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URBAN ARCHITECTURE LABORATORY ual » news | postgrad | projects | publications | teaching | staff | partners CURTAIN CALL Melbourne's Mid-century Curtain Walls Marika Neustupny Melbourne: RMIT Press, 2006  This book situates and documents exemplary modernist curtain-wall buildings in Melbourne through critical essays, photographic and drawing studies, focusing on fabric arrangement and construction detailing as design questions. The book was developed through a cycle of RMIT Architecture urban research electives, with students participating in guided research and employing common documentation procedures. Marika Neustupny is a Principle of the Melbourne practice NMBW Architecture Studio, with Nigel Bertram and Lucinda McLean. She teaches regularly in the RMIT Architecture program in the Upperpool Design studio and Urban Research Elective course areas, and supervises in the UAL Major Project Design Thesis - Urban Architecture Stream. Recent design studios projects include the Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne workshop with Mauro Baracco, Atelier Bow Wow (Japan) and Taira Nishizawa (Japan). RMIT Architecture publications include By Product Tokyo, with Shane Murray and Nigel Bertram.  photography by Peta Carlin Book Contents preface Marika Neustupny foreward Hannah Lewi essay Curtain Call Marika Neustupny case study documentation Features detailed analysis of 17 key curtain-wall buildings in the Melbourne CBD with: Elevations and Plans Photographs Facade Drawings Details Axonometrics essay The Curtain Wall in Melbourne 1955-75 Rohan Storey bibliography Australian and international publications on curtain-wall buildings, and UAL publications with related research methodologies. acknowledgements A full list of academic, practitioner and student researchers who contributed to this project. survey index Chronological catalogue of 47 significant mid-century curtain-walls in Melbourne, documenting the Architectural practice, a brief description of the buildings current status, and relevant publications. map Provides map locations of the case-study and survey index buildings. Book Launch Curtain Call will be launched in conjunction with the exhibition below by Peta Carlin, who provided the photographic studies for the book and collaborated on the teaching of the urban research elective series with Marika Neuspupny. Related Exhibition  "Urban Fabric: Greige" Exhibitor: Peta Carlin West Space Gallery Floor 1, 15-19 Anthony Street Melbourne, Australia 2 March - 24 March 2007 Exhibition Opening: Thursday 1 March 6-8 pm Hours: wed - friday 12 - 6pm, saturday 12 - 5pm phone: +61 3 9328 8712 fax: +61 3 9328 8715 email: info@westspace.org.au Urban Fabric is a conceptual photographic installation of Melbourne's mid-twentieth century corporate architectural facades that explores the relationship between architecture, and textile design. The exhibition speculates on the potential of photography's role in the construction and representation of the city, in particular our city, Melbourne. The installation is further activated through its establishment as a meeting room in which various architects, artists, designers and craft practitioners will convene to discuss their work and the role that the texture of the built environment plays in their engagement with and understanding of the city. Urban Fabric features graphics by AM Editions. Peta Carlin studied architecture prior to pursuing architectural ideas through the construction of images. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT University, where she tutors in architecture. Related publication:  Peta Carlin, Corners, Catalogue, Melbourne, 2001 short article: "Book review: Corners by Peta Carlin", Architecture Australia, May/June 2001 Book Distribution enquiries: Peta Carlin Promotion + Distribution School of Architecture & Design Publications Unit email: peta.carlin@rmit.edu.au distributed in Australia by: Modern Journal tel/fax +61 394 81 2877 modernjournal@netspace.net.au distributed internationally by: Idea Books tel +31 20 6226154 fax +31 20 6209299 email idea@ideabooks.nl http://www.ideabooks.nl/ Related UAL Design Electives: Curtain Call Design Electives - Urban Architecture Stream Supervisors: Marika Neustupny with Peta Carlin offered 2003-2005 Curtain Call Design Elective Supervisors: Marika Neustupny, Lucina McLean offered 1995 A cycle of RMIT Architecture urban research design electives documented exemplary Melbourne modernist curtain-wall buildings. Students participated in guided research and employing common documentation procedures and drawing studies focusing on fabric arrangement and construction detailing as design questions. Related UAL Publications By Product Tokyo Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2003 Division and Multiplication: building and inhabitation in inner Melbourne Nigel Bertram & Kim Halik Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2002 Winner of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (Vic) Bates Smart Award for architecture in the media, 2003. | ||||||||
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