INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

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ASA/RMIT ARCHITECTURE - INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR
ASA/RMIT Architecture - International Architecture & Urban Design Study Tour, 2008
Contemporary European Architecture & Urban Design and the Heritage of Modernism
Tour Leaders: Anne Keddle and Stuart Harrison
Tour Dates: 26 June - 15 July 2008
Tour participants: students; practitioners; interested travellers
FINLAND: many great buildings by Alvar Aalto in Helsinki & Jyvaskyla • Design Museum, Forum & District Helsinki • Ruoholahti district
THE NETHERLANDS: Eigen Haard Housing, De Klerk • Borneo Sporenburg Housing, Various Architects • Exchange - Berlage and several buildings by MVRDV • Hilversum City Hall, W. M. Dudok • Schröder House, Rietveld • Kunsthal, OMA • Van Nelle Factory, Brinkman & van der Vlugt
LONDON: many great historical works by architects including Butterfield, Nash, Soan and Wren • Lisson Gallery, Tony Fretton • Tate Modern, Herzog and de Meuron • The British Museum, Norman Foster, • “The Gherkin”, Norman Foster • Canary Wharf and Thames Gateway and several projects associated with these urban transformations.

Previous Intineraries 1998-2005 included:
Spain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic
Tour Leader 1999-2005: Shane Murray, Urban Architecture Laboratory Director
Tour Leader 2002: Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Program Director







DESIGN STUDIO + INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Borderland: International Architecture Workshop 6
Detroit, Michigan USA, 2007
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
with Architecture Academics and Students from:
University of Michigan College of Architecture, Detroit, Michigan, USA (hosts)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), Montpellier, France
Migayi University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University of Technology, Sendai, Japan
Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain







RMIT HOSTED INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE EXHIBITION
New Trends in Architecture in Europe, Asia and Pacific, 2006-2007
International travelling exhibition
Australian curator and advisor:
Leon van Schaik, RMIT Innovation Professor of Architecture
exhibitors:
Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
Adrian Iredale, RMIT Invited M.Arch Candidate
Finn Pedersen, RMIT Invited M.Arch Candidate
Practice: Iredale Pedersen Hook, Perth/Melbourne
Sean Godsell, RMIT Invited M.Arch Alumni, Practice: Sean Godsell Architects, Melbourne
Venues: Patras, Greece; Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne & Perth, Australia; Luxembourg
Official New Trends Travelling Exhibition Website







INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE EXHIBITION PUBLICATION
Richard Black and Martyn Hook
Mobile Landscapes
RMIT University Press, 2006
Documenting design investigations and research on the implications of managed flooding of towns on the Murray Darling River system, with Wentworth as a primary case-study. This book features essays and project-based research along with RMIT Architecture projects exhibited at the:
1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003
.







INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE EXHIBITION
Micro Macro City
Australian Pavilion Exhibition
Creative Directors:
Shane Murray & Nigel Bertram, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory
International Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2006







INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE EXHIBITIONS
Schools - RMIT Architecture Exhibition
RMIT Architecture Curator:
Paul Minfie, RMIT Architecture Advanced Architecture Laboratory Coordinator
in Schools Exhibition
Curator: Neil Leach
2nd International Architecture Biennale, Beijing, China, 2006

Architects - Australian Architects Exhibition
Australian Curator: Tom Kovac, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor
Melbourne Design City Exhibition
Guest Curator: Leon van Schaik, RMIT Innovation Professor of Architecture
in Emerging Talent, Emerging Technologies - Cities Exhibition
Curator: Neil Leach
2nd International Architecture Biennale, Beijing, China, 2006







UMAP INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR & DESIGN STUDIO EXCHANGE
Opportunistic Urbanism - An Architecture in the Margins
UAL Mexico Urban Seminar, Study Tour and Exchange
UMAP Funded
Tour Leader: Diego Ramirez, RMIT Architecture
Guadalajara, Mexico City, Mayan Ruins, Chiapas State
Mexico, Semester 2, 2006

Exchange partners:
Escuela Superior de Arquitectura
Guadalajara, Mexico
related interview:
Opportunistic Urbanism - Diego Ramirez on RMIT Architecture design research in Mexico (mp3 file)
interviewed by Stuart Harrison (RMIT Architecture Lecturer), Simon Knott, Rory Hyde
The Architects RRR Radio Show
29 March 2007







RMIT HOSTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION
re Housing: UAL International Housing Exhibition
Curators:
Shane Murray, Diego Ramirez and Simon Whibley, RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory

4-14 October 2006
Myers & Melbourne Central Link Bridge
Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory

held in conjunction with:
re Housing: UAL International Housing Conference
RMIT Architecture, Melbourne
5-8 October 2006








INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WORKSHOP
Nano City: International Architecture Workshop 5
Montpellier France, 2006
workshop participants:
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
with
N+B Architects, Montpellier, France
L’Ecole d’architecture longuedoc Rousillon, Montpellier, France
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sedai, Japan
University of Michigan, USA
Facultad de Arquitectura, Eastern Repùblica LED Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay







RMIT HOSTED INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WORKSHOP & EXHIBITION
Rapt!  Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne
Research Workshop + Exhibition + Lectures Series
25th Aug-Sat 2nd Sept, 2006
Coordinators:
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima, Practice: Atelier Bow Wow, Japan
Taira Nishizawa,
Practice: Taira Nishizawa Architects & Associates, Japan
with:
Marika Neustupny, RMIT Architecture, Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio, Melbourne
Mauro Baracco, RMIT Architecture,
Practice: Baracco Wright, Melbourne
Workshop Participants:
RMIT Architecture students, Melbourne

Tsukamoto Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech) Architecture students, Japan
Tsukuba University Architecture students, Japan
Rapt! Events Location:
The Greenhouse

Atelier Bow-Wow urban installation
City Square, Swanston Street, Melbourne CBD
25th Aug-Sat 2nd Sept, 2006
(related project: By Product Tokyo, 1999, 2003)






RMIT GLOBAL PRACTICE PROJECT ARCHIVE
ardvark Asia Vol. 1: a Contemporary Guide to Singapore Architecture
Fiona Nixon, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Practice: Minifie Nixon
print guidebook, RMIT Press (forthcoming)
online project archive, Informit (forthcoming)
RMIT Architecture - Global Practice Project







INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI EXHIBITION & LECTURES
RMIT Alumni Event for RMIT Architecture graduates in Kuala Lumpur
Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Time: 6.00 pm Design Lectures; 7.30 pm Alumni Party
Venue: Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM), 4 & 6 Jalan Tangsi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Organised by: RMIT Alumni Relations
Phone: 9925 1064
E-mail: alumni@rmit.edu.au
RMIT University hosted an exclusive alumni event on Tuesday 10 October 2006 in Kuala Lumpur for alumni who graduated from RMIT Architecture. This event included an Alumni party and the opening of the exhibition "Postcards Home 06" and lectures from RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor Kerstin Thompson, Practice: Kerstin Thompson Architects and RMIT Innovation Professor Mark Burry, the Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL).







INTERNATIONAL INSTALLATION PROJECT COMPETITION COMMISSION
Suite 301
Ice installation
Ice Hotel, 2005
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle
Designers/Ice Builders:
Stuart Harrison, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Stuart Harrison Architect
Lucas Ihlien, Artist
Construction photographs of Suite 301 at the Ice Hotel
These images are also available as a Slide Show








INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WORKSHOP
Innocent City: International Architecture Workshop 4
Sendai Japan, 2005
workshop participants:
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
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 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN HOSTED INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
AIR
Upperpool Design Studio - SIAL Stream
2005
RMIT Architecture + RMIT Industrial Design + VUW Architecture, Wellington, New Zealand
Studio Coordinators:
Malte Wagenfeld, Dominik Holzer, Jane Burry
This project provides students from RMIT Architecture, RMIT Industrial Design and VUW Architecture, Wellington NZ with the opportunity to:
• propose through project-based design an intellectual position and inquiry towards air, this may be political, provocative and or sensual.
• explore their sensibility to air both in terms of its physical nature as well as its intangible and sometimes elusive qualities as a ‘medium’. And interface
• Record and represent some aspect of air through physical and digital modelling
• Develop a design project that demonstrates one of either: abuse, purity and contamination, or sensuality and aesthetics of air in relation to the body







INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE EXHIBITION & DESIGN WORKSHOP
32,000 Beaches
Australian Exhibition
International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam 2005
Australian Curator:
Leon van Schaik, RMIT Innovation Professor of Architecture
Exhibitors:
Richard Black, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
Donovan Hill Architects - Queensland

News: RMIT student wins Architecture Biennale Student Award
RMIT student John Doyle leads the international collaborative student workshop group 'Oyster' that
won the Architecture Biennale Student Award.








RMIT HOSTED INTERNATIONAL VISITING FELLOWS DESIGN STUDIO & LECTURES
Material Potency Intensive Studio Workshop
Workshop Leaders:
Alisa Andrasek
- Practice: biothing, USA
Chris Perry
- Practice: Servo, USA
Workshop participants:
RMIT Architecture Upper Pool Design Studio Students, SIAL Stream
Semester 2, 2005
Studio Leaders:
Pia Ednie-Brown, RMIT Architecture/SIAL
Jonathan Podborsek, RMIT Architecture/SIAL. Practice: Kokkugia





INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WORKSHOP
Urban Design workshop
Taiwan Art, Design and Architecture Center (TADA)
Taichung, Taiwan, 2005
The Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA)
Taiwan Institutions:

Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Da Yeh University, Taiwan
Ming Dao University, Taiwan
Ling Tung College and National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan.
Architectural researchers:
Sand Helsel (RMIT, Melbourne), Marco Casagrande (Helsinki), Karl Heinz Klopf (Vienna), Nicholas Boyarsky (London) and Raymond Ryan (Ireland).
June 20 to 25, 2005




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