VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE EXHIBITIONS

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RMIT ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR TOM KOVAC APPOINTED CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF VENICE BIENNALE SLOVENIAN PAVILION EXHIBITION
Creative Director: Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture, RMIT Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research)
Curator: Fleur Watson, RMIT Architecture + Design PhD candidate
Slovenia Pavilion Galleria A+A, Venice
September-November 2012

Exhibited projects include:

2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City)
Director and curator Tom Kovac and Fleur Watson are currently leading a group of international thinkers and educators investigating the future of the city of Maribor in Slovenia, which has been named European Capital of Culture for 2012. As part of the Maribor2012, European Capital of Culture festivities, 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) will investigate and identify disruptive patterns of global change and envisage impacts on architecture, urbanism and life in the extreme future – demonstrating how new forms of practice are responding to external demands on architecture. 2112Ai 100YC brings together 100 visionaries including progressive international architecture schools under the directorship of many of the world’s most innovative architects. Each school is invited to propose a visionary project or master plan for the City of Maribor and work within trans-disciplinary teams that may include architects, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists and urbanists amongst others. A curated selection of the submitted master plan visions will be presented within the Slovenian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in conjunction with a related exhibition in the Australian Pavilion.
Participating RMIT Architecture exhibitors include:
Prof Leon van Schaik, Assoc Prof Paul Minifie, Assoc Prof Vivian Mitsogianni, Lecturer Roland Snooks and RMIT Architecture students.





RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS, ALUMNI AND STUDENTS INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE VENICE BIENNALE AUSTRALIAN PAVILION EXHIBITION
Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture
Creative Directors:
Anthony Burke, UTS, Offshore Studio
Gerard Reinmuth, UTS, Terroir Architects, Alumni RMIT Master of Architecture by Research
Australian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale
September-November 2012

RMIT affiliated Exhibitors include:




2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City)
Tom Kovac, RMIT Professor of Architecture, RMIT Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research)
Fleur Watson, RMIT Architecture + Design PhD candidate
Director and curator Tom Kovac and Fleur Watson are currently leading a group of international thinkers and educators investigating the future of the city of Maribor in Slovenia, which has been named European Capital of Culture for 2012. As part of the Maribor2012, European Capital of Culture festivities, the project 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence] 100YC (100 Year City) will investigate and identify disruptive patterns of global change and envisage impacts on architecture, urbanism and life in the extreme future – demonstrating how new forms of practice are responding to external demands on architecture. A curated selection of the submitted master plan visions will be presented within the Australian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale in conjunction with a related exhibition in the Slovenian Pavilion.
Participating RMIT Architecture exhibitors include:
Prof Leon van Schaik, Assoc Prof Paul Minifie, Assoc Prof Vivian Mitsogianni, Lecturer Roland Snooks and RMIT Architecture students.




The Architects Radio Show
Stuart Harrison, HaW Architects, RMIT Architecture Lecturer (1999-2011), Alumni (Professional, Masters by Research)
Simon Knott, BKK Architects, Alumni (Professional)
Christine Phillips, RMIT Architecture Lecturer, Alumni (Professional)
Rory Hyde, RMIT Architecture Alumni (Professional, PhD)
Launched in 2004 by Harrison and Knott, The Architects is a not-for-profit weekly radio program promoting architecture to a broader audience. Joined in 2008 by RMIT lecturer and architect Phillips and with Hyde first as a producer and now international correspondent, the program covers local and international architecture, urban design and sustainability issues.







Now and When
Australian Pavilion Exhibition
Australian Pavilion Creative Directors:
John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec
RMIT Master of Architecture (Research by Project) Invited Stream Alumni

People meet in architecture
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice,
29th August to 21st November 2010
Creative Director: Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA


RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS AND ALUMNI SELECTED TO EXHIBIT AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2010
The creative directors of the Australian Pavilion exhibition at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale have announced that the selected exhibitors in the Australian exhibition will include RMIT Architecture academics Peter Corrigan (Edmond and Corrigan), Stuart Harrison (Harrison and White) and RMIT Adjunct Professor James Brearley (BAU).

RMIT Architecture postgraduate alumni who have been selected to exhibit include Richard Goodwin (Richard Goodwin Art/Architecture), Gerard Reinmuth (TERROIR), John Wardle (John Wardle Architects), Marcus White (Harrison and White), Eli Giannini (MGS) and Michael Spooner

RMIT Architecture Professional degree alumni who have been selected to exhibit include Timothy Black, Simon Knott and Julian Kosloff (BKK), Peter Raisbeck, Ben Statkus (Statkus Architecture), Edmund Carter and Catherine Ranger

Exhibitors Image Gallery

RAIA Media Release
Final selection for Australia’s "urban dreaming" to unfold in Venice







Abundant Australia Exhibition
Australian Pavilion Exhibition
Out There: Architecture Beyond Building
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008
The Exhibition is directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by the Venice Biennale presided over by Paolo Baratta.

Australian Pavilion Creative Directors:
Neil Durbach, Practice: Durbach Block, Sydney
Vince Frost, Practice: Frost Design, Sydney/London
Wendy Lewin, Practice: Wendy Lewin Architect, Sydney
Kerstin Thompson, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, Practice: Kerstin Thompson Architects, Melbourne
Gary Warner, Practice: CDP Media, Sydney

Australia Pavilion Commissioner:
Lucy Turnbull

Exhibition Outline:
In the upper gallery the historical context for today’s strands of thinking within the canon of Australian architecture is shown through immersive projections of over 270 buildings. In the lower gallery a garden of 300 commissioned models, current work by a vast range of emerging and established practices, demonstrates divergent approaches.





AUSTRALIAN PAVILION EXHIBITORS INCLUDE:

14 RMIT academic staff:
Mauro Baracco, Practice: Baracco Wright, Melbourne;
Nigel Bertram
, Practice: NMBW Architecture Studio, Melbourne;
Richard Black
, Practice: Times Two Architects with Michelle Black, Castlemaine, Victoria;
Richard Blythe, Practice: Terroir, Sydney/Tasmania;
Mark Burry
, RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL);
Peter Corrigan
, Practice: Edmond and Corrigan, Melbourne;
Graham Crist
, Practice: Antactica, Melbourne;
Stuart Harrison
, Practice: Harrison and White Architects, Melbourne;
Martyn Hook
, Practice: Iredale Pedersen Hook, Melbourne/Perth;
Tom Kovac
, Practice: Kovac Architects, Melbourne;
Paul Minifie
, Practice: Minifie Nixon, Melbourne;
Greg More
, RMIT Sial Research Fellow;
Jan van Schaik
, Practice: Minifie Nixon, Melbourne;
Simon Whibley
, Practice: Antactica, Melbourne

2 Past RMIT Academic staff:
Shane Murray, Practice: Shane Murray Architect, Melbourne;
Fiona Nixon
, Practice: Minifie Nixon, Melbourne

3 RMIT Adjunct Professors:
Ian MacDougall, Practice: Ashton Raggatt MacDougall, Melbourne
Howard Raggatt
, Practice: Ashton Raggatt MacDougall, Melbourne
Kerstin Thompson, Practice: Kerstin Thompson Architects, Melbourne

Plus:
31 RMIT Architecture postgraduate degree candidates and alumni,
12 RMIT Architecture professional degree alumni.

Further details available here:
Abundant Australia Exhibition

RAIA Website:
Pavilion Overview
Model Preview
Media Releases

Abundant Australia Catalogue - Limited copies available
Edited by Neil Durbach, Vince Frost, Wendy Lewin, Kerstin Thompson, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor and Gary Warner
Designed by Frost Design, Sydney/London








Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008
Live cross to Stuart Harrison in the Giardini in Venice and playing of a series of interviews from the opening days, including an interview with:
Aaron Betsky
, the Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008
and reviews of the Venice Biennale exhibitions by:
Ian McDougall, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, Practice Director: Ashton Raggatt MacDougall
Neil Masterton
, Practice: Ashton Raggatt MacDougall


Tue, 23 September 2008
The Architects - Show 170 - Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008 - Part II
Hosts: Simon Knott and Rory Hyde
- streaming audio file

More higlights from Venice - including Stuart Harrison interviews with:
Lucy Turnbull, Australian Commissioner
Vince Frost, Australian Pavilion Exhibition Designer - www.frostdesign.com.au
Teddy Cruz, American Curator - www.estudioteddycruz.com
Tara Iragashi, Japanese Exhibitor
Tony Fretton - www.tonyfretton.com
Stefania Manna, Italian Exhibitor - www.ianplus.it


Tue, 30 September 2008
The Architects - Show 171 - Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008 - Part III
Hosts: Simon Knott, Stuart Harrison and Rory Hyde
- streaming audio file

More higlights from Venice - including Stuart Harrison interviews with:
Friedrich von Borries, curator of the German Pavilion - 'Updating Germany'
Conrad Hamann, Ian De Gruchy, Co-curators of the Australian pavilion
Kerstin Thompson, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor and Wendy Lewin, Creative directors of the Australian Pavilion
Paul Morgan, RMIT Bachelor of Architecture Alumni, Exhibiting Practice Director: Paul Morgan Architects







RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WIN VENICE BIENNALE PAVILION IDEAS COMPETITION
Farzin Lotfi-Jam
, Sam Rice, RMIT Architecture students
& Peter Kuhnell, Practice: SPF15+
Pre-professional winners:
Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition
Competition Images (pdf)


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Judges: photographer John Gollings, architect and writer Norman Day, architect Bridget Smyth and artist Callum Morton

A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition. In an open competition, conceived to add momentum to growing support for the replacement of the current building, architects were invited to submit a conceptual proposal of their vision for a new Australian Pavilion. The unrestrictive nature of the project has encouraged some radical architectural solutions and aims to excite the imagination of both the public and the authorities.

EXHIBITION
Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition Exhibition
Heide III: Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
28 June - 3 August 2008








RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMICS CURATE AUSTRALIAN PAVILION EXHIBITION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION
Micro Macro City
Australian Pavilion Exhibition

International Architecture Biennale, Venice 2006
Creative Directors & Exhibition Curators:
Shane Murray
& Nigel Bertram, RMIT Architecture Urban Architecture Laboratory

RMIT Architecture Alumni Exhibitors:

Howard Raggatt
, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, RMIT Master of Architecture, 1991.
Ian McDougall
, RMIT Architecture Adjunct Professor, RMIT Master of Architecture, 1994.
Exhibiting Practice Directors: Ashton Raggatt MacDougall + Phillips/Pilkington Architects, VIC/SA;
Geoff Warn
, RMIT Master of Architecture (by research project).
Exhibiting Practice Director: Donaldson Warn, Perth, WA;
Brian Donovan
, RMIT Master of Architecture, 2004.
Timothy Hill
, RMIT Master of Architecture, 2004.
Exhibiting Practice Directors: Donovan Hill, Brisbane, QLD;
John Wardle
, RMIT Master of Architecture, 2001.
Exhibiting Practice Director: John Wardle Architects + Hassell, VIC/SA;
Rob McBride
, RMIT Master of Architecture, 2004.
Exhibiting Practice Director:
McBride Charles Ryan Architects + NH Architecture, VIC;

Other architecture exhibitors:

Gary Marinko Architects
, WA;
Simon Anderson
, WA;
Stutchbury & Pape
, NSW;
m3architecture
, QLD;
Durbach Block Architects
, NSW;
Neeson Murcutt Architects
, NSW;
Harry Seidler and Associates
, NSW/QLD

Art
Louise Forthun
, artist
Photography
Max Creasy, Paul Knight, Matthew Sleeth
and Selina Ou
Video
Richard Raber, Naomi Bishops, Danius Kesminas, Ronnie van Hout
and Anna Jeffries
Sound
Nicholas Murray
, RMIT PhD in Architecture, SIAL Sound Lab





 

RMIT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC SPEAKS AT THE HONG KONG EXHIBITION FORUM,  INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE, VENICE
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
speakers included:
Ken Yeang (chair); Colin Fournier; Brent Allpress (RMIT);
Rocco Sen Kee Yim; Lawrence Liauw; Andrew Lee King Fun; Davina Jackson; Hani Rashid