Index
Architecture publications
Evans, Doug, Kevin Borland: Architecture from the Heart, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2007.
Winner, Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media, RAIA Vic State Chapter Award, 2007.
Jury Citation:
"This work, part of a series of RMIT Architecture and Design Monographs, recognises the contribution of an important and passionate Australian architect, Kevin Borland, a memorable figure deeply embedded in the post-war architectural culture of Melbourne. Perhaps the most engaging aspect of this portrait is the use of multiple voices to tell the story. This seems wise. Slightly larger than life, with great presence and firm views on design, politics and society, Kevin Borland’s character might challenge the skills of any one author. Through the essays by Daryl Jackson, Conrad Hamann, Peter McIntyre, Norman Day and several members of Borland’s family, the reader gradually accumulates a rich tapestry of anecdotes, adventurous projects, affectionate memories and striking remarks, which round out the picture of an architect at work as teacher, critic, and committed practitioner. Without this book, the work and life of a significant Melbourne architect might have been lost to later generations. This award also recognises the support of RMIT in the monograph series, an important publishing initiative which deserves to continue."
Neustupny, Marika, Curtain Call: Melbourne's Mid-century Curtain Walls,Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2006.
This book documents and situates exemplary Melbourne modernist curtain-wall buildings through critical essays, photographic and drawing studies focusing on fabric arrangement and construction detailing as design questions. The book was developed through a cycle of RMIT Architecture design studios and urban design electives, with students participating in guided research and employing common documentation procedures.
Charlesworth, Esther, Architects without Frontiers, Architectural Press 2006.
Citation:
Gareth Evans
President and CEO, International Crisis Group, Foreign Minister of Australia 1988 – 1996
“...Esther Charlesworth’s book is a stimulating and groundbreaking contribution tour understanding of what more can be done to aid this [post-war reconstruction] process by a group of professionals [architects] whose role until now has been seen in much more limited terms ...She has shown us, persuasively and impressively, how architects and planners, working with other professionals across multiple disciplines but above all with local people in their communities, can serve as true architects of peace.”
Dodd, Melanie, editor, Platform: RMIT Architecture Design Thesis Projects2004-2005, Melbourne: RMIT University Press 2006.
van Schaik, Leon, Design City Melbourne, London: John Wiley and Sons, 2006.ens new window)
Black, Richard and Hook, Martyn, Mobile Landscapes, RMIT University Press, 2006.
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 exhibited at the 1st International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003.
Allpress, Brent and Ostwald, Michael, Founding editors, Architectural Design Research (ADR) Journal, project-based design research and discourse on design, Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2005.
Murray, Shane and Bertram Nigel, editors, 38 South, Volume 3, Melbourne: RMIT University Press 2005.
38 South is the document of record for urban-focused architectural research from RMIT University. In this issue the publication assumes its new role of presenting research from the Urban Architecture Laboratory. The UAL was established in 2002 with the explicit aim of providing a specialised research environment for intensive and focused architectural research that engages with contemporary urban issues. This edition of 38 South is a progress report on the activities of the UAL over its first years, presenting a body of work from ten graduating candidates.
Black, Richard and Edquist, Harriet, The Architecture of Neil Clerehan. RMIT University Press, 2005
van Schaik, Leon, Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice, London: Wiley, 2005. Book contents (Opens new window).
Content: Features postgraduate candidate projects by:
Thom Craig, Sean Godsell, Richard Hassell, Brian Donovan, Martyn Hook, Adrian Iredale, Frank Ling/Architron, Look Boon Gee, Tim Hill, Tom Kovac, Jenny Lowe, Carey Lyons, Ian McDougall, Ian Moore, Finn Pedersen, Allan Powell, Howard Raggatt, Terroir, Stephen Varady, John Wardle, Geoff Warn, Wood Marsh, Leigh Woolley.
Black, Richard, and Hook, Martyn, Topography, Melbourne, RMIT University Press, 2004. Introduction by Peter Cook.
Topography explores architecture's relationship to the inhabited and natural landscape, charting a different approach to the usual urban/rural dichotomy. This book investigates a series of design strategies, developed through teaching and research practices that trial alternative ways of reading the landscape as a generator of architectural projects. By employing mapping, drawing, diagramming and photography, alternative readings of place are constructed making familiar places strange, and strange places familiar. Topographic readings prepare the scene for action and provide clues to architectural interventions that may alter, disturb, reveal, accelerate, intensify, reactivate, delay, or provoke a productive shift in the occupation of the landscape.
This publication frames project-based teaching and research through the discussion and documentation of twelve collaborative design studios offered by RMIT Architecture academics Richard Black and Martyn Hook from 1996 to 2001.
This book includes an introduction by Professor Peter Cook, research essays by the authors and student design projects drawn from a series of recurring studios offered by RMIT Architecture.
Edquist, Harriet, Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A Life in Architecture Melbourne: Miegunyah Press (Opens new window), 2004
van Schaik, Leon, Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans by Hamzah and Yeang, London: Wiley-Academy (Opens new window), 2003
The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the builtform. The concept is explained in two masterplan projects by Hamzah & Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.) the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.
van Schaik, Leon, editor, The Practice of Practice: research in the medium of design, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2003.
Since 1990 fifty leading architects and a few practitioners in allied fields have scrutinised their work within critical frameworks generated around their practice and notions of ‘communities of practice’. Following that scrutiny, they have speculated on possible futures for their practice by conducting projects within that critique. The Practice of Practice is the fourth collection of catalogues from the concluding exhibitions. Fifteen practitioners are represented together with essays on the process by the supervisory team at RMIT University.
Downton, Peter, Design Research, RMIT University Press, 2003.
Design Research considers the relationship of research to design and considers them both as ways of inquiring about the world and as ways of contributing to individual knowing and disciplinary knowledge. The central proposition is that design is a way of inquiring, a way of producing knowing and knowledge; this means it is a way of researching. Aspects of 'research for design' and 'research about design' are considered to distil ideas and reflect upon them as a basis for the core arguments about 'researching through designing'.
Parallels and differences between design and sciences (the fields that have colonised the idea of research as a way of producing knowledge) are used to establish and evaluate the argument that designers are engaged in researching when they are designing. The argument put is that designing leads to individual knowings that can be shared and thus become collective knowledge. This knowledge can be stored in, and transmitted by, exemplars from which designers learn in ways parallel to other disciplines. The similarities are sufficient, it is argued, to consider designing as a means for inquiring about, and producing knowledge of, the world. Design research thus parallels other research endeavours.
Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny. By-Product-Tokyo, RMIT University Press, 2003.
Bertram, Nigel and Halik, Kim, Division and Multiplication: building and inhabitation in inner Melbourne, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2002.
Winner of the Bates Smart Awards for Architecture in the Media, RAIA Victoria State Chapter Awards, 2003.
The Division and Multiplication book documents urban architectural research undertaken in Melbourne by RMIT Architecture UAL staff and undergraduate students analysing alterations and accretions to inner-city commercial and housing fabric. This project is intended to provide a resource to inform more situated urban context strategies.
Division and Multiplication is a study of the relationships between buildings and land subdivision. Through fifteen case studies including houses, hotels, restaurants, shops, offices and conglomerates of the above, it is both a set of concepts and a conventional guidebook to an area of inner Melbourne.
Original drawings describe in detail a series of apparently straightforward buildings, spaces and other structures which nevertheless reveal intriguing aspects of our local physical environment and its use. It is relevant to students of design theory and practitioners grappling with the specifics of local character and ambiguities of planning codes.
Murray, Shane, editor, Pause:16 Emerging Melbourne Architects, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2002.
The book documents architectural projects featured in the Pause exhibition held 25 May to 29 June 1999 at Melbourne Central, as part of the Melbourne International Biennial. The Pause Exhibition was curated by Assoc. Professor Shane Murray. The Pause Exhibition installation was designed by Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright. New essays have been commissioned that frame and situate this diverse body of emerging architectural practice.
Content:
Pause : the curatorial intention, Shane Murray
The Modernism of modernism, or second order modernism, Leon van Schaik
Remarks around a pause : the plan and the architectural object, John Macarthur
This difficult exhibition, Ian McDougall
Projects:
Architects in association/ Burne Hocking Weimar
Bird de la Coeur
Richard Black
Brearley Middleton
Jennifer Calzini
Elenberg Fraser
Martyn Hook
Michael Larinoff
Michael McKenna
Paul Morgan
Joanna Nelson
NMBW Architecture Studio
O'Connor Houle
Anthony Parker
Julian Scanlan
Dimitrios Yamouridis
Mauro Baracco: The fit-out for Pause exhibition: a project of my tradition
Baracco, Mauro, Editor, Dia- RMIT Architecture Design Thesis Projects, 2000-2001, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2002.
Features an introduction by Leon van Schaik, reviews by Paul Morgan and Meghan Nordeck, essays by RMIT Architecture academics Brent Allpress, Mauro Baracco, Nigel Bertram and Sand Helsel outlining their research-led teaching models, 42 projects by final year RMIT Architecture design thesis students, and supervisor project reviews.
Book layout and cover design: Joseph Reyes, Fiona Di Lanzo, Sophie Dyring and Anna Little.
The content of this book is also available as an online project archive (Opens new window).
van Schaik, Leon, editor, AD: Poetics in Architecture, London: John Wiley and Sons (Opens new window), 2002
van Schaik, Leon, editor, Interstitial Modernism, Melbourne: RMIT School of Architecture and Design, 2000.
This book documents the work of RMIT Master of Architecture by Project candidates from the invited stream. Architects who have already established a significant body of work are invited to examine their practice reflectively. They sift through the evidence that their achievements to date afford, and then engage with that evidence speculatively through design projects undertaken as the culmination of their Masters research.
These works can be linked under the optimistic heading of meta-modernism. A higher order modernism that accepts the power of Cartesian procedures but insists on running multiple procedures, some of which are expressly to do with local knowledge, some of which are more generic, all of which are intended to create works which are wondrous, in that they can be perceived as a whole and in detail at the same instant.
ContentIntroduction:Interstitial Modernism – ‘Second Order’ or Metamodernism at RMIT, Leon van Schaik
Projects:The Design Workshop as Urban Architecture Methodology, Ross Ramus
Baroque and Film <theory as > Narrative, Rosemary Burne
The Melbourne Domain, Nigel Westbrook
Perception and Invention, Patricia Pringle
Sound Design – Essays with Microtonal Tunings ,Jonathan Mills
Pictorial Space, Image and Technology, Julie Irving
The Enigmatic Qualities of the Map, Jillian Garner
The Appropriateness of the Modern Australian Dwelling, Sean Godsell
Interstitial Practices, Kerstin Thompson
Architecture in the Expanded Field, Sand Helsel
Landscape? Forming and Informing of Architectural Space, Jennifer Lowe
A Ramblers’ Gallery: Spatial Propositions in Architecture, Stephen Neille
Framing the Transitory, Richard Black
Evans, Doug, editor, Aardvark Vol 3: RMIT Guide to Contemporary Melbourne Architecture, Melbourne: RMIT University Publishing, 1998.
The desire to publish the best contemporary works has led to the application of a ten-year span from completion date of the work featured. Significant projects from the late 1970s and early 1980s, important to the understanding of later work, fall outside this time frame. The retention of these projects has been made possible by the introduction of the 1970s supplement which includes the key projects from this period. This section is introduced in a brief essay by the noted Melbourne architect and critic Norman Day, which locates the projects in the context in their time.
van Schaik, Leon and Bertram, Nigel , editors, Building 8: Edmond & Corrigan at RMIT, Melbourne: Schwartz/Transition, 1996. 3 volume monograph on the Edmond & Corrigan practice.
Vol 1: Ten essays by: Peter Kohane (2 essays), Nigel Bertram, Alex Selenitsch, Philip Goad, Jennifer Hocking, Craig Bremner, Peter King, Michael Anderson, Leon van Schaik
Vol 2: Design Development, RMIT Building 8
Vol 3: The Writings of Maggie Edmond and Peter Corrigan, 1962-1996
van Schaik, Leon, editor, Ruins of the Future, Melbourne: School of Architecture and Design, 1995.
This book documents an international competition leading to an installation of site works at the Adelaide Festival in 1996. “Ruins of the Future” made a lyrical reading of a central city park, and invited people to respond with propositions linking their spatial beliefs with a vision of a future state. These installations all seek to take us from the ruin of our changing daily practices to the future that they are creating imperceptibly around us. These folies are engines that should stop us in our tracks, and make us consider consciously the future that we are thoughtlessly choosing day in, day out…
Content:
Curatorial Intention, Leon van Schaik
Telltale, Mark Robbins
1009 Footpath, Eisaku Ushida and Kathryn Findlay
The Lost World of the Pacific, Rodney Place with Warrick Swinney
Crocus Bulbs, Jean Sillett
Atlas, Sand Helsel, Kate Pointon, Michael Leeton
Durer’s House, Eleanor Suess and David Havercroft
Grid Distortion, Sarah McCormack, Nano Langenheim, Patricia Hollo
Appendices: An Extract from ‘The Lie of the Land’, Paul Carter
Transition: Discourse on Architecture, RMIT Architecture, Melbourne: 1981-2000. This publication was the premier critical journal on Architecture published in Australia over a 20 year period from 1981 through to 2000. It was a non-profit, independent architectural publication, produced quarterly by RMIT Architecture.
This journal considered architecture's often difficult relationship with theory and how knowledge enters into the production of architecture. These publications focused on the predictive and speculative and encouraged experimental design work, propositional writing and variations in between. Ideally, Transition pursued Australian architectures within global discourses.
van Schaik, Leon, editor, Transfiguring the Ordinary: RMIT Masters of Architecture by Project, Melbourne: 38South Publications, 1995
This book documents the work of RMIT Master of Architecture by Project candidates from the invited stream. Architects who have already established a significant body of work are invited to examine their practice reflectively. They sift through the evidence that their achievements to date afford, and then engage with that evidence speculatively through design projects undertaken as the culmination of their Masters research.
The title of this volume “Transfiguring the Ordinary,” is religious in a universal way, religion being the way in which we find significant pattern in the mundane cycles of life. It also returns us to the query: How Australian is it? The ordinary that is here transfigured is the ordinary of this city of Melbourne. Six Masters candidates are from this postcolonial city. There is an optimism in their work that is as yet uncontaminated by the Australian darkness, remaining open to the joys that come from treasuring our own social production.
Content:
Introduction:How Australian is it? Transfiguring the Ordinary, Leon van Schaik
Projects:A + B= C: Film and Architecture: Narrative and Spatial Montage, Antonia Bruns
Metro-Scape, Eli Giannini
Towards a Brand New City, Carey Lyon
Form Rules, Rob McBride
The Autistic Ogler, Ian McDougall
The “Sow’s” Ear; Collective Memory and Architectural Form, Shane Murray
van Schaik, Leon, editor, Fin de Siecle? and the twenty-first century: Architectures of Melbourne: RMIT Masters of Architecture by Project, Melbourne: 38South Publications, 1993
This book documents the work of RMIT Master of Architecture by Project candidates from the invited stream. Architects who have already established a significant body of work are invited to examine their practice reflectively. They sift through the evidence that their achievements to date afford, and then engage with that evidence speculatively through design projects undertaken as the culmination of their Masters research.
Melbourne is a city of three million persons that supports an architectural culture of unusual depth and vitality. This book consists of eight monographs on architecture, eight visions of future architectures. It aims to situate and project Melbourne's architectural culture within international metropolitan discourse. These projects were presented at the Fin de Siecle Exhibition held as part of the Melbourne International festival of the Arts in 1992 and at the Clapin Burdett Gallery in Sydney during 1993.
ContentsIntroduction Fin de Siecle: New Beginnings in Australian Architecture - an introduction and guide, Professor Leon van Schaik
ProjectsParticular Architecture, Norman Day
Forays Into The Contemporary Institution An Architecture of the Public Realm, Peter Elliot
Three Residential Projects, Nonda Katsalidis
Forgotten Zones: A Matiere for an Architecture, Allan Powell
Notness: Operations and Strategies for the Fringe, Howard Raggatt
Working on the Perceptual Edge, Ivan Rijavec
The Innisfail Section: Projects, Objects, Texts, Alex Selenitsch
The Intelligent Building: Architecture as Industrial Design, Michael Trudgeon