RMIT ARCHITECTURE MASTER AND BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ELECTIVE BALLOTING POSTERS SEMESTER 2 2017
RMIT ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVES ‐ Semester 2 2017 ‐ Timetable Tutor Leanne Zilka Roland Snooks and Sean Guy Charlotte Algie Amy Muir Vicki Lam
Name of Elective
Location
HINGE
Time Intensive weeks 15 & 16
Architectural Robotics
Mon 1pm
100.09
Colonialism
Wed 9‐12
100.6.004
Structuring It
Wed 9.30‐12.30
45.01.005c
Tardi Upgrade
Wed 9‐12
100.6.003
Gwyllim Jahn & Cameron Newhnam
Mr Assembly
TBA
Intensive Weds 45.01.005d (9‐12) week 1,3,4,5,6,7 45 Workshop (2‐5)
Ian Nazareth
Eco Urban Practices
Wed 2‐5
45.01.005c
Ben Milbourne & John Doyle
Practice Futures Research
Wed 2.30‐5.30
Design Hub TBA
John Cherrey
What to do with 16,000 discs
Thurs. 9.30‐12.30 100.01.06
Peter Brew
Further Difficulty
Thurs. 9‐12
45.01.005c
John Cherrey
Reflections on Making
Thurs. 2‐5
100.01.06
Tom Kovac, Leon Van Schaik, Sean Kelly
Visualising the Virtual Concourse
Thurs.5.30‐8.30
Design Hub TBA
Jan Van Schaik
Writing and Concepts
Thurs 9.30 & 6pm MVS offices
NH architecture
Urban Green ‐ Practice Research Elective
Full Day TBA
NH offices
Emma Jackson (coordinator)
Practice Research Elective
TBA
TBA
Daniel Maunders
Revitism
Thurs. 9.30‐12.30 Lab
Gwyllim Jahn & Cameron Newhnam
Goosemother
94.05.17 (9‐1) Intensive Fri.weeks 1,3,4,5,6 94.05.17 (2‐5)
CHARLOTTE ALGIE charlotte.algie@yale.edu
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A class of weekly drawing study and collective analysis through discussion.
An epochal economic and ideological movement - not only the defining basis of the contemporary nation of Australia but much of South East Asia, South Asia and Africa - the age of European colonialism (15th - 20th Centuries) transformed the globe over several stages of strategic expansion and settlement. This elective will bring new comparative focus on the spatial and territorial apparatus of global colonialism in architecture. We will build this research through class structure of comparative drawing studies across a global and transnational sampling, together with concurrent group discussion and analysis. Cases we will look at will include Goa, Delhi, the Carribean, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malaysia. Hong Kong. Architects include Edwin Lutyens, Webb & Bell, Arturo Mezzedimi, Jean Prouve, Fry & Drew, Ernst May and many many more. Students will be required to produce research papers in addition as a submission requirement. An option for publication outcomes exists for the work in the seminar.
C AT E G O R Y: H I S T O R Y & T H E O R Y L O C AT I O N :
100.06.004
STU [20]
D AT E & T I M E : W e d n e s d a y
9:00am - 12:00pm
DELIVERABLE: Weekly drawing tasks - Folio, Essay 3,500 words A S S E S S M E N T: A t t e n d a n c e 1 5 % , We e k l y d r a w i n g t a s k s 5 5 % , E s s a y 3 5 %
SEMESTER 2 2017
IAN NAZARETH
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE / MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WEDNESDAYS 2 - 5 PM LOCATION: 45.01.005C
GOWNTOWN Eco Urban Practices interrogates the relationship of the urban university and the city gown and town. There are a number of ways in which we will consider this – its catalytic reactions with the development of city, the formation and transformations of precincts of urban innovation and the disaggregation of urban form. Fundamentally, the urban university campus is an archipelago of programs, infrastructures, amenities, economies and ecologies, distributed within the fabric of a city. It is an exemplar for understanding urban development – the concentration and diffusion of form as well as the symbiotic relationship with a constellation of other uses and networks that sustain it and collectively engender the city. The discussion of sustainable cities and the metropolis generally is obsessed with transport and density. Mobility is so often a measure of both liveability and productivity. Density is viewed as both a measure of desirable consolidation of the city, and a threat to its liveability. As a design and planning paradigm, the urban campus is proposed as a
counterpoint to vision plans and masterplans as well as sprawling, monofunctional environments, arguing that the density of urban form, intensity of activity and chronology of its developments seed a more dynamic and resilient form of urbanism. Fisherman’s Bend – the largest urban renewal area in Australia, will be a case study, specifically the former Holden factory and its neighbourhood as a testing ground for new urban models - mediations on the typology of the university campus and proposals and speculations across a plurality of scale, density and typology, exploring diverse patterns of occupation and movement. How might the disaggregated campus prompt a comprehensive discussion about more sustainable and more liveable cities? This elective will collaborate and co-conspire with the Master of Urban Design / Master of Architecture Studio led by Prof. Mark Jacques .
PRACTICE FUTURES RESEARCH ELECTIVE The increasing adoption of digital fabrication within the design and construction industries presents both significant challenges and opportunities for the practice of architecture. Over the last 50 or more years increasing consultant specialisation has arguably eroded the traditional role of the architect. Project Managers and others have introduced increasing levels of intermediaries between the architect and the construction process.
Adoption of Digital fabrication also significantly affects the typical business model of architectural practice. For most architectural practices a high proportion of fees are generated in the production of Contract Documentation that is the translation of a 3-dimensional proposal into 2-dimensional representation defining the scope of constriction of 3-dimensional object. Where the final object is directly fabrication for the digital model, the component of the fee base with either be eroded or require redefinition in order to be partially or wholly Digital fabrication is the direct manufacture of three- retained. dimensional objects using additive (3D printing) or subtractive processes (milling, laser cutting etc). This research proposed to build on resent work produced Adoption of these techniques allows for the fabrication in the context of RMIT’s Architectural Professional of components, assemblies or increasingly whole Practice 3 course, developing a series of local and structures directly from digital design models. In some international case studies investigating innovative cases architects are undertaking fabrication themselves, practitioners and identify how they are responding or sending the model to others for direct fabrication to the challenges an opportunities presented by the - however in both cases the separation between the adoption of digital fabrication. Assessment will include architect and the produced object is dramatically individual and group work. collapsed. This is a significant opportunity in that it allows more much greater agency in the fabrication/ This elective is part of the RMIT Architecture/ARBV construction process, however also delivers increased “Practice Futures” research project led by Ben Milbourne, risk for architects engaging in these modes of practice. Vivian Mitsogianni, John Doyle with Patrick Macasaet. As this elective is a part of an ongoing research project students will be asked to sign an RMIT participation agreement prior to commencing the elective. BEN MILBOURNE AND JOHN DOYLE with VIVIAN MITSOGIANNI AND PATRICK MACASAET
WEDNESDAYS, 2:30-5:30 PM, DESIGN HUB
GOOSEMOTHER Intensive Architecture Elective in Grasshopper and C# Scripting Gwyllim Jahn / Cam Newnham food4rhino.com/apps/nursery
Fridays Week 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 9am—1pm | 94.05.17 (Lab class) 2pm—5pm | 94.05.17 (1-1 Workshops)
Goosemother will introduce you to designing with complex systems and describing design intent as simple scripted behaviours. The elective will explore how computational agents that follow these simple behaviours can give rise to complex emergent formations through their interactions over time. Behaviours might determine structural solutions, formal expression, arrangements of parts, fabrication processes, colours and materials or an infinite number of alternative design possibilties. The elective will run as an intensive over the first 6 weeks of semester with weekly day long workshops demonstrating fundamental programming and simulation concepts. These concepts will first be explored through pre-packaged behaviours in Nursery, an agent-based modelling plugin for grasshopper. Students will then learn to write and combine their own behaviours using c#. Students will produce a toolkit of custom behaviours for use in their own design projects. The effectiveness of this tookit will also be tested in the production of high-resolution formal studies. Some experience with Rhino and Grasshopper is a prerequisite for the elective. As an intensive, students must be prepared to apply themselves to learning new skills and dedicate significant study time during the 6 week duration.
TARDIUPGRADE ELECTIVE What makes a city resilient? How do we build a city as adaptable to shocks and stresses as the virtually indestructible tardigrade? We will study 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and identify strategies of building resilience for Melbourne. You will choose sites around the city where traits an be amplified and transformed to become strategies for radical adaptation. Your research is to be presented in the format of a short video. There will be Aftereffects tutorials. This elective is based on urban research and communication. You will be assessed on: Folio Submission with a written component 2-5 minute Video Final Presentation at Week 12 BACHELORS AND MASTERS STUDENTS WED 9-12 100.6.3 TUTOR: VICKY LAM
Mr. Assembly Intensive Architecture Elective in Holographic Construction Gwyllim Jahn / Cam Newnham
Wednesdays Week 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 9am—12pm | Building 45 D 2pm—5pm | Building 45 Workshop
Mixed-Reality (Mr.) assembly methodologies allow complex structures to be fabricated from unique parts without the need for drawn documentation, creating design opportunities for intricacy, variability and streamlined assembly. The elective will demonstrate how to use Holographic modelling software to stream digital models from CAD environments to the Microsoft Hololens in real time. Students in Mr.Assembly will test adaptive and ad-hoc assembly methodologies by designing and fabricating full scale complex structures using a holographic representation of the completed design model overlayed on the fabrication environment. Students will also be introduced to basic generative modelling skills, fabrication skills, photography and video compositing techniques for designing, constructing and documenting holographic designs. Some experience with Rhino, basic photography and model making workshops is essential for students wishing to take the elective. As an intensive a significant amount of time and contribution will be expected of students throughout its duration.
This workshop based elecƟve will speculate and propose an alternaƟve uses for the glass disks. During the semester you will develop and test designs proposals using small mock-ups and later physically model an enƟre design as a large scale work. In the process of doing so you will develop a thorough knowledge of the amazing material which is glass. You will explore ideas such as circle packing on Ňat and curved surfaces, the use of standard modules such as shingles to create waterproof walls and roofs as well as rainscreens. You will also consider the use of prefabricated framing systems, and engineered Ɵmber frame opƟons applicable to your design. The course will also ask you to develop your skills in using the model as a design tool as well as developing your experƟse in taking ideas and realising them as a physical object. Classes will be a mix of Ɵme spent in discussions about design approaches, design presentaƟons and learning new workshops skills and techniques.
16,000 GLASS DISKS ?
The iconic image of RMIT's Design Hub is a building cloaked in glass disks. For reasons never publicly aired, some of the disks shaƩered spontaneously showering the area below in small fragments of glass. Now all these disks are to be replaced and the exisƟng toughened glass disks are slated to be sent to landĮll.
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Lecturer : John Cherrey Location : Design Hub workshop 100.01.006 Times Thursday 9.30 - 12.30 Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: models & journal documenting the sesmesters work
FURTHER DIFFICULTY
Elective by Peter Brew THURS Who has not put down a book in annoyance or tossed one in disgust, to then read it without putting it down. Reading is not nearly as straightforward as its made out to be, we skip words, repeat sentences, miss pages and search for words in a box full of them, We are compromised by reading, we are just as likely to be emboldened as insulted or diminished. we encounter difficulty; we experience doubt, and on occasion we give up. To look at books as repositories of knowledge says nothing of the experience of reading, after all it is not our knowledge of doubt but the feeling of doubt that causes books to shut and be returned to the shelf. And it is not what we know about anger but anger that causes a book to be thrown aside. Is it ironic then that the feeling of doubt is a prerequisite to understanding the modern text ? . “I am a thinking (conscious) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many- (“cogito” dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum—res cogitans) Rene Descartes’ 1641 That the very sensation that causes the book to be returned to the shelf is all that we needed to realise its purpose. It followed from Descartes that modern philosophy is the phenomenology of reading, The” I “who doubts; the reader, who mouths the words, is the instrument of knowing that recognises truth. From Descartes truth is not known but experienced; the experience of the reader reading.
RACHEL WHITEREAD Untitled, 2013 Resin 2 panels: 38 9/16 x 18 7/8 x 2 15/16 inches (98 x 48 x 7.5 cm) Photo by Mike Bruce
Venice 1557 - C.Sabbadino (Archivio Di Statii venezia)
“What matter who’s speaking, someone said what matter who’s speaking” Samuel Beckett – texts for nothing
Empathy (Einfuhlung): ... How the body in responding to certain stimuli in dream objectifies itself in spatial forms - and with this also the soul - into the form of the object. Robert Vischer On the optical sense of Form a Contribution to Aesthetics
Paul Valéry wrote in a very remote context. “Artistic observation”, he says in reflections on a woman artist whose work consisted in the silk embroidery of figures, “can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems, present very individual questions which depend upon no knowledge and are derived from no practice, but get their existence and value exclusively from a certain accord of the soul, the eye, and the hand of someone who was born to perceive them and evoke them in his own inner self.”
Aristotle briefly defended them in his fragmentary Poetics. In particular, Aristotle defended the arts from Plato’s charge that they are cognitively useless, trading in mere images of particulars rather than universal truths, by arguing that it is precisely the arts, or at least poetry, that deliver universal truths in a readily graspable form, unlike, for example, history, which deals merely with particular facts (Aristotle, Poetics, chapter 9, 1451a37–1451b10).
This project will carefully read a number of primary texts from Philosophy, Aesthetics and Architecture. A reflection on each weeks reading will be the basis of a journal, This will be collated and submitted for assessment at the conclusion of the semester. Text to be exerts from; 1 M Tafuri; Humanism Technical Knowledge and Rhetoric; The debate in renascence Venice. 2 Rousseau; The Social Contract (Foucault commentary) 3Gombrich from Perfernce for the primitive 4 J von Goethe – On German Architecture (commentary by J Pevsner, E H Gombrich and VonMuke and Purdy et el) 5 Alois Riegl; The Modern Cult of Monuments . 6 Wilhelm Worringer; Abstraction and Empathy. 7 Walter Benjamin; On translation. The storyteller. 8 Hegel Notes on aesthetics 9 Roland Bathe; Mythologies . 10 Foucault; What is an Author- (Giorgio Agambon The Author as Geasture) 11 Kuhn; The structure of Scientific Revolutions .Agambon What is a paradigm 12 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari – What is Philosophy 13 Elizebeth Groz The thing 14 Agambon from The signiture of all things Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong -
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The plant contemplates water, earth, nitrogen, carbon, chlorides and sulphates, and it contracts them in order to acquire its own concept and fill itself with it (enjoyment). The concept is a habit acquired by contemplating the elements from which we come……p 106 Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari What is philosophy
Lecturer : John Cherrey Location Design Hub workshop - 100.01.006 Times Thursday 2.00 - 5.00pm & 1 x intensive MAKING weekend workshops - dates TBA Elective is suited to both Bachelors and Masters level students Assessment: folio of works & succinct journal There will be a material levy not exceeding $120.00
Architecture is all about MAKING in one form or another. In this elective you will explore one area of making in architecture, the MAKING of physical objects. You will consider ideas about making including conception, design, scale, precision, tolerance, materials and process. MAKING is a complex task and at its best it requires a synthesis of many things. To be excel in MAKING, reflection both during and after creation is essential; reflection will form a key part of the work you produce.
The work produced will range in scale from very small objects, to models and larger scale furniture scale designs .
This is a workshop based elective. We will make use of much of the remarkable array of equipment to be found within the school. At the completion of the elective you will have broadened your skill base substantially both is making by hand and with analogue and digital equipment. You will also have sharpened your sense of materials by resolving a range of tasks given to you. And lastly you will have developed a far more sophisticated approach to questions about and process for MAKING.
MAKING
This Architectural Robotics elective will develop and apply robotic fabrication processes through speculative research projects. The elective will focus on three primary robotic techniques: large-scale polymer 3D printing, ceramic 3D printing, and foam carving. This research will be conducted through iteratively making prototypes and testing their viability. The ambition of the course is to explore the architectural application and implication of these fabrication techniques. Rather than being delivered in the conventional elective class format, students will instead work in small teams in direct collaboration with Roland Snooks and Sean Guy within our Design Hub level 9 research lab (specific times to be negotiated). This will give students experience working on live research and fabrication projects. A semi-regular review of the research will be undertaken on Monday’s at 1pm.
ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTICS
DESIGN ELECTIVE ROLAND SNOOKS + SEAN GUY MONDAY 1PM | DESIGN HUB LEVEL 9
Alcuin Library– Marcel Breuer, 1964
The role of structure in architecture is self-evident. However this elective will review the role of structure in defining a formal response in the generation of architectural expression and the crafting of interior spaces. The revealing of structure in order to define space. In the review of the role of structure, the elective will also focus on the single use of material to define floor, wall, structure. Each week students will be researching and reviewing particular precedents. The review of these precedents will be researched initially through various mediums and then through drawing. The weekly tasks will be presented each class and discussed. These will then be collated as a carefully considered research portfolio at the conclusion of the semester.
Elective
S2 2017
Wednesday 9.30AM-12.30PM
Open to Masters Students AMY MUIR
STRUCTURING IT
leon van schaik AO
sean kelly
tom kovac
professor of architecture innovation chair in design practice research
ceo and founder at corus
professor of architecture director kovac architecture
thursday 5.30 rmit design hub master of architecture elective research assistant grant trewella Students will develop proposals for a virtual exhibition of architectural projects for the 100YC [Year City] exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The elective will develop a platform which aims to accelerate collaboration by facilitating a richer and more intense environment for learning communities online. The emergence of virtual learning environments has revealed shortcomings in the fundamental assumptions made about learning itself, chief amongst which has been the failure to base models on learning as a socially structured activity. The same can be said of the translation of research and enterprise practices into virtual environments. Expert solutions have been proposed that address technical refinements or information delivery models of learning that do not answer the questions being asked by users, and their need to operate in communities of practice.
visualising the virtual concourse
writing & concepts READING, DISCUSSING AND REVIEWING THE WORKS OF RENOWNED MELBOURNE ARTISTS AND WRITERS AS THEY UNPACK THE PROCESS OF WRITING UNDERPINNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTS IN THEIR WORK
WRITING & CONCEPTS is designed to explore the potential of
Students enrolled in this subject will:
writing as both a process and an outcome. It aims to promote
- review lectures, recordings and readings,
writing as a tool of reflection and inquiry and open up the
- discuss, edit, and develop their reviews and weekly, and
complex relationship between the process of writing and the
- develop a long form review to be published online alongside
development of social, political and philosophical questions
written pieces by each of the speakers.
within contemporary cultural practice. Speakers WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture series are Anusha The subject is structured around twelve public lectures by
Kenny, Nathan Gray, Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca
practitioners for whom the written form is their primary
Hester, Scott Mitchell), Brooke Babington, Rushdi Anwar, Fayen
professional output and also practitioners whose work
d’Evie, Van Badham, Mark Feary, Jason Phu, Jamie O’Connell,
manifests as exhibitions or events within the domain of design
Erik Jensen, and Paola Balla.
and contemporary art. For speaker details and recordings of previous talks, please visit: There will be a mandatory weekly reading list of works by the
www.writingandconcepts.com.au
speakers, which will be discussed in each tutorial and part of the study of the process of writing.
WHEN:
THURSDAYS, 9:30AM (TUTE) AND 6:00 PM (LECTURE
WHERE:
OFFICES OF MVS ARCHITECTS (TUTE) - LOCATON OF LECTURES WILL VARY
TUTOR:
DR JAN VAN SCHAIK
Dr Jan van Schaik is a registered architect, a lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, and a director of MvS Architects Please visit mvsarchitects.com.au for more information.
With Melbourne’s population expected to surpass 7 million people by the year 2050, resilience within the finer grain of the city becomes vital in maintaining a liveable environment for us all. In this context, green spaces are critical to the enjoyment and environmental resilience of urban spaces. But as dense urban developments are becoming more commonplace in the inner city, green spaces need to adapt to new building typologies and emerging technologies. Students will receive guidance from, and participate in, NH’s 3 Focus Groups who meet regularly to advocate, consolidate and conduct research. This elective will immerse students
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“green spaces are vital to the enjoyment and environmental resilience of urban spaces” in speculative project opportunities and the studio environment of architectural practice. Students will conduct focused research in pairs on one of the topics below, discuss as a larger NH Research elective group and present to the Focus Groups through the semester.
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SUSTAINABILITY
URBAN DESIGN
PARAMETRIC DESIGN
This group will have the opportunity to meet professionals from various areas of the architectural and construction industry to gain a richer understanding in the design, engineering, structural and environmental methods and processes needed to implement resilient strategies in today’s architectural projects. Students will develop a set of skills and methods to be applied to existing projects in the office that can take many forms, from ‘living walls’ and vertical farming to roof gardens.
This semester will build upon previous research undertaken to explore the different metrics that make up quality urban design in Melbourne. Specifically, this semester will focus on the public realm to analyse its characteristics and explore what makes for a high quality, usable and inclusive public space in our city. Students will draw from an established methodology, but also formulate their own approach, hypothesis and selection of case studies.
This group will explore the use of Rhino, Grasshopper, and other plug-ins to further develop urban greening within Melbourne. Students will study various sites in the city where urban greening has and hasn’t worked, and analyse the environmental conditions for each location. The opportunity to meet and work with Landscape Architects and Environmental Engineering consultants will allow students to gain a better understanding of different plants’ environmental requirements, and a framework for future urban greening will be developed.
time 9:00am – 6:00pm one day per week, day to be confirmed location NH Architecture, Level 7 Cannons House, 12–20 Flinders Lane
CULTURE One Research Assistant is required to help with the RMIT Architecture & Urban Design - Culture Capture Project. You will work closely with Patrick Macasaet and Vivian Mitsogianni in capturing, collecting, recording and disseminating the culture and activities of RMIT Architecture & Urban Design through web, social media and print. Held
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GRADUATE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS REQUIRED
SEMESTER 2 2017
The Architecture Program requires 8 enthusiastic assistants to help with the organisation of the Semester 2 2017 End of Semester and Major Project Exhibition. You will work closely with the Exhibition Coordinator in the design and curation of the show, graphic design of posters and PR materials, Major Project Catalogue as well as the organisation of sponsorship, live music and DJs, catering and all of the other things that go to make a succesful event. The majority of the work will be in the second half of semester, but you will be required to assist with organisation throughout the semester. There will be a crunch period in the week prior to the event, please confirm your availability over Week 15 and Week 16 prior to enrolling in the elective. You will be given VIP access the pre-opening cocktail party on the night. The team is limited to 8 people only. You will receive credit towards an elective for your time. This is not availabe through electives balloting. If you are interested please contact the Exhibition Co-ordinator Ian Nazareth (ian.nazareth@rmit.edu.au) directly.
Make Architecture, Perimeter House, Melbourne.
Drew Heath, Mitchell Street House, Sydney.
Michael Meredith Hilary Sample, House no11, Corridor House.
Drawing from the outside in: garden typologies for city living
An architectural drawing focussed, research assistant elective with Anna Johnson and Richard Black
Overview of Research Project This project, a book that forms part of a longer-term project concerning the critical re-assessment of architecture’s relationship to landscape and living in Australia, situates contemporary regional and urban architectural responses environmentally and qualitatively, but importantly forges new territory with indigenous histories and occupation of place. This focus of this next book questions and explores what it is to live in the contemporary city, what constitutes a city landscape and how might this shape questions of metropolitan occupation and city form. This project’s research contribution will be in its critical re-assessment of emerging living typologies and landscape, within what we see as the changing dynamic of our cities as they respond to issues of densification, climate change, indigenous histories of place and consequent cultural and social shifts. In particular, our contribution will be in the consolidation and dissemination of contemporary architectural responses that respond to these conditions through the evolution of new typologies that inventively transform relationships of the dwelling and available outdoor space (landscape). We will reveal the specific design strategies, evidenced in 25 architectural case studies, that present new and emerging ways of occupying the city: a re-thinking of what it is to live in the contemporary city. Through the scholarship of site knowledge and its impact upon urban living typologies it will be positioned in a national and international discourse. (Pollak/Inside Outside / Site Matters Kahn etc). Research Assistant Outcomes: From the case study houses to be featured in this publication, you are to produce a series of analytical drawings/ and other drawings for publication. Your drawings will demonstrate your understanding of the research themes – as outlined above. Your drawings will be featured in this forthcoming publication (by Thames and Hudson). There will be: a building visit organised to one of the case study projects during the semester, weekly meetings with Richard Black, around several key texts and discussions throughout the semester to develop and expand your understanding of the research material; as well as developing your architectural knowledge through gaining insights into the design strategies of leading architectural practices in Australia and New Zealand. (4 students maximum)
Anna Johnson + Richard Black
more information richard.black@rmit.edu.au