIFIE NIXON / FOSTER + PARTNERS / JOHN PICKERING / ANTONI GAUDÍ /INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS / GEHRY PARTNERS / KOHN PEDERSEN FOX / LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO / ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL / OCEAN NORTH / BIOTHING / ARUP AGU / PTW ARCHITECTS / HENEGHAN PENG / DANIEL LIBESKIND / ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL / FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS / ARATA ISOZAKI / COX ARCHITECTS / TOYO ITO / UN STUDIO / DECOI ARCHITECTS / PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS / GREG LYNN / MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN / HAKES ASSOCIATES / CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE / KARRES EN BRANDS / NOX ARCHITECTS / SERVO / ASYMPTOTE / HYPERBODY RESEARCH GROUP / CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI. .jpg) BOOK Leon Van Schaik Meaning In Space: Housing The Visual Arts, Or, Architectures For Private Collections Melbourne: Lyon Housemuseum, 2011 ISBN: 9780987132000 In this first of a series of books on art and architecture to be published by the Lyon Housemuseum, Leon van Schaik examines the relationship between art and artefacts and the architecture which accomodates them. Framing his analysis through his three theatres of endeavour - Collect, Classify, Display - van Schaik takes us on an edudite and illuminating journey through many of the small private and public museums of the world, His account provides new and authoritative insights into why, how and what people collect and the critical role that architecture, space and placement play in the way that collections are displayed and read. http://lyonhousemuseum.com.au/  PUBLIC LECTURE Inaugural Lecture, Housemuseum Lecture Series: 'Meaning in Space; Reflections on the architectures of private collections of art and artefacts' Professor Leon van Schaik, RMIT Lyon Housemuseum 2010  BOOK ; Director, DRI; Director, SIAL Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming
London: Wiley, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-470-74642-4
While many designers are now aware of scripting's potential, it is still seen as a difficult arena to enter. Scripting Cultures treats scripting not only as a technical challenge that requires clear description, guidance, and training, but also, and more crucially, it answers why the designer would script in the first place and what the cultural and theoretical implications are. The book also refers readers to a website where they are able to download all the code, explanations, and tutorials to assist with the worked examples.  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  BOOK Mauro Baracco (Ed) Tree sprawl : consolidation and expansion of open vegetated space : projects in the urban territory of Merri Creek Melbourne: School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, 2011 ISBN 9780646557045  The works in this book and related exhibition are a selection from projects completed between 2008 and 2010 throughout design studios coordinated by Mauro Baracco in the Master Course of the Architecture Program at the School of Architecture and Design of RMIT University. They document design investigations into the consolidation and expansion of existing open spaces in Melbourne – leftover, brownfield and green reserve areas. Aiming to regenerate these and other types of open environment, these projects also tackle human population growth and the associated problematic consequences that currently affect Melbourne and Australian urban areas in general, and believe that urban densification must include and rely on careful attention to the in-between space, and that this space should be vegetated. The book includes texts by Mauro Baracco and Luisa Macmillan, and reviews and images related to 10 projects completed by: Jennie Lang, Ottavia Franzini, Dayne Trower, Mohammad Afiq Shazwan Abd Samat, Maja Hansen, Edwina Thompson, Frankie Piesse, Emile Clare, Pia Socias, Emily Wallace. The book is available for purchase at major bookshops in Melbourne or you can purchase it directly from RMIT by contacting mauro.baracco@rmit.edu.au  Image: Exhibition at CERES, Edwina Thompson and Emily Wallace Student Work COMMUNITY STUDIO EXHIBITION Tree Sprawl Project Leader: Mauro Baracco Partners: MCMC Merri Creek Management Committee CERES Community Environment Park, East Brunswick Supported by the RMIT School of Architecture and Design Exhibition Venues: CERES Market, Brunswick East, Melbourne, Saturdays 11, 18 and 25 June, 2011 Merri Table & Bar Café/Restaurant at CERES, 11 June - 1 July 2011 CERES Community Environment Park, East Brunswick  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress and Robyn Barnacle "Practice-based education: engaging with emergent practices in architecture through research-led teaching by project", in Joy Higgs et al (Eds), Education for Future Practice, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2010  Leon van Schaik, Geoffrey London Procuring Innovative Architecture London: Routledge, 2010 The case studies in this book describe how clients’ promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients will understand what to look for as they construct their careers and their portfolios with innovation as a goal. It is taken for granted nowadays that supporting innovative architecture benefits society. In countries as diverse as Austria, Australia, Belgium, England, Japan, South East Asia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, retailers, institutions, local and regional government and transport authorities have established substantial bodies of work by new and emerging architects. This books looks at what their goals are and how they have achieved them. Is it possible to promote sustainable communities of innovative practice through such patronage? Can innovation be ‘kick-started’ by importing visionary works? The book documents research undertaken through the ARC Discovery Grant funded project "Procuring Innovative Architecture", CI's: Leon van Schaik, Geoffrey London Contents: Introduction Part 1: Asia and Australasia 1. Introduction 2. RMIT procures 3. RMIT philosophy 4. RMIT Ginger Groups 5. Artpolis 6. Malaysia 7. Singapore Part 2: Europe 8. Introduction 9. Barcelona 10. Ticino 11. Belgium 12. Graz and Ljubljana 13. London Part 3: USA 14. Introduction 15. Colombus Indiana 16. Los Angeles – Dirty Realism 17. University of Cincinnati 18. Ivy League Disney Land Part 4: Western Australia Case Study 19. Introduction 20. Office of Government Architect (OGA) 21. OGA 22. Processes 23. Evaluation by Small and Medium Firms 24. Evaluation by Large Firms 25. Evaluation by Developer and Bureaucrats 26. Evaluation Seminars in London and Perth Compared 27. Do’s and Don’ts Part 5: WA: Curating the City 28. Deep Urban Knowledge. Conclusion PUBLIC LECTURE Leon van Schaik AO RMIT Professor of Architecture, Chair of Innovation. 6:30pm, Wednesday 18th August Level 5 Architecture Studios Building 6, UTS, Sydney Leon van Schaik AO LFAIA,RIBA, PhD, is Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT, from which base he has promoted local and international architectural culture through design practice research and through advising on the commissioning of architects. Writings include monographs compiled on Edmond and Corrigan, Ushida Findlay, Guilford Bell, Tom Kovac, Poetics in Architecture, The Practice of Practice, Sean Godsell (Electa 2004), John Wardle (T&H 2008) and Denton Corker Marshall (Birkhauser 2008). Books include Mastering Architecture, Design City Melbourne and Spatial Intelligence (2005, 2006, 2008 Wiley). Procuring Innovative Architecture was co-authored with Geoffrey London and Beth George (Routledge 2010).  EDITED BOOK Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth Edited by Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer London: Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-56232-4 Routledge website: Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth Book Launch Time: 6-8pm Monday 9th August Venue: RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne Book launch address by: Hitoshi Abe, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA Director: Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sendai, Japan. RSVP to RMIT Gallery: T: 03 9925 1717 E: rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce? Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, Distributed Urbanism highlights the architectural practices that are emerging in response. Unlike early models of urbanism, in which centralized models of production, communication and governance were sited within a central business district, contemporary urbanism is shaped by remote, distributed mechanisms such as information technologies, (i.e. SatNav, Google Earth, E-trade, Photosynth or RSS web feeds) cooperative economic models and environmental networks, many of which are physically remote from the cities they shape. Consisting of a collection of case studies on global cities including Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Mumbai, Distributed Urbanism draws on these cities in relation to current events, urban schemes and demographic data. All the contributors, a combination of commentators on urbanism and architecture, as well as practitioners in the field, are admired for their work in the area of urban change. Book Contents: Foreword, Felicity Scott Introduction, Gretchen Wilkins 1. The City You Can’t See on Google Earth, Ilka and Andreas Ruby 2. Rural Urbanism: Thriving Under the Radar – Beijing’s Villages in the City, Robert Mangurian and MaryAnn Ray 3. Rotterdam 1979-2007: From Ideology to Market Communism and Beyond, Michael Speaks 4. MegaHouse, Hitoshi Abe and Masashige Motoe 5. BORDERLAND/BORDERAMA/DETROIT, Jerry Herron 6. Rubble in the Sand, Jan van Schaik and Simon Drysdale 7. Density of Emptiness, Jason Young 8. Antisepsis, Li Shiqiao 9. BEYOND URBANISM:Mumbai and the cultivation of an Eye, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha 10. Resurrecting Cities: Instant Urban Planning, Ignasi Pérez Arnal, translated by Oscar Yanez del Mazo 11. Productive Residue: The Casting of Alternative Public Space, Dan Pitera 12. Bubble Cities: Airports, Islands and Nomads, Gretchen Wilkins Bio: Gretchen Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of RMIT Architecture in Melbourne, teaching in the RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory and co-coordinating the annual World Architecture Workshops. She is the editor of Distributed Urbanism: Cities After Google Earth (Routledge, 2010), Entropia: Incremental Gestures Towards a Possible Urbanism (Champ Libre, 2008) and On-The-Spot: Atelier Hitoshi Abe (University of Michigan, 2007). She has previously taught at the University of Michigan and was a principal of Wilkins + Comazzi Design and Ply Architecture, both in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  MONOGRAPH BOOK Five Masterworks By Louis Sauer Antonino Saggio Lulu, 2010 64 pages in color Isbn: 978-1-4461-4559-3 E-Book Download (US$4.87) Louis Sauer is known in the US as one of the greatest housing experts. He achieved national fame when many of his innovative designs were built in Society Hill, the historic colonial neighborhood in Philadelphia. The quality, variety and reasoning behind his creative solutions for the renewal of large areas of old and derelict urban context were the exemplars for those who followed him in this field. The five designs included in this book are selected from the period (1961-79) when Sauer practiced in Philadelphia. His work is exceptional for its variety and wealth of solutions. Some examples are his modernistic forms, intelligent understanding of the history of the locale and the requirements of diverse urban scales. The five works Antonino Saggio is presenting in this publication give a picture of his outstanding design and the ingenuity of his solutions when faced with diverse design challenges and scales. Louis Sauer, Studio Leader, RMIT Architecture, 2006- Practice: Director of Urban Design, Daniel Arbour and Associates, Montreal (1989-1996) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89) Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985) Practice: Louis Sauer Associates, Philadelphia (1961-1979) Louis Sauer is a prolific practicing architect whose extensive body of work across the 1960's and 70's in the USA focused on innovative low-rise high-density housing and community developments. He subsequently took on a series of high profile academic leadership roles as the Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1985), and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado (1985-89). He is currently based in Melbourne and teaches regularly as a Studio Leader in the RMIT Architecture program, offering design studios focusing on High Density Low Rise urban housing. These include: Cohousing Upperpool Design Studio, Semester 1, 2008. Studio leader: Louis Sauer Other resources: Louis Sauer - Wikipedia Profile Jim Morgan, The Work of Louis Sauer, Toshi Jukatu Japanese Press, 1980 - website with book extracts including a critical essay and detailed design project documentation Louis Sauer Associates - design project information Antonino Saggio, "Absorbing Venice: Low-rise High-density Housing by Louis Sauer", in G. De Carlo, C. Occhialini a cura di Ilaud, Territory & Identity, Comune di Venezia-Maggioli editore, Santarcangelo Romagna, 1998 pp. 74-79 RADIO INTERVIEW  Audio Podcast: The Architects-Louis Sauer.mp3 Louis Sauer interviewed by Simon Knott and Rory Hyde The Architects - Show 131 - Louis Sauer RRR Radio Show: The Architects Tue, 23 October 2007  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress and Robyn Barnacle, "Projecting the PhD: Architectural design research by and through projects," in Changing Practices in Doctoral Education, David Boud and Alison Lee (eds), London: Routledge Press, 2009  PUBLIC LECTURE 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. (Image credit: Minfie Nixon, VCA Centre for Ideas, interior. Photograph: Brent Allpress) DESIGN RESEARCH SERIES PUBLICATIONS Design Research Series RMIT University Press, Melbourne, inaugurated in 2009 RMIT University Press is an imprint of RMIT Publishing, an independent academic publisher of books, academic journals and online publications. Submit a proposal Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Coordinator abd Sue Anne Ware, RMIT School of Architecture and Design Research Director have co-authored the Call for Proposals for the new Design Research Book Series published by RMIT University Press. This editorial and commissioning framework is a direct adaptation of the editorial submission policy and documentation for the project-based design research journal Architectural Design Research co-founded by Brent Allpress and Michael Ostwald and published by AASA. 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