Research 2012
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The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design is proud to host regular presentations, as part of its Speaker Series, by national and international designers who contribute to the vibrant culture of intellectual inquiry. In August 2012 internationally recognised Japanese architect Shigeru Ban presented his innovative ‘Cardboard Cathedral’ concept for the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, following the devastating earthquake on 22nd February 2011. To view Shigeru Ban’s presentation titled Emergency Architecture for a Fallen City please visit https://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/architecture/2012/10/09
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About the School .......................................... 2 Research Vision ............................................ 3 Expertise and Supervision ............................ 4 Testimonials .................................................. 6
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Research Profiles .........................................11 History/Theory/Culture ................................ 14 Design Research and Education ................ 20 Information for Prospective Students ........
The University of Adelaide is committed to research excellence and it is currently ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide. High quality research underpins all aspects of learning and teaching and the University’s research programs offer outstanding opportunities to researchers and students from across the world, eager to learn and work at one of Australia’s most respected institutions. In this context, the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design has a small but vibrant research community that is held in high esteem internationally and nationally. Building on a rich tradition of scholarship and professional expertise, current research is clustered in three primary areas: sustainable urbanism, history/theory/ culture, and design research and education. The outstanding research featured in this document—which is organised according to these research clusters—is distinguished by the practical objectives of the individual projects that seek to benefit the wider community. Moreover, these significant objectives are clearly aligned with many of Australia’s national research priorities including environmental sustainability, innovative responses to climate change and urbanisation, innovations in technology, and efforts to enhance Australia’s capacity to interpret and engage with its regional and global environment through a greater understanding of societies and cultures.
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he brings to the role will serve as a catalyst for significant and competitive research outputs in future. I encourage prospective students to consider the research programs available in the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. While the testimonials by past students provide rich evidence of the supportive research environment available to new research students, the inspiring contributions to knowledge provide evidence of the wide range of scholarly opportunities that are available in this multi-disciplinary research environment. Professor Christopher Findlay Executive Dean Faculty of the Professions
The school... has a small but vibrant research community that is held in high esteem internationally and nationally.
The School is moving into an exciting new era with the appointment of Professor George Zillante who brings a wealth of academic and professional experience to the role of Head of School. Professor Zillante is the recipient of numerous prestigious grants for research which are particularly notable for their links with industry. The energy that
Cover Image: School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design graduate Tristan d’Estrée Sterk, founder of ORAMBRA (Office for Robotic Architectural Media and the Bureau for Responsive Architecture)
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Profiles 5 Associate Professor Veronica Soebarto ....... 10 Associate Professor Samer Akkach ............ 16 Professor Ian MacDougall ......................... 22 Professor George Zillante ............................
About the School Our School is located in one of Australia’s highly respected ‘Group of Eight’ universities, known for the quality of their research and rigorous educational standards.
We specialise in delivering internationally recognised programs in architecture and landscape architecture that include significant urban design content.
significant body of knowledge that builds on the robust tradition of research in our School. This tradition of research is held in high esteem internationally and nationally.
The internationally acclaimed research expertise of our staff members underpins all aspects of learning and teaching in these programs to ensure the highest calibre of intellectual rigour amongst the student cohort. Thus, the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design is recognised for training graduates to the highest professional standards in an educational culture that also values and encourages a theoretical and reflective approach.
This brochure provides an insight into our research with emphasis on three primary research clusters: sustainable urbanism, history/theory/culture, and design research and education. Valuing the contribution of all our scholars, the document juxtaposes research profiles of senior staff members, supervisors, and higher degree research candidates.
The School is proud of its research community. This vibrant community comprises academic staff members and postgraduate research students who generate a productive and
These profiles—organised alphabetically— reveal the breadth and depth of research as well as the many intersections between the research clusters and other fields of knowledge. The intent is to provide a broad understanding of our collective body of scholarship with a view to future research collaborations and to assist prospective higher degree research students in their important decisions regarding postgraduate study. I invite you to contact us to explore the programs and opportunities offered in the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Professor George Zillante Head, School of Architecture Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
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The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, was a valuable precedent for John Swift’s PhD dissertation titled Reframing the Dynamics: A Case Study of the Interaction between Architectural Computing and RelationshipBased Procurement at the National Museum of Australia
Research Vision Our vision is to be recognised internationally and nationally as a School with research excellence in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, specifically in the areas of: sustainable urbanism, history/theory/culture, and design research and education. The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design aims: 1. To be the point of reference for various stakeholders requiring research in the built environment 2. To continuously improve and maintain the School’s research output/publication record 3. To significantly grow the School’s research income 4. To sustainably grow the number of higher degree research students within the areas of the School’s research foci 5. To strengthen the link between research and teaching 6. To be a School that looks outwards and to benchmark our research and teaching quality against the very best in the world
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Expertise and Supervision The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design is a small interdisciplinary school situated in the Faculty of the Professions that delivers professionally accredited programs in architecture and landscape architecture with a shared focus on urban design.
Our Supervisors All higher degree research students are supervised by a panel of experts to ensure the highest quality research outcome that is internationally competitive. The School’s supervisors have expertise in the areas of sustainable urbanism, history/ theory/culture, and design research and education. However, it is also possible to undertake research with the guidance of an interdisciplinary supervision panel to ensure the best possible outcome for some students.
The range and profile of the research undertaken within the School can be summarised by three overarching questions: 1. How sustainable are current planning, design and construction practices in light of cultural, social, economic, and environmental change? 2. How does the design and construction of the physical environment (buildings, landscapes, urban space and infrastructure) support and shape the cultures that produce it? 3. How do design practice, thinking and learning in the environmental design field produce knowledge?
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Given these questions, this School is committed to research excellence with particular focuses in the fields of sustainable urbanism, history/theory/culture (with an emphasis on Asia and the Middle East), and design research and education. This brochure highlights current research by our research community which comprises academic staff members and postgraduate research students to reveal an exciting breadth and depth of scholarship. This research is actively disseminated in a significant number of internationally recognised publications that highlight the advantages of inter-disciplinary designthinking in a rapidly changing world.
Hence, students may have principal supervisors from The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and co-supervisors from the Faculties of Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences or Sciences. It is not uncommon for supervision panels to include co-supervisors from other Universities in Australia and abroad. Research profiles of our supervisors are available in the following pages and further details about their publications can be viewed at http://architecture.adelaide.edu.au/staff/ Information for prospective students can be found at the end of this brochure.
Professor George Zillante Head of School George’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Architecture, a Graduate Diploma in Town Planning and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, all obtained from the South Australian Institute of Technology. George’s other qualifications include a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of South Australia and a Doctorate in Technology from Deakin University. Since 2005 George has won 19 research grants including: lead Chief Investigator (CI) in an ARC linkage grant that reconsiders sustainable building and design through a cultural change approach; CI in an NCCARF grant dealing with Heat Waves; one of the leaders of the UniSA team that won the $28m CRC in Low Carbon Living grant, won whilst George was at the University of South Australia; six international research grants with Chinese partners (dealing with wind power and the role of the supervision engineer in the Chinese construction industry); CI in two grants dealing with affordable and sustainable housing; lead CI in four other grants dealing with topics ranging from the impact of traffic on urban form through to corporate and social responsibility in the Australian Construction industry; and CI in three Carrick Grants dealing with education and the structure of the Australian construction industry. In terms of publications, George has published more than 150 of which 90 have been published since 2005. In terms of research administration, George has been founding director of four university research centres and has served on the board of two university research institutes. Since 2005 George has supervised to successful completion 12 Doctoral students and currently plays a supervising role for another 10 Doctoral students across two universities. George is a firm believer in the integration of research into teaching and specialises in quantitative research methodologies.
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Testimonials
I have always been interested in building science research and this interest grew due to the enthusiasm of my supervisors... Dr Mary Myla Andamon
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Dr Mary Myla Andamon Research Fellow, RMIT University
Dr Brett Grimm Landscape Architect, City of Marion
I examined the applicability of the universal values of comfort temperatures recommended by international comfort standards (ASHRAE Standard 55 and ISO 7730), using the Philippine office environment as a case study. My candidature took almost four years and I enjoyed every bit of the research journey. I was an international student supported by a University of Adelaide scholarship. I have always been interested in building science research and this interest grew due to the enthusiasm of my supervisors, Associate Professors Terry Williamson and Veronica Soebarto, and the wonderful support I received from the School. This support made the research work interesting, rewarding and, not least, an enjoyable experience. This building science research work was useful for my role as a sustainability researcher in an architectural practice in Adelaide, which I took on after the completion of my PhD, and instrumental in securing my current role as a research fellow at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University, Melbourne.
The conspicuous location of wind farms brings to the forefront a dilemma of conflicting values; safe and renewable energy development versus scenic preservation. This dilemma inspired my research which evaluates theories in aesthetics of landscapes and visual assessment methodologies. The aim was to produce a methodology which has validity, reliability, utility and sensitivity, and can be quantifiable and justifiable in a court of law. The methodological model developed provides an objective clarification of landscape values, which also reflects community preferences.
My PhD dissertation on thermal comfort is titled: Building Climatology and Thermal Comfort: Thermal Environments and Occupant (Comfort) Responses in Philippine Office Buildings
The successful completion has enabled me to market specialist skills in private practice as well as open doors for future endeavours in academia.
The research process was extremely rewarding. My supervision panel was tremendously supportive during this process providing critical comments and direction in a timely manner. The University of Adelaide supported international field research at University of Newcastle, UK. This experience was extremely valuable in developing ideas and skills and networking with different specialists whilst aiding personal growth through immersion in a different research culture.
I owed much of the richness and enjoyment of the research experience to my fellow colleagues and supervisors. Dr Verdy Kwee
Georgina Hafteh Graduate, Master of Landscape Architecture (Research) My research was funded by the University of Adelaide and a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). I am thankful to the University of Adelaide, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, and the Centre of Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), for giving me this opportunity to pursue my research in Australia. I am grateful to my supervisors Associate Professor Samer Akkach and Dr Katharine Bartsch who offered invaluable support, timely feedback, and unwavering trust in my ability to handle this project. My research focused on the way gardens shaped the culture of recreation that changed the physical and social fabric of Damascus and contributed to the emergence of the public sphere. It also provided a comprehensive map of Ottoman Damascus showing the recreational landscapes based on primary historical sources. The successful completion of my research has opened up many opportunities to pursue an academic career in teaching and I am currently participating in a number of research projects.
Dr Verdy Kwee United Arab Emirates University I owed much of the richness and enjoyment of the research experience to my fellow colleagues and supervisors. Consciously or otherwise, the constant interactions added depth and extra dimensions to the research outcome. I am thankful for the ease of access to the available resources and the facilities that the School provided. PhD research work entails more than a unique process of delving into one’s own area of interest; for me, The University of Adelaide, and the School in particular, was a platform for an intensive discovery and development of my personal self and thinking philosophy. This has helped me cope well in my professional and personal life. Dr Zalina Shari Department of Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Throughout my PhD candidacy (2008-2011) at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, I was blessed with a resourceful and supportive research environment. This included opportunities to participate in various research development workshops and seminars offered by the School and the University. But the most important factor that contributed towards the timely completion of my thesis was the constant guidance and
motivation as well as the timely feedback given by my supervisory committee, particularly my principal supervisor Associate Professor Veronica Soebarto. Through my research, titled Development of a Sustainability Assessment Framework for Malaysian Office Buildings Using a MixedMethods Approach, I gained valuable experience in conducting rigorous and high quality doctoral research that subsequently broadened my social network and enabled me to become an independent researcher and a productive writer—attributes that were essential for the advancement of my career as an academic in one of Malaysia’s public research universities. Dr John Swift Graduate The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design was the perfect place to tease out the disparate connections that underpin the philosophical and the practical convergence that inform the evolution of major works of international architecture. The diversity of expertise and the sense of intellectual curiosity fostered a collegiate and stimulating atmosphere amongst both staff and students. The school provided professional, appropriate and world paced supervision for my postgraduate studies but moreover provided a level of engagement which provided me with a dynamic and productive environment.
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Sustainable Urbanism The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design has demonstrated expertise in the area of low energy housing and sustainability for over twenty years.
Photo: Dhaka City, Bangladesh, Rehnuma Parveen
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The Sustainable Urbanism research cluster incorporates long-standing work from key staff members with research interests in sustainable building practices and technologies, as well as realigning such specific investigations within a broader interrogation of effective sustainability applied specifically to urban conditions. In recognition of global population shifts to urban environments under conditions increasingly governed by internationally influential economic, environmental and social trends, research in this cluster engages with sustainable discourse, practices, techniques and technologies. The research projects articulate and investigate opportunities for grasping or creating new responses to urban transformations now underway, adapting, speculating and testing how local conditions might be improved, as well as how these local improvements might have wider relevance and potential for improvement elsewhere. There are particular opportunities here to assist communities in the global south, in the greater Asian region and in similar bio-climatic environs.
Research in this cluster encompasses many areas which are all inter-related. Indeed, a key theme of our research is such inter-connectivity between various aspects of urbanism. These areas include, but are not limited to: >> Zero-energy / zero-carbon building
designs >> Water sensitive urban design >> Landscape design and plant selection
for future climates >> Ethics in the built environment >> Productive landscapes for food security >> Mitigation of the urban heat island
effect through appropriate landscape and building design, including utilisation of green roofs and walls >> Sustainable performance assessments,
including building energy use, post occupancy evaluation, and environmental and economic assessments of design alternatives
Associate Professor Veronica Soebarto Supervisor Veronica graduated in architecture from the University of Indonesia in 1987 and practiced for a number of years before enrolling in her Master of Architecture program in 1991, followed by a PhD in 1993, both at Texas A&M University, USA, before her appointment at the University of Adelaide in 1998. Veronica’s main research interests include thermal/ energy simulation of commercial and residential buildings (including her assessment of houses by renowned Australian architect Glenn Murcutt using the rating tool Ener-rate that she developed with colleague Terry Williamson), environmental monitoring, sustainable building design and assessments, and human thermal comfort. She was a Chief Investigator for a number of research projects looking at the actual environmental performance of claimed-to-be sustainable buildings; a Co-Chief Investigator of an ARCDiscovery-funded research project focusing on the relationship between buildings and ethics; and a member of the International Energy Agency Task 28: Solar Sustainable Housing. Her recent research investigates the relationship between urban heat (‘hot spot’) areas in Adelaide CBD and building energy use (with Flinders University), and investigates occupants’ thermal comfort, perception and adaptation to heat waves (with University of South Australia). Veronica is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Building Performance Simulation and Architectural Science Review. She recently chaired the Executive Scientific Committee of Building Simulation 2011: The 12th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association held in Sydney, Australia. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of CLIMA 2013, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic and Building Simulation 2013, to be held in Chambery, France (www.bs2013.fr). She has supervised 15 PhD students, six of whom have successfully completed.
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Research Profiles Water Urbanism in Dhaka: Intervention Strategies for Reclaiming and Protecting the Water Bodies of an Eco-city Fahmid Ahmed PhD Candidate Fahmid’s research aims to understand the water-culture of the deltaic city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Water has played a powerful role in shaping the histories, societies and economics of this region. However, with the unprecedented rate of urbanisation the dialogue between water and the city has collapsed. Appropriate urban design policy is the key to achieve a sustainable city and this research aims to provide guidelines for reclaiming and protecting the city’s water bodies as well as to suggest possibilities for an integrated water system. To this end, the study analyses the way rivers, canals and retention basins can fulfil many of the city’s needs, from mobility networks and recreational spaces to water supply for domestic and industrial uses as well as serving as a system for storm water retention and natural drainage. Therefore, this research seeks practical measures to protect Dhaka from further deterioration and reclaim the inherent character of this deltaic city.
Sustainable High-rise Residential Buildings: The Context of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Science degree in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure from KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, for which she was awarded the Master Programme for Key Personnel in Developing Countries (MKP) scholarship from the Swedish Institute (SI).
Thermal Preferences in Dwellings of Alternative Constructions Lyrian Daniel PhD Candidate Lyrian’s research is motivated by specific interests in thermal comfort, residential building performance simulation and related policy. Throughout her tertiary education, Lyrian has developed an awareness of the necessity of environmental, social and economically sustainable design. This has formed the basis of research projects that have culminated in publications and the receipt of research scholarships. Lyrian’s research is expected to contribute to the understanding of occupants’ expectations, preferences and thermoregulatory behaviour in atypical thermal environments in the context of regulatory pressure to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment.
Earthship Architecture: Thermal Performance and Life Cycle Assessment
Tahmina Ahsan PhD Candidate
Martin Freney PhD Candidate
Tahmina is a PhD candidate from Bangladesh. She is taking time out from her role as Assistant Professor at Stamford University Bangladesh where she has been teaching since 2005. Her current research aims to develop a framework for sustainability in high-rise residential buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At present there are no assessment measures. The purpose of this research is to establish appropriate criteria as well as to identify the indicators that may be used to analyse the sustainability for this building type in context. The outcomes are expected to benefit other cities which face similar problems as Dhaka in terms of their demography and socio-economic background as well as environmental problems and constraints. This research will build on Tahmina’s research carried out for her Master of
Martin’s research aims to quantify the environmental impacts of the Earthship, an autonomous housing concept built substantially from waste products such as old car tyres, compared with other forms of housing. In particular, Martin is interested in wall construction, however other areas of interest are the autonomous systems such as greywater treatment and off-grid renewable energy. Martin is using thermal modelling to understand the effects of different wall materials, and other design features such as a conservatory, on the operational energy of the home. The results from the thermal modelling will then be used to conduct a life cycle assessment of each house type giving an impression of the homes’ environmental impacts throughout their whole lifespan.
Green Infrastructure: Adapting to Climate Change Graeme Hopkins Visiting Research Fellow Graeme Hopkins is a Registered Architect and Registered Landscape Architect with over 30 years of diverse professional experience. He is the Director of Fifth Creek Studio. His particular focus is on developing a sustainable urban environment, including using natural systems and enhancing ecological habitats especially integrating green roofs and living walls within the metropolitan area. Graeme was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2005 to study green roofs and living walls in North America, Japan and Malaysia. He was a Co-Investigator for the Adelaide Urban Heat Island Project: Characterising the Urban Heat Island Phenomenon over Adelaide, through the Urban Heat Island Study Group, School of the Environment, Flinders University (2010). Fifth Creek Studio leads three projects funded under the South Australian Government’s Building Innovation Fund program: (1) Feasibility Study: Living wall system for multi-storey buildings in the Adelaide climate, (2) Design, installation and monitoring of green roofs, and (3) Prototype hybrid living wall. These green roofs and walls are currently being monitored by School of Chemistry and Physics and our School.
Sustainable Water Management: Learning from Indigenous Communities Dr Namrata P. Joshi-Vishwasrao PhD awarded 2011 Namrata’s thesis, Sustainable Water Management: Learning from Indigenous Communities in India focuses on comanagement systems, institutional structures and Indigenous knowledge. This study involved comprehensive research on international policies regarding managing water in an ecologically sustainable manner by adopting a co-management approach, engaging Indigenous people and their traditional practices in mainstream water management processes. Namrata’s core research interests are in the areas of sustainability, cultural landscapes, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, community engagement and Indigenous knowledge and practices.
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The informal settlements in Davao City, Philippines, serve as a case study for Isidoro Malaque III’s PhD thesis titled A Multi-Step Approach to Resettlement for the Urban Poor
A Multi-Step Approach to Resettlement for the Urban Poor Isidoro Malaque III PhD Candidate The urban poor play an important role in developing economies, but their informal settlements are often viewed negatively. To discover the ingenuity of the urban poor in providing their own shelter, the aim of Isidoro’s research is to explore how the urban poor occupy different housing submarkets, from living in informal settlements to being a settler in the formal housing submarket. It is hoped that Isidoro’s research will help formulate new types of housing policies and generate feasible urban design approaches that will offer a better fit for developing countries. Photo: Informal Settlement, Davao City, Philippines, Isidoro Malaque III
Analysing the Environmental Performance of Commercial Office Buildings Vanessa Menadue PhD Candidate Current research analyses the environmental performance of commercial office buildings given the current rise in market demand for ‘green’ design. The term ‘green building’ is intended to mean a building that is designed, constructed and operated with the specific objectives of efficient use of resources and reducing negative impact on human health providing internal environments which result in high levels of occupant satisfaction and related productivity. However to date, there has been minimal actual building performance data released publicly which verifies these objectives are being met. The research study involves post occupancy evaluation of a number of commercial office buildings in the Adelaide CBD. The study reviews design, energy and water
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consumption data, internal environment monitoring and occupant surveys. The results are being analysed to investigate and identify issues effecting efficiency of building performance and occupant satisfaction. The study will add to the current knowledge on the effect of internal environments on occupants, how these environments effect building energy and water consumption and highlight possible improvements to current policy on the design and construction of commercial office building.
Integrated Design, Eco-Efficient and Socially-Inclusive Infrastructure Dr David Ness Visiting Research Fellow, Supervisor David pursues innovations that may arise by creatively considering the inter-connections between components of community and infrastructure systems, via collaborative multidisciplinary applied research. This
focuses upon the role of affordable, inclusive, integrated and coordinated infrastructure systems in supporting equitable service provision, pro-poor community development and improved social livelihoods. His conceptual models on ‘doing more with less, with less material use and less cost’ have been published in international arenas. In addition to research on integrated urban and rural systems, he investigates means of keeping resources and products in closed loops through new business approaches such as product-service systems, all seeking to deliver multiple benefits and outputs with fewer resource and other inputs. David heads ‘Ecological Development Union International’, a not for profit international association incorporated in SA that seeks to integrate environmental improvements with socio-economic development, transferring know-how, technologies and resources from the developed world to emerging economies in Asia/SE Asia. EDUI council includes
leading academics and researchers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, US, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan. He also consults to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific on ‘green growth’ and sustainable infrastructure in developing countries, improving access to shelter, clean water, sanitation, transport and energy, and adapting to climate change. His methodological framework for ecoefficient and sustainable urban development was accepted by the UN as part of its international program on sustainable infrastructure in Asia and Latin America.
Towards Plus-energy Urban Development as an Alternative Way to Reduce Energy Scarcity in Developing Countries Rehnuma Parveen PhD candidate Rehnuma, an academic and architect from Bangladesh, has a profound interest in sustainable building and urban development in developing countries. In her PhD research she intends to find out the possibilities, opportunities, challenges and ways to initiate and promote plus - energy urban development where buildings are independent from energy plants and can generate energy on their own in the context of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The aim of this research is to search for an alternative and integrated urban and energy development pattern, which is appropriate to the contexts of a developing country.
An Investigation of the ‘Sustainability’ Expectations of the Architecture of School Buildings from Design to Occupancy Linda Pearce PhD Candidate Linda is a registered architect, with additional qualifications and experience in engineering and business BE(Hons) BArch(Hons) Adel MBA Warw]. She is currently on a practice career break. Her main architectural interest is learning space design. Her research interests include: >> Strategic design decision processes in
the context of real world challenges >> Systemic approaches to sustainability and
sustainable development >> Stakeholder consultation processes
during design >> Building Simulation, Integrated design,
Building Information Modelling and new practice technology >> Applying research in architectural practice
Her project investigates the systemic architectural, environmental, economic and social sustainability performance of selected school buildings in the Adelaide metropolitan area in the context of occupant activities, time, money and regulatory constraints.
Defining Genius Loci and Qualifying Cultural Landscapes of the Minahasa Ethnic Community, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces between Buildings
Indonesia has a rich and diverse suite of bio-ecosystems, cultures and ethnic communities across the country. Increasing population growth and development in Indonesia have resulted in the disappearance of the natural landscape as well as the deterioration of distinct ethnic groups. In order to maintain their socio-cultural and environmental systems, the Indonesian government has attempted to protect and conserve the natural environment as well as culture in the national agenda. As each nation and each region has different environmental conditions and characteristics, overcoming this problem requires comprehension of the socio-cultural systems of society and the development of a holistic environmental-conservation strategy to assist the maintenance of ethno-ecological relationships with specific sites.
Adjunct Associate Professor Terence Williamson Supervisor Terry has taught, researched and published in areas of energy, thermal performance and sustainability related to the built environment. Terry is the author (or co-author) of over one hundred publications including books, journal articles and conference papers, including the influential book Understanding Sustainable Architecture (Spon Press, 2003) with Antony Radford and Helen Bennetts. This text considers strategies for achieving more sustainable modes of urban design and architecture, where sustainability includes environmental, cultural and economic issues. Terry’s recent and continuing research has concentrated on two issues. First, data has been collected with the objective of corroborating the operation of the Building Code of Australia’s energy-efficiency provisions, in particular the effectiveness of the NatHERS Star Rating Scheme for dwellings. In 2004 Terry made a major submission to the Productivity Commission’s enquiry into energy-efficiency in the Australian economy. Subsequent papers have also investigated this issue and questioned the efficacy of the scheme. The second research area concerns the urban micro-climate. In collaboration with Dr Evyatar Erell of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel the urban microclimate model CAT has been developed and evaluated on the basis of field measurements. The model predicts hourly air temperature in an urban street canyon for extended periods in a variety of weather conditions, on the basis of meteorological time series recorded at an open site exposed to the same meso-scale conditions, taking into account the geometry of the two sites and the thermal properties of their respective surface materials. This model is used to study design implications in relation building energy consumption associated with factors such urban density and street geometry. The findings are published in Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces between Buildings (Earthscan, 2011) with Evyatar Erell and David Pearlmutter.
Cynthia Erlita Virgin Wuisang PhD Candidate
The aim of this research is to document and analyse the concept of genius loci as it relates to the land occupied by the ethnic groups of The Minahasa on Sulawesi in Indonesia. The research seeks to qualify the contribution of genius loci to better inform landscape and environmental planning systems in the region with the potential of implementation in Indonesia as a whole. The project will demonstrate the important role genius loci can have in shaping the identity of the local context and the region that presently hosts a multi-cultural and multireligious society whilst seeking to determine the validity of genius loci as a component of cultural landscape systems.
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History / Theory / Culture
Photo: The Alhambra, Granada, Spain, Mansoor Ma
Grounded in contemporary critical approaches to architectural and intellectual history, this established research cluster reflects particular expertise in the cross-cultural interpretation of architecture, urbanism and cultural landscapes undertaken within the Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA).
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Recent output includes studies of cosmology in Islamic architecture, early modern intellectual exchange between Islam and Europe, and the construction of social space and material culture in colonial-modern India and multicultural Australia. The Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) was founded in 1997. It is a research centre with a short history but wide ambitions and significant impact. CAMEA’s establishment coincides with major shifts in attitudes towards the built environment caused by unsettling changes in three areas of environmental, technological, and cultural change.
>> Awareness of the long-term environmental
consequences of modern urbanisation and industrialisation has highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to a sustainable future; >> Advanced communication technologies
Research in this cluster encompasses many areas which are all inter-related. Moreover, the supervisors are fluent in a number of languages including Arabic, Hindi, Italian and French. The research areas include, but are not limited to:
have called for new ways of perceiving and dealing with reality; and
>> Architecture, modernity and decolonisation
>> Intense cross-cultural interactions have
>> Early modern Arabic-Ottoman architecture
generated a strong demand for broader and more culture-sensitive modes of architectural thinking. CAMEA was founded to address the demand for new cross-cultural understanding of architecture in the context of these major global shifts.
>> Islamic architecture, gardens and cities
and landscapes >> Architecture and Islam in Australia >> Islamic cosmology and mysticism >> Discourse analysis >> Architecture and human mobility >> Representations of the built environment in
poetry and travel writing
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Associate Professor Samer Akkach Supervisor Samer is founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA). His research interests include the history and theory of architecture, Islamic art, architecture, and landscape, the intellectual history of early modernity, and Islamic cosmology and mysticism. He holds an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) fellowship and has received several ARC Discovery grants as sole chief investigator. His current Discovery research projects focus on the socio-urban history of Middle Eastern cities, and the scientific developments in the early modern ArabicOttoman culture. Samer leads a growing team of researchers working on the early modern history of architecture and landscape in the Middle East, Persia, and Southeast Asia. He has lectured widely in leading universities in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and South East Asia, held a research fellowship at MIT, and received several national and international awards recognising his achievements in research and teaching, including the University of Adelaide’s prestigious Stephen Cole the elder prize for excellence in teaching. For many years he has been interested in the life and works of the 17th-18th century Damascene scholar ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi. His major publications include Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas (SUNY 2005); ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi: Islam and the Enlightenment (Oneworld, 2007); Letters of a Sufi Scholar: The Correspondence of ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (Brill 2010); and Intimate Invocations: al-Ghazzi’s Biography of ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (Brill 2012).
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Material Culture and Cold War Asia Amit Srivastava Supervisor Amit is an architectural historian and theorist whose work focuses on 19th and 20th century architectural thought with special attention to intellectual networks concerning perception of architectural materials and phenomenology. As a member of CAMEA, Amit is involved in the historiography of the postcolonial architecture of Asia and his research focuses on the socio-political condition generated by the intersection of de-colonising and nationalist policies in the Cold War era. Having trained and practiced in India, Amit is deeply interested in the developments in the architecture of the sub-continent and his latest work looks at alternative forms of urbanism emerging in contemporary India. Photo: Louis Kahn, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
Islam, Human Mobility and Hybrid Architecture Dr Katharine Bartsch Supervisor, Postgraduate Research Coordinator Katharine’s research focuses on cultural encounters, and more generally cultures of travel (migration, diaspora, displacement and resettlement), to gain a critical understanding of the production and transformation of different built environments (architecture, landscapes and cities). Katharine maintains that culture is not static or homogeneous and that there cannot be a fixed relationship between culture and the built environment. Her research is interdisciplinary, reaching beyond conventional discourses of architecture, to obtain rich insights from anthropology, cultural geography, world systems theories, postcolonial theory, and the history of travel. This approach was applied in Katharine’s doctoral dissertation which analysed the discourses of Islamic architecture in the late 20th century, and particularly the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The intent of her research is
to re-think cultural boundaries inscribed in architectural discourses, within and beyond the field of Islamic architecture. Katharine’s current research focuses on the Islamic footprint in Australia which involves a study of early mosques (beginning with the Adelaide Mosque, 1889), and the collaboration of Adelaide architect John Morphett with Walter Gropius (The Architects Collaborative) in the design of the University of Baghdad (1960).
Geometry, Spirituality, and Symbolism: A Study in Islamic Art and Architecture
Platonic and Neo-Pythagorean traditions to reveal the Islamic assimilation of the Greek legacy. Focusing on the theoretical foundations and related criticism, the study presents a comprehensive exposition of the primary exegetical literature on Islamic geometry as articulated by various groups of scholars to highlight the spiritual significance of Muslim artistry.
The Rationale of Architectural Discourses in Post-Independence Egypt: A Contrapuntal Reading of Alam Al-Benaa (1980-2000)
Mihnea Maniu Capruta PhD Candidate
Marwa Moustafa El-Ashmouni PhD candidate
This research investigates the symbolic and spiritual aspects of Islamic art and architecture. Its main aim is to introduce a renewed understanding of Islamic geometry by interpreting selected Sufi notions concerning being and manifestations from a Heideggerian hermeneutical perspective. It constructs its interpretations against a historical reading of the Pythagorean,
This research aims to historicise the evolution of post-independence Egyptian architecture throughout the modern history in the twentieth century. It seeks to analyse the rationale of the local architectural discourse amid the international theories and discourses. This discourse rationale will be discerned in view of its subjects, events, and sentiments so as to reveal
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forms of attitudes and references as well as intersections of compelling sets of influences and resistances. By doing this, the analysis will highlight both questions of imperialism and national identity with their evolved binaries between modernity and tradition. Accordingly, the study privileges the theoretician Edward Said’s seminal work Culture and Imperialism (1993), in how the imperial enterprises consolidated in “recognisable cultural formations” can be reflected in architectural discourse— the focus of this research.
A Study of Three Gateway Cities: Istanbul, Lucknow and Aleppo Elise Kamleh PhD completed 2012 This study is concerned with architectural exchange in Eurasia. The project challenges Eurocentric representations of the built environment of West and South Asia as being in decline in the 18th century due to the influences of European architecture. Inspired by the writing of world systems theorists who make a convincing case for the long history of cultural connections that shape people and places (whilst destabilising Eurocentric representations of world history), this process of research has uncovered a significant number of buildings in Asian cities that incorporate European design and decorative elements in their construction. Moreover, exchanges between different Islamic cities have also shaped these buildings. From this research, the conclusion reached is that the multifaceted nature of these exchanges has shaped architecture in dynamic and innovative ways, a view that challenges previous perceptions of architecture in this context as static or lacking originality. Thus, this study reveals the complex nature, the rich diversity and the extent of architectural exchange, with particular emphasis on three ‘gateway’ cities in Eurasia, to present new insights into architectural historiography.
Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design Julie Nichols PhD completed 2012 Julie currently researches in the fields of urban history, urban cartography and contemporary urbanism. Her doctoral study, Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design, is a comparative study of an historical trajectory of the changing role of the map from pre-modern to modern times. The emergence of the concept of the modern city hinging on Enlightenment ideas, revealed a shift in geographical discourse whereby modern conceptions of space displaced indigenous views. The intent is a
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comprehensive understanding of the modern map, from its historical evolution in contexts — 17th and 18th century Europe and South-East Asia—at the same time to further understand the production of human settlement.
Gardens of Eden: A Study of Persian Gardens in the Safavid Period Zahra Ranjbari Research Assistant Zahra’s research aims to study PersianIslamic landscape history of the Safavid period in Iran by analysing ‘Gardens of Eden’ poems along with other related sources in Persian poetry, history, and literature. Gardens of Eden is one of the most valuable sources on Persian gardens, describing Qazvin gardens in poetry during early 16th century. It was composed by the court poet and historian, Abdi Bayk Navidi Shirazi. His poems can be considered the most reliable evidence picturing the newly-established garden-city of Qazvin, the second Savafid capital city during Shah Tahmasp’s reign, of which almost nothing remains. Navidi’s poetry provides us with a detailed image of the capital city and its noble gardens and landscaping. The main research approach is to investigate different sources to provide a fresh understanding of Persian gardens. The study will present a comprehensive investigation of the main features of Persian gardens in historical and contemporary arts, as well as its role in architecture in order to show the functional, physical, and semantic orders of garden making.
Theorising the Construction of Architecture Dr Sam Ridgway Supervisor Sam joined the School as a full-time member of staff in 1996 after completing a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) in 1984, and a Master of Architecture (Research) in 1996 at the University of Adelaide. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney. Sam is a registered architect and remains committed to maintaining a strong connection between research, teaching and professional practice. His current research explores the theorisation of architectural construction in both pedagogy and practice. The context for this critique originates in the philosophy of technology. It aims to reveal imaginative construction thinking as central to the creation of significant buildings. Other research interests include: architectural representation; anthropomorphism, and demonstration. Sam is a member of the editorial committee for the journal Architectural Theory Review.
Reframing the Architectural History of the World’s Largest Democracy Dr Peter Scriver Supervisor Dr Scriver is currently working on the following projects: (1) ‘Regional’ by Design: Australia’s Engagement with Asia through Architectural Training under the Colombo Plan (1950-1980). (2) Building Modern India, a forthcoming critical study of architecture, modernity and decolonisation in India from the mid-19th century to the present, to be published by Reaktion Books, London, in the series Modern Architectures in History (forthcoming, 2012). (3) Authority and System: The Royal Engineers Corps and the Building of the British Colonial Empire. This project is a comparative historical study of professional knowledge and ‘reflection-inaction’ in three radically different imperial arenas of British colonial architecture and town planning: India, Australia and Canada. Initial fieldwork and archival research for this projected book was conducted in Canada and England in 2002-2003, and Australia and India in 2005-2006.
Space, Place, and Imagination in the Arabic-Islamic Tradition Kinda Tabbaa PhD candidate Kinda’s research interests include the history and theory of landscapes and cities, ArabIslamic landscape architecture, and the concepts of “space” and “place” in the ArabIslamic tradition. Kinda’s recent works have focused on landscape representation in 17th and 18th century Arabic travel writings, landscape education in the Arab world, and the development of the concept of “landscape” in modern Arabic literature. Her doctoral research is concerned with revealing the complexity involved in the concepts of “space,” “place,” and “landscape” as they are articulated in the Arabic language and the intellectual context of the Arab-Islamic culture. Her study attempts to show this through a series of snap shots taken in various religious, social, cultural, and intellectual domains. The aim of Kinda’s study is to unravel the meanings of these concepts, both in premodern and modern times, in order to reveal their unique linguistic, religious, intellectual, and cultural dimensions.
Light, Colour and Views: An Islamic Interpretation of the Visual Trajectory from the Alhambra’s Mirador de Lindaraja during Sultan Muhammad V’s Second Reign Mansoor Ma PhD Candidate Mansoor is a Canadian Landscape Architect who was born in Hong Kong. He was educated in the UK and Canada. Currently, Mansoor is finalising his PhD research in Australia, as a remote student, at the University of Adelaide. His research interests includes: Landscape architectural design, Islamic heritage, and computer 3D technologies. He utilises these interests fully in his PhD work, which is about an Islamic interpretation of a landscape built during the period of Muslim rule in Spain, specifically Granada. As well, Mansoor has presented and delivered international conference papers in Canada, Germany, Dubai (U.A.E.), Spain and Cyprus, regarding the use of 3D technologies for landscape heritage research. Photo: 3D rendering of the Court of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, by PhD candidate Mansoor Ma, for his thesis
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Design Research and Education The projects characterising this work typically address a range of very practical research questions regarding building materials, products and processes, employing new technologies, delivery mechanisms and similar experimental innovations.
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However, they more importantly explore and test pressing questions of less directly quantifiable impact, yet of great consequence in times of uncertainty, change and threat. How can our built environments, over which we have historically unprecedented tools for control and manipulation, best reflect or speculatively offer new visions of human settlement and of joyful engagement with the world? How can individual structures, constructed civic environs or other landscapes be equitably shared and provide for the demands of increasingly complex and interconnected uses? How can they be imagined, composed, curated, funded and built–that is, designed– to address these questions in ways that help everyone aspire to live and share better lives?
This research cluster brings together a wide range of projects focused on built work outcomes. The School promotes design activity–research as design–as a form of research endeavour linked intimately with the support of traditional research for design and research about design and designers. Design research is undertaken both through development of design project propositions and through their built realisation. Inevitably, this cluster’s interests reflect a key concern of current teaching and learning regarding the new ambitions and new training that designers need to pursue and generate works in contemporary societies. As practicing designers, the researchers in this cluster have grounded, compellingly evidenced and inspiring answers to these questions for specific contexts.
Their research comprises experiments that are hopefully engaged in a validation of human life and the worth of human effort, against what can sometimes seem to be ungraspable challenges to the future of humanity. Research explores: >> Cultural legibility in built form >> The uptake and impact of new
technologies in design and building processes >> Engagement with experimental materiality >> The rewards and risks of design innovation >> The influence of procurement processes
and project delivery mechanisms >> Architectural education and design
pedagogy >> Professional Practice and the role and
responsibilities of Institutes
What arguments and ethical frameworks do we need to engage in to assess such enquiries or to even pose such questions?
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Professor Ian McDougall Professor Ian McDougall is a founding and current director of Ashton Raggatt McDougall, a national practice, which has established an international reputation for cutting edge architectural design.
Since its formation in 1988, the firm has completed significant and influential projects, such as the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, and the master planning of Melbourne Docklands. Ian’s interests are in architectural design as a cultural discipline developed and communicated through processes of rigorously documented enquiry. His research is practiced both through the design of individual buildings, evidenced in projects such as Marion Cultural Centre, Shrine of Remembrance and the Melbourne Recital Centre / MTC Theatres Complex, and through urban design, as seen in the work of Melbourne Docklands.
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He is an experienced urban designer, with a knowledge based on measured studies of the street, lane and arcade systems of Melbourne and Sydney. In the area of retail planning, he has compiled case study layouts of typical major retail centres in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He has written critical essays and reviews for a wide range of journals and newspapers. He was cofounder and long term editor of Transition Magazine, a past editor of Architect Victoria and of Architecture Australia.
The Invisible Privatisation of Civic Space: Implications for Landscape Architects Janelle Arbon PhD candidate The line between private and public space has altered in the context of the city due to commercialisation and urban regeneration. This shift from clearly identifiable ‘public’ spaces to those of an ambiguous nature can have a negative impact on how users perceive and imagine their surroundings. Thus broad assessments of civic space are treacherous without understanding why people return to spaces, why they avoid spaces, where the safe areas of the city are, the role of public and private investment, and the image of the civic space as a marketing tool. This research examines the tangible and intangible elements of civic spaces which impact perceptions and contribute to the image of fearful civic space. Through international case studies and detailed site analyses the research will present an evaluation tool which maps different perceptions of civic spaces to assist designers in the early stages of planning.
Form-Patterns and the Work of Troppo Architects Jessica Hsiao-Li Huang PhD candidate Jessica’s research investigates how the work of the award-winning Australian firm of Troppo Architects over three decades from the 1980s demonstrates relationships between the form patterns they use and regional social-cultural, institutional, and environmental contexts. The research material includes interviews with founders and associated stakeholders, original drawings and other documents, and studies of built works from various sources. The general aim is to better understand interconnections between the contingency of architecture, architects’ values, and patterns found in design processes and products, all in the context of contemporary concerns for sustainability. An insight into these interconnections is provided by analysing Troppo’s work through a theoretical framework that links Christopher Alexander’s concept of a pattern language (eg. Form Pattern 1: In-between, pictured) with Warwick Fox’s concept of responsive cohesion. Outcomes may assist architects to recognise and develop a personalised pattern language in their own sustainable practice in response to place, people, culture, and environment. Furthermore, they may also offer architecture students a reference to start thinking about design with consciousness for built environments and to
develop a simple pattern of built forms in expressing their interpretations of a responsive practice.
Design Grammar, Digital Design and Reflective Practice Emeritus Professor Antony Radford Supervisor Tony’s current research focuses on linked concepts of patterns, grammar, reflective practice, contingency, play and games within designs and designing, and bodies of work that illustrate these concepts. This branch of research is exemplified in a recent paper (with Tarkko Oksala) ‘Alvar Aalto and the Expression of Discontinuity’ published in The Journal of Architecture vol.12 no.3 June 2007 and the forthcoming book Digital Design: A Critical Introduction with Dean Bruton. Another important recent project looks at design analysis as a ‘reflexive’ process akin to design itself, and engages annotated diagrams to provide analyses of 50 significant architectural projects built since 1950. This project, with Selen Morkoç and Amit Srivastava, will be published as Architectural Analyses: A Visual Guide to Fifty Projects 1950-2010 (forthcoming, Thames & Hudson, 2013).
and imperatives of ‘sustainability’. A variety of challenges for designers driven by shifting priorities of governments and communities can be usefully examined in light of a much longer history and persuasive rhetoric regarding the ever-imperfect applications of universal rights to specific cultural settings. She is therefore concerned to re-politicise aesthetic endeavour and encourage architecture’s neglected role as guide and teacher in grappling with fundamental socioenvironmental dilemmas, powerful sociopolitical myths and their poignant paradoxes.
Romaldo Giurgola and the ‘Other’ Tradition of Modernism Stephen Schrapel PhD Candidate
Dr Jo Russell-Clarke Supervisor
Until the announcement of the winning Mitchell/Giurgola competition entry for the Federal Parliament in June 1980, Aldo Giurgola, the lead designer, was a relatively unknown identity in Australia and knew little of the country. Over the intervening eight years until the completion of the Parliament in 1988, a transformation took place through which the Australian people were installed with a new Parliament building and Aldo Giurgola became a well known figure, ultimately choosing to migrate to Australia, specifically choosing Canberra. This research takes a closer look at this transformation and the work of Giurgola in Australia after the Parliament, specifically its roots in Scandinavian/Nordic modernism.
Jo’s research is concerned with the ways in which ‘design‘ has been valued in shaping human settlement—by designers themselves, institutional bodies and a range of other commentators and legislators. In particular she is interested in later 20th century built forms as well as polemical commentary on the phenomena of ‘suburbia‘
Stephen Schrapel is Senior Conservation Architect with the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Stephen worked for Mitchell/Giurgola Architects between 2001-2004 on the documentation of the Giurgola designed St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta (2004), giving him special insight into Giurgola’s design methodology.
Suburbs and Architectures of Irony: Desiring, Designing and Delivering Utopia
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Design as Research in the Discipline of Landscape Architecture Tanya Court Tanya is a multi-award winning landscape architect with over 12 years of professional experience, specialising in civic and institutional landscapes. Tanya’s design work is highly regarded with over 15 significant projects designed, documented and constructed in and around Melbourne. Tanya originally trained as an artist and she has continued to maintain an arts practice evident in the sculpture commission, Helmet, with Cassandra Chilton recently completed at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria. In 2009 this project won an AILA Vic Award for Design, Special Commendation for Art in the Landscape. The Rundle Project: Integrated Public Art Masterplan for Rundle Street, Adelaide with Wax Design and SPUD was awarded the 2009 PIA SA Minister’s Award for Planning Excellence as well as a 2009 AILA SA Award for Planning. Her project, Balaclava Walk, with MGS Architects was awarded the Australia Award for Urban Design in 2006. Photo: Helmet, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria, Tanya Court with Cassandra Chilton
Architectural Education Dr Susan Shannon Supervisor Susan’s field of knowledge and research is architectural education, women’s architectural registration, graduate attribute mapping, evaluation of student learning in tertiary education settings and student engagement with blended learning. She was awarded 2012 Executive Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching for staff and student research into how Hamley Bridge could sustainably grow, when located outside the growth boundary for greater Adelaide.
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On 1 January 2011 the Minister for Urban Development and Planning appointed Susan to the new Architectural Practice Board of SA for three years, as the only academic on that Board. Susan is also an Architectural Practice Examiner in SA, and a Recognition of Academic Equivalence Examiner for the AACA. Building upon this expertise, Dr Shannon’s research focuses upon mapping Graduate Attributes, Graduate Capacities and employment, and Registration for Architects. She has explored the priorities they have in hiring architecture graduates through interviewing architectural practitioners Australia-wide.
Dr Shannon is a registered architect with 25 years of experience in professional practice. She is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society, The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education and the Architectural Science Association. During 2012, whilst on Special Study Leave, she is investigating barriers to architectural registration by women graduates.
Information for Prospective Students The School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design welcomes enquiries from prospective research students. Our staff members offer supervision for students wishing to undertake a Master of Architecture (Research), Master of Landscape Architecture (Research) or a Doctor of Philosophy. Students can enrol in a Doctor of Philosophy either full-time, over three years, or on a part-time basis. The PhD program at The University of Adelaide is a research degree program. All research students undertake a structured program in the initial period of their research, but there are normally no other course requirements after students are admitted, unless the supervisor recommends that the student complete additional courses relevant to their particular research project.
Preparing a Research Proposal For prospective students who wish to undertake a research degree (Masters or PhD) at our School, please take time to think carefully about a probable research topic. Prospective students will then need to send a two-three page preliminary statement of their proposed project to the Postgraduate Research Coordinator. This statement should state what the student wants to investigate (the ‘topic’), why this will be valuable (general ‘aims’ and specific ‘objectives’), and the methodology and/or the theoretical framework for the study. Prospective students should also outline the anticipated outcomes, and a basic plan of the key tasks and the time it would take to carry out the research. It is also very important that prospective students provide additional background information about their understanding of the topic and their preparation to pursue advanced research in that field, including any evidence of relevant research experience such as peer-reviewed research publications and/or a previous research thesis or major research project.
The postgraduate research coordinator will then review this statement and discuss it, if appropriate, with potential supervisors within the School. We strongly advise prospective students to send such a statement of intent well in advance of submitting a formal application. The School can only accept a limited number of qualified students subject to the availability during the intended period of study of appropriate expert faculty to supervise the proposed research.
Domestic Postgraduate Research Scholarships For information for domestic students (Australian and New Zealand citizens and Permanent Residents of Australia), undertaking or considering application to a Masters or Doctorate degree by research, visit: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/ pgresearch/
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships For information for international students undertaking or considering application to a Masters or Doctorate degree by research, visit: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/ international/ Further information about the method of application for prospective international students can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ graduatecentre/admission/forminternational-applicants.html Please do not hesitate to contact the Postgraduate Research Coordinator for further information: katharine.bartsch@adelaide.edu.au
Without such proof of relevant prior research training, students cannot be admitted to higher degree programs by research at this university.
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