Symposium Booklet by Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Program

9:00am-9:05am

Welcome to Country

Uncle Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden (Sydney Elder)

9:05am-9:15pm

Introduction

Deborah Barnstone (USYD) and Lee Stickells (USYD)

9:15am-11:00am

Session 1 “Positions: Terms of Engagement”

Chair: Michael Mossman (USYD)

Speakers: Kaunitz Yeung Architecture, Bobbie Bayley (Dogspike Design & Architecture), DunnHillam

Discussant: Atelier Bow-Wow

11.00am – 11.30am Morning Tea

11:30am-12:45pm

Session 2 “Agencies: Transforming Contexts”

Chair: Jennifer Ferng (USYD)

Speakers: Huang Sheng-Yuan (Fieldoffice Architects), Xu Tiantian (DnA Design and Architecture)

Discussant: Atelier Bow-Wow

12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch

1:30pm-2:45pm

Session 3 “Fieldwork: Education and Engagement”

Chair: Maren Koehler (USYD)

Speakers: Julian Worrall (UTAS), Elizabeth Mossop (UTS, Northern Rivers living lab, Spackman Mossop Michaels)

Discussant: Atelier Bow-Wow

2.45pm-3.00pm Afternoon Tea

3:00-3:45pm

Closing Remarks

Chair: Deborah Barnstone (USYD)

Speakers: Andrew Leach (USYD), Atelier Bow-Wow

Discussant: Andrew Wilson (UQ)

4.00pm

Symposium Close

4.00pm – 5.30pm Cocktail Reception

Participants

Atelier Bow-Wow

The Tokyo-based architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow are world-renown for their ethnographic or behaviorological approach to design; their emphasis on social and environmental sustainability; their keen interest in hybrid, ad hoc, and miniature public spaces (documented, for example, in Made in Tokyo); and rich, inventive, unpretentious architecture (documented in perspectival section in the Graphic Anatomy series of books).

Momoyo Kajima

Rothwell Co-Chair

Momoyo Kaijima graduated from Japan Women’s University in 1991. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992. In 1994 she received her master degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She served as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2000, and as an associate professor since 2009. In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship.

Since 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. She taught at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014-15), Delft University of Technology (2015-16), and Columbia University (2017). While engaging in design projects for houses, public buildings and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture. She was the curator of Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. In 2022, Momoyo received the Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture.

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Rothwell Co-Chair

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is the co-founder of Atelier Bow-Wow, established in 1992. Tsukamoto is a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Director of General Incorporated Associated Small Earth, and Director of the Window Research Institute.

Tsukamoto has held teaching positions at Harvard University (2003, 2007, 2016); University of California, Los Angeles (2007, 2008); Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011–2012); Barcelona Institute of Architecture (2011); Cornell University (2012); and Delft University of Technology (2015).

He works in diverse fields ranging from architecture, public space, furniture, field survey, education, art exhibition, curation, and writing. All the works are based on the theory called “Behaviorology”, aiming reconstruction of Commons through making better accessibility to local resources. In 2022, Tsukamoto received the Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture.

Yoichi Tamai

Rothwell Co-Chair

Yoichi Tamai graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002, and completed the Master Course in 2004. He joined Atelier Bow Wow in 2004 and has been a Partner since 2015.

Atelier Bow-Wow is renowned for its innovative approach to architecture and urbanism. The firm’s projects, spanning from residential buildings to public spaces, are characterised by a commitment to sustainability, social impact and an understanding of human behaviour in the built environment.

Deborah Barnstone University of Sydney

Deborah is the current Head of Discipline, Architecture at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Deborah is both an architectural historian and a registered architect in North Rhine, Westfalia, Germany. She holds a B. A. degree cum laude with High Honors from Barnard College, Columbia University; M. Arch degree from Columbia University; and PhD from Delft University of Technology.

Deborah has held academic positions at University of Technology Sydney, Washington State University, Ball State University, Fachhochschule Cologne, and the Boston Architectural Center.

She is co-commissioning editor of the Visual Culture in German Contexts Series at Bloomsbury Academic and Vice President of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA).

Bobbie Bayley Dogspike Design & Architecture

Bobbie Bayley is a co-director of Dogspike Design & Architecture, based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Dogspike’s broad remit covers Architecture, Design, Research, Advocacy, Making/ Building and illustration.

Under Dogspike Design, Bobbie provides built environment support to local aboriginal organisations and works as a Project Manager for Healthabitat across NT remote Aboriginal communities. Inspired from her work ‘on the ground’, she is also carrying out practical research on improving the Thermal Performance of NT Aboriginal Community Housing in the face of climate change Cool Living. Cool Living was awarded the Construction & Practice Prize in the 2023 NSW Student Architecture Awards.

She was awarded the prestigious Byera Hadley scholarship in 2017 to undertake the unprecedented The Grand Section, and the prestigious 2020 MADE scholarship from The Sydney Opera House to carry out an Utzon inspired multidisciplinary project in Denmark.

Ashley Dunn DunnHillam

Ashley Dunn is a founding principal of DunnHillam, starting the practice in 2001 with Lee Hillam. Ashley has been fundamental to the success of the practice in bringing creative thinking, innovation in sustainability and construction and determination to complex public buildings.

Ashley studied and worked in London, spending time in the offices of Caruso St John, David Chipperfield and McAslan before coming to Australia in 2000.

Ashley has a partial role at the University of Sydney as Associate Professor of Practice and is an Adjunct Professor at UNSW and Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. He taught for many years alongside Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin in the UNSW Regional Studios.

Ashley has been a member of the NSW State Design Review Panel and currently sits on the Design Excellence Panel for Cumberland City Council.

Jennifer Ferng University of Sydney

Jennifer Ferng is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. She teaches M.Arch studios and B.DesArch/M.Arch honours seminars. Her research examines how environmental and humanitarian histories from the eighteenth century onwards have impacted contemporary issues related to the climate crisis and the forced displacement of asylum seekers and refugees.

Her edited books include Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (2021); Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements of Architecture (2021); Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era (2023). Her current monograph Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum addresses how multinational contractors who build detention centres in offshore sites are complicit in violating human rights.

Lee Hillam DunnHillam

Lee is a founding principal of DunnHillam. Alongside Ashley Dunn, she has built the practice from an office of two to where it is now as an established practice with regional, cultural and arts expertise. Lee has spent time with the Government Architect NSW where she chaired the State Design Review Panel, helped write the Design Guide for Heritage and the Design Competitions Guidelines.

Lee sits on the Liverpool Design Excellence Panel and is an Adjunct Professor at UTS. She is a Board Director for Southern Cross Housing, a tier 1 community housing provider and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lee’s expertise is in the strategic and long-range thinking of masterplans and concept plans. She applies her knowledge of strategic planning and government policy to creative solutions for complex problems.

Lee writes regularly for Architecture Australia and is a contributor to Parlour: gender, equity, architecture. She previously worked with Richard LePlastrier where she met Jonathan Temple, who has been a Senior Associate at DunnHillam for 12 years and is integral to the success of the practice.

David Kaunitz

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

David Kaunitz co-founded Kaunitz Yeung Architecture to focus on facilitating high quality architecture in some of the most disadvantaged communities and First Nations People in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Underlying this is a deep commitment to participatory design and local construction. He has created a new paradigm that shows high quality, change making architecture is not a matter of cost, but of commitment.

He has worked in more than 40 Indigenous communities and authored the 2017 update to the Australian Government Department of Health’s ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Funded Capital Works Projects – Facility Design Guidelines’. He was the recipient of the 2020 NSW Australian Institute of Architect Reconciliation Prize, and the prestigious UIA Vassilis Sgoutas prize for Implemented Architecture Serving the Underprivileged.

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture’s numerous awards in Australia and abroad have included European Healthcare Design Awards, World Community Architecture Award, and the inaugural ArchitectureAU Award for Social Impact.

Maren Koehler University of Sydney

Dr Maren Koehler is a researcher and an Academic Fellow in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her research is interested in the intersections between architecture and processes of financialisation and the extraction of natural resources.

She held postdoctoral appointments as a Virtual Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal (CCA) and a fellow at the interdisciplinary research project “Architectures of Order” at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt, associated with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. She also worked as an architect in international architecture practices in Europe, the US and Asia, such as Steven Holl Architects in New York and Beijing.

Andrew Leach University of Sydney

Andrew Leach is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he teaches architectural history.

Andrew writes on contemporary issues in the fields of architectural history, theory and criticism. His books include Manfredo Tafuri (2007),What is Architectural History? (2010), Rome (2016) and Gold Coast (2018), and include the edited collections Shifting Views (2008), Architecture, Disciplinarity and the Arts (2009), The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980 (2015), Off the Plan (2016), On Discomfort (2016) and Sydney School (2018).

He has held two fellowships from the Australian Research Council, and grants from the FWO (Flanders). He was a 2017-18 Wallace Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tattiand the 2019-20 Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Design at Penn State University.

His current writing includes book-length studies on the mid-twentieth-century historiography of mannerist architecture (provisionally titled Unstylish Style) and an architectural history of New South Wales.

Michael Mossman University of Sydney

Michael is a Kuku-Yalanji man, born and raised in Cairns on Yidinji Country. Michael is Associate Dean Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

He is also a registered architect who champions Country and First Nations cultures as agents for structural change in the broader architectural profession at educational, practice and policy levels.

He completed his doctor of philosophy in April 2021. His dissertation, ‘Third Space, Architecture and Indigeneity - Stories of Designed Environments and Cultural Narratives in Australia’ explores the process of communication and exchange in architecture through the dialogue of First Nations and colonial-influenced ways to realise transformative design outcomes.

His previous position at the NSW Government Architect’s Office focused on the inception, planning, design and delivery of architectural projects. Projects ranged from Indigenous specific community places to large scale projects such as new schools.

Elizabeth Mossop UTS, Northern Rivers living lab, Spackman Mossop & Michaels

Elizabeth is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Technology and Academic Director of the Living Lab Northern Rivers and a landscape architect and urbanist with wide-ranging experience in both landscape design and urban planning.

Elizabeth is a founding principal of Spackman Mossop & Michaels landscape architects based in Sydney and New Orleans. Her professional practice concentrates on urban infrastructure and open space projects such as the multiple award-winning Bowen Place Crossing in Canberra, Press Street Gardens in New Orleans, and Sydney’s Cook and Phillip Park. She has also been involved in many aspects of the post-hurricane reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and the ongoing revitalisation of Detroit.

With an academic career spanning 25 years, Elizabeth has held key roles at universities in both the United States and Australia. Before joining UTS, she was Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University, one of the highest ranked landscape architecture programs in the US. Previously, she was the Director of the Masters of Landscape Architecture program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Huang Sheng-Yuan Fieldoffice Architects

Huang, Sheng-Yuan is the principal of Fieldoffice Architects in Yilan, Taiwan, and graduated from Tunghai University and received his M. Arch. with Honors from Yale University in 1991. He worked at Eric Owen Moss Architects and taught at North Carolina State University. He currently works as Professor at Chun-Yuan University.

Fieldoffice Architects is an architectural team composed youths from throughout Taiwan and initiated projects such as Yilan “Vascular Bundle Project”. All of these projects strive to integrate the building into the existing natural landscape. With more than 30 years of sensitive works, their highly localized thoughts and original vocabulary quietly shaped the appearance of spatial freedom.

In 2015, Fieldoffice Architects was invited to exhibit at the “gallery Ma” in Tokyo. Since 2016, they started the touring exhibition, namely “Making Places” at Alvar Aalto Museum through Pargue, Cambridge, Bordeaux etc.. In 2017, they received the Yosizaka Takamasa Award in Japan. In 2018, Huang won the National Arts Award and the Presidential Innovation Award. In 2021, he was invited by the conference to exhibit as an official Taiwanese artist at the Arsenal of the Venice Biennale.

Lee Stickells University of Sydney

Lee is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He teaches across the areas of architectural design, urban design and the architectural humanities. Lee has professional experience in urban design and architecture – predominantly in Australia and Asia – including with leading Australian practices Donaldson + Warn and Woods Bagot. Before moving to the University of Sydney in 2008, he was Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the West of England, where he taught in architecture and urban design as well as directing the Master of Urban Design program. Lee has also been a sessional tutor and visiting critic at University of Strathclyde, TU Eindhoven, Uni-

versity of Bath, University of Western Australia, University of Technology, Sydney, Curtin University and the University of South Australia.

Lee’s overarching research interest is in connecting architectural experimentation to broader socio-cultural and technological transformations. He focuses particularly on alternative practices in architectural and environmental design from the 1960s onward, which have tended to challenge conventional disciplinary models – rethinking and reconfiguring mainstream education, professional practice, and capital-intensive production.

Xu Tiantian

DnA

Design and Architecture

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA Design and Architecture and Professor in Practice at Tsinghua University School of Architecture.

She received her Baccalaureate in Architecture from Tsinghua University in China, and her Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) from Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2020, she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects.

Xu Tiantian has engaged extensively in the rural revitalizing process in rural China. Her groundbreaking “Architectural Acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages.

She received numerous awards including the 2022 Swiss Architectural Award, the 2023 Berlin Art Prize / Kunstpreis Berlin (Architecture category), 2023 Marcus Prize and 2023 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture by UNESCO and Cite de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine.

Andrew Wilson University of Queensland

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland.

He is registered architect, architectural educator, and researcher with a Master of Architecture (Research by Design) from RMIT University (2001) and practice experience Victoria, Queensland and Germany. Andrew has teaching experience in the areas of ‘Technology and Science’ and ‘History and Theory’, as well as running architectural and urban design studios. He is committed to architectural culture, critical approaches to design learning and an open international cultural exchange with a focus on the Asia Pacific.

Andrew’s research is focused on Research by Design; architecture as a open question, urban and social space, architecture’s relationship with the city, and scales of regional operation. His work has been published in leading journals including Casabella and Architecture Australia.

Julian Worrall University of Tasmania

Julian is Head of the School of Architecture and Design since 2021 and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania since 2019. He is a prominent exponent of urban and architectural innovation sourced in the study of the built environments of East Asia, particularly those of Japan, with an international career spanning scholarly research and education, critical writing, and design practice.

A registered architect, Julian has worked as a designer with internationally prominent design practices, including Klein Dytham in Tokyo and with Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and maintains a practice entity (Julian Worrall Spaces) for design and consultancy services.

He provides expert advice on architectural and urban design matters to the public and private sector, including the State Government of South Australia; the City of Launceston; and the Architectural Design Review Committee of the University of Tasmania.

Ka Wai Yeung

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

Ka Wai co-founded Kaunitz Yeung Architecture with her husband, David Kaunitz, driven by a shared passion for creating socially responsible, culturally sensitive and humane architecture.

She is deeply committed in bridging gaps in society and fostering continuation of heritage and culture. Her focus lies in projects supporting these ideals across health and aged care facilities, cultural and art centres, schools and housing.

In 2021, she was humbled to be joint recipient with David, of the Vassilis Sgoutas Prize from the UIA, for their contribution to improving living conditions of the underprivileged.

Notes

Cover image: Atelier Bow-Wow, Kamogawa, Muji Pavilion. Credit: Lee Stickells Rothwell Chair in Architectural Design Leadership School of Architecture, Design and Planning

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