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1ST INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM IARB03
exhibition + publication

below:
publication + exhibition + video-based archive + design studio

BOOK DOCUMENTING IABR03 EXHIBITED PROJECTS
MOBILE LANDSCAPES
Richard Black and Martyn Hook
Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006

This book includes design investigations and research on the implications for towns on the Murray River of managed environmental flooding of 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 originally exhibited at the Mobility: 1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003.

Accompanying essays by Dr Paul Sinclair, Martyn Hook and Richard Black discuss the historical, social, ecological and architectural implications of living on floodplains through concepts of uncertainty, mobility and change.

The town of Wentworth in the great flood of 1956

BOOK DISTRIBUTION

distributed in Australia by:
Modern Journal
tel/fax +61 394 81 2877
modernjournal@netspace.net.au

distributed internationally by:
Idea Books
tel +31 20 6226154 fax +31 20 6209299
email idea@ideabooks.nl
http://www.ideabooks.nl/

Project: Fergie Tractor Park Memorial to tractors that saved Wentworth in the great flood of '56
Dominik Bjelobrk, RMIT Architecture student.

AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION IABR03
Mobile Landscapes
Australian Exhibition
Mobility: 1st International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR03

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

OPEN BIENNALE EXHIBITION PARTICIPANTS

Exhibiting Schools:
RMIT Architecture, Melbourne Australia
SCI-Arch, United States of America
Berlage, The Netherlands

Exhibiting Practices included:
OMA, The Netherlands
Alsop Architects, United Kingdom
Lars Lerup, United States of America
Wiel Arets Achitects & Associates, The Netherlands
FAT, United Kingdom
MVRDV, The Netherlands
Bolles & Wilson, Germany
Dominique Perrault Office, France
West 8, The Netherlands
M Fuksas Architects, Italy

Video Duration: 30 mins. No Audio.
Note: If the video is blurred, open Google Video and reset the default resolution to play the video at "original size" rather than "fit to window".

EXHIBITION PROJECT ARCHIVE VIDEO
Mobile Landscapes
Australian Exhibition, Project Archive Video (YouTube)
Mobility: 1st International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR03

Exhibitors:
Richard Black, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students

The town of Wentworth bounded by levees

DESIGN STUDIO EXHIBITED AT IABR03
Mobile Landscapes
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio
Semester 2, 2003

Studio leaders:
Richard Black, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer

An RMIT Architecture Studio was commissioned addressing the brief for the Biennale on Mobility through design investigations and research on the implications for towns on the Murray River of managed environmental flooding of the Murray Darling River system, with Wentworth as a primary case-study.

The resulting student work and related design research by RMIT Architecture academics Richard Black and Martyn Hook was exhibited at the Mobility: 1st International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR03 Exhibition.

The design studio is comprehensively documented in the video-based archive above. Student projects included:

Project: Rehab
David Goss, RMIT Architecture student

Project: The Weir
Angus Lee, RMIT Architecture student

Project: Modulated Trailer Trash
Rodney Eggleston, RMIT Architecture student

Project Coordinators:
Richard Black, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer
Martyn Hook, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer

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