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ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM » page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5  ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY & THEORY COURSE Asian Architecture and Urbanism recurring offering, Semester 1, 2008-onwards Coordinators: Sand Helsel, RMIT Architecture Assoc Professor, School of A&D Director of International Development Anna Johnson, RMIT Architecture Lecturer Contributing Lecturer: Nigel Bertram, Director, RMIT Architecture - Urban Architecture Laboratory This new course examines contemporary architecture in Asia in the context of the urban, social and cultural changes being driven by globalisation and rapid economic development. Case study Asian cities will be studied looking at the significant stages of historical development and emerging architectural design responses to urbanisation. Design practice strategies for working in an Asian urban context will be presented by architects actively practicing in the region. This new course was developed from the previously offered core course: ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY & THEORY COURSE Architecture History & Theory 3: South-East Asian Architecture Coordinator: Doug Evans, (retired, 2007) Recurring offering, (1995-2007). From 2008, this course is replaced by Asian Architecture and Urbanism, as above. This course critically examined the emerging canon of architectural design within the South-East Asian region. This course explores the diverse and ancient ethnic and religious histories and influences that have shaped the region, works through the period of western colonization, and the postcolonial and nationalist engagement with modernism, industrialization and urbanisation. History 3: South-East Asian Architecture Course Material (pdf files) - online resources Related Projects:  BOOK & UMAP FUNDED INTERNATIONAL DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO Taipei Operations Sand Helsel Taipei: Human Environment Group November 2004. In English/Chinese ISBN: 9577304907  BOOK & UMAP FUNDED INTERNATIONAL DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO By Product Tokyo Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny Melbourne: RMIT University Press 2003 with online project archive  ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM PUBLIC LECTURE James Brearly, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor; Practice: BAU, Melbourne/Shanghai Time: Wednesday 23 May, 11.30am-1.30pm Venue: RMIT Building 10, Level 13, Lecture Room 03 (Lecture Room is opp lifts. Access to Building 10 is from the Level 4 student concourse lifts.) James Brearly will be discussing past and current urban and architectural BAU projects undertaken in Shanghai and the surrounding region. BAU is an architecture, urban design, urban planning, and landscape architecture practice driven by values embedded in progressive eastern and western philosophies. Their design processes, practice, and projects include an understanding and appreciation of international design practice and culture, together with local Chinese design practice and culture. Founded in 1992 in Melbourne Australia, today BAU has offices in both Australia and China. James Brearly is a co-director of the practice BAU with Fang Qun. He is an RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor and is an RMIT Architecture professional degree alumni. He published the book Networks Cities in 2011:  MONOGRAPH BOOK BY RMIT ARCHITECTURE ADJUNCT PROFESSOR James Brearley and Fang Qun (2010). Networks Cities. China Architecture & Building Press. ISBN:978-7-112-12438-1 This book is about China’s urban planning, unprecedented in both scale and speed. It is about our work over the past nine years, in which we have been developing a concept, originally devised with Steve Whitford, called Networks Cities – urbanism with its land uses organized into networks of continuity, adjacency and superposition. If applied logically, shrewdly and inventively, it can form a framework for cities which are flexible, humane and sustainable. The book reveals the concept of Networks Cities in projects,strategies, essays and designs, none of which are utopian. They are raw, real and pragmatic, produced at unavoidable speed and within the confines of Chinese planning orthodoxies. Yet between and beyond the networks there exists the stuff of dreams – of immanence, surprise and sensation.   RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT CONTRIBUTION TO THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT OF A BUILT COMMUNITY PROJECT IN VIETNAM FEATURED IN THE MEDIA Architect students turn plans into reality to aid children in Vietnam Benjamin Preiss TheAge, April 10, 2012 "Plans are drawn with great care but rarely make it beyond three-dimensional models for many architecture students. But a group of RMIT University students have helped design a daycare centre that will treat children suffering the crippling effects of the Vietnam War. The Dien Ban Disability Day Care Centre opens this week near Hoi An in central Vietnam after years of design work and community meetings... The project allowed RMIT architecture graduate Ton Vu to return to his country of birth. He was among a group of students who visited the site to carry out research and revise the plans professional architects had drawn up. Mr Vu, who was born in Ho Chi Minh City, said the RMIT students made substantial changes to the plans after discussing them with the children and parents who would use the centre. He also acted as an interpreter. ''They were telling us about how important it is for them to have a centre of this nature to help them carry on with their daily work and have their children in good care,'' Mr Vu said. The university worked with Architects Without Frontiers, British charity the Kianh Foundation and professional architects. RMIT funded most of the centre's construction and design costs..." Participating RMIT Architecture student Ton Vu was also recently announced the winner of the Architecture Australia Unbuilt Award 2011 for his final year Design Thesis Major Project Sai Gon Informal, a proposal for supporting bottom-up informal urbanism in Vietnam. See news item below. TRAVELLING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRY STUDIO Disability Day Centre, Dien Ban, Vietnam Building the Community - Integrated Practice Studio, 2010 RMIT School of Architecture and Design; School of Property Construction & Project Management RMIT Vietnam Multimedia Design Systems Program RMIT Project/Design Studio Leader: Dr Esther Charlesworth, Senior Research Fellow (Architecture and Urban Infrastructure), RMIT School of Architecture and Design and RMIT Global Cities Research Institute Interdisciplinary Studio Leaders: Dr Guillermo Aranda-Mena, School of Property Construction & Project Management, RMIT Don Gordon, Program Manager - Multimedia Design Systems, RMIT Vietnam Client: Kianh Foundation, UK Partners: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; RMIT International University Vietnam (RIUV) Pro Bono Industry Partners: Architects Without Frontiers, Australia; Büro Architecture, Interiors and Planning, Melbourne; Chamberlain Javens Architects, Melbourne; Allens Arthur Robinson RMIT Global Initiatives: Building the Community 2010, iTunesU Project Video, 2010 Architects Without Frontiers, Australia: Projects: Disability Day Centre, Dien Ban, Vietnam Related International Industry and Community Studio/Scoping Projects: Learning Centre and Transitional Housing for Street Kids in Hoi An, Vietnam Building the Community - International Travelling Design Studios, 2008 Project Video, 2008 Project/Studio Leader: Dr Esther Charlesworth, Senior Research Fellow (Architecture and Urban Infrastructure), RMIT School of Architecture and Design and RMIT Global Cities Research Institute Studio Leaders: Mel Dodd, RMIT Architecture Discipline Leader, Practice: muf Art and Architecture Professor John Fien, RMIT Innovation Leader Sustainability Partners: RMIT Architecture and Design; Architects Without Frontiers At Risk Youth Housing, Hoi An, Vietnam Building the Community - International Travelling Design Elective, 2007 RMIT Architecture; RMIT Industrial Design; RMIT Interior Design; RMIT Property, Construction & Project Management Project/Elective Leader: Dr. Esther Charlesworth, RMIT Research Fellow, School of Architecture and Design Partners: Lifestart Foundation; RMIT University Vietnam; Architects Without Frontiers Australia; OzQuest  Related Publication: Mel Dodd, Fiona Harrisson, Esther Charlesworth, eds. (2012) Live Projects, Designing For People, Melbourne: RMIT Press (forthcoming July 2012)  ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM PUBLIC LECTURE "More with Less" Chris Bosse, Practice Director: LAVA Time: 11.30am, Wednesday 28th April, 2010 Venue: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Rm 8.11.68 German-born architect Chris Bosse is director of LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, based in Sydney and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology in Sydney. LAVA was founded in 2007 with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi. For a number of years Chris has based his work on the computerised study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions. His research lies in the exploration of unusual structures pushing the boundaries of the traditional understanding of structure and architecture by means of digital and experimental form finding. Chris Bosse's Masters’ degree dealt with the implementation of virtual worlds into architecture. LAVA have recently completed the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, Abu Dhabi; the Future Hotel Showcase Germany, winner of 2009 Australian Interior Design Awards; architectural installations 'Green Void', runner up at the 2009 AA|FAB Awards, UK, and ‘Digital Origami Tigers’ in Sydney and at Kuala Lumpur Design Week; the Sherman Bibliotheca at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney nominated for the 2009 contract world awards; the 2009 Vodaphone MTV Awards set in Sydney; 'Tower Skin' a speculative transformation of the UTS tower Sydney and winner in the ZEROprize Re-Skinning Awards, a Zerofootprint/United Nations Habitat competition; and the VIP and Sponsor Hospitality Village for the Qatar Tennis Tournament. LAVA won an international competition to design the city centre [plaza, hotel, convention centre, entertainment complex and retail facilities] of Masdar, the world’s first eco city in the UAE. LAVA was chosen over 400 entries and strong competition from some of the world’s most high profile architects. Masdar won the Special Award - Environmental Category in the 2009 Cityscape Dubai Awards and was short listed at the 2009 World Architecture Festival, Barcelona. Whilst Associate Architect at PTW Architects in Sydney, he was key designer of the Watercube for Beijing Olympics [winner of Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale] and he was recognized in the 2007 AR Awards for Emerging Architecture, RIBA London.  ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM PUBLIC LECTURE Ned Rossiter "Urban China: Strategies for Counter-Cartographies of Creative Industries in Beijing, Shanghai and Ningbo" Time: Wednesday March 10, 2010, 11.30-12.30 Venue: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68 Ned Rossiter is an Australian media theorist based in Shanghai. He is Associate Professor of Network Cultures, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Ned is author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, published by NAi (2006). He co-edited the special issue of the journal Urban China #33 ‘Creative China: Counter-Mapping Creative Industries' (2008). In 2009 he co-founded the Laboratory on Urban Research, based in Shanghai. Related Projects: Organized Networks: http://nedrossiter.org Organized Networks - Mobile Research Labs, Beijing 2007, 2008 http://orgnets.net Rossiter, N., Carriço, M. & de Muynck, B. (guest eds), Urban China 33 Special Issue: ‘Creative China: Counter-Mapping Creative Industries’, 2008. Online archive: http://orgnets.net/publications/urban_china/contents Hao Dong and Binke Lenhardt, "Mapping Architectural Practice in Beijing" in Urban China 33 Special Issue, 2008. http://orgnets.net/urban_china/dong_lenhardt Urban-China-33 web pages: http://movingcities.org/projects/urban-china-33/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/urban-china-33/ Laboratory on Urban Research: http://urbanresearchlab.net/ Culture in Transition: Creative Labour and Social Mobilities in the Asian Century: http://transitlabour.asia Urban-Media Networks: Anthropologies of Urban Transformation: http://orgnets.cn/  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO Post-Waterfront City: The planning and design of next generation living WAW2009: World Architecture Workshop Lianyungang, China November, 2009. Lianyungang, Post Waterfront City - Population 30,000,000 The planning & design of next generation living WAW2009: World Architecture Workshop Since 2002 the World Architecture Workshop has undertaken interrogation through design in cities around the world. In 2009 the workshop turned its attention to the urbanism of population bursts in the context of water based city expansion in Lianyungang, China. Seven groups each obtaining students from Australia, China, France, and Japan produced projects which address global worming, complexity in the instant city, diversification of traffic systems and the merging of salt and fresh water systems and urban design strategies for the city. Given China's current rate of urbanisation the projects go on to propose engagement with primary industries as employment generators for recently re-located populations from rural areas. Massive population increase raises questions of identity for a city. The projects thus treat the histories of the city as building blocks for designing new identities for Lianyungang to guide it through the shifts, growth and iterations of change that its extraordinary ambition will bring. Participating Universities: Miyagi University Japan Nanjing Forestry University, China RMIT Architecture, Australia Sanjiang University, China Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan Tohoku University, Japan l'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Montpellier, France RMIT Faculty Johan van Schaik, Lecturer RMIT Architecture, Director: Minifie Nixon Architects Paul Minifie, Associate Professor RMIT Architecture, Director: Minifie Nixon Architects Gretchen Wilkins, Senior Lecturer RMIT Architecture Stuart Harrison, Senior Lecturer RMIT Architecture, Director: Harrison and White RMIT Students Marco Lavit Nicora, Hannah Rowe, Mari Poll Lien, Chris Gilbert, Sylvio Eckermann, Chen Liu, Selene Wong, Aurelia Gachet, Chris Haddad, Jacqueline O'Brien, Nicholas Rossetti RMIT ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION OPENING Lianyungang, Post Waterfront City - Population 30,000,000 Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Foyer Gallery, Level 11, RMIT Building 8, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne Refreshments provided. Facebook event page Related news: RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS AWARDED AUSTRALIA CHINA COUNCIL RESEARCH PUBLISHING GRANT RMIT Architecture academics Gretchen Wilkins, together with Paul Minifie and Johan van Schaik, Practice Directors of Minifie Nixon, have received a $12,000 grant from the Australia China Council to publish book on water based urban issues in China.  ANTARCTICA, BAU & RMIT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANT Antarctica Group Pty Ltd, whose Directors include RMIT Architecture academics Graham Crist and Simon Whibley, has been awarded an Australia International Cultural Council grant of $19,000 for an architectural design research project and collaboration between Antarctica Group Architects, RMIT University School of Architecture and Design, and BAU International Architects in Shanghai, China, founded by Director James Brearly, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor. This research project involves a comparative study of the urban design and related issues of Melbourne and Shanghai. The project will culminate in a design exhibition and publication of the work in Shanghai in 2010, with associated lectures.  RMIT ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN ALUMNI EVENT Design Life 2009 lectures, exhibition, presentations, forum, workshops, design tours Bali, 4th - 6th December 2009. An inaugural RMIT Architecture & Design Alumni gathering in Ubud Bali to re-connect like-minded individuals from RMIT Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design and Fashion in Australia and spread out across the world. Venue: Gaya Art Space Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Dates: 4-6 December 2009 RMIT Architecture and Design Faculty: Sand Helsel, RMIT Assoc Professor of Architecture, Co-Director, International Development Andrea Mina, RMIT Assoc Professor of Interior Design, Co-Director, International Development Ross Mcleod, RMIT Senior Lecturer in Interior Design Design Life Bali 2009 Organisers: Chua Jindee, RMIT Architecture Alumni, 1999 Suriawati Qiu, RMIT Interior Design Alumni, 1999 Design Life website: www.designlife2009.com Contact: designlife09@gmail.com Facebook Profile: Design Life Facebook Event: Design Life Exhibition Design Life Exhibition Current Works of 30 RMIT School of Architecture+Design Alumni Gaya Art Space Ubud, Bali, Indonesia 4-6 December 2009 International Guest Speakers Saturday 5 Dec, 2-6 pm Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ, Practice Directors: WOHA, Singapore Alumni, Master of Architecture (by research project) - Invited, RMIT, 2002. These Singapore-based architects are one of Southeast Asia’s best-known practices who have collected an unprecedented number of international and local awards for a diverse body of built work, including the World Transport Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, 2009 for the Bras Basah MRT Station, Singapore. They are both alumni of the RMIT Architecture Reflective Practice invited postgraduate research degree stream, directed by Leon van Schaik. Made Wijaya, Practice Director: PT Wijaya Tribwana International, Bali Made Wijaya was born Michael White in Sydney. After studying architecture in Australia, he literally swam ashore to Bali from a yacht in the early 1970's to live and work. He founded the Landscape Architecture practice Wijaya, that specialize in tropical landscape and architectural design consultancy, with bases in Sanur (Bali head office), Jakarta and Singapore, and 25 years combined experience in over 700 hotel, luxury residence and apartment projects.  INTERNATIONAL HOUSING EXHIBITION Kazunari Sakamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology House: Poetics in the Ordinary RMIT Design Research Institute Exhibition Curator: Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer; Co-Director: DRI Urban Liveability with Prof Sue Anne Ware; Director: RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory; Practice Director: NMBW Exhibition Dates: 08.04.09–02.05.09 Public Lecture: Wednesday 29.04.09 at 6.00 pm Exhibition Closing Party: Wednesday 29.04.09 at 7:30pm Venue: The Atrium, Federation Square, Corner Swanston & Flinders St, Melbourne Prof. Sakamoto, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology is an internationally renowned Japanese architect. He was a student of Kazuo Shinohara and the teacher of Kaijima and of Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, also of TITech. This exhibition presents Sakamoto's major works in residences and collective housing from the past 30 years. Kazunari Sakamoto’s architectural works emerge at the boundaries of everyday life. These consciously inconspicuous forms, both in a haphazard suburban setting or in the density of Tokyo, provide an entirely new spatial sensation. This exhibition continues the Design Research Institute’s interest in the discussion that expands the conventional focus on “housing” as a general economic or social condition to include examination of the individual dwelling and its spatial contexts. Moving beyond the large scale and the spectacular, this exhibition will demonstrate the importance contemporary Japanese culture attaches to the activities and environments of everyday life.  PUBLIC LECTURE Kazunari Sakamoto "House: Poetics in the Ordinary" RMIT Design Research Institute Public Lecture Introduced By Prof Geoffrey London, Victorian Government Architect Date: Wednesday 29.04.09 Lecture Time: 6:00pm Exhibition Closing Party: from 7.30 pm onwards Venue: ACMI Cinema 1, Federation Square, Corner Swanston & Flinders St , Melbourne VIC 3000 The RMIT Design Research Institute invites you to a public lecture by visiting Professor Kazunari Sakamoto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It is an opportunity to hear Professor Sakamoto discuss his architectural composition and how it finds greater significance in everyday life than in aesthetic expression. It is this ‘absolute commonness of the everyday’ that presents to him a space of freedom that enables a communication between the body and the world. This lecture is followed by an exhibition closing party and drinks. Spatiality in Contemporary Japanese Housing Lowerpool Elective, RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design, Semester 2, 2009 Elective Leader: Sean McMahon  BOOK Thomas Daniell After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 ISBN 9781568987767 Thomas Daniell, Visiting Fellow, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory RMIT Architecture Phd (Research by Project) Candidate - Invited Stream Supervisor: Leon van Schaik  ITV ASIA INTERVIEW James Brearley, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor Practice Director: BAU International, Shanghai "Creativity in China Series: James Brearley Interview" iTV Asia, Broadcast Oct, 2008. "In this session of Creativity in China, we speak to James Brearly, Principal and Founder of BAU International. Filmed at BAU's Shanghai office, a renowned place of cultural exchange and venue for lectures and events, the interview sheds light on the environmental initiatives of the company. Brearly shares with us the opportunities and challenges of maintaining sustainability and creativity in China today."  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  BEIJING BIENNALE AUSTALIAN EXHIBITION Architects Exhibition: Australasia, in 3rd Beijing Architecture Biennale ,Beijing China, 2008 Curator: Roland Snooks, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture, 2002 BEIJING BIENNALE SCHOOLS EXHIBITION Schools Exhibition: RMIT Architecture (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture 3rd Beijing Architecture Biennale ,Beijing China, 2008  URBAN ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVE Building Tokyo Bachelor of Architectural Design Elective, Semester 1, 2008 Gretchen Wilkins, Visiting Academic, University of Michigan This elective investigates the urban development of Tokyo in the post-war period. CITY EDGE CONFERENCE KEYNOTE James Brearley, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor & Qun Fang, Practice Directors: BAU International, Shanghai Networks Cities: Sustaining Culture, Economics and the Environment Keynote presentation in Eco-Edge 2 - City Edge: International Urban Design Conference Federation Square, Melbourne Feb 14-16, 2008 keynote presentation (pdf - 10mb)  PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ELECTIVE Global Practice Professional Practice Elective Supervisor: Bruce Allen recurring offering, 2003- This elective examines the professional practice issues faced by Australia-based architectural practices when managing design projects being constructed in Asia. A series of key case-study projects are studied. Bruce Allen has extensive architectural practice experience working across the Asian region.  EXHIBITION Networks Cities Exhibition James Brearly, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor Practice Director: BAU International, Shanghai Venue: BAU Architecture Space no 17, lane 1252 Fuxing Middle Lu, Shanghai Dec 15-Jan 21, 2007 Opening 6.30-9.30 pm BAU Architecture Space is a platform for architecture and design, it will hold exhibitions as well as lectures in a beautiful space overlooking Shanghai. For its opening show, BAU is presenting a preview of its upcoming book Networks Cities. Networks Cities is a new urban pla | ||||||||
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