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ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE LECTURES  RMIT ARCHITECTURE - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE: "Kokkugia - experiments in the behavior of matter" Roland Snooks, Practice Director: Kokkugia Time: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 4:30pm Venue: Story Hall Basement Theatre, RMIT Building 16, 342 Swanston St. Convenor: Johan van Schaik, RMIT Architecture Lecturer Kokkugia is an agency for experimental architecture - a collaboration between Jonathan Podborsek and Roland Snooks (who are both recent RMIT Architecture alumni) and Rob Stuart-Smith. Kokkugia has been published and exhibited internationally, including at the Beijing Biennale and Chernikhov Prize in Moscow in addition to being named the Australian Curator for the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Roland Snooks is a partner of the architecture practice Kokkugia. He holds a masters in advanced architectural design from Columbia University where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from RMIT Architecture in 2002. Roland teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University GSAPP and USC, has directed design studios and seminars at the Pratt Institute, SCI-Arc, UCLA, RMIT, and the VCA. Roland’s current teaching and research interests focus on emergent and algorithmic design processes involving genetic and agent based techniques.  Facebook event page   PUBLIC LECTURE FORCE FORM PERFORMANCE: Structural Design Strategies Prof. Manfred Grohmann, Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers Time: Friday November 20 2009, 6 pm Venue: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Rm 8.11.68, 360 Swanston Street Convenor: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Contemporary conditions of building design require the integration of ideas, the logic of space, the structure and its skin. Structural design engineers are essential collaborators from the immanence of architectural building design. Over the last 25 years, Bollinger+Grohmann have taken part in the development of architectural building design and have become well known for liberating structure and, with it, form. Feeling or even “smelling” the architect’s ideas they approach each project as a unique set of challenges. Their adaptability and flexible working methods have contributed to their successful collaborations with architects of widely varying design repertoires. In response to the complexity of contemporary architecture they combine a high level of interdisciplinary knowledge in architectural geometry, software development, material and fabrication technologies with advanced engineering expertise. PROF. DIPL.-ING. MANFRED GROHMANN graduated from Darmstadt Technical University in Civil Engineering. He has been Professor for Structural Design at Kassel University since 1996, Guest Professor at the Städelschule, Frankfurt since 2000 and at the ESA – École d´Architecture, Paris since 2007 and has taught at Darmstadt Technical University. Prof. Grohmann and Prof. Bollinger founded Bollinger+Grohmann in 1983, and both combine teaching at architecture schools with their practice. Prof. Grohmann is currently a co-supervisor in the RMIT Architecture and Design PhD Program with Prof Mark Burry. They are co-supervising an Architecture PhD candidate in the Spatial Information Architecture Embedded Practice stream who is situated within the practice of Bollinger+Grohmann researching smart materials and adaptive systems in architecture. BOLLINGER+GROHMANN ENGINEERS are an international engineering company in Frankfurt on the Main with more than 25 years experience in planning and structural design. With just under 100 employees at three cities (Frankfurt on the Main, Vienna, Paris), they are active in approx. 20 countries outside Germany. They have been working successfully for years with a number of internationally recognized architects. Their range of services includes structural and facade design, geometry development and construction physics. The field of work spans between the structural design of housing, office, commercial, exhibition and event facilities as well as classic civil engineering structures such as bridges, roofs and towers. Recent projects include: Kunsthaus Graz Graz/Austria, 2000-2003 Architects: Spacelab UK, Peter Cook, Colin Fournier, London Zollverein School of Management and Design, Essen/Germany, 2003-2006 Architects: SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo MARTa Museum For Furniture, Culture and Art, Herford/Germany, 2000-2005 Architects: Frank Gehry & Associates inc., S. Monica Nordkettenbahn Station Roofs Innsbruck/Austria, 2005-2007 Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects, London Related links: Lecture webpage Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers RMIT School of Architecture and Design Research RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory For further information contact: Nicola Narayan, SIAL ph 0061 3 9925 3524 nicola.narayan@rmit.edu.au   EXHIBITION FORUM Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Non-Standard Pedagogy for Advanced Technologies and Emergent Practices in Architecture" Antonino Saggio, chair Spots on School Exhibition Forum in Visions: Beyond Media Festival, 2009 Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 11, 2009 Forum Speakers included: Branko Kolarevic (University of Calgary), Mahesh Senagala, Kevin Klinger (Ball State University), Jonathan Solomon, Jason Carlow (University of Hong Kong), Jeffrey Huang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Symposium Speakers included: Furio Barzon, Beatriz Colomina, John Frazer, Derrick De Kerckhove, Lars Krückeberg, Peter Lang, Marcos Novak, Paul Polak, Felicity Scott, Peter Wilson, James Wines INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION RMIT Architecture Installation with Prix Studio, die Angewandte, Vienna Spots on School Exhibition in Visions: Beyond Media Festival, 2009 RMIT Curator: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 9-17, 2009  INVITED INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Pedagogical frameworks for digitally networked architecture," in 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, UK, May 7-8, 2009. This symposium was hosted by the University of Salford, UK in partnership with Bentley Systems and the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures. Invited Speakers included: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Cristiano Ceccato, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK; Former Director of Gehry Technologies Matias del Campo, SPAN Architects, Austria Sean Hanna, UCL Bartlett, UK Lars Hesselgren, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Smart Geometry, UK Martin Riese, Gehry Technologies, Hong Kong Hugh Whitehead, Foster and Partners, UK The participants in this symposium have been commissioned to contribute chapters to the book "Distributed Intelligence in Design", to be published through Wiley in 2010.  PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF VESKI FUNDED PROJECTS VESKI Awards in Design 2008 - Presentation of Funded Project Outcomes VESKI (Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation) A State Government of Victoria Initiative Date: Friday, March 20, 2009 Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm (6.30 pm for drinks, 7.00 pm award presentations) Location: RMIT City Campus, Building 8, Level 11, Theatre 68, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia Phone: 613 9925-2990 Email: winnie.ha@rmit.edu.au VESKI (Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation) and the RMIT School of Architecture & Design invite you to the public presentation of the outcomes of VESKI funded projects undertaken by RMIT Architecture recipients of the VESKI Awards in Design, 2008. VESKI funded the participation of RMIT Architecture staff and students in three international events in 2008: - 3rd Seville Art Biennale - 11th Venice Architecture Biennale - Die Angewandte, Vienna/RMIT Architecture - Extremes Studio Recipients of VESKI Awards in Design funding in 2008 included: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor of Design Jerome Frumar, RMIT Architecture Design Tutor, RMIT PhD in Architecture Candidate, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree Graduate Tom Frauenfelder, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree Student Daniel Griffin, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree Student Farzin Lofti-Jam, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree Student Luke Waldron, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree Student VESKI (Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation) is a charitable institution working to enhance Victoria’s intellectual capital through a dynamic program of fellowships, awards, and international networks. VESKI is an initiative of the State Government of Victoria.  PUBLIC LECTURE Professor Carlo Ratti, MIT "Future Cities" Time: Monday 24 August 2009, 6 for 6.30pm Venue: RMIT Design Research Institute RMIT Building 91, Level 3 110 Victoria Street (opposite the City Baths on north side of street) Convenor: Jane Burry, RMIT SIAL Research Fellow Professor Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. There he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory - an institution that uses the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics to allow a new approach to the study of the built environment. He is currently the Queensland Innovator in Residence. Carlo Ratti's work has been exhibited in leading museums worldwide, including the Kunsthaus Graz (2005), Vienna Biennale (2004, 2006, 2008), MoMA (2008), and Design Museum Barcelona (2009). Carlo has co-authored over 100 scientific publications and holds several patents. His Digital Water Pavilion at the World Expo 2008 was hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. MIT SENSEable City Laboratory http://senseable.mit.edu/ Practice: Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin/Boston http://www.carloratti.com/ RMIT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN GRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE KEYNOTE LECTURE "Hox Aesthetics" Mark Goulthorpe, Practice: dECOi; MIT Media Lab; RMIT SIAL Visiting Research Fellow Friday June 6th 2008, 6.30 pm RMIT Lecture Theatre 8.11.68 Drinks and Book Launches from 5.30 pm Mark Goulthorpe is the director of dECOi, a small architectural/design practice that looks to opening the boundaries of conventional practice by an exploratory approach to design, developing new digital technological practices. He is a Professor in the MIT Media Lab, and is a Visiting Research Fellow with the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory. http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/mgoulthorpe.php RMIT DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE & ARCHITECTURE AND PHILOSOPHY SERIES LECTURE Urban Matters: moving beyond indeterminism vs. determinism Ashley Shafer June 5 2008, with drinks from 6:00pm, RMIT 8.11.68 Ashley Shafer is s co-founder and co-editor of the journal, PRAXIS. Schafer is associate professor, head of Architecture, and director of the Master of Architectural Studies in Criticism program at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. She was hosted by the RMIT Design Research Institute and was a visiting critic at the Autumn RMIT Architecture and Design Graduate Research Conference. SIAL COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATION Professor Jordi Oliveras, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Barcelona VENUE: RMIT Building 9 Level 1, SIAL Sound Lab n-space TIME: 12.30 pm, 28 August 2007 Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory Events RMIT ARCHITECTURE - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE "From Open Form to Electric Labyrinth: Operations Within the System" Felicity Scott, Columbia, NYC CONVENOR: Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture VENUE: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Large Lecture Theatre (8.11.68) TIME: 6.30 pm Friday 17th August 2007 RMIT Architecture Public Lecture Series related lecture: ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES "Ant Farm" Felicity Scott, Columbia, NYC CONVENORS: Esther Anatolitis, Express Media, General Manager Helene Frichot, RMIT Architecture VENUE: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68 TIME: 6.30 pm Thursday 16 August 2007 RMIT ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN LECTURE SERIES: PROJECTS & PRACTICE "Ten Years After" Donald Bates, Practice: LAB Architecture Studio CONVENORS: Vivian Mitsogianni and Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture VENUE: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Large Lecture Theatre (8.11.68) TIME: 1 pm Thursday 9th August 2007 RMIT Architecture - Design Lecture Series: Projects & Practice The end of last month marked the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the winning project in the Federation Square Architectural Design Competition. RMIT ARCHITECTURE - URBAN ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURES F I B E R C I T Y : T O K Y O 2 0 5 0 Hidetoshi Ohno, Prof of Architecture, Tokyo University T O K Y O C A T A L Y S T Nobuyuki Nomura, Practice: Tele-Design, Tokyo CONVENOR: Nigel Bertram VENUE: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Lecture Room 8.11.68 TIME: 5 pm Wednesday June 27th, 2007 ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES "Liquid Stone" Mark Burry, RMIT Innovation Professor, Spatial Information Architecture, SIAL Director CONVENORS: Esther Anatolitis, Express Media, General Manager Helene Frichot, RMIT Architecture VENUE: Federation Square BMW Edge Theatre TIME: 6.00 pm Thursday 22 February RMIT ARCHITECTURE - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE "SUPERFLAT and other tales of Japanese architecture since 1995" Taro Igarashi - Tokyo/Sendai CONVENOR: Paul Minifie, RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture VENUE: RMIT Building 10, Level 11, Lecture Room 04, Swanston Street TIME: Monday 15th October 6:00pm, 2006 RMIT ARCHITECTURE - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE "Microutopias" Stefania Manna, Practice: IaN+, Rome CONVENOR: Paul Minifie VENUE: RMIT Building 10, Level 11, Lecture Theatre 10.10.02 TIME: Monday 4 pm, September 10, 2006 RMIT ARCHITECTURE & PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC LECTURE "Holding Together" Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture/SIAL Philosophy and Architecture Lecture Series RMIT Architecture & Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (MSCP) Convenors: Esther Anatolitis, MSCP, & Helene Frichot, RMIT Architecture Lecturer Location: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Room 8.11.68 (Large Lecture Theatre) Time: 7:30pm Date: Thursday, 15 September 2005 RMIT ARCHITECTURE - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE/SIAL PUBLIC LECTURE "Network Practices: biothing and servo - recent work" Alisa Andrasek, Practice: biothing, USA Chris Perry, Practice: Servo, USA RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellows CONVENOR: Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, SIAL Researcher VENUE: Storey Hall, RMIT University, Swanston Street, Melbourne TIME: 6pm - 7.30pm, Tuesday 26 July 2005 Organised in conjunction with lab3000: http://www.lab.3000.com.au/biothingservo RADIO INTERVIEW Chris Perry from Servo (mp3 file) Interviewed by Stuart Harrison (RMIT Architecture Lecturer), Simon Knott and Rory Hyde The Architects RRR Radio Show 2nd Aug 2005 DESIGN STUDIO & WORKSHOP Material Potency RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio & Workshop, Semester 1 2005 Design Studio & Workshop Leaders: Alisa Andrasek, Practice: biothing, USA Chris Perry, Practice: Servo, USA RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellows with Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, SIAL Researcher, Practice: Onomatopoeia Jonathan Podborsek, RMIT Architecture Alumni, Practice: Kokkugia RMIT ARCHITECTURE - INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP PUBLIC LECTURE "Recent Works" Hitoshi Abe, Practice: Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sendai Japan RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Series Convenor: Paul Minifie, Senior Lecturer, RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Location: RMIT Storey Hall Basement Lecture Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Time: 6.30pm Date: Tuesday 7 December 2004 Held in conjunction with: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP International Architecture Workshop 3: Leisurelandz RMIT, Melbourne/Phillip Island, 2004 Convenors: Paul Minifie, Senior Lecturer, RMIT Architecture - Advanced Architecture Jan van Schaik, RMIT Architecture Sessional Staff Participants: RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students with N+B Architects, Montpellier France Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sendai Japan Architecture Academics and Students from: L’Ecole d’architecture longuedoc Rousillon, Montpellier France Migayi University, Sendai Japan Tohoku University, Sendai Japan Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai Japan RMIT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN/SIAL SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE PUBLIC LECTURE Sensoria: Design Education Symposia Keynote Address Brian Massumi, University of Montreal; Visiting Fellow, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory RMIT School of Architecture & Design/SIAL Convenor: Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture/SIAL Location: BMW Edge Lecture Theatre, Federation Square Time: 7 pm Date: Monday July 26, 2004 RMIT ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE "On the Surfacing of Walls: NOX, Kiesler, Semper" Andrew Benjamin, University of Sydney RMIT Architecture Public Lecture Series Convenor: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Program Director Location: RMIT Building 8, Level 11, Room 8.11.68 (Large Lecture Theatre) Time: 6 pm Date: Friday May 7, 2004 RMIT ARCHITECTURE/SIAL PUBLIC LECTURE "Pearce and Virtuality" Brian Massumi, University of Montreal; Visiting Fellow, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory RMIT School of Architecture & Design and SIAL Public Lecture Convenor: Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture/SIAL RMIT Capitol Theatre, October 2003 RMIT ARCHITECTURE/SIAL SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE PUBLIC LECTURES Marcelyn Gow - Servo, USA , RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellow Natalie Jeremijenko, NYU, USA, RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellow Professor Brian Massumi, University of Montréal, RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellow Stelarc, Artist, RMIT Architecture/SIAL Visiting Fellow Intimate Distance: Liveness and Affect Symposia 4 - 11 August, 2003 Storey Hall RMIT University, Melbourne Convenor: Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture, SIAL Researcher INTIMATE DISTANCE: Liveness and Affect was a week long visiting fellows program involving lectures, colloquium and workshops that related to the investigation of sense of a presence that is elsewhere, where actions are registered simultaneously across different spaces. Workshop activity was predominantly aimed at developing an installation-event for October 2003: SKINS OF INTIMATE DISTANCE: surfacing unnatural histories, that was produced by the RMIT SIAL Graduate Certificate program in partnership with Experimedia (State Library of Victoria) and RMIT undergraduate students from Fashion, Communications Design and Architecture RMIT I-CUBED PUBLIC LECTURE "Form and function: How information technology is changing the shape of our cities." William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences; Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) VENUE: RMIT Storey Hall TIME: Feb 2001 | ||||||||
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