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ARCHIVE OF EVENTS IN 2011 SEMESTER 1

Local RMIT Architecture events are listed below. For international events see RMIT Architecture News

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email: architecture@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9925 9799

FROM SKETCH TO SOLID
STUDENT CURATED PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

HASSELL
Ingrid Bakker Principal (Interior/Architecture), HASSELL ARCHITECTS Melbourne
Mark Loughnan Principal (Architecture), HASSELL ARCHITECTS Melbourne
TIME: Friday 25 March, 5.30pm, Drinks@5pm.
VENUE: RMIT Building 8, level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68

Founded in Australia in 1938 HASSELL is a single, privately owned international network of design studios. Each has the flexibility and autonomy to service local clients, and the advantages of access to their integrated culture, combined resources and collective experience. A multidisciplinary design practice, they are structured around the key disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and planning, with integrated sustainability and urban design capabilities. An interdisciplinary organisation, HASSELL combines learning and experience from all disciplines to inform their design work.

website: http://www.hassell.com.au/

STUDENT CURATED PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
Randal Marsh, Director: Wood Marsh, Melbourne
TIME: Friday 18 March, 5.30pm, Drinks@5pm.
VENUE: RMIT Building 8, level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68

Randal Marsh and Roger Wood are founding Directors of the highly awarded and widely exhibited and published Melbourne practice Wood Marsh. They are also both alumni of the RMIT Master of Architecture (Research by Project) invited stream.

The RMIT Design Research Institute
and the RMIT Architecture Program invite you to the following Friday Night Lecture and pre-lecture drinks:

Dan Pitera
Transparent Urbanism

Friday March 11 2011, 6pm (5:30 drinks)
RMIT Bldg 8, Level 11, Lecture Theatre (8:11:68)

“SPACE, not history, not time, is (still) the totalizing force in the American experience… It has always
been the case. The most American of novels-Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn-are about SPACE.
It is the landscape of the American imagination; not time-filled, humanist space of Europe, defined and limited by objects, but the opposite: space unlimited, empty, space as QUANTITY.” (Robert Segrest)

The USA has built its history on the expansiveness of its landscape - settling, taming and homesteading the seemingly endless space. Then why does this quantity of space, when it occurs in a city, give us the feeling that something is wrong? What is it that makes the physical experience of Detroit uncanny?

Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at University of Detroit, Mercy.

Convenor: Gretchen Wilkins (RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory)