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 BRENT ALLPRESS RMIT Architecture Research Director RMIT Architecture Postgraduate Coordinator RMIT Architecture History & Theory Course Area Coordinator email: brent.allpress@rmit.edu.au Architectural Design Research Journal Founding Editor Website: http://adr.tce.rmit.edu.au/ » page 1 | page 2 | page 3 RESEARCH AND SUPERVISION Architectural history, theory and design discourse; digital design technologies and representational practices; contemporary ornamental practices; alteration strategies; architectural publication and exhibition; architectural research infrastructure. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP Current RMIT Positions: RMIT Architecture Research Director, 2005- RMIT Architecture Postgraduate Coordinator, 2001- Past RMIT Positions: RMIT Architecture Program Director, Head of Architecture, 2001-2004 RMIT Architecture Course Leader, Deputy Head of Architecture, 1999-2001 Other Appointments: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA), Treasurer, 2001-2004 TEACHING AND LEARNING Course Areas: Architectural Design and Discourse Course Area Coordination: RMIT Architecture History & Theory Course Area Coordinator, 2002-2003, 2007- RMIT Architecture Electives Course Area Coordinator, 2002-2005, 2008 RMIT Architecture History & Theory Electives Coordinator, 2001-2006, 2008- RMIT Architecture First Year Course Area Coordinator, 1997-2003 RMIT Architecture Major Project Design Thesis, 2002 Course Coordination: RMIT Architecture History & Theory 1: Modernism and Modernity Course Coordinator, 1997-ongoing RMIT Architecture Design 1 Course Coordinator, 1997-2003 RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE:   INVITED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CURATION RMIT Architecture Installation with Studio Prix, die Angewandte, Vienna (digital prints on artist grade canvas and digital video) RMIT Curator: Brent Allpress, Spot on Schools Exhibition Curator: Paola Giaconia in Visions: Beyond Media International Festival of Architecture and Media, 2009 Festival Director: Marco Brizzi. Organized by Image Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Dates: July 9-17, 2009 Invited Schools included: SCI-Arc, USA; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Spain; Rhode Island School of Design, USA; Ball State University, USA; University of Hong Kong;   EXHIBITION FORUM Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Chair: Antonino Saggio Venue: Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy Date: July 11, 2009  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Brent Allpress "Pedagogical frameworks for digitally networked architecture," in 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design, Salford Quays, UK, May 7-8, 2009. Convenor: Tuba Kocaturk, University of Salford 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.  DESIGN FESTIVAL WORKSHOP EXHIBITION CURATION Built Systems, 2040 City - Design Laboratory STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009: Sampling the Future Curator: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Venue: RMIT Building 45, 33 Lygon Street (corner of Earl Street opp Trades Hall) Dates: 15-25 July 2009 Exhibitors/Workshop Leaders: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Professor. Director, Built Systems Design Laboratory; Susie Attiwell, RMIT Interior Design Program Director; Roger Kemp, RMIT Interior Design Lecturer; Mel Dodd, RMIT Architecture Program Director; Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, SIAL; Roselia Monacello, RMIT Landscape Architecture Program Director; RMIT School of Architecture and Design Students. Built Systems is one of four think tank groups along with Living Systems, Human Systems, and Mobility Systems, aimed at examining convergent issues that will define and articulate key design led solutions needed to enable a highly mobile, efficient, and sustainable living environment for a rapidly changing population demographic in the city of Melbourne in 2040. Invited Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director "Built Systems, 2040 City - Design Laboratory" in Public Forum: 2040 City - Sampling the Future: Visions for the Future of the City in the STATE OF DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009 Venue: BMW Edge, Federation Square Date: Wednesday 22 July 2009, 4pm-6pm Moderated by Peter Mares, ABC Radio National Speakers included: Prof Chris Ryan, University of Melbourne; Prof. Lyndon Anderson, Swinburne; MichaelTrudgeon, Practice Director: CROWD Productions  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress, "Architectural Design Research," in 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse, Kirk Wooller (ed), London: AA Publications, 2009 (forthcoming) Foreward by AA Director Brett Steele. Twenty architectural editors respond to twenty polemical prompts concerning their role in shaping the public arenas that frame architectural discourse. Contributors include editors of: 306090; Architectural Design Research; An Architektur; Archis; Log; hunch; C-lab; Interstices; Actar; Scapes; OASE; Volume; Perspecta; PRAXIS; Harvard Design Magazine; L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui; UME; AA Files; thresholds and MARK.  DESIGN RESEARCH BOOK SERIES Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director & Sue Anne Ware, RMIT School of Architecture and Design Research Director Authors of the Book Series Call for Proposals: Design Research Series RMIT University Press, Melbourne, 2009 onwards RMIT University Press - Design Research Series Flyer (pdf) RMIT University Press - Submission Form for New Book Proposals (doc)  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress and Robyn Barnacle, "Projecting the PhD: Architectural design research by and through projects," in Changing Practices in Doctoral Education, David Boud and Alison Lee (eds), London: Routledge Press, 2009  PUBLIC LECTURE Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Robyn Barnacle, RMIT Graduate Research Office "Project-based postgraduate models: Architectural design research by and through projects" Centre for Research in Learning and Change UTS, Sydney, Australia 12.30-2pm, Tuesday, 20th May, 2008 Convenors: Alison Lee and David Boud This seminar discusses and situates the RMIT Architecture & Design postgraduate research program as a case study of the research by project model. (Image credit: Minfie Nixon, VCA Centre for Ideas, interior. Photograph: Brent Allpress)   SHANGHAI ART AND ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE EXHIBITION CURATION "RMIT Architecture + Design and Art Postgraduate Research by Project" Education Exhibition, Shanghai Art and Architecture Biennale, 2008 Opening: 8 September Dates: 9 September - 16 November 2008 Artistic Director: Zhang Qing Biennale Curators: Julian Heynen and Henk Slager RMIT Curators: Adrea Mina, Brent Allpress, RMIT School of Architecture + Design; Lesley Duxbury, RMIT School of Art RMIT Exhibitors included: RMIT Architecture + Design Postgraduate Alumni - Han Li, Shane Murray, Paul Minifie, Sue Anne Ware, Roger Kemp, Scott Balmforth, Gerard Reinmuth, Qinghseng He EXHIBITION CATALOGUES ONLINE Brent Allpress, "Postgraduate Architecture and Design Research by Project at RMIT," Catalogue Essay in RMIT Architecture + Design and Art Postgraduate Research by Project, Exhibition Catalogue, Education Exhibition, Shanghai Art and Architecture Biennale, 2008   MAJOR PROJECT DESIGN THESIS SUPERVISION » Australian Network for Art and Technology RMIT Architecture Major Project Design Thesis, Semester 2, 2006. Suzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 Supervisor: Brent Allpress MAJOR PROJECT REWORKED AS COMPETITION WINNING PROJECT » Volume Up Suzannah Waldron, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2006 & Nicholas Searle, Practice: Searle Waldron First Round Winners: MOCAPE-Shenzhen Museum Competition Entry, announced July 16, 2007  DESIGN STUDIO TEACHING Upperpool Design Studio 6-8, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional Degree), Sem 1, 2007-08 Studio Leader: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director  RADIO INTERVIEW Brent Allpress, Editor of Architectural Design Research and RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer interviewed by Stuart Harrison and Simon Knott on the journal Architectural Design Research, which has a new issue Volume 2 out now. The Architects - Show 141 - Brent Allpress Tue, 4 March 2008  Mp3 Audio File: The-Architects-20080304.mp3 PROJECT GALLERY WEBSITE Brent Allpress, Founding Editor, RMIT Architecture Projects Gallery Website, 2007- http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/   HONG KONG VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION FORUM, VENICE, ITALY Invited Forum Speaker: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director Vice Versa: Hong Kong Venice Biennale Exhibition Forum Vice Versa: Hong Kong, China Exhibition International Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2006 Invited Speakers included: Brent Allpress, RMIT ; Colin Fournier, Bartlett; Andrew Lee King Fun; Davina Jackson; Lawrence Liauw; Hani Rashid; Ken Yeang (chair); Rocco Sen Kee Yim  FOUNDING EDITOR OF PROJECT-BASED DESIGN RESEARCH JOURNAL Brent Allpress and Michael Ostwald, Founding Editors Architectural Design Research: project-based design research and discourse on design vol 1, no. 1, 2005 This is the first international refereed journal to primarily publish project-based architectural design research. It is supported by the AASA with an annual grant of $30,000 ADR website: http://adr.tce.rmit.edu.au/   ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN RESEARCH GALLERY BRIEF Brent Allpress and Professor Leon van Schaik RMIT Architecture and Design Research Gallery Brief submitted to RMIT Property Services, 2005 Brent Allpress initiated and authored the founding brief for Australia's first dedicated architecture and design research gallery. A purpose built gallery is currently being designed by Sean Godsell Architects as part of the RMIT Design Hub facilities on the former CUB site. This campus project is under development, 2006-2010. In November 2008, the RMIT Design Hub project recieved a $28 milllion infrastructure grant from the Federal government.  NGV PUBLIC FORUM SPEAKER Brent Allpress, public address "Utopia Forum" Public lecture and Forum Discussion National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, 2004 Speakers: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture; Paul Carter, University of Melbourne; Peter Davidson, Architect, Practice: Lab; Callum Morton, Artist Held in conjunction with: Callum Morton, Artist, "Habitat" exhibition, Ian Potter Gallery, NGV Australia, 2004  BOOK CHAPTER Brent Allpress, “Ornamental Operations,” in AD: Surface Consciousness, Mark Taylor (ed), London: Wiley-Academy, 2003. » page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | ||||||||
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