RMIT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PRACTICE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2-4 OCTOBER 2015 CANDIDATE ABSTRACTS & SCHEDULE

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1 RMIT UNIVERSITY Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2-4 OCTOBER 2015 CANDIDATE ABSTRACTS & SCHEDULE

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3 RMIT UNIVERSITY School of Architecture + Design PHD BY PROJECT RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN PRACTICE We seek out practitioners who have developed a body of work demonstrating mastery of their field, invite them to reflect upon the nature of that mastery within a critical framework, to speculate through design on the nature of their future practice and demonstrate their findings publicly. We argue that architects and designers have a responsibility to the furtherance of their practice domain and that this examination of the nature of their mastery promotes and extends the fundamental knowledge base of their profession, and thus its ability to serve society. RMIT CAMPUS PHAM NGOC THACH STREET DISTRICT 3 Building 5 Level 2 Rooms 02 & 03 CHÚNG TÔI TÌM KIẾM NHỮNG NGƯỜI HÀNH NGHỀ ĐÃ HÌNH THÀNH MỘT TỔNG THỂ CÔNG TRÌNH DỰ ÁN THỂ HIỆN SỰ TINH THÔNG TRONG LĨNH VỰC CỦA HỌ, MỜI HỌ ĐỂ DIỄN GIẢI BẢN CHẤT CỦA SỰ TINH THÔNG TRONG MỘT PHẠM VI CÓ TÍNH PHẢN BIỆN, ĐỂ SUY ĐOÁN THÔNG QUA THIẾT KẾ VỀ BẢN CHẤT HÀNH NGHỀ CÔNG VIỆC TRONG TƯƠNG LAI VÀ ĐỂ DIỄN GIẢI NHỮNG KHÁM PHÁ CỦA HỌ VỚI CÔNG CHÚNG. CHÚNG TÔI CHO RẰNG KIẾN TRÚC SƯ VÀ CÁC NHÀ THIẾT KẾ CÓ MỘT TRÁCH NHIỆM TRONG VIỆC NÂNG CAO LĨNH VỰC HÀNH NGHỀ CỦA HỌ, VÀ VIỆC XEM XÉT BẢN CHẤT SỰ TINH THÔNG CỦA HỌ LÀ NHẰM ĐỀ CAO VÀ MỞ RỘNG KIẾN THỨC CƠ BẢN DỰA TRÊN NGHỀ NGHIỆP CỦA HỌ, VÀ TỪ ĐẤY LÀ KHẢ NĂNG ĐỂ PHỤC VỤ CỘNG ĐỒNG. 1

4 artist s talk Richard Goodwin Transforming the Bones of Modernism The city is a coral reef and as such needs a re-classification, which accepts complexity and contingency rather than the Utopian/Dystopian reductive thinking of both Modernism and Post Modernism. Coral Typology is a vision for the city, and classification of its ongoing transformation, which concentrates on building additions and subtractions rather than Tabula Rasa. Using the bones of Modernism as building blocks for the next solution to social, spatial, urban planning and engineering needs, is put forward in this talk, not only as a possible new architectural typology for city buildings, but also as a methodology for design, which is fundamental to any discussion of sustainable design practice. 2 See page 30 for artist s bio

5 RMIT UNIVERSITY (PRS) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2-4 October 2015 SCHEDULE Friday 2 October, 2:00-4:00 pm Laurent Gutierrez Examination Dia Projects - 2nd Floor, 103 Dong Khoi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Friday 2 October, pm PRS Exhibition Opening Dia Projects - 2nd Floor, 103 Dong Khoi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Friday 2 October, 8.00 pm PRS Dinner (by Invitation Only) Saturday 3 October, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm PhD Work in Progress Presentations and Reviews of Candidature RMIT Campus (Buiding 5, Level 2, Room 02 & 03) 21 Pham Ngoc Thach Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Saturday 3 October, 6:30 pm Artist s Talk: Professor Richard Goodwin Dia Projects - 2nd Floor, 103 Dong Khoi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Sunday 4 October, 9.30 am pm PhD Work in Progress Presentations and Reviews of Candidature RMIT Campus (Buiding 5, Level 2, Room 02 & 03) 21 Pham Ngoc Thach Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 3

6 RMIT UNIVERSITY Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Saturday & Sunday 3-4 October 2015 SCHEDULE Saturday 3 October 2015 PhD Work in Progress Presentations and Reviews of Candidature Venue: RMIT Pham Ngoc Thach Campus (Buiding 5, Level 2, Room 02 & 03) 9:15 am Tea & Coffee 9:30-10:30 am Neville Mars PhD Confirmation of Candidature Review RB, GC*, SH*, MS, RG, RBly 10:30-11:30 am Tom Verebes PhD Confirmation of Candidature Review SH, PM*, GC, GW, MAR, RBly 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Tea & Coffee 12:00-1:00 pm Thomas Tsang PhD Confirmation of Candidature Review GC, SH*, RB, MS, RBly 1: 00-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00-3:00 pm Carlotta Bruni PhD Work in Progress Review SH, GC, RB, MS, PM, GW, RG, MAR, RBly 3:00-4:00 pm Rui Miguel Rebelo Leao PhD Work in Progress Review SH, GC, RB, MS, PM, GW, RG, MAR 4:00-4:30 pm Afternoon Tea 4:30-5:30 pm Andrew Currie PhD Work in Progress Review GC, GW, RB, SH, RG, MAR, PM 5:30-6:00 pm Dongwoo Yim PhD Pre-applicaiton MS, RB, GC, SH 4

7 Sunday 4 October 2015 PhD Work in Progress Presentations and Reviews of Candidature Venue: RMIT Pham Ngoc Thach Campus (Buiding 5, Level 2, Room 02 & 03) 9:15 am Tea & Coffee 9 :30-10:30 am Alice Casey & Cian Deegan (guests from PRS EU) PhD work in progress MS, RB, GC, SH, RG, PM 10:30-11:30 am Alice Casey & Cian Deegan (guests from PRS EU) PhD work in progress MS, RB, GC, SH, RG, PM 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Tea & Coffee 12:00-1:00 pm Johnny Chiu Mid-Candidature Milestone Review Panel: MS, GC*, SH, RB, PM, RG 1:00-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00-3:00 pm Inch Lim MArch work in progress SH, RB, GC, RG, MS, PM 3: 00-3:30 Christian Lange PhD Pre-application MS, PM, GC, SH, RB 3:30-4:00 pm Afternoon Tea 4:00-4:30 pm Olivier Ottevaere PhD Pre-application MS, PM, GC, SH, RB 4:30-5:00 pm Holger Kehne PhD Pre-application MS, PM, GC, SH, RB 5:00-5:30 pm Serina Hijas PhD Pre-application MS, PM, GC, SH, RB 5:30-6:00 pm Melissa Cate Christ PhD Pre-application MS, PM, GC, SH, RB PANEL MEMBERS: GC = Graham Crist, Gretchen Wilkins = GW, Marcelo Stamm = MS, Mary-Ann Ray = MAR, Paul Minifie = PM, Richard Black = RB, Richard Blythe = RBly, Richard Goodwin =RG, Sand Helsel = SH Chair *Supervisor (when not Chair) 5

8 CANDIDATES - Examinations Laurent GUTIERREZ ATLAS OF MAP OFFICE S TERRITORIES: LANDMARKS, ISLANDS AND OTHER LIQUID LANDSCAPES The reflection on the contemporary issues of territory (globalization, urbanization, migration etc.) is the starting point of this PhD dissertation. Moving through almost twenty years of multifaceted navigations, the research-based practice of MAP Office has evolved across multiple fields and disciplines. Along the way, the shift of medium and audience has created opportunities to explore new territories in order to move away from the conventional field of architecture or urban design. In the last six years, a specific focus on islands and other liquid territories has been developed as a subject/ object of studies. Through these investigations, the practice is now exploring the new geography of a transient, globalized environment. A series of maps and cartographies of selected past and recent projects have produced an atlas in which the role of the designer/architect/artist is challenged to explore new territories, and a more narrative and fictional form of knowledge production. As an example, the latest project - Hong Kong Is Land (2014), recently produced and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, introduces a taxonomy of spatialization that explores a new definition of territory expanding from the realm of architecture and urbanism. 6

9 LAURENT GUTIERREZ [MAP OFFICE] ISLANDS, ARCHIPELAGOES AND OTHER LIQUID TERRITORIES DIA PROJECTS I 103 DONG KHOI, 2ND FLOOR HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, OCTOBER FROM 18:00 TO 20:00

10 CANDIDATES F. Carlotta BRUNI MACAU CONTEXT, THE DENSITY, THE VOID AND THE PUBLIC SPACE In the south of Spain you drink red wine with lemon, ice and gasosa, in the Alps vin brûlée, it goes to say that places far from the center are prone to develop lateral creations, because their inhabitants don t feel trapped by the mainstream ideologies. The two main contexts in this research are the city of Macau and myself, an Italian trained architect that has moved first to Portugal and later to Macau. The chemistry between these contexts informs all project acts and strategies of my practice. The specificity of Macau urbanism, its density and my own background and training have triggered a process of evolutionary adaptation, where the way I practice architecture has changed due to context, to be able to address itself to the local conditions. The administrative singularity of the situation allowed the development of a new architectural identity for Rui Leao and I. The Macau handover date of 20th of December 1999 is a defining date for the development of the city, a city that is no longer colonised but not entering in a regular postcolonial phase. The proposed organisation is in line with the density coping strategies that the city has in place for urban growth, whereas the way to design within these strategies has been, in my case, a reinterpretation of the mainstream ideologies of conservation and city interpretation that I have brought with me from Milan. 8

11 MACAU CONTEXT the density the void the public space F.Carlotta Bruni

12 CANDIDATES Johnny CHIU DESIGNING IN THE WORLD OF COMMODITIES As globalization expands with no boundaries, its new phase of mass production has taken the head in front of personalization. In effect, globalization is positively affecting societies by opening borders and blurring differences, satisfying the needs of the widest, yet leading to an unconscious loss of cultural identity. A similar thing is happening in architecture. Nowadays, anything can be built, and almost any obstacle can be overcome. Today s fast-pace world often gives architects time pressure, resulting in designs that lack local identities. In other words, globalization has turned designs into commodities that have no cultural diversity. Taiwan faces these globalized pressures, but also found its own distinctive way since We were lucky to be a part of the start-up, and produced products to match the market demands. This PhD examines how we in this capitalist society bring architecture back from pure marketing, but still adapting branding, interactivity, individual, collective/socialism into the design interaction in a pure, non-decorated state. Giving architecture a meaning of its own from the program they began with, rebranding architecture as a non(?)commoditive experience. 10

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14 CANDIDATES Andrew CURRIE CONTRA-BUTION: DESIGNING FOR CHANGE IN AN EMERGING VIETNAM Mobility, migration and globalization continue to increase the frequency in which architecture and design professionals choose to practice outside their own cultural, educational and professional context. It is generally accepted that when a professional relocates to a foreign country they do so on the understanding that they will adopt the local rules, regulations and standards of their new location. However, it is often the case in emerging markets that comparable controls and regulations either do not exist, are not well understood, are not well regulated or are not enforced. This places the practicing professional in a challenging, often difficult position. Through reflection on, and analysis of, the practice and projects of OUT-2 Design, a foreigner-founded and owned design practice operating in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since 2004, this research investigates the role of the architectural and design practice as a vehicle for change, in the emerging market context of Vietnam. The investigation has been framed within four themes: Architects must build; and architecture must change, Design is: Responsible, Design is: Responsive; and, Contra-bution. Together these themes formulate a position on the role of modernity, mode of practice, ethics and built work in effecting change, improving life, and contributing beyond the normal remit of a professional design practice. 12

15 CONTRABUTION DESIGNING FOR CHANGE IN AN EMERGING VIETNAM AN ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE... IN A COUNTRY OF CONTRASTS... CREATED THROUGH A PROCESS OF ENGAGEMENT & CONSULTATION... Andrew Currie PhD Architecture & Design October 2015

16 CANDIDATES Inch LIM THE JAPANESE SHOW GARDENS AND THE LABORATORY Show gardens are ephemeral design pieces and as the name suggests, are public shows where gardeners have a platform to exhibit their designs and work. Show gardens are typically short-lived and are taken down within two weeks from the start of the show. Because of the absence of a client as such, the designer has a certain freedom to explore their design, providing good laboratories for experimentation. My research takes place within the framework of three successive yearly show gardens that I designed and built. They were held in Sasebo, Nagasaki in the autumn of 2011, 2012 and In each case the design process took about eight months and construction lasted approximately twelve days. My paper seeks to describe the experiments, to narrate and reflect upon the result and find out how this has influenced my other works. To understand what has built, how it came about and to discover any happy accidents and coincidences that may lead to some interesting new discoveries. 14

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18 CANDIDATES RUI Miguel Rebelo LEAO THE CIVIC ROLE OF PUBLIC SPACE IN POST HANDOVER MACAU The City of Macau has grown out of an intense relationship with the water. Its location and meaning are related to water and the Portuguese seafaring history. The phenomenal urban development that the city has undertaken through time hasn t always focused on the relationship with the river and the sea. Our practice has been involved in various infrastructure projects along the waterfront since 1996, designing parks, public facilities and more recently the Light Rail Transport line, where we have continuously taken the opportunity to engage with the stakeholders involved to re-think the public space and redirect the intentions of the City development towards its original flux and purpose: the surrounding water surface. Along with our previous public space and infrastructure projects along the waterfront, including the Nam van Square and the Sai Van Park developed for the south of the Peninsula these projects have been used to rethink the relation between the dense city and its waterscape in a public space oriented strategy. 16

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20 CANDIDATES Neville MARS CHINA BACK-UP: TOWARDS AN EVOLUTIONARY PLANNING SYSTEM FOR PRESSURED URBAN LANDSCAPES Where collaborations and inefficiency cross can design practice become design research? This research tells the story of three decades of rapid urban transformation in China. Through GIS maps, models, articles, interviews, video and art installations the spatial and social evolution of this landscape of exacerbated difference is charted. The findings are unequivocal in one respect: in this radical context sustainable planning demands radical new models. Through commercial projects and counterproposals the different implications of the findings are explored, with the aim to define a new planning paradigm for China and other Asian economies increasingly looking to copy its pathway of breakneck development. 18

21 China Back-Up! IS THERE AN ECOCITY MODEL THAT CAN SURVIVE IN THE MOST EXTREME URBAN ENVIRONMENT ON THE PLANET? NEVILLE MARS PhD architectural design RMIT

22 CANDIDATES Thomas TSANG CONTESTED MINIATURES: the MULTIPLES, UNPARALLELLED, and SHORT HISTORIES The primary source of research conducted under the auspices of DEHOW PROJECTS, a small and agile multi-disciplinary studio, is comprised of complementary projects in architectural commissions, selfdefined art projects, curatorial probes, and pedagogical teachings. The studio s sole responsibility is to empower the task given, seek to address vast issues through routine program delivery by small scale and macro projects, as well as addressing complex social, physical, and cultural relations that constitute the architectural interventions in condensed and compressed environments, with focuses on site readings, history, social context, and audience relationships. Small thing is the next big project. If size 20

23 the MULtIPLeS, UNPARALLeLLeD, AND ShORt histories thomas tsang \\\\ PhD IN ARchItectURe \\\ confirmation Of candidature \\\\ PRActIce ReSeARch SyMPOSIUM \\\\ RMIt ARchItectURe & DeSIgN \\\\ ho chi MINh city \\\ 3-4 Oct 2015 \\\ PRS 2 \\\ PROgReSS ReVIeW

24 CANDIDATES Tom VEREBES TOWARDS A DISTINCTIVE URBANISM: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN INTELLIGENCE AND PROTOTYPING FOR C21 CITIES Given the unprecedented speed and seemingly unstoppable pace of city building in the 21st century, a paramount challenge for architects and urbanists is the convergence of sameness among cities worldwide. Locating a research problematic on the limitations of conventional urban masterplanning, this research investigates the intersection of the ubiquitous uniformity of cities, and the possibility of prototyping multiple futures, specified to local contingencies and constraints. The research will address the theoretical and practical consequences of computation and fabrication technologies upon the twenty-first century city, and the notion of an interactive urban model. 22

25 Towards a Distinctive Urbanism: Applications and Implications of Computational Design Intelligence and Prototyping for C21 Cities Tom Verebes RMIT HCMC Campus / PhD PRS / Architecture Given the unprecedented speed and seemingly unstoppable pace of city building in the twenty-first century, a paramount challenge for architects and urbanists is the convergence of sameness among cities worldwide. Locating a research problematic on the limitations of conventional urban masterplanning, this research investigates the intersection of the ubiquitous uniformity of cities, and the possibility of prototyping multiple futures, specified to local contingencies and constraints. The research will address the theoretical and practical consequences of computation and fabrication technologies upon the twenty-first century city, and the notion of an interactive urban model. MASS CUSTOMISED CITIES 1 Guest-edited by Tom Verebes Contributors 06:2015 Michael Bell Martin Bressani M Christine Boyer Mark Burry Kenneth Frampton Jeffrey Huang Branko Kolarevic Neil Leach Elena Manferdini Rob May ArCHitECts AnD DEsiGnErs Archi-Union Architects Arup Contemporary Architecture Practice (CAP) davidclovers E-Grow Gramazio & Kohler OCEAN CN Rocker-Lange Architects What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today nonstandard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterised by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customisation of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world. MASS CUSTOMISED CITIES MASS CUSTOMISED CITIES Guest-Edited by tom VErEbEs ArCHitECturAl DEsiGn November/December 2015 Profile No Vol

26 CANDIDATES - EU Cohort Alice CASEY + Cian DEEGAN TAKA was founded by Alice Casey and Cian Deegan. TAKA is a practice concerned with the communicative potential of architecture, with tectonic expression and with place making. TAKA is based in Dublin, Ireland. TAKA has exhibited in the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008 and co-curated the Irish Pavilion in As well as numerous national and international awards TAKA have been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe award and were finalists in the 2014 BD Young Architect of the Year Award. Alice is carrying out research into the spatial implications of technical details and Cian is carrying out research into the role of travel and reference in the work of TAKA Architects. Alice Casey and Cian Deegan are ADAPT-r fellows with RMIT Europe. Their research has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/ / under REA grant agreement n

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28 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES (EXAMINATION) Laurent GUTIERREZ Laurent Gutierrez is the co-founder of MAP Office together with Valérie Portefaix. After graduating as an architect from Paris-Belleville School of Architecture in Paris (DPLG), he is currently based in Hong Kong since With 20 years of teaching experience, he is now Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he leads Master programs in Design Strategies as well as Urban Environments Design. In addition to his teaching position Gutierrez is the co-director of the Urban Environments Lab. Working on physical and imaginary territories, MAP Office is using varied means of expression including drawing, photography, video, installations, performance, and literary and theoretical texts. The projects of the cross-disciplinary practice, have been exposed in over 100 exhibitions at prestigious venues including the MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Georges Pompidou Centre (Paris) and the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (Beijing), around 30 Biennales and Triennials around the world with for example five contributions to the Venice Biennale in Art and Architecture. Their practice has been the subject of a monograph, MAP OFFICE Where the Map is the Territory (2011). MAP Office was the recipient of the 2013 edition of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. 26

29 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES F. Carlotta BRUNI I. E.D. - Diploma in Photography Politecnico di Milano, Facoltá di Architettura Founder of LBA. Carlotta has designed a wide array of projects from master plans to interior designs. Recipient of the Arcasia Gold Medal for Architecture 2006 and UNESCO Heritage Award 2012, her architectural work has been widely published internationally. Her design, architecture and urban design works have been exhibited in the Milan s Salone del Mobile, at Lisbon Biennale, at the10th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia and at the 7th Bienal de Arquitectura de São Paulo. Johnny CHIU Founder of a multidisciplinary design firm. Our works span from architecture, interior, industrial, jewelry to hospitality and service. Our awardwinning projects include National Taipei University Library and Les Bebes Cupcakery. We operated as a studio think tank where we research and experiment new design possibilities. I have lived, worked and taught in more than six countries. I believe that a good design should take inspirations from the individuals, the society, and the interaction between human and brand. 27

30 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES Andrew CURRIE Andrew Currie is an Architect with more than 25 years of experience working across South-East Asia. In 2004 Andrew established OUT-2 Design, an architecture and interior design practice with offices in Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Today, OUT-2 Design is focussed on projects in Vietnam and provides international-standard design services to clients in four key sectors: commercial offices, international education, bespoke hospitality, and bespoke residential. Andrew is also founder and director of Workplace-Asia, a specialist division of OUT-2 Limited that providing Workplace Consulting & Design Services to multi-national clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Inch LIM Lim In Chong, a Malaysian designer whose friends know him as Inch, was born in year 1955, in a small village called Batu Pahat. He studied in United World College in Singapore and graduated his Bachelor of Arts degree from Trent University in Canada and is undergoing his Master Degree in Architecture at RMIT. Inch s design skills have been honed through many years of practical experience and he sees architecture, interior and landscape as part of the same continuum. Inch s works have achieved international success and numerous awards in Japan, USA, UK, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Inch works at Inchscape Sdn Bhd and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur. 28

31 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES RUI Miguel Rebelo LEAO Rui Leão is an architecture and urban planning practitioner, an urban policy advisor and a heritage conservation activist. His design for Nam Van Square was awarded the Arcasia Gold Medal in 2006, and has been exhibited in the 10th Biennale di Venezia and at the 7th Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de São Paulo. His reading room in the Portuguese School of Macau received a UNESCO Laureate for Innovation on Heritage Conservation in He is Vice- President of the Architects Association of Macau, Vice-President of CIALP, the International Council of Architects from Portuguese Speaking Countries, current Chair of Docomomo Macau Research Centre, and a nominated member of the CPU, the Urban Planning Committee of the Macau. Neville MARS Starting his career at OMA in Rotterdam, then as the director of the Dynamic City Foundation in Shanghai, a distinct research-driven approach defines the architecture and urban planning of Neville Mars. With his office MARS Architects he applies the ongoing research into Asia s radically transforming urban landscape to develop sustainable solutions across different scales. MARS Architects has produced a dozen master plans for ecocities in China and India and has won awards for cultural buildings, products and public projects. Neville Mars is an INK TED fellow, BMW Guggenheim Lab Member, and author of the book The Chinese Dream, 010 Publishers. office: foundation: 29

32 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES Thomas TSANG Born in Island of Borneo, Malaysia. He is founder of DEHOWPROJECTS, an art and architecture practice based in Hong Kong dedicated to developing cultural projects. He is a recipient of the coveted Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize in Architecture and Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in Italy for Visual Arts. He c0-curated with Roan Ching-Yueh Cloud of Unknowing: A City with Seven Streets at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and was recently appointed as curator for Mobile Biennale 2 in He has taught at the Cooper Union, China Academy of Art, and currently at University of Hong Kong. Tom VEREBES Tom Verebes is the Creative Director of OCEAN CN, based in Hong Kong. He served as Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) ( ) and is currently Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He was co-director Design Research Lab, at the Architectural Association in London, where he had taught from 1996 to 2009, Director of the AA Shanghai Summer School ( ), and former Guest/Visiting Professor at Akademie der Buildenden Künste ABK Stuttgart ( ). Among over 140 publications, including Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge, 2013), and an upcoming issue of AD, titled, Mass Customised Cities (November 2015), Verebes work has been exhibited in over 50 venues worldwide, and he has lectured extensively in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. ocean-cn.org 30

33 CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES - EU Cohort Alice CASEY and Cian DEEGAN TAKA was founded by Alice Casey and Cian Deegan. TAKA has exhibited in the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008 and co-curated the Irish Pavilion in As well as numerous national and international awards TAKA have been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe award and were finalists in the 2014 BD Young Architect of the Year Award. TAKA is a practice concerned with the communicative potential of architecture, with tectonic expression and with place making. TAKA is based in Dublin, Ireland. Cian and Alice are currently EU Marie Curie ITN ADAPTr Fellows in PhD postgraduate research at RMIT (Europe) Barcelona. 31

34 EXAMINER BIOGRAPHY Richard GOODWIN Over 38 years of practice as an internationally exhibiting artist and architect, Goodwin has sustained a prolific and award winning practice provoking boundaries between art and architecture. In 1996 Goodwin established the Porosity Studio at the College of Fine Arts within the University of New South Wales where he currently holds the position of Professor of Fine Arts and Design. He teaches part-time via intensive, international and multi-disciplinary studios providing a unique context for the renegotiation of delineations between art, architecture and urbanism. In 2002 Goodwin was awarded the prestigious Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council to fund the development of his ideas on Porosity a redefining of public space in cities leading to urban propositions of parasitic architecture. In 2008 he received his PhD for further Porosity research. This research continues today under a second Australian Research Council Linkage grant in collaboration with architecture academic Russell Lowe entitled, Real-Time Porosity: Using Computer Gaming Technology to Map and Analyse Pedestrian Movement in Public and Private Space. Goodwin s Architectural practice concentrates on parasitic connections between private and public space. Recent works include the Cope Street parasite and the Deepdene Parasite. Goodwin has also completed several public structures including four pedestrian bridges, one of which was constructed for the Olympic Games precinct in Sydney He has represented Australia in three Venice Architecture Biennales. Major prizes include: The National Sculpture Award 1985, The Sculpture by the Sea Prize 2003, Helen Lempriere Award 2004, the Blackett Award for Architecture in 2004, and the Wynne Prize from the Art Gallery of NSW His artwork is held in major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Nuremburg Museum. 32

35 EXAMINER BIOGRAPHY Mary-Ann RAY Mary-Ann Ray is a Principal of Studio Works Architects in Los Angeles and a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the experimental laboratory for urban and rural research and design BASE Beijing. She graduated with honors from Princeton University with a Master of Architecture in Ms. Ray is the Taubman Centennial Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and she has also taught at SCI-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture, Yale University, U.C. Berkeley and Rice University and served as the Chair of Environmental Design at Otis College. Studio Works is an award winning design firm whose design work and research have been widely published. Principals Mary-Ann Ray and her partner Robert Mangurian are architects, authors, and designers, and were awarded the Chrysler Design Award for Excellence and Innovation in an ongoing body of work in a design field and the Stirling Prize for the Memorial Lecture on the City by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the London School of Economics. Ray is also a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Among her published books are Pamphlet Architecture No. 20 Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice and Midgets, Wrapper, and Caochangdi: Beijing Inside Out. studioworks@pacbell.net 33

36 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Richard BLACK Dr Richard Black is a registered architect and Professor at RMIT University where he is head of the Bachelor of Architectural Design degree. With Michelle Black, he is a partner in Times Two Architects. Richard s teaching, practice and research activities explore overlaps and adjacencies between architecture and landscape. He has developed off-site and on-site techniques as a process to engage with complex large scale landscape systems. He has co-authored two books on his design studio teaching at RMIT University. Richard is also a founding member and contributor to the X-Field group in the School of Architecture + Design. The agenda of the X-Field project is to promote a continuing and significant discourse amongst like-minded practitioners who challenge the convention of their respective disciplines. A touring exhibition supported by symposia and collected contributions to this dialogue began in Melbourne, followed by Seoul, Beijing and Taipei before returning to Melbourne in an expanded format ( Richard s mapping of the Murray River floods, fieldwork and associated design projects, have been acquired by the Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA. Richard s design projects have been nationally and internationally recognised through exhibition and publication. He has previously worked in practice in Western Australia and Austria. He obtained his B.Arch (first class honours) from Curtin University (WA), and has completed post-graduate study under Professor Peter Cook at the Städelschule Art Academy, Frankfurt, Germany. He completed an M.Arch (by project) in 1998 and a Phd (2009) both at RMIT University. 34

37 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Richard BLYTHE Dr Richard Blythe is Professor in Architecture and Dean, Architecture + Design at RMIT University, Australia and Visiting Research Professor, Queens University, Belfast. From 2010 he has led the establishment of the RMIT University Practice based Research PhD program in Europe and Asia and was the primary author and lead researcher for the successful M EU Marie Curie ITN grant ADAPT-r. Richard is currently an Advisory Board Member for the Ashgate Publishing s Design Research in Architecture Series and a review editor for Routledge and the European on-line journal JAR. He is a member of the Australian Deans of the Built Environment executive committee. In 2011 he was the recipient of a prestigious Velux Professorial Fellowship, Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. Richard was a founding director of the architecture practice Terroir and Company Director until 2012 and continues to contribute to the Terroir team. Richard served as Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects National Education Committee from and his most important achievements in that role were: leading the development and adoption of the AIA Research Policy implementing and refining the AIA s Education Medal, now known as the Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize. Richard s academic passion is creative practice, developing approaches to creative practice research and in building communities of creative practitioner researchers. Prior to taking up his position at RMIT Richard lectured at the University of Tasmania for 14 years where he served as Deputy Head of the School of Architecture and was the Vice Chancellor s representative on the Tasmanian Government s Building and Construction Industries Council. During Richard served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. 35

38 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Graham CRIST Graham Crist is a senior lecturer in design at RMIT and a member of the design practice Antarctica. He was educated at UWA and taught there before coming to RMIT. Prior to founding Antarctica he has practiced at Donaldson Warn, and Denton Corker Marshall as well as commencing the practice of Harrison and Crist. At RMIT he has formerly been the program director of architecture, coordinator of professional practice and coordinator of higher degrees by research. He is currently coordinator of the Master of Design studios. 36

39 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Sand HELSEL Sand Helsel is Professor of Architecture at RMIT University, and Director of the PRS Asia, RMIT s PhD program located in Ho Chi Minh City. She received her architectural qualifications from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and her MArch (by Research) and PhD from RMIT. Prior to her current academic role, Sand has been Deputy Dean International in the School of Architecture and Design and Head of the Department of Architecture at RMIT, and a Unit Master at the AA. Her design research practice ranges in scale from installations to urban design. She is a founder member of X_Field, an informal group of international practitioners who work in the margins of the disciplines of art, architecture, landscape architecture, interior, industrial and urban design. She has co-curated a suite of exhibitions of this work in Melbourne, Seoul, Beijing and Taipei; a book is in progress. Her work has been included in group shows at URS 126 in Taipei, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, and the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. The Asian city is the current focus of her international lectures, conferences, publications, exhibitions and design workshops. She is a founding member of Urban Flashes, an international group of artists, architects and educators established in Taipei in 1999, and her book, Taipei Operations, documents one of her collaborative design workshops with a focus on bottom-up design techniques. 37

40 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Paul MINIFIE Associate Professor Paul Minifie is Director of RMIT School of Architecture and Design s Centre for Design Practice Research, called d Lab, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Architecture program. He directs the firm MvS Architects (started in 2000 as Minifie Nixon Architects) with Jan van Schaik. Constructed projects include the Victoria College of the Arts Centre for Ideas, the Healesville Wildlife Health Centre and the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Discovery Centre. MvS is also known for their unbuilt and theoretical projects which have been widely published and exhibited in Australia and overseas. Prior to MVS Architects, Paul worked at Ashton Raggatt McDougall for ten years. He was a design architect under Howard Raggatt s direction on various notable projects including RMIT s Storey Hall, the St Kilda Town Hall and the National Museum of Australia. Paul has taught at RMIT in an ongoing capacity since graduating in He is a leader of the Advanced Architecture stream of design practice, which places emphasis on speculative modes of practice, often engaging with technological, social and economic drivers of architectural and urban transformation. Most recently, his research projects examine connectedness, exchange and differentiation - properties that can be tested by modelling - as fundamental drivers of urban morphology. 38

41 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Marcelo STAMM PD Dr phil. habil. Marcelo Stamm is RMIT Vice-Chancellor s Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Dean Research & Innovation in the RMIT School of Architecture & Design, Adjunct Professor at the University of Munich LMU, Honorary Fellow of the Australian Innovation Research Centre AIRC and Honorary Research Fellow of Venice International University VIU. Marcelo Stamm is a philosopher of creativity and innovation who studied in Munich and Oxford and brings more than two decades of work in the area of philosophical constellation research and topological research on cognitive horizons to the contemporary study of creativity and creative practice research. Prior to his appointment to RMIT Marcelo Stamm has been Head of the School of Philosophy at UTas since 2005 and became Chief Investigator of two large ARC discovery grants in 2007 simultaneously, investigating the conditions of creativity. In 2010 he was appointed to the Australian Innovation Research Centre as Director of the AIRC s Creativity Research Project. In his RMIT position since 2012 Marcelo has contributed to RMIT s leading role in the 4 Million Euro Framework 7 Marie Curie ITN ADAPT-r grant and aims to foster the University s role as an emerging global leader in creativity and design research. To that end, Marcelo also operates since 2013 as the Director of RMIT s European Practice Research Symposia (PRS) as the core to RMIT s doctoral research innovation which provides conspicuous evidence of RMIT s leadership in creative practice research. 39

42 RMIT Architecture & Design SUPERVISOR BIOGRAPHIES Gretchen WILKINS Gretchen Wilkins is Director of the Master of Urban Design program, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and leader of the D-Lab Cities research unit in the School of Architecture & Design at RMIT University. She received a PhD in Architecture from RMIT University in 2012 entitled Manufacturing Urbanism: architectural practice for unfinished cities, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. She is the editor of the book Distributed Urbanism: Cities after Google Earth (Routledge 2010) and Entropia: Incremental Gestures Towards a Possible Urbanism (Champ Libre, 2009). Her design work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Architectural Design (AD), Ottagono, Metropolis Magazine, L Architecture d Aujourd Hui and the Storefront for Art & Architecture. She has received research grants from the Japan Foundation, the James L. Knight Foundation, the Australia China Council and the Holcim Foundation. Her ongoing research explores architectural and economic relationships between manufacturing and cities, through design. 40

43 For more information about RMIT School of Architecture & Design Practice Research Symposiums please visit us at: RMIT Webpage: Facebook: DATES 2016 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Friday 1 - Sunday 3 April 2016 Friday 7 - Sunday 9 October 2016

44 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam