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25.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to LACHLAN WILES, recipient of the ‘Peter Corrigan Medal’ for the major project titled, ‘’. . The Peter Corrigan Medal is awarded to the project that is most critical and politically and culturally engaged. It is given to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught successive generations of architects in the RMIT Architecture programs for over 40 years. Supervisor Statement: In transforming and readapting existin...g volumes and open spaces of an industrial precinct in Altona, west Melbourne, Lachlan’s project addresses topical challenges related to climate change and urban sustainability. Envisioning effective, non-idyllic, levels of integration between built and unbuilt repaired ecologies, the compelling speculations of this project propose programs and design strategies that aptly respond to pressing calls for resilient circular cities. Topical issues such as food production, water and waste management, sustainable energies and locally based manufacturing are investigated through the interrelated coexistence of a large scale compact thin circular system and 4 selected case-study interventions. The site’s endemic grassland vegetation and related natural and urban ecosystems are regenerated through an ‘entanglement’ between culture, nature and technology. Supervisor: Mauro Baracco Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2, 2020 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3loWqOx . Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "awards and speeches". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

24.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to JACK MURRAY, recipient of the ‘Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Award’ for his Major Project titled ‘GIVEN, EVEN’. Supervisor: Dr Michael Spooner. The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award celebrates Leon’s arrival as Head of Architecture at RMIT 31 years ago. It is decided by all Major Project students voting for what they view as the most adventurous and future-embracing project of the semester. Supervisor Statem...ent by Dr Michael Spooner: Jack’s project carries his faith in architecture, in Major Project, in himself, and in the many others he has carried with him on his expedition. The project flees the wardrobe of Godsell’s Kew House and is caught bare in a field that Jack discovers in the reflection of Duchamp’s Large Glass. Incessantly reconstructing the initial momentum of the absconded project, Jack finds that every subsequent trajectory must cross this glassy field. As his weekly incantations faded away fragments of his plot to escape were brought together in a sprawling box cut from a hill, described so the Yarra River can draw the horizon from every window. Jack is more Ismael than Ahab and so the project is infused with impulse, with the weekly pandemonium of majoring. Architecture, Jack argues, is reflected in the image of a daydreaming monk who sits in his cell, thinking of what to say to God. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1, 2021 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3wS04pD To view the project visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

24.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING STUDENTS AND MAJOR PROJECT PRIZE RECIPIENTS. See every Major Project completed this semester in the MAJOR PROJECT Catalogue by visiting the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020 at https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net (and click on the second dot) or via this link. https://bit.ly/3loWqOx ... #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulation

23.01.2022 INCLUSIVE CITY RMIT MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN & MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO FINAL CRITS! . INCLUSIVE CITY is an RMIT Master of Architecture & Master of Urban Design Studio run by RMIT Architecture Professor Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores (Flores & Prats Barcelona) with RMIT Architecture Lecturer Ian Nazareth in partnership with from the School of Architecture of Barcelona. . .... INCLUSIVE CITY: Building communities implies creating relationships that hold together people and things from different backgrounds and different times, a community between new and old neighbours, between new and old fragments of a built city in which, in the end, everyone, people and things, live in a new unity. When we talk about building communities, we are thinking about a new community built within the city that exists, inviting new neighbours to interact with those who already live there. We propose to work in urban contexts in transformation, observing and identifying the valuable social and physical qualities embedded in the area, and testing its capacity to be expanded and amplified as the basis to create a new urban chapter. With the aim of building a community, the studio works with a collective housing program but also with workshops for productive activities of local scale, with the interest of keeping manufacturing inside the city. A mixed program of housing and working spaces that can facilitate exchange within the members of the new community and people from outside of it. . . WHEN: THURSDAY 17th and FRIDAY 18th of DECEMBER Inclusive City. Rehabilitation and Housing in Barcelona WHERE: Watch recordings online via Canvas . . Guest Critics: Thursday 17.12.2020 Prof. Mark Jacques Director, Openwork, Melbourne . Ann Lau Director, Hayball, Melbourne . Sophie Patitsas Principal Adviser, Urban Design + Architecture, Office of the Victorian Government Architect, Melbourne . . Friday 18.12.2020 Prof. Tom Holbrook Director, 5th Studio Architects, London . Dr. Siobhán Ní Éanaigh Director, McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects, Dublin . Prof. Michael McGarry Director, McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects, Dublin . . Studio led by Eva Prats, Ricardo Flores and Ian Nazareth. Repost: @floresyprats . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture @rmit @rmitarchitecture, @rmituniversity, @ian_nazareth @floresyprats

23.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to YASEEN MOHIDDIN, recipient of the ‘Urban Design Award for Excellence’ in the Master of Urban Design program, semester 1 2021, for the project completed in JOHN DOYLE AND NEVILLE MARS’ design studio titled: JAVA PREDICAMENT. This semester the judging panel was comprised of: Industry representatives: Dean Boothroyd, Ann Lau, Rory Hyde, Eli Giannini and from RMIT Architecture Dr Ben Milbourne (Masters Design Studio Coordinator), Dr John Doyle (RMIT Architectu...re Masters Program Manager), Dr Leanne Zilka and Ian Nazareth. Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #excellence #congratulations

20.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to NICHOLAS MORGANTE, recipient of the ‘Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Award’ for his Major Project. Supervisor: JEAN-MARIE SPENCER & ANDRE BONNICE . The Leon van Schaik 25th Anniversary Peer Assessed Major Project Award celebrates Leon’s arrival as Head of Architecture at RMIT 28 years ago. It is decided by all Major Project students voting for what they view as the most adventurous and future-embracing project of the semester. Supervisor sta...tement by Jean-Marie Spencer and Andre Bonnice: Nicholas’ project is an inquiry into how architecture forms our perception and understanding of the world. Situated at 36 Collins Street, The Melbourne Club is transformed into a kindergarten. The club’s exclusivity is displaced with new methods of observation and uncanny scales of the tactile and the haptic. The kindergarten becomes a point of access, a way to see and uncover the unknown. Framed through a sequence of operative devices or ‘lessons’ that engage the senses in curiosity and play, the project seeks to shift and obscure our understanding of place; recognising architecture as a means of reconciliation between ourselves and the world. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2, 2020 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3loWqOx . Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

16.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to AIMEE HOWARD, recipient of the ANTONIA BRUNS MEDAL for her Major Project titled ‘DEADLY DULL’. Supervisors: Loren Adams and Dr Peter Brew. The Antonia Bruns Medal is endowed to recall Antonia’s interest in the relation between film and architecture and is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the relationship between architectural representation, association and perception. Supervisor Statement by Loren Adams and Dr Peter Brew: ... Aimee’s project offers a model for conceptualising difference and diversity in the discipline of architecture through a ficto-critical reimagining of her remote, West Australian hometown, Geraldton. For Aimee, text is the fundamental medium through which disciplinary knowledge of ‘the ideal’ is constructed, disseminated, and enforced. She deploys a bespoke natural language processing (NLP) ‘bot to create a simulated dialogue with 12 quintessentially ‘good’ architects, before inserting herself into the conversation as a ‘bad actor’ using a data set compiled from a series of poorly-remembered anecdotes from her childhood in Geraldton. The result is a new, whimsical, and radically nostalgic polemic from which she is able to cheekily serve up an alternative aesthetic ‘ideal’ for Geraldton. Through this project, Aimee playfully gifts us model of architecture within which ‘other’ voices including hers are not only heard but celebrated. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1, 2021 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3wS04pD To view the project visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

16.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to JINGYUAN WANG, recipient of the ANTONIA BRUNS MEDAL for her Major Project this semester. Supervisors: HELEN DUONG & TIM PYKE. . The Antonia Bruns Medal is endowed to recall Antonia’s interest in the relation between film and architecture and is awarded to a Major Project that investigates the relationship between architectural representation, association and perception. . Supervisor Statement by Helen Duong & Tim Pyke: Jing proposes an alternative strategy ...for heritage sites in China, by seeing architecture’s role in revealing history and culture. Her proposal exceeds the two common modes of conservation in China, namely restoration to the original state or minimal intervention. . Her project gives value to the gaps, overgrown ruins and dilapidated façades as found conditions worthy of preserving. Careful interventions and additions curate a journey through, over and between old buildings. A concealed world is constructed to understand cultural meaning and metaphor; from ancient Chinese medicine, classical theatre and arts to contemporary Chinese cinema. A layered cinematic experience is created by day and an immersive and other worldly stage set by night. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2, 2020 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3loWqOx . To view the project visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

15.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to CHRIS BUCHHORN, recipient of the ANNE BUTLER MEDAL for his Major Project titled ‘SEE YOU IN THE IN-BETWEEN’. Supervisor: Dr Emma Jackson. The Anne Butler Memorial Medal is awarded to the most outstanding Major Project and to the project that exemplifies the goals of Major Project Supervisor Statement by Dr Emma Jackson: ... In a scene from Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee advises, don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory. With the extreme focus and contemplation of a Kung Fu master, Chris’ project liberates the suburb from its orthogonal corset, and allows the previously unseen in-between to have its way. Cadastral boundaries are distracted by the low ground, and in this cunning diversion, a better mode of occupation sneaks in. Chris’ project is a heartfelt, optimistic offering, through architecture, to the Australian suburb, and our deeper past; it summons the heavenly glory from all the places we have mismanaged, ignored, and underestimated. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1, 2021 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3wS04pD To view the project visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

14.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to RILEY SHERMAN, equal recipient of the ‘Award for Design Excellence’ in the Master of Architecture program, semester 1 2021, for the project completed in BEN MILBOURNE & FELIX MADRAZZO’S design studio titled: TOURIST TRAP. The Award is presented to one or more projects every semester. One project is nominated from each design studio by the studio leader and the prize is awarded by an independent judging panel that has been part of the studio moderation proce...ss. This semester the judging panel was comprised of: Industry representatives: Dean Boothroyd, Ann Lau, Rory Hyde, Eli Giannini and from RMIT Architecture Dr Ben Milbourne (Masters Design Studio Coordinator), Dr John Doyle (RMIT Architecture Masters Program Manager), Dr Leanne Zilka and Ian Nazareth. Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #excellence #congratulations

10.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to AIMEE HOWARD, recipient of the ‘ARM ARCHITECTURE PRIZE’ in the Master of Architecture program, semester 2 2020, for the project completed in LOREN ADAM'S design studio titled: REGULATORY NONSENSE: DANGER ZONE . The ARM Architecture Prize, is an award for excellence in architecture design studios across all levels at RMIT. . The shortlist came from the design studio projects shortlisted by the external moderation panels in the Bachelors and Masters for seme...sters 1 and 2 and the prize was judged jointly by ARM Architects and RMIT Architecture. This semester the judging panel was comprised of ARM directors Mark Raggatt (ARM), Andrew Lilleyman (ARM), Dr Ben Milbourne (RMIT) & Dr. John Doyle (RMIT). . . Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #congratulations @rmituniversity

10.01.2022 RMIT Architecture are proud supporters of Caliper issues 07 SHIFT and 08 TIME are now available. Caliper Journal is an independent, student led architecture journal (edited by RMIT Architecture students) based in Melbourne, Australia. These two issues have been curated independently by RMIT Architecture students with support provided by the founding editors, RMIT Architecture Alumni Stephanie Pahnis, Nicola Cortese and Lauren Crockett. In semesters 1 and 2 2020, they led a...rchitecture electives titled, 'Proof', that introduced students to the ins and outs of independent architectural publishing. Exemplary student work from the electives appears in both issues. [text by Caliper] This year’s dual issue of Caliper Journal, 07 SHIFT / 08 TIME, is now available to be ordered online via http://caliperjournal.online/store. Caliper is an independent student-led architecture journal by RMIT students. This is a double feature issue featuring over 200 pages, fifty contributors, and interviews with Peggy Deamer, Beau De Belle, and Dr Jon Goodbun as well as exceptional student and alumnus work from RMIT University, Harvard GSD, the University of Melbourne, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Monash University and the Royal College of Art. The dual issue is broken up into two parts, SHIFT and TIME, the first of which mostly acts as a time capsule for the strangeness of this year, where what we knew to be a functional city was turned on its head. In a similar yet contrasting vein, TIME begins to interrogate our individual perspectives on time and space, how these perspectives have changed throughout this year, and how our present might impact the futures to come. Overall, both issues show a proliferating sense of hope, or at least faith, that things might be different, and that architecture might be a vehicle through which those futures could be realised. The editors of Issues 7 and 8 are Simone Chait, Yuchen Gao, Connor Hanna, Victoria Marquez, Jack Murray and Yiling Shen. Image Credits: Caliper

07.01.2022 PRINTING TECTONICS LECTURE by RMIT ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROLAND SNOOKS hosted by ETH ZURICH. . Roland Snooks' lecture, Printing Tectonics, explored the tectonic evolution of integrated 3D printed architectural skins and structure through the design experimentation of Snooks' research at RMIT and Studio Roland Snooks. .... PRINTING TECTONICS Dr. Roland Snooks / RMIT Roland Snooks is director at Studio Roland Snooks and Associate Professor at RMIT University. His design research explores behavioral processes of formation drawing from the logic of swarm intelligence and operation of multi-agent algorithms. Snooks has taught widely in the US, including Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc and the Pratt Institute. He received a PhD from RMIT and a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship. Snooks directs a research lab at RMIT University that develops computational design processes and additive manufacturing techniques through the design of experimental tectonics. His work has been published and exhibited widely and acquired for the permanent collections of institutions such as the FRAC and Centre Pompidou in France. . The lecture was held on Friday 4.12.2020 at ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HIB, Zoom . See info here: https://www.masdfab.com/news . . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #architecture #digitalpractice @rolandsnooks See more

03.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to LIAM OXLADE, recipient of the ANNE BUTLER MEDAL for his Major Project titled, ‘Puzzling Evidence’. Supervisors: DEAN BOOTHROYD & MARK JACQUES. . The Anne Butler Memorial Medal is awarded to the most outstanding Major Project and to the project that exemplifies the goals of Major Project . Supervisor Statement by Dean Boothroyd & Mark Jaques: Puzzling Evidence is a project that is interested in co-opting the politico-media complex to create sight-lines into ...the idea of place and modes of production. It is an expansive proposition, where the ubiquitous blankness of the data and distribution centre is used as a platform to shed light and atmospherics onto infrastructure networks that need to be made to work harder - extracting value for the constituents of the City of Greater Dandenong rather than the shareholders of remote providers. The circumstances of 2020 have been harnessed to break new ground by eschewing the primacy of drawing conventions for multiple scripts and storylines created in a video film format jumping the project out of major project examination material and into the digital town hall of Vimeo. Puzzling Evidence describes an architecture of carefully constructed cinematic artifice in which we’re invited to search out the edges of a created world and in doing so, to gain a new perspective on our own world. . Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 2, 2020 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3loWqOx . See the project at the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

02.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to JACK MURRAY, recipient of the PETER CORRIGAN MEDAL for his Major Project titled ‘GIVEN,EVEN’. Supervisor: Dr Michael Spooner. The Peter Corrigan Medal is awarded to the project that is most critical and politically and culturally engaged. It is given to a student with a strong independent vision in honour of Professor Peter Corrigan who taught successive generations of architects in the RMIT Architecture programs for over 40 years. Supervisor Statement by D...r Michael Spooner: Jack’s project carries his faith in architecture, in Major Project, in himself, and in the many others he has carried with him on his expedition. The project flees the wardrobe of Godsell’s Kew House and is caught bare in a field that Jack discovers in the reflection of Duchamp’s Large Glass. Incessantly reconstructing the initial momentum of the absconded project, Jack finds that every subsequent trajectory must cross this glassy field. As his weekly incantations faded away fragments of his plot to escape were brought together in a sprawling box cut from a hill, described so the Yarra River can draw the horizon from every window. Jack is more Ismael than Ahab and so the project is infused with impulse, with the weekly pandemonium of majoring. Architecture, Jack argues, is reflected in the image of a daydreaming monk who sits in his cell, thinking of what to say to God. Link to view the RMIT Architecture Major Project Catalogue Semester 1, 2021 (link in bio): https://bit.ly/3wS04pD To view the project visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Exhibition S1-2021: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #majorproject #congratulations @rmituniversity

02.01.2022 2020 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S DESIGN AWARDS - SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED - CONGRATULATIONS RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS EMMA CROKER AND KIERAN MERRIMAN! Congratulations to all the RMIT staff, students and alumni shortlisted in this year's Victorian Premier's Design awards including RMIT Architecture students, Emma Croker and Kieran Merriman, for their ‘Shara Clarke Aboriginal Cultural & Education Centre’ project completed in the Bachelor of Architectural Design design studio titled ‘On C...ountry: Framlingham’ (sem1 2020) led by Dr Christine Phillips (RMIT Architecture) & Stasinos Mantzis with Uncle Leonard Clarke & the Kirrae Whurrong Community. Winners will be announced at the annual Victorian Premier’s Design Awards ceremony which, for the first time, will be held as part of Melbourne Design Week in March 2021. View the entries and finalists: https://www.premiersdesignawards.com.au/

01.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to PRIYEN GAJJAR, recipient of the ‘Urban Design Award for Excellence’ in the Master of Urban Design program, semester 2 2020, for the project completed in BEN MILBOURNE'S design studio titled: VOLUME 2 . The prize is awarded by an independent judging panel that has been part of the studio moderation process. This semester the judging panel was comprised of: Javier Arpa (Research and Education Coordinator at The Why Factory at TU Delft), Dr John Doyle (RMIT) a...nd Ian Nazareth (RMIT). . Visit the RMIT Architecture End of Semester Virtual Exhibition S2-2020: https://rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net/ . To view the awards ceremony go to rmitarchitecture-exhibition.net and click on the first circle labelled "Exhibition Opening Event & Awards". . . #rmitarchitecture #rmit #rmituniversity #congratulations @rmituniversity

01.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to EMERITA PROFESSOR SAND HELSEL. RMIT Architecture congratulates Professor Sand Helsel on being appointed Emerita Professor. The award of this prestigious title recognises Sand’s outstanding service to RMIT University and exceptional contributions to Architecture. Professor Sand Helsel has made an outstanding contribution to the School of Architecture and Urban Design and RMIT University as a whole over the last 27 years of services. Her focused dedication ...to the School in its various iterations during her tenure have included Deputy Dean International and Head of the Department of Architecture. Elevation to Emerita Professor on her retirement is an appropriate and fitting recognition of Professor Helsel’s sustained and exceptional service to RMIT University. Images: Sand Helsel - exhibitions, workshops and PRS_Asia events.