Acknowledgements The MUDD18 staff and students would like to thank a long list of generous personalities who have made, and continue to make, the program an outstanding success. The list below includes many, but definitely not all, of a large cast of intellects, developers, administrators and designers, who have contributed to the education of the MUDD18 students in Sydney and around the world. On behalf of the Bilbao studio Dr Scott Hawken would like to thank the following people. In Bilbao: Kattalin Aurtenetxe of Fundación Metrópoli; Pablo Otaola, Manager of the Zorrotzaurre Management Committee and Gemma Rojo of Bilbao International, for providing guidance and insight into the sparkling and gritty city of Bilbao. In Madrid: the talented and very gracious staff of the Fundación Metrópoli, for a series of dynamic lectures and support throughout the initial design process. A special thankyou goes to the following members of the Fundación Metrópoli: Mark Dwyer, Aaron Kelley, Kattalin Aurtenetxe, Paloma Díaz, Artemio Fochs, Guillermo Sánchez, María Díez, Maki Kawaguchi and Dr Alfonso Vegara Gómez for hosting and making the Bilbao students stay so stimulating and pleasurable. Thankyou to Professor José Luís Esteban and his students from the European University of Madrid for presenting the final year projects of their undergraduate studies on November the 16th 2012. Thankyou also to Eladio Hernandez, for a generous tour of Madrid’s peripheral housing estates. In Sydney thank you to the following jury members for providing a thoughtful critique on the students’ final presentation: Eladio Hernando, Landscape Architect; Associate Professor Linda Corkery, Jan McCredie; Kevin Hoffman; Professor Bruce Judd; Jane Irwin and Linden Crane of Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture; and Emeritus Professor Jon Lang. On behalf of the Barcelona Studio, Professors Michael Neuman and James Weirick would like to thank many people. In Barcelona BAC Director, Miguel Roldán, who arranged the following impressive lineup of scholars and professionals to critique the student’s work: Jennifer Schildecker, BAC Program Coordinator; Zana Bosnic, Roldán + Berengué arqts, BAC Academic Coordinator; Maria Buhigas, Barcelona Regional; Enric Lambies, Barcelona City Hall, Urban Planning Legal Head; Joan Llort, Government of Catalonia, Director General of Land Use Policy; Jordi Badía, Baas Arquitectes, professor at the UPC; Jaime Coll, Coll-Leclerc arqts, UPC-ETSAB Design Studio coordinator; and also to Jennifer and Zana who provided highly valued administrative support throughout. The following distinguished critics commented on the student work back in Sydney: Peter John Cantrill; Jan McCredie; Kevin Hoffman; David Dack, ARUP; Diana Griffiths, ARUP; Emeritus Professor Jon Lang; Professor Bruce Judd; Professor Alec Tzannes; Visiting Professor Nigel Dickson, Director Dickson Rothschild; Dr Gethin Davison, City Futures UNSW. For the Randwick Knowledge Cluster Studio Dr Scott Hawken and Dr Gethin Davison would like to thank: Gary Mulligan, Manager for Buildings and Grounds Facilities Management, for a rollicking tour of Randwick Tram sheds, Matthias Irger for speaking on micro-climate and the environmental performance of urban form; Dr Harry Margalit, Program Head of BE Architecture for speaking on density and housing in Sydney from a metropolitan perspective; Philip Thalis, Hill + Thalis Urban Projects and David Chesterman, Jackson Teece, for speaking on their role in the development of the UNSW campus; Joanna Hole and Karen Armstrong of the Strategic Planning team for Randwick City Council for their participation and presentations; David Goodwin, Kuhu Gupta and Nate Bettini of UNSW’s Facilities Management team for their presentation on the development options for UNSW’s Randwick Campus. Many of the above speakers were also members of the Steering Committee which guided the class throughout the studio process. For the Wuhan Studio Visiting Professor Nigel Dickson would like to thank the Wuhan Planning Bureau and the Wuhan Land and Spatial Planning departments of the Wuhan government, firstly for their gracious invitation, and secondly, for their support throughout the studio. Sincere thanks are extended to the sessional staff of 2012-2013: Visiting Professor Nigel Dickson for leading the Wuhan studio, Anne Warr for her lecture series on Urban Heritage Conservation in UDES0009 Urban Landscape and Heritage, and Jodi Lawton for her tireless support for the creative and technical challenges of UDES0010 Communication in Urban Design. We thank Emeritus Professor Jon Lang, one of the founding members of the MUDD program, for his invaluable contribution to various design juries but especially to his contribution to UDES0006 Case Studies in Urban Design. Special thanks go to Jodi Lawton of Lawton Design and MUDD17 alumni William Robertson and Chung Hao Ting for their enormous contribution to the LuminoCity exhibition in November of 2012. We learned from a diverse range of dynamic and informative lectures in 2012-2013. We thank: Christian Borchert for speaking on the water sensitive urban design and sustainability components of McGregor+Coxall’s many projects; Bob Perry for speaking on the “Agoradynamics” of cities around the world, and once again for giving a guided tour and lecture on his recent projects for Wentworth Point, Homebush Bay; Jan McCredie for her twenty year review of the Pyrmont Point Urban Design Strategy, Helen Lochhead Assistant Government Architect & Jesse McNicoll, Urban Designer, City of Sydney for their lecture on urban design as public policy and the Alfred/ Pitt/ Dalley/ George Streets Project; Greg Deas on his talk about his experience as Chief Architect of the Lend Lease London Olympic Village; Arlene Segal for her talk on Modi’in New Town & Mamilla Alrov Center, Jerusalem, Israel; Darlene van der Breggan, Executive Manager Design, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, for her talk on the various Sydney Olympic Park Master Plans; Philip Thalis - Principal, Hill+Thalis Urban Projects for his talk on the Rhodes Peninsula Urban Framework Plan, Development Control Plan & Public Domain Plan, 2003; Brendan Randles, Principal. Randles Straatveit for his continuing contribution as guest critic in Studio 1; Boris Kazansky, Principal, Kazansky Keilhacker Urban Design Architektur, Berlin for briefing the Bayshore City Studio on current airport development controversies in Berlin; Alexandros Washburn, Chief Urban Designer, New York City for an outstanding public lecture on our field as the fusion of politics, finance and design. Also thankyou for the extraordinary occasional lectures by Emeritus Professor Jon Lang, John Zerby, Professor Peter Droege, and a three part tour de force by Professor Alexander Cuthbert. Thankyou all. We acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Government in providing travel grants in support of the International Studios in Spain, facilitated at UNSW by Michelle Kofod of the International Office and Janina Jancu at UNSW Scholarships. Finally an especially important thankyou to Professor Alec Tzannes, Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment; Professor Alan Peters, Director of the Graduate School of Urbanism; Professor Bruce Judd, Director Australian School of Architecture and Design; the BECU team; Cassandra James and the EEU team; and administrative assistants Kathy Argyropoulos, Lisette Araujo, Cheryl Brown and Vanessa Blount; for their dedicated support and general goodwill for the MUDD program.
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