SEMESTER 2 | 2022
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO BALLOTING POSTERS & STUDIO LEADER BIOS
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DESCRIPTIVE FORMATION MASTERS STUDIO ROLAND SNOOKS + ALAN KIM THURSDAY 5PM - 9PM LEVEL 10 LONG ROOM
| CHAMELEON | Marc Gibson | 6:30pm - 10:30pm | TUESDAY | FACE-TO-FACE | | Outline Chameleon will explore the design of complex topologies and the translation of intricate ornamentation through panelization and aggregation. This studio will follow the lineage of “Painterly Forms” & “Hereditary” studios and look at the negotiation between generative processes and top-down modelling. This studio will explore the intentional subversion and curation of digital tools to create adventurous forms for 3D Printing. This studio will have a particular focus on the production and post processing RI SK\VLFDO PRGHOV 6WXGHQWV ZLOO FUHDWH UH¿QH DQG SRVLWLRQ D GLJLWDO WRROVHW WKDW LQWHUIDFHV ERWWRP XS DOJRULWKPLF JHQHUDWLRQ RI JHRPHWU\ DQG WRS GRZQ LQWHUYHQWLRQ WKURXJK VFXOSWLQJ 'XULQJ WKH ¿UVW SRUWLRQ of the semester students will introduced the fundamentals of parametric logic, digital sculpting and 3d print optimization to produce a wide array of digital sculptures & Architectural tectonics. The second half of the semester will see students design a mid-rise tower that negotiates the materiality and surrounding architectural vernacular. The weekly aggregation of objects will act as a taxonomy of formal characteristics that will be referred to when designing their architectural language.
| Software No prior experience in ZBrush or Coding required. Communications 3 or equivalent Grasshopper experience is required.
| Groupwork You will work collaboratively with two classmates on a shared site however each person will produce an individual project.
| Evaluation Students will be assessed on their design, visual communication and comprehension of data structure to control layered parametric procedures. Individual folios are to be submitted at the conclusion of this subject.
| 3D Print Materials Students will be producing weekly models using 3D printers & Laser Cutting. Please note that there will be material costs for 3D printing (PLA & Resin).
| Tectonic Formation Lab The studio is part of a group of studios and electives run this semester that are aligned with the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formations Lab, which will collaborate through combined reviews and symposia.
| Core Techniques
| Topology Generation
| Develop Taxonomy of Sculptures
| Procedural Materials
| 3D Print Resolution
| Develop Panelization Systems
| View Past Hereditary Studio
SUBURBAN REALISM:
GROUND TOWN
WHEN: Tuesday 18:00 - 22:00 WHERE: On Campus, Building 100 LED BY: Dean Boothroyd Matthew Tibballs Olivia O’Donnell
Suburban urban Realism’s objective is to highlight the ma marginal nature of Melbourne’s outer suburban fringe in the architectural and planning community’s consciousness when it comes to imagining Melbourne’s future. It seeks to speculate on the roles of the edge suburbs and search for a new civic and collective mission in these areas. The series of studios under the overarching banner of Suburban Realism speculate that with a renewed civic and collective vision, Melbourne’s outer edge suburbs might rival its prized inner-city neighbourhoods. The studio will speculate on the main civic marker of identity, the Local Town Centre (LTC), through ascending scales from supermarket aisles, parking lots, connected roads and transport systems to metropolitan markers of services, infrastructure, water systems and landscape. Semester Structure: Weeks 01 to 06 is the explorationx of a contemporary town centre through analysis of the As-Found, Precinct Structure Plans, Typology, Public Space and Representation before culminating in a mid-semester presentation through the guise of a modern-day, tech-savvy, pamphleteer. The second six weeks will involve altering, demolishing and extending the town centre to suit the year 2050 scenario. In Week 07 a workshop will be conducted with a group of invited industry professionals joining the students to radically speculate on future scenarios for 2050 with climate change being an agent of change. The intent of this studio is to expand the reach of architecture and engage with the infrastructural matrix from which buildings are suspended, constructing provocations in the process which confound and force one to rethink the idea of civic ‘out there’. Welcome to Ground Town.
HOUSING MATTERS Studio Leaders KTA Core Team: Andy Ferguson, Claire Humphreys, Kerstin Thompson, Toby Pond Location KTA Studio, 6 Lothian Street, North Melbourne Time Wednesday 4pm-8pm Site Prahran or Richmond or Flemington or South Yarra
The Victorian State Government has initiated a number of projects to deliver more social housing, aiming for 12,000 new homes in 5 years through their Big Housing Build initiative. In addition to creating new homes is an agenda for urban renewal and the potential impact of major housing projects to deliver ‘transformational change’ for both existing residents and the broader community. The studio will use a real brief and real sites to explore models for social housing of the scale and to the brief of these government initiatives. It will be lead by KTA architects currently delivering social housing projects. Students will engage with the complexity of redeveloping existing social housing estates – whether with new buildings and/ or adaptation of existing ones – especially around amenity/ privacy/security/tenure etc. Design outcomes will be founded on research around social housing acknowledging that innovation in public and social housing has lead to many a failed experiment both here and internationally. The degree to which this failure can be attributed to design or management and governance is complex and will be part of this early research.
We will explore the pros and cons of the adaptation and re-use of existing buildings on the estates compared with their replacement with new buildings. We will do so through consideration of some of the following conundrums: _ Design for all or design for no one? _ Is architectural neutrality even possible and it is appropriate in multi-cultural Melbourne? _ Romance of the commons – for whom? _ Regulatory formulas…what of site and contextual responsiveness and innovation? _ Beyond the necessary…what makes for homeliness? _ Repetition for efficiency and for equity… where in lies character, points of attachment? These conundrums are not new. The focus will be on design responses to these, specifically on the spatial hardware, not on issues of programming, governance. While aware of these, they are the jurisdiction of our clients. So questions of architectural language, style, planning, materiality will be front of mind as we seek to resolve these conundrums as architects: through the drawing, the specification, construction methodology, and allocation of public monies.
Image: Wille, Peter, 1931-1971 photographer. Copyright has been assigned to the State Library of Victoria.
Conceptual Agenda
sitcom tv architecture Ann Lau
Putu Permana
tune in on tuesdays
Rhys McFarlane
Neuman Chow
6-9PM
PREMIERES AT 1/250 FLINDERS LANE
the studio.
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Walter Benjamin saw in the arcades of Paris the rei¿ed form of a set of cultural, social, political, and economic anxieties that spoke back to fundamental cultural myths. I see in the Australian housing market a similar set of speculative anxieties, as decisions made about one’s home ripple o൵ into the unforeseeable future. As a typology it is unique in how it contains so much speci¿city, but is built to bear the weight of so many universalities. In this studio students will be working with new design methodologies developed during my PhD that will enable them to work top-down, bottom-up, and side to side. With these methodologies they will be asked to address questions of myth, of composition, and of fundamental values, across di൵erent housing typologies, and suburban compositions. In doing so the students will be critiquing a broader nonarchitectural view of the house (through myth), and the established modes of working (through composition) to reformulate an idea of the house that can be applied more Àexibly as we push forward into an uncertain century. Composition of both the idea and the drawing, addressing the non-¿gurative and ¿gurative qualities, will be essential. Students will work alone, and in cross-studio groups.
TUESDAY mornings 9.30-1.30 (most
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LOREN ADAMS
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO: SEM 2, 2022
R E G U L AT O R Y N O N S E N S E : THE VIBE OF THE THING
“There is no one section, your honour. It’s just the vibe...”
T U E S D AY S 5 P M - 9 P M , I N - P E R S O N @ R M I T D E S I G N H U B
The specific things our governing bodies, institutions, and organisations choose to regulate – and the methods they use to evaluate compliance – tell a story about what we, as a society, collectively value. Put simply, a regulation asks two things of proposed building projects: first, “Is it any good?” – or, more precisely, “Is it good enough?” – and then, “How do we know?” The first of these questions demands consensus about what constitutes ‘good-enoughness’ (axiology), while the second demands consensus about acceptable forms of proof or evidence (epistemology, made practical with methodology). When a regulatory clause, metric, or proxy is not (or can never be) meaningfully representative of good-enoughness, design intent provides a recalibrating force, pulling projects closer to evasive notions of acceptability that may be slippery, multifarious, or incalculable. In practice, however, the ‘actually existing’ role of the regulation – as an organizing device for design intent, subject to the forces of neoliberalization – has shifted. Under the weight of relentless, aggressive cost-cutting and value management processes, contemporary building projects are routinely stripped of any features that do not either directly translate to an increase in profit margins or contribute to achieving regulatory compliance. As a result, compliance hurdles that once dictated bare-minimum standards of acceptability have become acceptable stopping points: the good-enoughness has become that’s-enoughness. As the space (of contingency; of possibility; of recalibration) between design intent and bare-minimum compliance collapses, the regulation – operating as both an instance of common values and a necessary precondition of spatial production – takes on greater urgency as a site of investigation, reconfiguration and creative provocation.
Extending upon themes explored in Regulatory Nonsense I – V, this studio will continue to explore the relationship between architecture and the language of regulatory compliance. Together, we will use design to locate, blur, nudge, and renegotiate the blurry thresholds of bare-minimum compliance in a speculative world where numbers no longer exist and regulatory authorship is shared with a clumsy, poetic artificial intelligence. We ask: What might our urban environments be like if building and planning regulations were written by poets, storytellers, artists, philosophers, an A.I.? This semester, as we approach the proliferating suite of building and planning regulations, we also will summon Dennis Denuto’s clumsy lawyerly ramblings in the classic 1997 Australian film, The Castle: “There is no one section, your honour; it’s just the vibe...” What, then, is ‘the vibe’ of building and planning regulation? In this studio, you will complete two broad design tasks: 1) First, you will train a bespoke natural language processing bot on your own carefully curated fine-tuning dataset, and then use this to co-author a new regulation for the built environment. 2) Simultaneously, you will conduct a series of architectural design quasi-experiments to evidence the effectiveness, limitations, and possibilities of this new regulation – eventually culminating in a resolved and cohesive architectural project in Victoria. Along the way, we must be nimble in our disciplinary positioning, toggling back-and-forth between the reciprocal roles of policymaker and architect; juggling the demands of rule-making (for all) and (our own) design intent.
CONSPIRACY RECAPITULATED
Conspiracy is interested in confronting and untangling the congested infrastructures that comprise the contemporary city. In this studio we refuse to see the architectural object as an isolated entity, to be shaped by an omnipotent designer, rather we direct our suspicions towards the other agents that might author our city. This studio is interested in the relationship between the physical and immaterial, the built and unbuilt, the real and unreal.
ARJUNA BENSON SEMESTER 2 WEDNESDAYS 0930
For architects, the term “infrastructures” may suggest transportation networks, plumbing systems, electrical grids, and other physical city-matter. However, this studio enfolds these archetypes with what Keller Easterling describes as “the rules governing the space of everyday life”. Invisible systems of management, design standards and legislation, political consensus and dispute, social etiquettes and behaviours, data and information, news and media, manufacturing and commerce; these are infrastructural components that fabricate and condition our reality.
The method of the conspiracy theory will be used to make sense of the totality of the city. The conspiracy theorist takes uncontroversial data points and arranges them in novel ways. Whether this arrangement is “true” or not is unimportant. What we are interested in is in what it may lay bare and in the opening it may create for action. The dwelling will act as evidence of the theory, as an actor within it or as reaction against it. The studio will be structured as a series of esquisses, done in groups and individually. These will include traditional architectural exercises but will also explore filmmaking and other representional techniques.
FUTURE HANNAH ROWE
ISLANDS
+ BRETT WITTINGSLOW
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS This studio will propose a new future for Herring Island, located within inner city Melbourne. The island will positioned as a new home for arts, culture and education. An artificial island built from sludge, Herring Island has a peculiar history and place within early industrial Melbourne. Since revegetated and oft overlooked this studio will speculate how the rich social, cultural and environmental history of the site can be unpacked and examined and ultimately balanced against new programmatic requirements. The outcomes will
endeavour to move beyond the current static nature of the island and provide a new future Movement, flux, history, material, activity, program, grain, fabric, thresholds, ground plane, peculiarities, juxtapositions, relationships and form are just some of the themes which will be explored during the semester. These themes will engage with the requirements and opportunities present when reviewing site and program; culminating in rich and varied proposals.
RMIT Classification: Trusted Instrument Architecture MAS 2022 Masters Architecture Studio Supervisor Dr Peter Brew Tuesday Morning 9.30 “Instruments are nothing but theories materialized” (Bachelard) . The novelty of Raymound Queneau’s “book” 100 Million poems is in the way it reimagines the idea of a book, In a conventional book pages contain lines of text and are bound, Queneau book at first appearance accepts this format and is materially identical to a conventional book in all respects other than each line is a page and it is possible to encounter each line in a different order, in a new context within the book. It is possible to recognise in the unconventional format of 100 million poems as an invention, it facilities or allows us to encounter the world differently, there is also a discovery which takes the form of a critique with respect to the nature of the book. it is possible to think of a book content as being regulated by its architecture. That the architecture is in this sense the possibility of the book, and what the architecture of Queneau’s book demonstrates is that this is not the only possibility. The studio aims to look at the construction of ideas and the design of architecture. The ostensible content for our study’s high density residential projects though I am open to what final form might take.
M ARCH STUDIO OUTLINE RMIT SEM 2, 2022 PAUL VAN HERK paul.vanherk@rmit.edu.au www.paulvanherk.com excx.net
This M ARCH studio is initially based on a real project being undertaken by design collective EXCX. The real project is a low-budget renovation of the store ‘Australian Stitch’ on Brunswick St, Fitzroy. The brand is relatively new and distinguished by the fact that its wares are made in Melbourne. Its interior design and presence on the street are far from distinguished however - it looks generic and is easily missed by a passer-by. It has this in common with a smattering of other basics maker-retailers in Melbourne like Denimsmith, Dejour and Qualitops. Their ‘reimbodiment’ of production and consumption into a once-more intimate relationship misses out on the attention they deserve. With this as the starting problem, the studio will be a design-led exploration of synthetic cultural identity-creation: what symbols, artefacts and processes can be created around local manufacturing as a new form of positive patriotism? What new spaces, icons and textures can be formed between the minimalist helvetica of neoliberal global generic and the colourful brashness of protectionism and old unionism? How can the design of a store innovate on and re-define what the word ‘Australian’ means in the name of the store? The studio will start with small design studies that draw from a number of historical research threads and culminate in designs for the actual store in mid-semester, then in the second half of semester be scaled up and projected ten years into the near future, requiring the design of a combined manufacturing and retail building located in Collingwood’s old garment district.
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This studio investigates how architecture can affect social, cultural, and political change using the design of a School of Votes as a vehicle to explore positions on how we can curate change as architects. The agenda of this studio is to engage with the systems in which we hold agency to affect change. The political voting system is an obvious expression of this agenda, but the studio strives to go beyond that and investigate other systems in which we vote, in our everyday lives. Every choice we make or not make, is a vote. Ultimately, the aim of the studio is for students to develop a way to respond in the capacity of an architect to issues they care about, producing drawings and propositions that communicate clearly how we can, should, or must move forward. Students will be introduced to a literary design process based on Plato’s Theory of Forms, organised into four parts – Object, Subject, Brief, Site – to craft a total architectural proposition. We will encourage a discursive and rigorous framework driven by intellect, analysis and narrative to form a collective, supportive and interdependent studio culture that challenges ideological preconceptions and aspirational moorings that leave individuals and societies impotent to enact or curate change. Studio sessions will be conducted in a socratic environment, whereby students are expected to actively engage in group discussions and to share ideas and feedback. Students will work individually throughout the semester while contributing to the collective culture of the Design Studio. The studio will emphasise the use of architectural drawings and physical models to describe and represent ideas and students will develop drawings of various scales, including at least one 1:5 design detail as part of their final proposition. Inherent in the agenda of the studio is for students to think beyond the discipline of architecture and attempt to also consider the disciplines of psychology and environmental science through their designs.
RMIT & The Why Factory BiodiverCity This Master of Architecture Studio is the latest in a series of collaborations between The Why Factory @ TU Delft and RMIT Architecture. Based at TU Delft, The Why Factory (T?F) is a global think-tank and research institute led by professor Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV. It explores possibilities for the development of our cities by focusing on the production of models and visualisations for cities of the future. As the global population increases and increasingly urbanises, the BiodiverCity studio will continue the development of the Why Factory’s ongoing research on maximising cohabitation between animals and humans in urban environments. Humans and animals have always co-habituated in our cities. We often categorise our non-human cohabitants as either pets or pests, based on whether we welcome them into th space we share with them or unsuccessfully try to keep them out. However both pets and pests have one thing in common; they comprise the very small sub-set of animals that have successfully adapted to our human cantered built environments.
Developing on earlier research that investigated the urban scale impacts of maximising habituation for a much wider set of animals and plants across 14 distinct biomes; this studio will develop speculative architectural typologies that maximise habitat for all types of living things. The studio will ask what do buildings look like and how do they function if humans are not the only or perhaps even the most important occupants? The studio will guide students through the process of formulating and visualising responses to these questions and will culminate with the production of 1:5 sectional models presenting these speculations in tangible and physical way.
TUTORS: Winy Maas (MVRDV/ The Why Factory @ TU Delft), Javier Arpa (The Why Factory @ TU Delft) & Felix Madrazzo (IND/ The Why Factory @ TU Delft) & Dr. Ben Milbourne (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)
PROPOSED TIMELINE: Intensive: Tuesdays 6pm weeks 5-13, Thursdays 6pm weeks 9 & 14. Face-to-face in Melbourne, with online input from Why Factory staff
Architecture
RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN SEMESTER 2 2022 RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SEMESTER 2 2022
EXTREMELY SMALL AND VERY LOUD (A STUDIO ON RMIT, THE CITY AND THE BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT)
The urbanist that has been trained to think that urban design is about the big scale only will go hungry after graduation - it might be some time before we are designing instant cities again. The urbanist who thinks that a master plan can carry an authorial idea into the future is deluded. Time heals all, especially grand plans. This is a studio that will tackle two clichés of urban thinking directly – big scale and the master plan. In the place of bigness, we’ll test how small-scale moves can conquer large territories. In the place of a staged master plan, we’ll explore how agency, time and catalysts can be deployed to help form urban situations. RMIT University, Moreland City Council, and the Victorian Government (Creative Victoria and DEDJTR) have undertaken to develop and grow a vibrant ‘Design District’ in the heart of Brunswick. This studio is agnostic about the Brunswick Design District (BDD) - it might be a great idea, it might also be spin. What is interesting about the proposal is that at its basis, the BDD is counterfactual – it turns the orthodox order of planning cities – big scale infrastructure and then density and then zoning and only then use - upside down. BDD will start with use – design, making, manufacturing, social enterprise and see if new infrastructure might -supercharge its density and viability. The key focus of this studio will be an attempt to redeem Melbourne’s middling recent history of design at the scale of the precinct through an understanding of the spatial consequences of use. We will speculate on the disaggregated campus as an urban typology (including RMIT’s own) and propose arguments for designing and growing the city based on enabling infrastructure, catalytic agents and accelerated evolution. We will put our assumptions to the test by providing a spatial design that might act as a catalyst for the BDD and which will provide a kind of framework of irritation to counter the rapidly changing character of Brunswick. The studio will be open to both the Master of Urban Design and Master of Architecture students. Group work (2 student groups) will be expected in the first 5 weeks of the semester. After that time, it will be your choice about whether to continue in groups or to work alone.
WHERE: In person! Venue TBC. WHEN: Tuesday Nights 6:00-10:00. STUDIO LEADER: Prof. Mark Jacques.
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MELBOURNE STUDIO 2
RETROFIXING A’BECKETT STREET
RMIT Master of Architecture & Urban Design Studio 2022 Tuesday 6pm
GRAHAM CRIST and TOM MURATORE with special guest HELEN DUONG
HOW DID WE GET HERE? W H A T T O D O N E X T ? This studio will work in a piece of our neighbourhood Melbourne which grew out of almost unbridled market driven development and produced super dense high rise . A 2015 city of Melbourne report reviewed urban panning controls in this precinct and freaked out at this urban density. Tightening of those planning controls resulted. We will ask: Is this high rise density all bad ? And anyway, how do we fix it? We will start with the premise of the Supertight project, that density isn't inherently a problem but might be something to strive for. So how do we make it better? We will observe closely what's there and understand the forces that produced it (mostly financial- but also regulatory and and ownership). We will intervene and retrofit - insert some more buildings, rethink the street, and think about open space in a radical way. Each with the aim of producing a supergreat and supertight city. In doing this work we will create a follow-up report responding to the 2015 study.
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Practice Studio What makes public architecture, public? Having a way of exploring this question through architecture is the theme of the studio and extends the debates and questions that we ask within our practice. Lyons designs projects across the ‘public realm’ which can easily be listed as typologies; education, research, healthcare, justice, civic spaces, libraries and so forth. The other way we can describe these projects is that they are for students, creators, for the well and the soon-to-be well, for the lost, for the migrant, and for the Indigenous community. As architectural typologies these buildings bring their weight of history, function, and expectation of how they should look and who they’re for. These are great starting points for learning through and contesting these architectures. We argue, and will explore in the studio, that designing for culture starts with contesting the typology with ‘publics’ – multiple ideas of who the building is for and what it could mean.
The ideas that ‘cut across’ these projects are cultural – an interest in the institution, history, arts, politics, identity, and everyday experiences of the city and its publics. Using these lenses the studio will analyse these publics, how they use the city, and then challenge the structures of the typology to design truly cultural buildings. How broadly can public architecture be ‘opened up’? The ‘public’ is not a monolithic idea –our politics, as we are told has increasingly become, is fragmented and interest-driven, but also diverse, complex, and confounding to making a singular idea of public architecture. That’s how we like it. The studio project and site How can a project be designed to connect simultaneously with different ‘publics’? The studio project will be a new hybrid civic centre in central Melbourne. The city has changed through two years of being abandoned and underused. New spaces have been created in the city in which a civic centre comprising cultural, commercial, and community programs, will negotiate how these publics are designed together. .
Professor Carey Lyon, Nina Wyatt, Vicky Li, Adam Pustola and Lyons studio guests
Wednesday 6 – 10pm Lyons Studio - Level 3, 246 Bourke St, Melbourne
RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studios Studio Leader Bios
RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio Coordinators Dr Christine Phillips is a non-indigenous architect, educator and writer who is passionate about how history, culture and understandings of place and Country can inform our built environment.
Patrick Macasaet is Lecturer and PhD candidate at RMIT Architecture and Principal of Superscale Architecture.
Design Studio: Yirramboi Gadhaba w: www.oopla.org ig: @x10phillips e: christine.phillips@rmit.edu. au
Design Studio: Fear Awe Wonder: Mattermeta (BAS) w: superscale.com.au ig: @superscale e: patrick.macasaet@rmit. edu.au
RMIT Master of Architecture Program Manager Dr John Doyle is RMIT Architecture Program Manager, President of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia and Director of Common.
w: commondesign.com.au ig: @common_gram e: john.doyle@rmit.edu.au
Loren Adams is disciplinary promiscuous spatial practitioner, technologist, and educator. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow with the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne and sessional teacher at RMIT.
Professor Alisa Andrasek is a Professor of Design Innovation at RMIT.
Design Studio: Regulatory Nonsense: The Vibe of the Thing ig: @lorenfrances
Design Studio: AI SUPERBLOCKS w: alisaandrasek.com w: www.aiarch.ai w: linktr.ee/nDarchitecturev
Nic Bao is a registered Architect and Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University.
Arjuna Benson is Graduate of Architecture currently working at Sibling Architecture.
Design Studio: Coral ig: @nic_bao
Design Studio: Conspiracy Recapitulated
Peter Bickle is Principal at ARM Architecture.
Dean Boothroyd RMIT Bachelor of Architecture, 30+ years of industry experience, 9 Suburban Realism Studios in RMIT Masters of Architecture, Co-founder M@Studio.
Design Studio: ARM Practice Studio. No Home, No Country, No Place to Live w: armarchitecture.com.au ig: @armarchitecture
Design Studio: Suburban Realism: Ground Town ig: @mat_studio_architects
Dr Peter Brew studied architecture at RMIT in the late 1980s, practiced architecture and returned to RMIT in 2015 as a PhD candidate and faculty member since 2017. He is committed to reimagining the possibility of architecture.
N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon Wurrung Elder who enjoys sharing her knowledge and stories with architecture students and has engaged with the built environment with many of Melbourne’s landscape and architecture practices. Design Studio: Yirramboi Gadhaba
Design Studio: Instrument Architecture
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN STUDIO DESIGN STUDIO LEADER BIOS
Neuman Chow is Graduate of Architecture at Hayball. Neuman is interested in the microcosms of different urban conditions in cities that have been impacted by architectural design from a micro to macro scale.
Steven Chu is the Founding Director of Alter Atlas and a practising architect registered with the Architects Registration Board of Victoria.
Design Studio: Hayball Practice Studio. Sitcom TV Architecture w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch
Design Studio: Vote ig: @alteratlas
Associate Professor Graham Crist is Director of Antarctica and RMIT Master of Urban Design Program Manager.
Simon Drysdale Driven by enthusiasm, passion & inventiveness. I have typically worked in teams unified & driven by deep ecological & social outcomes. I have a particular lens on the spatial experience of place and how the spectrum of care can be enhanced through built form. Design Studio: Small Vessels
Design Studio: Retrofixing A’Beckett Street ig: @antarctigram alteratlas
Moyshie Elias is a practicing Graduate of Architecture (M.Arch), with over a decade of experience teaching at RMIT, University of Melbourne and Monash University.
Andy Ferguson is Senior Architect at Kerstin Thompson Architect.
Design Studio: Another World on the Merri
Design Studio: KTA Practice Studio. Housing Matters w: kerstinthompson.com ig: @kerstin_thompson_ architects
Marc Gibson is an RMIT Architecture Associate Lecturer & Tectonic Formation Lab Digital Lead where he teaches subjects in the technology and techniques cluster with a focus on algorithmic design.
Tilly Glascode is an artist and librarian working and living in Melbourne/Naarm whose practice revolves around creative approaches to community learning, imagination, and experimentation through librarianship, research, workshops, publishing, and art making. Design Studio: Another World on the Merri
Design Studio: Chameleon ig: @marcwgibson ig: @tectonicformationlab
Claire Humphreys is Associate at Kerstin Thompson Architect.
Design Studio: KTA Practice Studio. Housing Matters w: kerstinthompson.com ig: @kerstin_thompson_ architects
Professor Mark Jacques is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect and director of Openwork. In 2015, Mark was appointed Professor of Architecture (Urbanism) Industry Fellow within RMIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Design. Design Studio: Extremely Small and Very Loud ig: @_openwork
Alan Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate at RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab (Computational Design and Advanced Fabrication).
Simone Koch is a a registered architect working at Workshop Architecture. She has taught as a sessional tutor for over 10 years in architectural design, technology, and professional practice at RMIT Architecture at a Master’s level.
Design Studio: Descriptive Formation ig: @alan_arch_kim ig: @tectonicformationlab
Design Studio: Displacement
Leon Koutoulas is a Graduate of Architecture at ARM Architecture and an RMIT Architecture alumnus.
Ann Lau is Director of Hayball.
Design Studio: ARM Practice Studio. No Home, No Country, No Place to Live w: armarchitecture.com.au ig: @armarchitecture
Design Studio: Hayball Practice Studio. Sitcom TV Architecture w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch
Dylan Li is Project Lead and Architect at ARM Architecture.
Vicky Li is an architect at Lyons, specializing in health planning and design, with an interest in the role that design plays in enhancing the wellbeing and experience of the occupiers of a building.
Design Studio: ARM Practice Studio. No Home, No Country, No Place to Live w: armarchitecture.com.au ig: @armarchitecture
Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio. Publics w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN STUDIO DESIGN STUDIO LEADER BIOS
Professor Carey Lyon is one of the Founding Directors of Lyons, and a leader in design within Australia for the award-winning projects he has led and co-led, his longstanding role as Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and peer-elected positions for national architecture bodies. Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio. Publics w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture
Felix Madrazzo is a partner in IND [Inter.National.Design] an architecture and urbanism practice founded in 2007 in Rotterdam. He is co-founder of Supersudaca, a collective of architects from Latinamerica conducting research on contemporary intersections of society and territory. Design Studio: BiodiverCity (The Why Factory) w: internationaldesign.nl ig: @ind_inter.national.design
Professor Winy Maas is founding partner of MVRDV and leads The Why Factory (T?F) based at TU Delft - a global think-tank and research institute. It explores possibilities for the development of our cities by focusing on the production of models and visualisations for cities of the future.
Stasinos Mantzis is a practicing architect for 20 years. Stas is an experienced registered architect and educator with an interest in how culture and cultural knowledge can be integrated in all aspects of the built environment.
Design Studio: BiodiverCity (The Why Factory) w: thewhyfactory.com ig: @thewhyfactory_winy. maas
Design Studio: Yirramboi Gadhaba ig: @stasman
Rhys McFarlane is Rhys is interested in the weird parts of architecture that communities can use as a framework to adapt and grow.
Design Studio: Hayball Practice Studio. Sitcom TV Architecture w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch
Dr Ben Milbourne is an architect and academic based in Melbourne. He is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University where he is engaged in research on the application of advanced manufacturing in architecture and the future fabric of Australian cities. Design Studio: BiodiverCity (The Why Factory) w: commondesign.com.au ig: @benmilbourne_ ig: @common_gram
Thomas Muratore is a registered architect and Associate Lecturer at RMIT Architecture.
Olivia O’Donnell is a University of Melbourne Graduate of Masters of Landscape Architecture, industry experience at Hassell and Bush Projects.
Design Studio: Retrofixing A’Beckett Street
Design Studio: Suburban Realism: Ground Town
Putu Permana As a keen advocate of how design can be clearly communicated, Putu utilises and regularly explores the application of parametric design and technology, and how they can strengthen the articulation of design concepts Design Studio: Hayball Practice Studio. Sitcom TV Architecture w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch
Tobias Pond is Senior Associate at Kerstin Thompson Architect.
Adam Pustola is a Principal at Lyons and a Design Architect who specialises in the creative and strategic development and delivery of complex public and institutional projects, with a broad interest in culture, communities, and cities.
Hannah Rowe is a project architect at BKK. She investigates modes of sustainability through passive design and use of materials.
Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio. Publics w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture
Design Studio: Future Islands
Associate Professor Roland Snooks is the director of the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab and the architecture practice Studio Roland Snooks.
Laura Szyman is a PhD candidate and tutor at RMIT University, currently investigating housing and the periphery in Melbourne. https://notafossil.cargo.site/
Design Studio: Descriptive Formation ig: @rolandsnooks ig: @tectonicformationlab
Design Studio: After the storm, I see again a weasel. w: notafossil.cargo.site
Adjunct Professor Kerstin Thompson is Director of Kerstin Thompson Architects and an RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor.
Matthew Tibballs is an RMIT Architecture alumnus, 4 years of industry experience with McBride Charles Ryan and Edition Office.
Design Studio: KTA Practice Studio. Housing Matters w: kerstinthompson.com ig: @kerstin_thompson_ architects
Design Studio: Suburban Realism: Ground Town
RMIT MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN STUDIO DESIGN STUDIO LEADER BIOS
Design Studio: KTA Practice Studio. Housing Matters w: kerstinthompson.com ig: @kerstin_thompson_ architects
Conor Todd is an architect whose practice comprises design, research, writing and teaching.
Paul van Herk is an experienced architect and currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University, where he also teaches history and design. He is a founding director of design studio EXCX.
Design Studio: Seeing Things
Design Studio: Australian Stitch w: excx.net w: www.paulvanherk.com ig: @__excx
Brett Wittingslow is a director of small firm with a keen interest in contextual specificity.
Nina Wyatt is an architect at Lyons working on public and institutional facilities in the research, tertiary education, and healthcare sectors.
Design Studio: Future Islands w: bw-a.com.au ig: @birthisel_wittingslow
Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio. Publics w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture