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.

w: www.oopla.org ig: @x10phillips e: christine.phillips@rmit.edu. au

RMIT Master of Architecture Program Manager

Dr Ben Milbourne RMIT Architecture Program Manager and Director of Common.

w: commondesign.com.au ig: @common_gram ig: @benmilbourne_ w: superscale.com.au ig: @superscale ig: @rmitarchitecture e: patrick.macasaet@rmit. edu.au

Patrick Macasaet is Lecturer and PhD candidate at RMIT Architecture and Principal of Superscale Architecture.

Loren Adams is a disciplinary promiscuous spatial practitioner. Trained in architecture and public policy, her current work explores the “socio-spatial exploit” as an instrument for thinking-with planetary urban power structures.

Design Studio:

Regulatory Nonsense: The Vibe of the Thing w: www.lorenadams.me ig: @regnonbot

Neil Appleton is a design Director of Lyons renowned for his expertise in sustainable urban design, collaborative work and learning environments, and recognised across Australia as a highly innovative architectural thinker.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Dr Nic Bao is Director of BDW Architects, ARBV Registered Architect, and Lecturer at RMIT Architecture, where he teaches and explores his research on architecture technology, computational design, structural engineering, behavioural algorithms, and robotic fabrication.

Design Studio: Coral Ig: @nic_bao

Ig: @floating.coral.reefs

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.

Design Studio: Hayball

Practice Studio: CoHabit w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch

Professor Alisa Andrasek is a Professor of Design Innovation at RMIT.

Design Studio: AI SUPERBLOCKS w: alisaandrasek.com w: www.aiarch.ai w: linktr.ee/nDarchitecturev

Laura Bailey is an Associate and Architect at ARM architecture. She has previously taught in the Bachelors program and last year ran the Masters studio ‘The Graduate’.

Design Studio: The Architect ig: @laura____bailey

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.

Design Studio: Instrument Architecture

Steven Chu is a BurmeseAustralian architect, woodworker, painter and educator. He is the Founding Director of Alter Atlas and the Principal Architect at the City of Casey, a local government municipality in Victoria.

Design Studio: Vote Again ig: @alteratlas

Associate Professor Graham Crist is an associate professor in RMIT architecture and the program director of the Master of Urban Design. He is a founding director of Antarctica Architects and an author of the publication Supertight.

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

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: Counter Errorism

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.

Design Studio: Chameleon ig: @marcwgibson ig: @tectonicformationlab

Alan Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate at RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab (Computational Design and Advanced Fabrication).

Emma Donovan is an architecture graduate and an Associate at Antarctica Architects.

Design Studio: Diffusion Tectonics ig: @alan_arch_kim ig: @tectonicformationlab

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

Rodney Eggleston is Director of MARCH Studio.

Design Studio: MARCH Practice Studio: Quarantine Studio w: march.studio ig: @march_studio

Paul van Herk is an Architect whose independent practice is informed by design research and writing about the histories, technologies and cultures that underpin urban development. Paul is currently an Associate at Monash Art Projects as well as a PhD candidate at RMIT University. He is a founding director of urban design studio Extracontextual. Design Studio: Speculative History: Ecological Empires w: excx.net w: www.paulvanherk.com ig: @vhporl

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: the ideas of melbourne

Ann Lau is Director of Hayball.

Design Studio: Hayball

Practice Studio: CoHabit w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch

Vicky Li is an Associate and health planner at Lyons, who explores her interests in design by directly responding to the social, civic, historical and multicultural layers of the built urban fabric.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass 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: all together now (The Why Factory) w: internationaldesign.nl ig: @ind_inter.national.design

Nina Wyatt is an Associate and Design Architect at Lyons, with a distinct interest in the interaction of users and the public with the architecture and design of educational, research and healthcare facilities.

Design Studio: Lyons

Practice Studio: Building

Critical Mass w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Dylan Li is an Associate and registered Architect at ARM architecture and has taught in the ARM practice studio since 2019 at RMIT, AAVS and computational design studio at university of Melbourne. He has a distinct interest in the field performance architecture and public housing.

Design Studio: LAPUTA - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly w: www.ling.studio ig: @dylan______l

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.

Design Studio: all together now (The Why Factory) w: thewhyfactory.com ig: @thewhyfactory_winy. maas

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: On Country: Framlingham 2023 ig: @stasman

Cecilia Yao is a talent designer at ARM architecture with a distinct interest and experience public housing sector.

Design Studio: LAPUTA - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ig: @ceciliayao1125

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: CoHabit w: hayball.com.au ig: @hayball_arch

Professor Roland Snooks is the director of the RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab and the architecture practice Studio Roland Snooks.

Design Studio: Diffusion Tectonics ig: @rolandsnooks ig: @tectonicformationlab

Matt Stanley is an Associate at MARCH Studio.

Design Studio: MARCH Practice Studio: Quarantine Studio w: march.studio ig: @march_studio

Nelson Teo, with 7 years of international and local experience formerly with EDP, KG and MCR Architecture and recently started with Hayball Architecture. Interested in procedural design processes, mixed-used typologies and the impact on occupant inhabitation.

Design Studio:

Reappropriation: Fit for Purpose

David Schwarzman is an Architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam and Academic at RMIT University in Melbourne. David is interested in the relationships between the built environment, human behaviour and data.

Design Studio: The Temporal City

Adrian Stanic, a lead Design Director of Lyons, works as a creative and analytical thinker renowned for his lateral ‘idea rich’ approach to the design and development of urban design, health, education, cultural, commercial and major research projects.

Design Studio: Lyons Practice Studio: Building Critical Mass w: www.lyonsarch.com.au ig: @lyonsarchitecture

Jacqueline Tang Architect of Workshop Architecture. Have 6 years of experience in the industry, working on a wide range of projects. Interested in the journey of architectural phases and how procedure methodologies can be integrated throughout multiple typologies to serve an intention.

Design Studio: Reappropriation: Fit for Purpose

Max Leegel Wight is an Associate and registered architect at Antarctica Architects. He has professional experience working in Melbourne and Beijing on a diverse typology of projects large and small.

Design Studio: Balnarring Fire ig: @antarctigram

Dr Ben Milbourne is an architect and Senior Lecturer at RMIT where he is engaged in research on the creative potential and professional impacts of the adoption of advanced manufacturing in architecture. He is a founding partner of Common, an architecture and urban design practice focused on engaging in the common commission of the city through public and private projects.

Design Studio: all together now (The Why Factory) w: commondesign.com.au ig: @benmilbourne_

Ian Nazareth is an architect, researcher and educator. Ian is an academic at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT and the director of TRAFFIC - a design and research practice working across architecture, urbanism and computation.

Design Studio: The Temporal City w: trafficcollective.com ig: @trafficcollective