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Projects Review 2006

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Contents

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Published by the Architecture Program School of Geography, Planning and Architecture The University of Queensland

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Welcome Antony Moulis 4

12 STUDIO PROJECTS 1st year 14 2nd year 20 3rd year 26 4th year 32 5th year 38

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44 RESEARCH Architectural design 46 History & theory 48 Environmental design & technology 50 Centre for sustainable design 52 Environment & society 54 Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) 56 Postgraduate studies 58 60 PROGRAM INFORMATION Staff list 61 Undergraduate class lists 62

Thanks also to everyone who contributed to this edition of Projects Review. The views expressed in the Projects Review are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor or The University of Queensland. Cover design: compiled by Linda Thomson Title page: Damien Yip 1st year project illustrations This page: 3rd year model Facing page: Timothy Crawshaw, 5th year, illustration

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WELCOME

In 2006 on Special Studies Program I had the opportunity to observe Le Corbusier’s project for the chapel of Saint-Pierre de Firminy in its final phase of construction. This particular work of architecture began its life over 40 years ago when the architect set out his designs for various elements of the city. For many years the project sat as a modern ruin until a decision was made to re-initiate work and so bring the building to completion. The sight of this building emerging from the Firminy skyline is a reminder of the real and mostly collective commitment that is required to produce a work of architecture. Though the work illustrated in this Projects Review might reflect only a couple of semesters of work for a current cohort of students it is, in a similar way, part of a much greater enterprise. This edition and the work contained marks the 30th Projects Review produced by Architecture at the University of Queensland. Antony Moulis

The Projects Review began life at the initiation of Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman in 1977, originally made as four folded A3 sheets in a photomontaged manila envelope. The making of this document has often required late nights spent and an equally compelling desire to celebrate the collected work of the architectural design studios and the research, talks and events that all go to characterise the life of an Architecture school. As much as the work illustrated here casts back to those beginnings it is also an indication of greatly anticipated and half glimpsed future as seen through the efforts of those present students who would become architects. In December 2006, the graduating Architectural Design Studio at the University of Queensland launched 0506: DistURBANce, an exhibition and publication of their architectural and urban design work held at the Metro Arts Galleries Brisbane.

graduating class constituted an ideas database from the Studio that explored the problems and patterns of city growth identified by the South East Queensland Regional plan. The projects aimed to challenge current architectural and urban design strategies and spark discussion within both the design community and Brisbane’s wider public. In working on their designs, students gained invaluable experience of researching and proposing their own additions to the city while also selfproducing the exhibition, publication and website, committing many hours to its making and raising over $10,000 in support of their efforts. Special thanks to Kathi Holt-Damant for successfully organising the “Urban Water Futures for SEQ” Colloquium on Friday 17 March and coordinating the study visit of student’s from Columbia University, New York. Thanks also to Associate Professor Paul Memmott for successfully staging a joint elective research program and student exchange with the University of Auckland that provided cross-cultural experience of indigenous issues in urban planning and landscape. Further thanks to Associate Professor Peter Skinner for steering the Architecture Public Talks program in Semester 1. Welcome to new Lecturers in Architecture, Nicole Sully, who will be teaching in the Design and History and Theory area, and Michael Dickson, who will be teaching in Architectural Communications and Design. Congratulations also to Elizabeth Musgrave on her promotion to Lecturer. This year also marks the arrival of Architecture’s first UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipient Andrew Leach who completed his PhD at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Andrew will be undertaking collaborative research with the Architecture Theory Criticism History Research Group (ATCH). Steve Long also commenced his UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre under the supervision of Dr Paul Memmott.

The exhibition and publication celebrating the achievements of the My personal thanks, as well as the collective thanks of staff, to Greg Bamford for taking on the role of Head of Architecture in the first half of the year. —ANTONY MOULIS, Head of Architecture

The chapel of Saint-Pierre de Firminy designed by Le Corbusier

The original Projects Review cover, 1977

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Events

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Public Lecture Program Peter Skinner coordinated the TOWN@GOWN Thursday evening public talks program in semester 1. Ian Moore presented his very crisp housing projects in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast and the complexities of simultaneously running offices in Noosa, Sydney and New Zealand, while Drew Heath described his very hands-on approach to designing and crafting architecture on site. Peter Richards discussed Diecke Richard’s urban design processes, and Adjunct Professor Michael Rayner focussed on the collaborative interplay of art and architecture. Mark Roehrs, Richard Kirk and Hamilton Wilson spoke of the substantial outputs of their offices, including many of the most exciting new projects on the St Lucia campus. Sydney-based UQ alumni Ken McBryde spoke of the dynamic work of Innovarchi in Sydney, on the Gold Coast and in Dubai. —Peter skinner

Architectural ideas in the context of practice The most successful architecture, I believe, has its basis in developing project-specific ideas. That is, ideas relevant to a particular project rather than the application of an idea for its own sake. It is important to remember that just because a design might have a cohesive idea, the result will not necessarily be a good building. The same can be said of the application of theory. Ideas and theories need to be critiqued and tested against the many criteria, which make up a successful building. Ideas and theories also need to make the transition from idea into a work of architecture. This process is as essential as having the original idea. In architectural practice ideas need to withstand the various hurdles of budget constraints and ‘value engineering’. When you test your design to these criteria, pseudo or clip-on ideas tend to fall by the wayside. In an age of building delivery via design and construct (a.k.a. ‘delete and compromise’) it is only the most robust that remain. Our practice works on the underlying principle that architecture is driven by ideas, as opposed to image. This principle is developed within a framework of three core themes: 1. Architecture as backdrop It is important not to lose sight of the fact that a building’s primary purpose is to be occupied. Our emphasis will always be on place making as opposed to asserting a monumental position for the architectural form or object. We consider that it is only when buildings are occupied that they come to life and the whole theatricality of architecture as a backdrop for activity becomes apparent. 2. Architecture as a collaborative process This belief comes out of a sense of respect we have for clients and building users as well as for the expertise that individual team members and consultants bring to the process. Architects who succumb to the image of the sole author risk missing out on countless opportunities to enrich and improve their buildings. 3. Tectonic expression and materiality Even at a project’s beginning we find detail a driving force in the design process. Having an understanding of scale and assembly is as important at sketch design as during execution. We enjoy the making of architecture and are interested in both tectonic expression and materiality and the dialogue between structure and surface. —Annabel Lahz Edited extract of Summer Exhibition Guest Lecture presented by Annabel Lahz on November 23, 2006. Annabel Lahz graduated from UQ in 1986 and established her own practice Lahz Nimmo in 1994 with partner Andrew Nimmo (also UQ).

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School of Geography Planning and Architecture Colloquium No. 3: Urban Water Futures for SEQ, March 17 The School of Geography Planning and Architecture pre-empted the debate concerning Brisbane’s urban water future in an inter-disciplinary colloquium of expert speakers from Government, industry and from within the Faculty of Engineering Physical Sciences and Architecture (EPSA). Head of School, Professor Martin Bell, chaired the colloquium convened by Dr Kathi Holt-Damant and introduced leading stakeholders invited to examine the relevance of water to the built environment with a particular emphasis on the impact of water futures on the draft SEQ Plan. The invited speakers included Associate Professor John Minnery (Planning, UQ), Mark Pascoe (CEO, International Water Centre), Andy Krumins (Manager, Strategic Planning Policy and Innovation, Brisbane Water), Professor Jurg Keller (Director, Advanced Wastewater Management Centre, UQ) with closing comments from Associate Professor Mojdeh Baratloo (GSAPP, Columbia University, NY). Following the presentations the leading speakers were joined in a robust discussion by an invited panel of SEQ experts chaired by Professor Michael Keniger (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic UQ). The panel were asked in a series of questions developed by the visiting Columbia students to reflect on what future urban water might be: How does current thinking in urban planning propose to cope with the increasing water crisis? What innovations are being tested? Where do we go from here? Along with the invited speakers the panel also included: Professor Ross Gibson (History and New Media UTS), Darren Hayman (Gold Coast Water), Adjunct Associate Professor Timothy Hill (Donovan Hill Architects), Associate Professor Richard Hyde (Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, UQ), Michael Papageorgiou (Manager, City Planning, BCC) and James Spiller (Infrastructure Coordinator, OUM). Columbia students visit and workshop: Urban Water Futures collaborative project, March 13—17 For the third consecutive year, Architecture at UQ hosted the Columbia University travelling studio with Associate Professor Mojdeh Baratloo who is now something of a honorary Queenslander. The Columbia students along with postgraduates and several senior BArch students attended the Urban Water Futures Colloquium and participated in a number of field studies and workshops over the course of five days of intensive collaborative activities examining the implications of the future of water usage in the urban environment. Field studies took in the IH2 House, Coomera; Gold Coast City Council including Surfers Paradise canal estates; Mt Crosby Water Treatment EVENTS 9

Previous page: Field trip to Hobart where 4th year students were given the opportunity to visit the work of local architects Facing page: The work of Annabel Lahz, Guest Lecturer at the Summer Exhibition (1) This page: Summer Exhibition display (2), 3rd year’s winning design ‘The Basket’ for The Deep Green Pod project (3)

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Plant; Wivenhoe Dam and the Luggage Point Waste Water Treatment Plant. Design Group staff at the conclusion of the Workshop reviewed concurrent project work. —KATHI HOLT-DAMANT

This page: Samoan Fale at Unitec, Auckland (1), one of the brick installations from the Turrbal-Jagera open air art exhibition (2). Facing page: SBS film makers docment student life at UQ (3).

Field Trips Cultural Bridging Across the Ditch—University of Queensland and University of Auckland In April, a student exchange program between 4th year Architecture students from The University of Queensland and The University of Auckland was organized to provide students with a cross-cultural experience focusing on two indigenous cultural landscapes, one Aboriginal and one Maori, and their potential roles in contemporary urban planning. Students researched and explored the properties of indigenous places and landscapes as they existed at the time of early contact with Europeans, including settlements, camps, structures, resource places, sites of spiritual significance, sites of social interaction, territorial divisions and boundaries. They were also introduced to belief systems, creation stories, bodies of knowledge and characteristic patterns of behavior associated with these places. Students were asked to speculate on how cultural landscapes respectively influenced town planning and urban morphology during the colonial establishment of the cities of Brisbane and Auckland, by accident or design; and further how elements of the original cultural landscapes at the time of first contact might be re-synthesized into contemporary urban planning in recognition of the bi-cultural origins of settlement and culture in these two cities. The program was conceived and coordinated by Paul Memmott of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre with Associate Professor Rewi Thompson from the University of Auckland with contributions in New Zealand from Professor Mike Austin, Maori architect Rao Hoskins and local traditional landowner Ngarimu Blair. —paul memmott

graduate Danny Wong, took part in the workshops developing a number of variations of the brick fountain and hearth ‘dish’ found elsewhere on campus adjacent or within Birrell’s iconic Hartley Teakle and Union College buildings. A scheme devised by Jade Myers (5th year) and in consultation with James Birrell was constructed near the lake on the lawn amphitheatre in November.

In December the 5th year cohort successfully launched their graduate publication: DistURBANce with an exhibition of their project work at Metro Arts Galleries. The gathering were addressed by guests, Deputy Mayor the Hon. Cr David Hinchcliffe, Michael Rayner who announced the RAIA Cox Rayner Graduate Prize for 2006 and a stirring ‘call-to-arms’ by Timothy

Films Postgraduate student James Davidson produced and directed a documentary film: Memoirs of a Travelling Architect, which focused on the contemporary experience of Brisbane’s urban and architectural setting. The film was shown to students of architecture at UQ and QUT.

Hill who extolled the virtues of what is really at

SBS The 1st year studio was the subject of one of a suite of investigations by SBS documentary film makers examining the experience of first time university students. Film crews participated in lectures, critiques and studio life as they followed the fortunes of a number of international and local students embarking on life at university. It is anticipated the completed film will screen on SBS television sometime mid 2007.

2006 PRIZES

Postgraduate research showcase and exhibition In July the School of GPA held its annual postgraduate poster exhibition. The exhibition showcases a cross-section of research endeavour from all areas of the School demonstrating the depth and richness of its scholarship. Contributions from Architecture included: Srazali Aripin, Kimberley Baber, Christopher Brisbin, Cameo Dalley (1st), James Davidson, Kevin Green, Kelly Greenop (High Achievement), Angela Kreutz, Ati Moh’d Ariffin, Julian Raxworthy, Robert Riddel, Daniel Rosendahl, Amber Storry and Mark Taylor.

Third Year

stake when making cities. Congratulations to all who contributed, especially the joinery team for the elegant bar and light boxes. —douglas neale

First Year Lawrence Bertoldi Book Prize—Lara Nobel Jane Grealy Book Prize—Natasha Chee Second Year Head of Department Book Prize—Jack Dodgson

Bligh Tanner Book Prize—Angela Winkle The Board of Architects Prizes—Ricky Hill Steel Reinforcement Institute of Australia (SRIA) Prize—Alyssa Clift Fourth Year The ARUP Book Prize—Anthony Scully, Laura Pascoe and Morgan Jenkins (Architecture) R Martin Wilson Memorial Prize—Jonathan Kopinski

DistURBANce ‘Tweed Futures’ cross-discipinary teaching exchange Staff from Geography, Planning and Environmental Management programs provided a cross-disciplinary foundation to the selective offering, ‘Tweed Futures’. The regional development investigation and three-day field study in Northern New South Wales was undertaken by twenty 4th year students led by Peter Skinner and Justin Twohill.

Fifth Year Iezzi Design Enterprises and Architects Award— Andrew McDonough RAIA Cox Rayner Architects and Planners Prize— Jade Myers The Board of Architects Prize—Jade Myers The QIA Memorial Medallion—Jade Myers

‘Subtropical Cities’ tour By way of introduction to the Subtropical Cities Conference held at QUT in September, conference delegates were taken on an investigation of Brisbane from the river, guided by Peter Skinner, Michael Kennedy and James Coutts. —Peter skinner

Innovarchi Thesis Prize—John Petrie Highly Commended Thesis—Jacquie Maestracci, Anna Van Hees and Lucinda Thomson John Simpson Book Prize—Andrew Schindler The Karl and Gertrude Langer Memorial Drawing

TURRBAL-JAGERA December 2—17 In semester 1 Douglas Neale convened a series of workshops with James Birrell and David Pestorius to develop a proposal for an installation to be included in TURRBAL-JAGERA: an international open air art exhibition facilitated by the University Art Museum (UAM) with curator, David Pestorius. The exhibition featured several installations throughout the campus by prominent national and international artists who were invited to participate. Approximately eight architecture students, including post-

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Prize—Phillip Tillotson The Karl and Gertrude Langer Memorial Design Prize—Andrew Schindler SCHOLARSHIPs The Ceridwen Indigenous Trust Scholarship— Angela Kreutz A.E. Brooks Travelling Scholarship in 3

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Architecture—Christina Waterson

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1st Year: Bachelor of Architecture

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Semester 1 provided an introduction to the design process. Students were required to make analyses of various physical qualities and functional requirements, to generate and develop architectural ideas, to test and resolve building solutions and to model experience and communicate their designs. The first two projects were short exploratory exercises. The third project allowed the students to design their first real building. In Semester 2 students first undertook exploratory studies using literary texts as a basis for imagining architectural space and then worked with 4th year students on ideas for a speaker’s ‘soapbox’ on the St Lucia campus. Students then proceeded to analyse threshold places in and around the Great Court as sites for their own architectural interventions. Finally another type of architectural intervention was undertaken—a dissection and analysis of exemplar 20th century houses that would form a kit of elements and ideas for the final design project, an urban assemblage on an artificially imagined inner city site..

This page: Lucian Gormley sketch (1), 1st year critique (2) Facing page: Plans and sections by William Harvey-Jones (3)

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Semester 1

STAFF Mark Hiley (Coordinator) Greg Bamford TUTORS Srazali Aripin Sue Cressey Mary Crosdale Angela Kreutz Donna La Caze Danny Wong Julian Raxworthy GUEST CRITICS Professor Martin Bell Professor Michael Keniger Julian Raxworthy Professor Stephen Walker

Project 1: A natural setting for a cultural artefact In the first project, students were asked to choose and document an artefact from the Queensland Art Gallery or Museum, locate a site on campus and then design an exhibit for their artefact in the landscape. The project required students to consider how the artefact is affected by spectator’s experience of it and the context in which it exists. These ideas were explored largely through freehand drawing.

Project 2: A Brisbane office for an international architect The second project required students to research a house designed by a significant 20th century architect, visit and document a local architect’s office and then design a Brisbane office for their International architect. The project was set in a hypothetical cube of space 6m3. It allowed students to explore issues of spatial abstraction and functional organization. Students explored these issues through 1:50 cardboard models and then drafted plans and sections.

Project 3: A research centre in a landscape setting In the third project, students were required to design a research centre—comprising a nursery, library and living accommodation for two people—in the J.C. Slaughter Falls picnic area. The project dealt with a broad range of issues: experience and context, space and function, climate and environment, form and typology, material and construction. Students built 1:50 cardboard models and 1:20 timber framing models before drafting plans, sections and elevations.

Facing page: Lucian Gormley plan (1), Elspeth Webster design drawings (2) This page: Xiao Feng model (3), Joseph Brett research centre project sketch (4)

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Semester 2

STAFF Antony Moulis (Coordinator) Nicole Sully TUTORS Zoe Ridgway Jade Myers Prue Exelby Fiona McAlpine

Imagined thresholds This staged exercise tested the students ability to imagine and represent an architectural space on the basis of given literary descriptions. The sources for this exercise were short descriptions of cities taken from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1974). Students were asked to take the paradoxical character of the cities described and re-present its conditions through a simple spatial model containing a threshold.

Soapbox This student initiated project saw 1st years work in small groups with 4th year students to produce a finely detailed ‘soapbox’—a mobile object that could exist in various contexts of the St Lucia campus from which student voices could be heard. Campus thresholds This project required the making of student use facilities on various remnant sites in and around the Great Court to create new threshold spaces. Briefs for the sites included a satellite library, green transport facility and stonemason’s display and workspace.

Urban assemblage This project explored thresholds through the reinterpretation of an iconic twentieth century house to accommodate a new commercial enterprise. Students undertook analytical exercises that involved reading spaces through qualities, which culminated in a dissection of an iconic house—using strategic ‘incisions’ to reveal a new or hidden architectural order. This informed a transplantation and reinvention of the architectural precedent to accommodate a choice of either a printery, a bakery or a motorcycle repair shop. Students were encouraged to interpret historical context as a spatial concern, and consider the distinctions between domestic and commercial spaces. 4

Facing page: Ben Boyd diagrams (1), Photo collage by Lara Nobel (2), Natasha Chee isometric campus thresholds (3) 2

This page: Damien Yip isometric urban assemblage (4), Jonathon Brown section (5)

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2nd Year: Bachelor of Architecture

ARCH2100 studio comprised two projects devised and led by practitioners, Kaylee Wilson and John Price. Both projects involved sites on the banks of the Brisbane River in Brisbaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s western suburbs. The first project involved linked exercises directed at demonstrating imaginative architectural design processes. The second project extended investigations in project 1 to the making of a precinct of small buildings. It required, in addition to a poetic sensibility, strategies for dealing with a more complex functional brief. ARCH2200 introduced issues of the generation and analysis of forms. Discrete aspects that bear on building form were explored in a number of exercises, including the development of techniques for the manipulation of form. Realistic and comprehensive constraints of program and site context were then reintroduced in a major project. There was an emphasis on planning relatively simple briefs with strong constraints of site area and gross floor area, and on the role of the project in its urban context.

2 This page: Larissa Searle drawing (1), Hiranga Goonawardena sketch (2), 2nd year studio (3) 4

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Semester 1

STAFF Elizabeth Musgrave (Coordinator) John Price Kaylee Wilson Tutors Donna la Caze Tyson McCulloch Emily Wall William Ellyett Zuzana Kovar Guests Ron Lewcock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;HOUSEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LECTURERS Rachel Barnard (APA) Richard Buchanan Carroll Go-Sam Brant Harris Susan Holden Paul Hotston George Kerr Jeremy Salmon Peter Skinner Kim Small (APA) Justin Twohill

Project 1: Landscape abstractions Project 1, devised and led by Kaylee Wilson, comprised a series of staged activities directed at uncovering and abstracting ideas about space and its occupation and was intended to reveal to students processes for imaginative design. A series of studies of landscape sites along the western reaches of the Brisbane River provided material for conceptually framing imagined experience and abstracting phenomenological attributes for use in generating proposals for a place in the Queensland Art Gallery in which to house and display an historic artefact.

Project 2: Sailing club Ideas uncovered in the first project were tested in Project 2, devised and led by John Price. This project invited proposals for the design of a community recreational facility set in a public park at the point where Oxley Creek flows into the Brisbane River. Students worked with issues such as address and entry, public and private, role playing and path configuration, and siting in relation to context and environmental considerations. Through the careful siting of buildings and manipulation of landscape students developed an understanding of how territory is shaped and made legible. This project began with a one-day sketch design for a one-person studio boat-pavilion.

This page: John Mounsey diagram(1) Facing page: Sarah Chapman elevations (2 & 3), Alisa Newey section (4) and site plan (5)

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Semester 2

STAFF John Macarthur (Coordinator) TUTORS Mark Hiley Susan Holden Angela Kreutz Jacquie Maestracci Computer Tutor Bill Ellyett

This page: Charles Rowe’s study for ‘The Exercises’ (1 & 2) Facing page: Jack Dodgson sketch plan (3), Sally Adness perspective (4), Charles Rowe sketches (5)

The Exercises There were four exercises each of a week that examined aspects that constrain building form, and techniques for analyzing and manipulating these constraints. In order to free students from the more obvious constraints of site and brief, the studio took a fanciful scenario of re-siting a previous design on the Quirinale Hill in Rome. The Exercises then explored the figure/ground plan and building envelope, the section and elevation, and an interior, all before introducing a brief for an Architecture Academy. There was a degree of playfulness or apparent arbitrariness in the procedures. This was intended to teach the role of constraints in imagination and creativity. To emphasise this aspect, the studio began with a film: Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth’s The Five Obstructions.

The Project The major project then introduced the problem of an Architecture Centre as a holistic problem on a realistic site in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane. The brief was for 2000m2 of exhibition and studio space with facilities for workshops, lectures, and accommodation for visiting staff and students. The site is Little Street, which in fact backs onto a railway cutting. The Project imagined a scenario where this cutting was covered to make a new park as part of the redevelopment of Barry Parade. The site then had very similar area, shape and aspect to the site in Rome used for the Exercises. This was a relatively large and complex problem for second year students, but in fact most aspects of the Project had already been introduced and practiced in the Exercises. Students were encouraged to use the procedures of the Exercises to quickly develop an agenda with regard to the siting issues, the materiality of the building and some of the major volumes, and to do so prior to resolving the planning of the building.

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3rd Year: Bachelor of Architecture

Third year is an important stage in the development of architectural design skills. Students have gained a degree of proficiency in design synthesis that is stretched and challenged by the integration of a wider range of technical and programmatic considerations. In Semester 1 projects incorporated a richer array of real-life challenges and required solutions that are only achievable through cycles of iterative refinement. Semester 2 was dedicated to imagining and designing the completion of the key southern precinct at the University St Lucia campus. This whole semester project envisaged the redevelopment of a site currently occupied by engineering workshops. Students were invited to consider creating a new entrance to the university and develop innovative responses to the use of external teaching and study space where pleasant working environments could be achieved without complex and energy hungry environmental systems. Informed and critical engagement with current thinking and awareness of recent innovations in academic buildings enriched individual projects. This semester’s work was seen as the culmination of three years study in architecture and the gateway to the ‘year out’ when students spend several months gaining practical experience before returning to complete their course. The ambition was to help students gain confidence in design and technical skills for this important transition in their careers. Visitors from practice contributed to discussions about the varieties of experience available in small and large offices and the expectations they have of recent graduates.

Facing page: From left - Ricky Hill, Jasmin Ong, Briohny McKauge, Eden Mathews and William Downes with their winning scheme The Basket (1) This page: Deep Green Pod 3D model in context by Paul Curry, Ella Gunn, Emma Graves, Elan Barr and Kate Droney(2)

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3rd YEAR 27

SEMESTER 1

STAFF Peter Skinner (Coordinator)

TUTORS Bill Ellyett Angus Munro Justin Twohill GUEST CRITICS Ken McBryde Alastair McCracken Jono Medhurst Tim Medhurst Stephanie Smith SPONSORS The Ethos Centre The Ridge at Binna Burra

Project 1: Deep green pod In the first short project, groups of five students designed a small nature lovers’ retreat located deep in a private rainforest valley adjoining the Lamington National Park. The ‘pod’ was to provide a romantic setting for two people to experience a night in the forest. The structure needed to be prefabricated and capable of being carried into the forest for erection. The pod was to be environmentally self-sustaining, and provide a memorable and inspiring vantage point for the appreciation of the natural world as part of the educational program of an eco-community in Binna Burra. The educational foundation aims to support the construction of the winning ‘pod’ design in 2007.

Project 2: Burleigh housing The major project explored two pressing issues in SouthEast Queensland: the design of housing models that create higher, sustainable urban densities and that also respond inventively to the subtropical climate and landscape. The site chosen was at Burleigh Heads, and students were asked to propose strategies for the revitalisation of the adjacent Gold Coast highway. Development options were examined through a series of massing studies that drew on previous research into housing typology. The final design was to address issues of equity and affordability by providing accommodation and necessary social support functions for a diverse community of one thousand residents, matched to the demographic profile of the broader population.

This page: Deep Green Pod design (1), Burleigh housing project by Damian Regan (2) and Elan Barr (3)

Facing page: Deep Green Pod designs (4 & 5), Emma Graves’ Burleigh housing section (6) and perspective (7)

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SEMESTER 2

staff Pedro Guedes (Coordinator) tutors John Jell Hieu Nguyen Peter Skinner Guest CRITICS Jared Bird Glen Jones Kim Small Catherine Watts TECHNICAL INTEGRATION James Davidson Richard Hyde Richard Moore GUEST LECTURES Tom Heneghan Timothy Hill Richard Kirk Alisdair McClintock Michael Rayner Hamilton Wilson

Jock’s Road precinct, Part 1 Analysis of brief, researching typologies and precedents. The preliminary stage of the project involved sifting through and evaluating large amounts of information, researching precedents and current trends in tertiary education design, alongside comprehensive analysis of the site and its campus context. This work was supported by workshops in diagramming techniques and investigations of spatial and formal options. Jock’s Road precinct, Part 2 Designing through iterative loops. Through a series of graduated stages, students developed and refined their individual designs

to this challenging and complex architectural problem. The work, presented at three-week intervals evolved in response to advice and reflection. At the final stage, students were expected to be articulate about their architectural ideas and to be able to communicate them through conventional drawings, diagrams and other supporting material. Creative integrative design The Jock’s Road Precinct project formed the basis of the 2nd semester’s explorations in environmental design integration. Students presented their concepts, approaches and detailed proposals for technical aspects of their projects alongside their architectural ideas.

SPECIAL THANKS TO Graham Brighouse (Documentation)

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This page: Sketch design by Patricia Davy (1), Breanna Ryan (2). Facing page: Gina McKenzie (3), Nick Flutter (4 & 5), Emma Graves (6), Matthew McCarthy (7), Mmusi Kalayakgosi (8) . 1

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4th Year: Bachelor of Architecture

4 This page: View from Mt Wellington (1) Facing page: Jonathan Kopinski sketches (2), Kahn Neil and Alexandra Brown soapbox designs (3 & 4), Simon Brook sketch (5), William Ellyett, Samuel Persley and Kim Munro sketch (6)

Fourth year students return from one or more years of office practice and travel armed with knowledge, experience and renewed energy. Architectural design works to harness this energy and reintroduce students to the design studio culture. In semester 1 the project work of the Studio concerned design and planning at the threshold between urban and rural realms. At the larger scale there is anticipation of a growth surge in southeast Queensland where Gatton Campus lies at a future urban periphery. Arguably a campus can be conceived as a miniature city with its inner-city teaching core and outer suburban colleges flanking agricultural land and bush. The campus offers an opportunity to both re-think the planning and design of the teaching/research institution as city and simultaneously the opportunity to reflect on design issues facing the larger expanding SEQ region. Semester 2 project work extended themes addressed in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;place relationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to urban situations. Investigations at the urban and architectural scale involved sites and situations in two cities: Brisbane and Hobart. A field trip to Hobart enabled UQ students to work with students and staff from the University of Tasmania and to meet with and visit the work of local practitioners.

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Semester 1

STAFF Brit Andresen (Coordinator) Studio Advisors Kim Baber Paul Hotston Lyndall Milani Tony Mitchell guest Speakers and Critics Jane Grealy Peter Roy James Davidson Michael Barnett Janelle Allison

Part 1: Place and occasion at the edge—light and shadow in nature Invites the making of a place in the rural landscape for an occasional feast—to celebrate food biodiversity, gastronomic traditions and sustainable agriculture—a temporary encampment. The project involves related designs for an orchestrating of light and shadow for an out-of-doors feast at a place within the landscape at Gatton Campus. The project comprises the design of separate but related and finally synthesized landscape interventions to be completed and reviewed weekly. Part 2: Place and occasion at the centre—dark and sky-lit interior Includes abstracting the qualities of the rural landscape, particularly daylight and shadow, and generating architectural propositions for a place in the city for interior display and occasional feasts to celebrate food biodiversity, gastronomic traditions and sustainable agriculture. The place designed for the city is envisaged to become memorable and significant, primarily for its

sunlight and shadow landscape qualities. Part 3: Light of tomorrow—a planetary perspective Invites a proposition for an interior daylight/shadow choreography that can be demonstrably based on observations of light/shadow qualities in the landscape. Further, the developed concept can be tested through constructed device, drawn and video-recorded as part of the research for projects one, two and five. Part 4: Urban futures Invites speculation through research, analysis and design for a future campus model/ideal that challenges or supports the relationship between people [society, culture, education etc], architecture [materials, construction, space etc.] and the landscape [natural environment, ecology etc.]. Rural and urban environments are anticipated to be more intensely managed and settled in the future to support growing populations and expanding rural industry.

Part 5: Centre for rural and regional innovation Invites the reformulation of the planning proposition for the future campus model and a reciprocal architectural proposition for a future building. The architectural project is to incorporate a headquarters building for the future expanded Centre of Rural and Regional Innovation (CRRI-Q). The project offers an opportunity to explore spatial consequences of larger conceptual frameworks for both the place of the collective/public and individual/private realm. Facing page: Kahn Neil collage (1), Simon Brook isometric illustration (2)

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A radical increase in land use and densities requires a new focus on ideals, strategies and tactics and their development through planning and design to assess consequences and propose new directions. The proposition for a campus model of the future is to be researched, analyzed and declared in a plan, a 3-D model and a set of sketches or photomontage. The project is to be supported by both a rationale and manifesto.

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STAFF Elizabeth Musgrave (Coordinator) Brit Andresen studio Advisors Kim Baber Kerry Campbell Donna La Caze John Price Kaylee Wilson Guest speakers and critics Rex Addison Scott Balmforth (Tasmania) Matthew Bilsborough (Tasmania) Lindsay Clare James Davidson Brent Hardcastle Paul Hotston Hugh Maguire (Tasmania) Tony Mitchell Robert Morris-Nunn (Tasmania) Helen Norrie (UTAS) Tim O’Rourke Michael Shadwick (Tasmania) Peter Stutchbury Adjunct Professor Peter Tonkin John Vella (UTAS) Peter West (TMAG)

Bridgehead and promenade The minor ‘primer’ project involved observing and registering through intervention, the topographical and urban characteristics of specific sites in Brisbane’s CBD linked by pedestrian movement. Deploying as a strategy for intervention, the opposition point and counterpoint, students forwarded proposals for enhancing specific characteristics and relationships and hence legibility of place. This project supported work undertaken in ARCH4220 Architectural Technology in association with engineering students leading to the design of pedestrian bridges for Brisbane city. Soap box The Soap Box was a studentinitiated design competition supported by the Student Union. Working in groups, 1st and 4th year Architectural Design students presented developed ideas for a portable speaker’s platform for the University of Queensland campus.

Hobart This semester’s major project adopted the competition brief for the Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition (HWIDC), a competition seeking urban design ideas for the precinct adjacent Sullivan’s Cove in Hobart, but extended the competition brief to design proposals for the redevelopment of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery [TMAG], a major civic building, and its adjacent public spaces. The Gallery’s need for more highly serviced gallery space provided students with an opportunity to address a complex design problem and to explore ideas contributing to the reordering and reactivating of the Sullivans Cove precinct. It required students to recognize and respond, through design, to the demands of an unfamiliar set of conditions arising from Hobart’s temperate maritime climate. This project also required students to work with and be sensitive to a set of significant heritage buildings and elements.

Facing page: Jonathan Kopinski isometric (1), Kahn Neil perspective (2) This page: Jonathan Kopinski study sketches (3), Alexandra Brown section (4), Kim Munro photographic perspective (5)

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5th Year: Bachelor of Architecture

The self-directed design project Architectural design focuses attention on the critical distinction of interaction with localised problems and framing solutions set against universal constraints. To do so well requires mastery of a measured set of intentions that permit and direct design enquiry. By locating this endeavour in Greater Brisbane, undergoing unprecedented and rapid change in growth over the next 30 years; there is an opportunity to speculate on and respond to the nature of this change and reflect on the intimate relationship architecture has with the shaping city form. Over the course of the whole year, ARCH5000 comprised of projects devised to provide a common study framework for self-directed project work. Project work provided students with an opportunity to develop fluency in identifying the relationship of architecture to its urban setting, and through design proposals investigate how an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;architecture of interactionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; may, in a catalytic way, ameliorate the stressors of change impinging on our urban environments. The project work was supported by lectures, seminars, tutorials, independent research, critiques and site visits. The year ended with the successful launch of 0506: DistURBANce a publication of the work of the class made possible through the initiatives of the RAIA Graduate Program and Cox Rayner Architects and Planners.

This page: Timothy Crawshaw model (1), Jackson Lightbody photographic sequence of model (2) Facing page: Jackson Lightbody sketch (3), Kate Abbett diagram (4)

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STAFF Douglas Neale (Coordinator) studio advisors Gerard Murtagh Danny Wong with Mark Damant Kathi Holt-Damant Chris Paterson (Semester 1) and Michael Dickson (Semester 2) GUEST LECTURERS Kim Baber Greg Bamford Chris Bligh Dr John Montgomery (Urban Cultures) Kevin O’Brien Julian Raxworthy

Program A: Sense ~ sensibility This project asked students to take a polemical view about the nature of the way they worked as architects and to identify a sensibility in their work that could be applied to the problems of urban form. Particular emphasis was placed on exploring the role of public space ‘cast’ within a series of researched relational frameworks that reflected student’s own personal design position with respect to the relation of landscape and infrastructure and the selection of an urban area that resonated with this position.

Program B: A manifesto for change This project used Program A to extend ‘the ladder of relations’ between people and their location in the city. In addition to creating relations of coherence with topography, surrounding preexistences, changing infrastructure and the environment, an opportunity was provided to anticipate and respond to the challenges offered by significant changes of urban density. Students were asked to place speculative strategic studies responding to changing densities in a context that could be argued through a manifesto for change.

This page: Isometric illustration by Jade Myers (3), Analyses by Jade Myers (4, 5 & 6).

GUESTS CRITICS Brit Andresen Kim Baber Rachel Barnard Jared Bird Chris Bligh Mark Damant Jarrod Dorham Christian Duell Pedro Guedes Vicky Hamilton Timothy Hill Susan Holden Paul Hotston Richard Kirk Lisa Lambie Marissa Lindquist John Macarthur Tony Mitchell Antony Moulis Angus Munro Elizabeth Musgrave Chris Paterson Michael Rayner Kim Small Shane Thompson Mathew van Kooy Emily Wall Catherine Watts

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Program C: The urban and architectural project This stage of the program asked students to develop a self-directed urban and architectural project located in a discreet enclave. The urban project was to propose a plan for the ‘renewed’ city that anticipated linkages between past, present and future conditions. A radical increase in density and infrastructure required a new focus on ideals, strategies, tactics and projects. The urban territory or

enclave offered an opportunity to explore propositions for planning and urban design as well as for architecture both in places of the collective, public realm and for the individual, private realm. The architectural project invited designs that amplified and deepened the qualities anticipated in the urban proposition. Emphasis was placed on creating a ‘ladder of relationships’ from the scale of landscape through to the smallest interstitial spaces of the city.

This page: Timothy Crawshaw section (1), Kate Abbett perspective (2), Jade Myers perspective (3) Facing page: Anna van Hees section (4) and perspective (5), Andrew Schindler section (6)

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Architectural design research is aimed at advancing the discipline and knowledge of architecture through a process of pure and applied theory. The area is concerned with research into design principles and techniques carried out through built and unbuilt projects. The focus of these projects is innovative design, experimental design and expansion of design theory. Other facets of design research include contextual design, urban issues, architecture and landscape and a critique of contemporary design practice.

This page: Peter Skinner’s polemical entry to the King George Square design competition, featuring a major amphitheatre and skylights to radically reorganise underground busway platforms (1) Facing page: Stave-church at Heddal, cross section though nave. Bugge, Gunnar and Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Stav of Laft I Norge. Oslo: Byggekunst Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund, 1969:166.(2), Stave-church at Heddal, view of north elevation. Photograph, Brit Andresen, 2006 (3)

research projects ‘Wood has been celebrated in the construction of buildings throughout much of the world and since ancient times. The tree, with its hierarchy of parts and capacity for yielding dimensional variation, inspires ways of building as diverse as weaving with fibres, layering and bending with laths, framing networks of posts and beams and ‘lafting’ with logs laid horizontally. The tree, landscape, climate, myth and socio-cultural values contribute to the development of distinct constructional forms of timber buildings to the extent that “the Nordic people still dream of wooden caves, while the Japanese live in a world of penetrated layers.” [Nordberg-Schultz, Treverk, p8]’: Extract from research notes for an essay, ‘Eucalyptus Tectonics’ by Brit Andresen. Brit has been studying the expressive capacity of timber construction and the relations between building and the landscape. The most recent study, August 2006, has been in Norway with a focus on timber structures such as Heddal Stave Church. The Stave Churches in Norway are among the oldest and most technically inventive timber structures. Michael Dickson’s New Staff research project: Architecture and Construction, Between Bespoke and Mass Production—The Case of Riga, proposes to investigate building practices that combine bespoke design and construction with industrialised building systems and standardised design parameters. The proposed study will focus on outcomes for housing based on efficiency and cost effectiveness in balance with architectural and urban form that respond to the specifics of place and situation. The research will proceed through case studies in Riga, Latvia. The research will have particular relevance to refurbishment of twentieth century housing in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Its larger significance lies beyond particular building types or places, in clarifying how construction should be conceived in the architectural design process. Elizabeth Musgrave with Brit Andresen and Douglas Neale attended a meeting of ‘F.A.D.E.’ (Forum of Art and Design Eductors) convened by Dr Graham Forsyth and Dr Bob Zehner (CoFA UNSW) and held at UTS, Sydney in December to discuss a collaborative research project by UQ, UNSW and RMIT, supported by the Carrick Institute to review the activities of studio teaching and learning measured against current practices. Peter Skinner has continued his design exploration of appropriate subtropical housing models with the Rainbow Houses townhouse model. The vertical, split-level townhouse design aims to open northern outlook and breezes to all rooms and incorporate water and solar harvest technologies. The small-footprint housing model has been further developed with Elizabeth Watson-Brown Architects as a development proposal for Rainbow Beach. The University of Queensland was invited to contribute to the BCC CBD small-scale urban spaces demonstration project for the Jacob’s Ladder stairway in King Edward’s Park, linking Turbot Street and Wickham terrace. The urban intervention was devised and presented by Danny Wong with Prue Exelby, Jacqui Maestracci, Jade Myers, Scott Przibella and Anna van Hees, with Peter Skinner in a coordinating role. 46 PROJECTS REVIEW 2006

publications architectural design competitions Peter Skinner entered the BCC King George Square Design Competition. Peter’s submission offered suggestions aimed at opening the transport waiting area to the sky to improve the processes of arrival and departure in the heart of the city. In December a number of staff submitted entries to the Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition (HWIDC) including Michael Dickson and also Douglas Neale who assisted Donna La Caze and Kaylee Wilson with their entry. journals and other publications Andresen, B., Allison, J. and Milani, L. ‘Place and Occasion at the Threshold’ in Proceedings: Subtropical Cities Conference 2006, Centre for Subtropical Design, QUT. Musgrave, E. ‘Architecture’s responsiveness: Mapping change in the Queensland House’ in Proceedings: Subtropical Cities Conference 2006, Centre for Subtropical Design, QUT. NEALE, D. ‘The “long” project: Learning practices intrinsic to the discipline of architecture’ in Architectural Education and the Role of the Contemporary Australasian University, the AASA Heads of Schools/Programs WORKSHOP, UniSA, Adelaide.

NEALE, D. with EXELBY, P. and WHEATLEY, E. (editors) DISTURBANCE: Work from the 2006 graduating Design Studio, UQ. Skinner, P. ‘To see a world in a grain of sand’ in Architecture Australia Sep/Oct v.95 n.5. Skinner, P. ‘Dunlop Webb House’ in Architectural Review Australia May/Jun v.97 n.3. Skinner, P. ‘Rainbow Houses: Refereed design project’ in Simon Whibly and Diego Ramirez (eds) re:housing, UAL Housing Conference, Urban Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne.

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topics of research master of philosophy Douglas Neale A study of the urban design of Dr Karl Langer Angus Munro Rethinking multiresidential housing for South East Queensland Marco Ramaccio Adaptable houses for the 21st century awarded MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY 2006 Martin Arroyo Inner-city slums in the historic centre of Lima, towards a suitable renewal architectural and urban project

HISTORY & THEORY

ATCH architecture:theory:criticism:his tory Visit the ATCH website at: http://www.architect.uq.edu.au/ atch

This page: Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (1), Manfredo Tafuri, 1935-94(2)

History and theory is a broad area centred on the interpretation of past architectural works and the development of explanatory and prescriptive theory. It also includes practical work such as the discovery and recording of works and the management of buildings of agreed cultural significance. RESEARCH PROJECTS During 2006 Dr Antony Moulis undertook further work on his early career research project Movement Lines and Plan forms: The impact of human circulation diagrams on 20th century and contemporary architectural planning, involving travel and research at international archives and building sites in Japan and Europe. Research visits were made to the Alvar Aalto Academy, Helsinki, and the Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris. A second research project on Le Corbusier and Australia involved Dr Moulis in travel and research at libraries, State galleries and university archives in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Geneva. The research was fruitful in bring to light previously undiscovered links between Australia and this major 20th century architect. Dr Nicole Sully took up her appointment in semester 2 this year from UWA and is continuing her research project into the interdisciplinary relationships between architecture and memory. This project tracks the historical relationship between these two entities from classical times through to the present, and critically examines the way in which concepts of memory are utilised in contemporary architectural discourse. Pedro Guedes continues to contribute major curatorial advice, based on work commenced in Pancho Guedes’s archive in 2005, in which paintings, models and sculpture were photographed, dimensionally logged and recorded. Based on the methodology established in this phase of the work, he has evolved a systematic cataloguing system for the work in Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, which organizes all plastic, graphic, written, photographic and other media documents. Work will form the basis of a comprehensive catalogue of the work and will inform all future publications. ‘Pancho Guedes: An alternative Modernist’. Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum/Swiss Architecture Museum, Basle, Switzerland. Forthcoming retrospective exhibition September-December 2007. See: http://www.sam-basel.org/index.php?page=pancho-2 Publications Conference Papers Sully, N., ‘Misremembering Architecture: Contesting and Constructing “Memory” in Architectural Discourse’, Contested Terrains: Proceedings of the XXIII Annual Conference of SAHANZ 06 (Fremantle). Sully, N., ‘Disconnected Selves: Fugue and the flight from identity’, in Isolation: Disconnection, solitude and seclusion in a connected world (Hobart). Sully, N., ‘Architecture and the Anatomy of Memory’, at Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Era Symposium (Perth).

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Stickells, L. and Sully, N., ‘Questioning History: Conflict between perceived property rights and heritage listing in Perth, Western Australia’, in Proceedings of Royal Geographical SocietyInstitute of British Geographers Annual International Conference (London, UK). Sully, N., ‘Pathologies of Place, Memory and Identity’ in CATCH 1: Colloquium of the ATCH Research Group (Brisbane). Sully, N., ‘Gormley, Antony. Antony Gormley: Inside Australia’ [book review] in The Architect, Winter 2006. Sully, N., ‘JCY: The Architecture of Jones Coulter Young’ [book review] in The Architect, Winter 2006.

BOOK REVIEW MOULIS, A. ‘Le Corbusier’s Hands: Book Review,’ in The Journal of Architecture (London) 11/4, 2006 Edited Volumes LEACH, A. (guest ed.), LAGAE, J., AVERMAETE, T., SCHONDERBEEK, V. & M., (eds.), Posities: Gedeelde gebeiden in historiografie en ontwerp prakteik/Positions: Shared Territories in Historiography and Practice, Monographic Issue, Oase: Tijdschrift voor Architectuur/Architecture Journal 69 (Rotterdam: Netherlands Architectuurinstitut, 2006). Refereed Journal Articles LEACH, A., ‘Libido operandi or Conflict: Tafuri on Historic Preservation and Historiography,’ in Future Anterior 3, No. 2 (2006): 1-10. LEACH, A., DAVIDTS, W., DELBECKE, M., LAGAE, E. & J., ‘The Inconceivable Agenda,’ in The Journal of Architecture 11, no. 3 (2006): 353-57. LEACH, A., ‘The Conditional Autonomy of Tafuri’s Historian,’ in Oase: Tijdschrift voor Architectuur/ Architecture Journal 69 (2006): 14-29. GUEDES, P. ‘Presciently translucent in Yokohama, 1891’ ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), Vol. 9, Number 1, 2005, pp. 69-80 GUEDES, P. ‘El Mercado Central de Santiago: Antes de su embarque a Chile—Santiago Market: Before it sailed to Chile.’ ARQ Santiago (Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Themed number: Chile dentro y fuera, Dic. 2006, no. 64, pp 1016. GUEDES.P., Henegham, T., Univ. of Sydney, ‘Translucency,’ Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 11 Number 2, 2006, pp. 78-84

Published Conference Papers [Blind/Scientific Committee Refereed] LEACH, A., ‘Tafuri’s Eyes: The Biographical Subject and Subjectivities of Reception,’ in Contested Terrains: 23rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, edited by Steve Basson, Terrence McMinn & John Stephens (Fremantle: SAHANZ, 2006), 285-90. MOULIS, A. ‘A brush with the architect: on the reception of Le Corbusier’s art in Australia’ in McMinn, T., Stephens, J., and Basson, S. (eds.) Contested Terrains: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand (Freemantle, WA) 2006 Unpublished Conference Papers [Blind/Scientific Committee Refereed] LEACH, A. & Macarthur, J., ‘Tafuri as Theorist,’ paper presented to The Politics of Making: 3rd International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, November 2006. LEACH, A., ‘Libido operandi: History, Heritage and the Future,’ paper presented to “Other” Modernisms: 7th International Docomomo Conference, Istanbul and Ankara, September 2006. LEACH, A., ‘The Weak History of Manfredo Tafuri,’ paper presented to the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Session: ‘The Future of Manfredo Tafuri,’ Savannah, Georgia, April 2006. Magazine Articles & Reviews LEACH, A., Review of Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architecture, by Manfredo Tafuri, trans. Daniel Sherer, in Architectural Theory Review 18, no. 2 (2006): 132-36. RESEARCH 49

LEACH, A., ‘Tafuri en de Last van de Geschiedenis,’ note on Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architecture, by Manfredo Tafuri, trans. Daniel Sherer, in A+: Tijdschrift voor Architectuur 200 (2006): 93; French ed., ‘Tafuri et la poids de l’histoire,’ A+: Revue belge d’architecture 200 (2006):93. Invited Lectures LEACH, A., ‘Between Research and Interpretation: Manfredo Tafuri’s Renaissance,’ invited lecture at the School of Architecture and Construction, University of Greenwich, London, November 2006. LEACH, A., ‘Operativity and Criticality,’ invited keynote lecture at the 10th Joint Doctoral Seminar in Architectural History and Theory [UGent, KULeuven, UCL], Leuven, Belgium, May 2006. LEACH, A., ‘Operativity and Criticality,’ invited lecture to the conference The Critical Legacies of Manfredo Tafuri, Columbia University and Cooper Union, New York, April 2006. topics of research DOCTOR of philosophy Mathew Aitchison The urban projects of Mies van der Rohe: The context in minimalism Christopher Brisbin Space in/ within images: explorations into the image/space relation Kevin Green Emergent modernism: Iron and steel architecture in late 19th century Brisbane Pedro Guedes Innovation and cultural resistance Julian Raxworthy Working at a remove: re-engaging change in landscape architecture Mark Taylor The decorative strategies of Mary Eliza Haweis

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

The research area concerns the study of architecture in the context of the biophysical qualities of the environment. The research area embraces a wide range of technologies concerned with materials, construction, structural, energy, water, lighting and information technology systems. OVERVIEW The environmental technology area has seen further recognition this year. Associate Professor Steve Szokolay and his student Srazali Aripin were awarded best paper at the 2005 ANZAScA Conference in Adelaide. Students in this area, including work from visitors, Geovani Siem and Maria Sosa from the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbaismo,Caracus, Venezuala, provided a good representation of papers at this conference. Siem and Sosa are currently working with Associate Professor Richard Hyde to produce a new edition of the Climate Responsive Design, published by Spons, UK. SEMINARS A seminar program for postgraduate students was undertaken in Semester 1, 2006. Sattar Sattary, Richard Moore, Darryl Bennetts, Rosali Arapini, Maria Sosa and Geovanni Siem gave presentations. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS—IN PRESS HYDE. R.A. Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS—IN PRESS HYDE R.A and SUNAGER, N. Overview, in HYDE, R.A Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. HYDE R.A. and RØSTVIK H.R., Chapter 1: Concepts, in HYDE, R.A Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. HYDE R.A., WATSON, L., KHOO,K., LESTER, N., KELDER. J., Chapter 7: Brisbane, Australia, in HYDE, R.A Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. SUNAGER,N., SOEBARTO,V., HYDE R.A., RIBEIRO,M., BINARTI,F., JUNGHANS,L., 50 PROJECTS REVIEW 2006

SOTARGO,F., CALDARARO,V., RAJAPAKSHA,I., RAJAPAKSHA,U., ‘Chapter 9, Design, Elements & Strategies,’ in HYDE, R.A Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. GROENHOUT, N., HYDE, R.,A, WOODS, P., PRASAD, D., CHANDRI, S., SAEKI, T., ‘Chapter 10, Green Technologies’ in HYDE, R.A Ed., Bioclimatic housing. Innovative designs for Warm Climates, James & James UK, 250 pp. REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS MOORE, R. 2006, ‘Quality of Audits’, in the proceedings of the ANZAScA Conference, Challenges of Architectural Science in Changing Climates, Adelaide, pp 326-333. Hyde R. and Davidson, J.S. “Closing the Loop: exploring the link between the design brief and post-occupancy to improve sustainable design” in Challenges for architectural science in changing climates” 40th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 22-25 November 2006 pp 416-423. SZOKOLAY, S.V. ‘Energy savings by ceiling fans’ in the proceedings of the ANZAScA Conference, Challenges of Architectural

Science in Changing Climates, Adelaide pp 50-57. ARIPIN, S., ‘Healing architecture: A study of the physical aspects of healing environment in hospital design,’ in the proceedings of the ANZAScA Conference, Challenges of Architectural Science in Changing Climates, Adelaide pp 342-349. SIEM, G, ‘Simulation of the thermal performance of low cost houses in Venezuela to improve thermal comfort,’ in the proceedings of the ANZAScA Conference, Challenges of Architectural Science in Changing Climates, Adelaide pp 180-185. SOSA, M. ‘Façades design strategies in a warm-humid climate to reduce thermal loads in Venezuelan buildings,’ in the proceedings of the ANZAScA Conference, Challenges of Architectural Science in Changing Climates, Adelaide pp 118-126. Research Projects Associate Professor Richard Hyde, James Davidson and Merv Gordon are conducting a post-occupancy evaluation and environmental monitoring of the Lark Quarry Museum outside Winton, Queensland.The results of this work will be published in 2007.

TOPICS OF RESEARCH DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Ati Mohd Ariffin Ecological sustainable tourism infrastructure in Malaysia Islam Sallam Environmental assessment tools for sustainable communities: A study of new satellite cities in Egypt Richard Moore Sustainable development Srazali Aripin ‘Healing Architecture’: A Study of Daylight in Public Hospital Design in Malaysia MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY Daryl Bennetts An automated intelligent adaptive housing Kimberley Baber Tectonics and geometry: The role of intrinsic ordering systems in surface and structure AWARDED DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2006 Design guidelines for indoor comfort in row houses in hothumid climates Many countries in hot-humid regions cope with rapid urbanisation. Land cost becomes higher especially in high-density areas. There is a demand on residential and commercial buildings due to the economic

growth in the cities. Row houses became a popular building type since it combines both functions in one place. A large amount of row houses are found in Bangkok, Thailand. Despite their versatility, they are not properly designed for the climate and urban conditions. This research aims to establish appropriate design guidelines and recommendations to ensure indoor comfort in urban row houses in hot-humid climates. Thermal comfort is the main concern apart from others such as visual, acoustic and indoor air quality. A case study in Bangkok has been selected for a field investigation. Results from the 3-day field investigation show that indoor conditions of the case study are overheated. However, the results from the effect of roof and wall material study show that adding insulation could improve the indoor condition more effectively than changing the roof and wall materials. Shading devices should be designed particularly for each orientation since their effects are tremendous once applied to the opening to protect it from solar radiation. —PATTARANAN TAKKANON

GRANTS Associate Professor Richard Hyde with James Davidson et al has won two ARC Linkage Grants in 2006, the first looks at the eco-renovation of tall buildings in Brisbane, while the second ARC project is an investigation of the implementation of ESD principles affecting the quality of life of residents of the Currumbin Eco village. Both projects are long term and not due to finish until 2010.

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Centre For Sustainable Design

STAFF Professor Peter Dux (Civ Eng) Assoc Professor Richard Hyde (Arch) Dr David Lockington (Civ Eng) Dr Lydia Kavanagh (Centre for Waste Water Management) Richard Moore (Arch) James Davidson (Arch) RESEARCH ASSISTANTS Islam Sallam (Arch) Karen Schianetz (Centre for Waste Water Management) INDUSTRY PARTNERS T.R.Hamzath and Yeang, Malaysia Gall Medek Architects TVS Partnership S2F Green Globe Bassetts Applied Research Integrated Energy Systems

The Centre for Sustainable Design is an EPSA Faculty-based design, education and consultancy research group with a vision of sustainable architecture for the 21st century. The Centre brings together the knowledge and experience of a multi-disciplinary team with an international reputation in the field of architectural and environmental design. The Centre is firmly focused on developing commercial outcomes from leading edge research, and has developed strategic alliances and partnerships with industry, universities and research bodies, both nationally and internationally. Visit the Centre web site: www.csdesign.epsa.uq.edu.au OVERVIEW Associate Professor Richard Hyde in conjunction with a number of partners in the centre has been awarded two prestigious Australian Research Council grants concerning work into emerging issues concerning sustainability. The first is called ‘Towards a Quality of Life Framework for Sustainable Housing in South East Queensland’, and involves a team of researchers, Ted Gardner and Petra Skoein, Department of Natural Resources, Lisa Rutherford, Gold Coast Water, Chris Walton, Lanmatters and Dr David Wadley, UQ. The project will examine a number of sustainable housing projects with a focus on the innovative Currumbin Eco Village in South East Queensland. Quality of life is emerging as a key indicator for sustainability and hence the study will investigate the level of sustainability and quality of life provided in these projects. The second project is called ‘Exploring synergies with innovative Green Technologies for Advanced Renovation’. It is aimed at redefining a bioclimatic approach for multi-residential and office buildings in warmer climates. Bioclimatic design involves the way buildings filter the relationship between humans and climate. There are principles for low and medium scale buildings, but work on the renovation of larger-scale buildings is limited. New research is needed involving new ‘green’ technologies, innovative synergies in the form and fabric of buildings and the provision of evidence of improved environmental performance. This will lead to the need for redefinition, new principles and concepts of bioclimatic design for renovation. Outcomes focus on a theory and practice handbook for improving largescale buildings hence supporting the transformation of the building industry to a more sustainable future. This work is linked to an International Energy Agency Task 37 on Advanced Renovation. A multi disciplinary team has come together to make this research possible involving Dr Ken Yeang, TRYH Malaysia, Dr Nathan Groenhout, Bassetts, Frank Barram, Integrated Energy Systems and Marci Webster-Mannison, S2F. Further work has also involved a DTRA grant to bring sustainability to secondary education students. Working with Scots College a sustainability education hub has been established. The team included Wendy Miller from QUT, Mark Thomson and Steve Watson from TVS partnership and Frank Barram from Integrated Energy Systems. Work continues with developing standards for sustainable design through funding for the Sustainable Tourism Collaborative Research Centre. Richard Hyde and Richard Moore organised a training workshop in China in association with Zhejang Forest University, Hangzhou. Richard Hyde, James Davidson and Merv Gordon undertook a post occupancy study of Lark Quarry Trackways building, Winton. This project is in conjunction with Winton Council and Gall Medek Architects. 52 PROJECTS REVIEW 2006

PUBLICATIONS BOOKS BOOK CHAPTER—IN PRESS HYDE, R.A, MOORE, R., KAVANAGH, L., WATT, M., SCHIANETZ, K., ‘Indicators, audits and measuring success,’ in Steering Sustainability, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. RESEARCH PROJECTS Currumbin Eco Village, Water monitoring, Gold Coast Council. 1

Green Globe Precinct Planning and Design Standard (PPDS) Diffusion, Stage 2 Testing and Benchmarking, Sustainable Tourism CRC. Teaching and Learning support grant—School of GPA. Re-imagining the Australian suburb—Ecological Sustainability and Urban Development, ARC Linkage Grant. In conjunction with RMIT, Centre for Sustainable Design. Creating a Framework for the Environmental Brief, ARC Discovery Grant. COURSES Green Globe Training Course, Hangzhou. INVITED LECTURES Richard Hyde was invited to speak at the Queensland Government Members Conference, 2006.

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Environment & society

Environment and society is a broad research area in architecture concerned with the study of the relations between people and their built and natural environments, generally of relevance to the discipline and the profession of architecture, especially the activity of design. This is an interdisciplinary area of study with natural links to the social sciences, the humanities and, broadly, the environmental sciences. Research projects may focus on parts or aspects of the built environment other than that which is called architecture or which is designed by architects. The Aboriginal Environments Research Centre constitutes the major part of research conducted in this area. Research Projects Greg Bamford continues to research the project: Philosophy of Design. This project has the general aim of giving an account of what it is to design something and what are those things that we design. A paper from this work was presented at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the Australian National University, Canberra, in July. It took as its starting point a dispute about the relevance of designers’ intentions to the functions of the artefacts they design, as evidenced in two papers in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2003. James Davidson visited Dr Anthony Gall (UQ and Gall és Társai Architects, Budapest), in Hungary for a month in July with the aim to set up a joint research project involving comparative vernacular architecture studies. While in Budapest, James and Anthony also established a future working relationship with the Szabadteri Neprajzi Museum, the Hungarian ‘Skanzen’ open air museum outside Budapest which is known internationally for its excellent architectural ethnography program. It is hoped this relationship will bear fruit with future student trips to Europe, with a focus on Budapest, and the Hungarian architectural tradition. In association with Professor Howard Davis (Eugene University, Oregon, U.S.A.), postgraduate student James Davidson spent time in Cambodia undertaking an architectural ethnography of local indigenous informal settlements and villages. The results of this work will be published in 2007. Publications Bamford, G. ‘Functions Proper and Improper: An Argument from Design’ in Proceedings: Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, ANU, Canberra. Davidson, J.S. ‘Authority in Maya Domiciliary Transformation: A History of Hyper-traditions’, in Hyper-Traditions: proceedings of Tenth Conference of the International Assn for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Memmott, P.C. and Davidson, J.S. ‘The Configuration of a CrossCultural Theory of Architecture: Exploring the Treatise’ in HyperTraditions: Proceedings of Tenth Conference of the International 54 PROJECTS REVIEW 2006

Assn. for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Bangkok, Thailand Dec. 2006. Topics of research doctor of philosophy Joanna Besley Home improvement: Home-building and everyday life in postwar Brisbane Louisa Carter Convergences: Governancne and public dining space in South-East Queensland James Davidson The Maya house: Tradition, change and architecture. Craig Jones Mending Fences: A Study of cross-cultural mediation techniques in Australia’s rangelands Timothy O’Rourke Reconstructing ethno-architecture in the wet tropics: A study of Dyirbal building traditions

AWARDED DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 2006 Practicing self-determination: Participation in planning and local governance in discrete Aboriginal settlements The principle and policy of self-determination holds that Aboriginal people should have the right to pursue a lifestyle of their choosing and to have control over their interactions with the wider society. Self-determination policy has been in place at a federal level since the 1970’s, yet after thirty years of implementation, there is considerable disarray and disagreement over its merits. This study investigated the transactions of decision-makers as they practised two of the main policy instruments of self-determination: participatory planning and selfgovernance. The research settings were Mapoon and Kowanyama, two discrete Indigenous settlements on the West Coast of Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland. Three typologies for settlements, planning, and organisations were established, which gave the context for the study, as well as a basis from which to generalise findings. The study documented multiple dilemmas and indeterminacies as actors practised self-determination in the interethnic field, especially the interplay between local and external ideologies and knowledge. All of the examples of political innovation in the contemporary history of governance in Kowanyama involved productive social contexts developing locally between leaders and trusted outsiders. The analysis suggested that the importance assigned to government policy, legislation, and structure has fallen out of balance with their actual practice. Rather than fixating on policy solutions to selfdetermination, policy-makers should be focusing more on creating an enabling framework for practice. The six success factors proven in

the study give the basis for such a framework. —Mark Moran AWARDED MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY 2006 Aboriginality and architecture: built projects by Merrima and unbuilt projects on Mer Few occasions present an opportunity to withdraw from the time-cost mantra that constantly threatens to cripple design thinking in the ‘real world’ of architectural practice. As such, the following research by design is one of those rare moments permitting a sustained opportunity for insightful design reflection as a practitioner. It occurs after ten years of practice experience immersed in the subject at hand and lands squarely on the crossroads of my holistic architectural development. As a practitioner (and occasional design tutor) I am fascinated by the specific design problem of proposing a culturally responsive architecture. The projects I engage with are what I consider the fundamental projects that sponsor, support and affect the day-to-day events of the Aboriginal community at large. Put another way, I am constantly immersed in the dynamic relationship between Aboriginality and architecture due to my cultural, educational and professional experiences. The result is that I have collected a substantial array of experiences over the past decade that I now think needs to be re-considered and recorded (at the very least for posterity). As such, I am convinced that a design based form of research will allow me to draw upon these previous experiences in order to present a meaningful body of knowledge that will not only reveal a culturally derived design position but also illustrate it as an active agent in engaging hypothetical design case studies. —Kevin O’Brien

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Facing page: Discarded tyres re-used for children’s play: do they now have two functions, only one of which they can perform, or do they have only one function, the new one they have acquired? (1) This page: Images from Mark Moran’s PhD research undertaken in western Cape York, north Queensland (2, 3 & 4).

ABORIGINAL ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH CENTRE (AERC)

As a self-supporting research centre within the School, the AERC fulfils three primary functions as a research and consultancy practice, a teaching centre, and an archive. Its research focus is on the cultures and environments of indigenous peoples. The AERC, in conjunction with its consulting arm PMA, has also been responsible for maintaining a website for its National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Program Mentoring and Evaluation project. Visit the AERC’s website: www.aboriginalenvironments.com

Director Associate Professor Paul Memmott Visiting Fellow Dr Joseph Reser Post Doctoral Fellow Dr Stephen Long

Research Projects Paul Memmott, Tim Seelig and Stephen Long completed An Audit Review of Local and International Indigenous Housing Literature funded by AHURI. The project utilised the use of the Filemaker Pro database for the compilation and production of a housing bibliography to be published for use by students as well as being placed on the internet for wider dispersal. The Final Report and Research Bulletin was completed and submitted to AHURI in September. Paul Memmott is the leader of a multidisciplinary group of researchers who were awarded an ARC Discovery Grant for a long-term study of Isolation, Insularity and Change in Island Populations—an Interdisciplinary Study of Aboriginal Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The project aims to address the prehistory of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, reaching back 10,000 years, and combines methods of environmental science, archaeology, social anthropology, linguistics, physical anthropology and genetics. The team of researchers are drawn from the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne, Western Australia, New South Wales, La Trobe and Griffith Universities. The Desert Knowledge CRC grant, Demand Responsive Services to Desert Settlements: Queensland Jurisdiction with Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Moran as Project Leader, Paul Memmott as the Core Project Leader and Stephen Long, field researcher, will investigate the transactions and dynamics between the demand and supply sides of services at four desert settlement communities. It will (1) analyse the interface between communities and service providers; (2) identify critical issues and strategies that provide leverage for change; (3) review and develop a range of technology and governance options with potential to improve the system and (4) recommend strategies for trialling, monitoring and evaluating a range of technology and governance options. The project commenced in July 2006 and will finalise in December 2009. An AHURI grant was awarded to Paul Memmott with Martin Anda, Fred Spring, Mara West, Karel Eringa and Stephen Long for Scoping the Capacity of Indigenous Community Housing Organisations.

Office Staff Lee Sheppard and Angela Drury Senior Research Assistants Carroll Go-Sam, Linda Thomson, Catherine Chambers Indigenous Field Assistants Keith Marshall, Shantelle Marshall Associate Anthropologists Lee Sackett and Peter Blackwood (Cairns) Other affiliated consultants Ms Sandi Taylor, Mr Fred Spring Other collaborative researchers Dr Martin Bell (UQ), Dr John Taylor (ANU), Dr Ian Lilley (UQ), Dr Nick Evans (Melb), Dr Neville White (La Trobe), Dr Errol Stock (Griffith), Dr David Trigger (U.W.A.), Dr Sean Ulm (UQ), Dr Richard Robins, Dr Sheila van Holst Pellekaan (UNSW), Erich Round (Yale), Prof Andrew Jones (AHURI), Dr Mark Moran (DK CRC), Dr Martin Anda (Murdoch), Dr Jeremy Buultjens (SCU), Dr David Brereton (UQ), Tanuja Barker (UQ), Dr Dominic Brown (UQ), Dr Tim Seelig (UQ) This page: Angela Kreutz and assistant filming at the Annual Inala Touch Footy Family Day, used in a short film seminar presentation given by Angela Kreutz and Kelly Greenop (1). Facing page: A domed shelter photographed during 1869 near Alice Springs, housing several elderly single men at night, and acting as an Elders’ meeting place during the day for planning religious ceremonies. Photograph by Spencer and Gillen, courtesy of Museum Victoria and SA Museum (2).

Seminars The AERC hosted three seminars during 2006. The first seminar in March, included Greg Bamford, ‘A Philosophical Analysis of Artifacts’. At the second seminar in June, Craig Jones’ paper ‘Every layer seems camped on: A comparative approach to Aboriginal and pastoral landscapes’ explored the overlapping and intertwining of Aboriginal and pastoral landscapes. At the third seminar in December, Angela Kreutz and Kelly Greenop, presented a draft version of a short film: The Annual Inala Family Touch Footy Day. This illustrated some of the aspects of digital story telling being explored in the work of Angela Kreutz and gave an insight into the Inala community also of interest to Kelly Greenop. In July Paul Memmott was guest lecturer at the Master’s course on Native Title and Cultural Heritage Law, Law School, Queensland University of Technology. His lecture was titled “Collecting Evidence for Native Title—An Anthropologist’s View”. Publications Memmott, P. ‘Public-Place Dwelling Indigenous People: Alternative Strategies to the Law and Order Approach’ in Parity, Feb. 2006 Long, S. and Thomson, L. ‘Mobility of Aboriginal people in rural and remote Australia’,

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in AHURI Research and Policy Bulletin, May 2006 n.69. Anda, M., Eringa, K., Spring, F. and West, M. ‘Scoping the Capacity of Indigenous Community Housing Organisations: Discussion Paper No. 1’, (AHURI Positioning paper). Memmott, P., Brereton, D., Reser, J., Buultjens, J., Thomson, L., Barker, T., O’Rourke, T. and Chambers, C. ‘Mining and Indigenous Tourism in Northern Australia: An Exploration of Avenues and Opportunities for Indigenous Communities to Support Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Activities Utilising Mining Infrastructure’: Technical Report, Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd, Gold Coast, May 2006. Memmott, P. and McIntosh, I. ‘A Brush with History’ in Cultural Survival Quarterly June 2006 Chambers, C., Go-Sam, C. and Thomson, L., ‘Good Practice in Indigenous Family Violence Prevention—Designing and Evaluating Successful Programs’ for The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, UNSW June Memmott, P., Evans, N., Robins, R. and Lilley, I. ‘Understanding Isolation and Change in Island Human Populations through a study of Indigenous Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria’ in RESEARCH 57

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Memmott, P. ‘Who are the Kaiadilt people, where do they come from, and where does their art come from?’ in Hinchley, M. (ed.) The Bentinck Project, catalogue Woolloongabba Art Gallery. Memmott, P. ‘Positioning the Traditional Architecture of Aboriginal Australia in a World Theory of Architecture’ keynote address Practice in the Pacific: Second Annual Pacific Architecture Colloquium, Wellington, New Zealand Sept 2006. Memmott, P. Lilley, I. and Dalley, C. ‘Connection to Place, Migration and the Transformation of Tradition in the Wellesley Islands’, in HyperTraditions: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Bangkok, Thailand Dec. 2006. Consultancy Practice Paul Memmott and Dr Lee Sackett completed the Pitta Pitta Group Supplementary Report: An Assessment of Membership Claims by Craigie Family Members, funded by the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Mt Isa in March. In July Paul Memmott completed the Indjiladji-Dhidhanu Connection Report for the Camooweal Native Title Claim”, prepared for the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Mt Isa.

postgraduate studies

The MPhil by design program fosters the development of independent design research skills. These skills include the ability to formulate a significant problem to develop mastery of appropriate conceptual methodological skills and to arcticulate a critical analysis through advanced architectural design. MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY (DESIGN) Kim Baber’s Research-by-design project is currently investigating the role of the physical model as a design tool, specifically the type of model that functions as an analogue of a building. Using the models of Gaudi and Miralles as case studies, the research is concerned with the status of the design model when it lies in the unstable territory between representation and artifact. The physical model has real material, spatial and tectonic qualities (they are not virtual or abstracted), which are in themselves useful but also deceptively compelling, often distracting the task of communication in favour of a pursuit of the model as object in itself.

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Staff list

Program information

The Architecture Program offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, as well as research-based higher degrees. The mainstream program is the Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), which requires five years of full time study. After completing Year 3, students are required to take a year out from study to obtain 10 months of professional experience prior to entering Year 4 of the program. During the first year, students undertake 4 units of elective courses which may be chosen from any courses in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology or Bachelor of Science program course lists. Two first year courses have been developed specifically as electives for the first year BArch students wishing to develop their architectural communication skills. ARCH1160 Architectural Communications 1 (Semester 1) and ARCH1260 Architectural Communications 2 (Semester 2) provide an introduction to architectural drawing skills including freehand drawing, manual drafting, computer-based graphics and Computer Aided Design techniques. Students who have successfully completed three years of the BArch program are eligible to receive the Bachelor of Design Studies degree. Students may continue their studies in a non-professional direction by a one year program leading to the Bachelor of Design Studies Honours award. The BDesSt Honours award gives graduates standing to apply for entry to the Master of Philosophy (Design Studies), and Doctor of Philosophy programs. The BArch program is a professional qualification and it is recognised by both the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and by the State Boards of Architects as the appropriate educational qualification. The degree may be awarded at pass or honours level, depending on the results achieved within the program. Graduates who wish to become practising architects must obtain another year of practical experience and pass the Architectural Practice examination set by the Board of Architects. They then may be registered as architects. Students wishing to undertake further academic studies or pursue a research or academic career may apply for candidacy in a research higher degree. The Master of Philosophy (Architecture) and Doctor of Philosophy programs are offered and are undertaken in modes appropriate to the research topic. This includes the MPhil by Design which is a structured research program in design research. For information on doctorates, postgraduate and undergraduate programs, please refer to the University of Queensland web site www.studyatUQ.net. Information on the Architecture Program may be obtained from the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture web site www.gpa.uq.edu.au.

ARCHITECTURE STAFF Head of ARCHITECTURE Antony Moulis BDesSt Qld., BArch(Hons 1) Qld., PhD Qld, Aff RAIA Professor Brit Andresen MArch Trondheim, FRAIA Readers/Associate Professors Richard Hyde BSc(Hons) Aston, DipArch Birm. Poly., PhD CNAA, RAIA John Macarthur BDesSt(Hons 1) Qld., MDesSt Qld., PhD Camb. Paul Memmott BArch(Hons 2A) Qld., PhD Qld., FRAIA, FAAS Peter Skinner BDesSt Qld., BArch(Hons 2A) Qld., MArch Qld., FRAIA

Adjunct Associate Professors Alexander Ackfun BBus USQ. Rex Addison BArch Qld., AAGradDipl Lond., FRAIA Graham Davis BArch Qld. Brian Donovan BArch Qld., RAIA Fiona Gardiner BDesSt Qld., BArch (Hons) Qld., DiplConSt (York), GradCertPubSecMgmt (Flinders), RAIA Timothy Hill BArch Qld., RAIA Gerard Murtagh MA Royal College of Art (Lond) Honorary Reader Steven Szokolay AM, DipArch NSW MArch Liv., PhD Qld., MInstEnvSc

Senior LecturerS Greg Bamford BArch(Hons 2) Qld., PhD Qld. Pedro Guedes BA(Hons)(Camb), DipArch(Camb), MA(Camb), RIBA

SCHOOL STAFF

Lecturers Anthony Gall BDesSt Qld., BArch(Hons) Qld, PhD (BME Budapest) Kathi Holt-Damant BArch UND (Natal, SA), MArch (Design)(Melb), PhD(RMIT)

School Manager Lara Atzeni BBus QUT

Associate Lecturers Elizabeth Musgrave BDesSt Qld., BArch(Hons 1) Qld, ARAIA Douglas Neale BDesSt Qld., BArch Qld., RAIA

Administrative Officers (Architecture) Kay Leaf-Milham Deirdre Timo

Professor EMERITUS Balwant Saini Professor Emeritus, BA Punj., BArch Melb., PhD Melb., FRIBA, LFRAIA Adjunct Professors Michael Rayner BArch NSW., LFRAIA Shane Thompson Dip Arch QIT, FRAIA

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Peter Tonkin BSc(Arch)(Hons 1) Syd., BArch (Hons 1) Syd, FRAIA

Head of School Martin Bell BA(Hons), MA Flinders, PhD Qld

Finance Christina Jack DipBus(Accounting)(MIT) Leanne Conway

Senior Technical Officer Graphics and Technology Merv Gordon Technical Officer: Workshop & Construction Laboratory Michael Bennett

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Undergraduate class list

Natasha Chee

Jonathan Kopinski

Andrew Schindler

Anna Van Hees

Lara Nobel

1st Year Gemma Baxter Patrick Bossingham Ben Boyd Alvin Brenner Joseph Brett Sally Britten Jonathan Brown Peter Ho Chan Siu Man Chan Natasha Chee Ting Ya Sunny Chen David Churcher Jack Coates Emmanuel Conias Hendrik De Wet Olivia Di Pasquale Jack Dutton Matthew Farr Xiao Feng Murray Fletcher Aurelie Frere Paolo Frigenti Wei Fu Nicole Gillies Lucian Gormley Ruth Grant Sasha Hakimian Christina Hardie Thomas Hartigan William Harvey-Jones Katie Hawgood Nichola Higgs Caitlin Hoey Liam Innes Yongzhe Jin Bonnie Kake Jessica Kay David Klages Jessica Koentjoro Kwai Lun Galan Kong Charles Kortlucke I-Wen Kuo Bowen Lahdensuo Wing Choi Lam Hoi Yiu Jacky Lau David Ming-Ta Lee Tzu-Yuan Rex Lin Jessica Lorek Lucy Manning Kali Marnane Laura McConaghy Taryn McQueen Christopher Mientjes Bianca Milligan Kathryn Moir Scott Moore Kurt Muller Bao-Anh Lily Nguyen Lara Nobel Ryoma Ohira 62 PROJECTS REVIEW 2006

Angela Parlett Lucy Porter Julie Renwick Alexander Robertson Luke Rynne Benjamin Sheehan Tianqin Sheng Ross Summergreene Fletcher Talbot Joshua Vun Yee Tan Teuea Tebau Timothy Turner Teun Van Genderen Danielle Walker Emma Walker Elspeth Webster Shane Willmett Benjamin Wood Damien Yip First Semester Razan Abdul-Shakoor Reem Al-Suwaid Temika Boehm Caroline Ceccato Katharine Dekker Jacinta Johnston Yenni Omon Jiwen Ruan Joshua Tehan Aaron Tien Second Semester Kiichi Aoyama Matthew Clanahan Sharon Faraj Benjamin Godfrey Kirsty Hetherington Michael Antony Sebastien Leclezio Rebecca Lissimore Peter McDonald Yohei Omura Hao Zhang 2nd Year Sally Adness Matthew Allan Brook Bacon Alexander Cavill Sarah Chapman Samuel Charles-Ginn James Coats Daniel Cocker Alan Cui Thomas De Plater Jack Dodgson Keaton Evans Rayne Fouche James Gardner Sean Gill

Hiranga Goonawardena Matthew Hardcastle Sin Yee Ho Jennifer Horn Christopher Horsfall Richard Huxley Adrianne Jamieson Andrew Jones Angela Kirkland Hannah Lilley Adam Long Swee Wei Lor Kerry Martin Angus McNichol Anya Meng John Mounsey Alisa Newey Patricia Redmond Taleya Robinson Charles Rowe Phoebe Sale Megan Schulte Larissa Searle Kaixuan Si Anne Smerdon James Smith Jackson Stigwood Ernest Tong Nicholas Vella Beau Wilson Jelena Wright-Brown Tess Wrigley Chang Jui Ryan Wu Ruiqi Yin Kumutha Yoganathan Hassan Yuen First Semester Arya Birendra Yin Chi Ella Chau Samuel Hodgkinson Steven Hodgson Masayoshi Inuyama Yousaf Mubarak Celeste Norman Mitchell Roll Shankar Seshadri Alexander Sheptooha Chuen Tsui Jonathan Ward Second Semester Lucia Lau Sung Lee Helen Theocharous Wa Kwan Wang 3rd Year Elan Barr Stephen Bull

Andrew Carter Leon Ciechanowski Alyssa Clift Michael Crosby Paul Curry Patricia Davy William Downes Kate Droney Lucinda Eveans Jillian Gilmore Emma Graves Ella Gunn James Hall Ricky Hill Phap Cong Huynh Mmusi Kalayakgosi Maya Leith Eden Mathews Matthew McCarthy Briohny McKauge Gina McKenzie Lasan Nguyen Tuan Huy Nguyen Jasmin Ong Edwina Phillips Marguerite Pollard Damian Regan Kate Robinson Daniel Rowell Breanna Ryan Joshua Spillane Katrina Torresan Ian Tsui Dominic Van Riet Angela Winkle Madeline Zahos First Semester Kirstin Evans James Hampson Ognjen Latinovic Kristin Siemon Victoria Stoddart Second Semester Nicholas Flutter Jill Kison Anthony McKibben Jai O’Sullivan Harriet Richards Louise Wille Ahsan Yousuf 4th Year Jamal Alzeedi Duncan Betts Simon Brook Alexandra Brown Blake Challen Melissa Dever Alexandra Farmer

Kirstie Galloway David Grant Cameron Hemming Melina Hobday Matthew Hughes Morgan Jenkins Benjamin Johansen Jonathan Kopinski William Kurenty On Bong Lam Julia Lamprecht Edward Lau Julie Lawrence Simon Martin Fiona McAlpine Kandice McDowell Bridget McKid Stuart Meyer-Plath Kim Munro Rupert Murphy Kahn Neil Vinh Nguyen Josephine Noonan Laura Pascoe Luke Pendergast Samuel Persley Siu Poon Vanessa Rothwell Anthony Scully Kate Thompsett Kalypso Vouyioukas Magdalena Winter Annie Yen Woon Yuen

Ihab Imam Rachel Konyi Yue Law Anne Lee Sheau Lee Jackson Lightbody Yee Loong Jacquie Maestracci Fadzai Mangoma Andrew Manson Danny Mathis Andrew McDonough Eliza Morawska Mohd Mustapha

Jade Myers Vijay Narang David Nicholson Jo-Ann Paraan John Petrie Scott Przibella Andrew Schindler Anton Suparlan Phillip Tillotson Julian Tomba Dalbert Ton Anna Van Hees Erin Wheatley Timothy Zieth

Anthony Scully, Morgan Jenkins, Laura Pascoe

First Semester Yin Yin Chan Nga Li Daniella Rochi Pui Wong Second Semester Dylan Crowther William Ellyett Kin-Pong Ho 5th Year Kate Abbett Indira Barker Gianna Bruschi Jillian Catt Bradley Cornish Timothy Crawshaw Andrew D’Occhio Rebecca Dukes Prue Exelby Kristen Fitzgerald Annabelle Gish Brant Harris Peta Hawkins Karl Ho

Phillip Tillotson

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This page: The flyer advertising 5th year exhibition and publication launch for 0506: DistURBANce (1) Bachelor of Architecture students Prue Exelby (left) and Danny Mathis at the end of year DistURBANce exhibition (2)

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