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Atrium13 | 2010PAGE02 | 03THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGAbp alumni: cities and campuses 04the ARCHITECTURE of community 08Noel henderson: occasional address 102010 Venice architecture biennale 14The encyclopaedia of australian architecture 16msd summer research internships 181994 REUNION 21FROM THE FACULTY 22Dean’s MessageThis issue of Atrium addresses animportant facet of our professionaland educATional worlds –the making of communities.2010 is a significant year for the Faculty.In March of this year, we celebrated thegraduation of the first cohort to emerge fromthe Melbourne School of Design (MSD) andour first intake of Bachelor of Environmentsstudents have progressed to their final yearof undergraduate studies. As our studentsprogress into their professional careers,we are confident that they have developeda thinking framework that enables themto continue to learn and adapt to evolvingworkplace environments and to establishthemselves as the leaders in theirchosen fields.This issue of Atrium addresses an importantfacet of our professional and educationalworlds – the making of communities. It isthe habitation of designed and evolvedworlds that is the focus of both researchand teaching in ABP, at the level of cities,campuses and individual buildings. Thetheme of this issue is “The architecture ofengagement”. We illustrate this with a focuson the contributions our alumni have madein designing and realizing communities bothin Australia and abroad. Here we profile thecontributions of four distinguished graduateswho have influenced the way in whichpeople across the world have engagedand developed communities: Alan Choein Singapore, Bill Mitchell in Boston, SeanGodsell in Melbourne and Hijjas Kasturiin Kuala Lumpur.We also look at the architecture ofcommunities - how they evolve andconsiderations in designing them effectively.Dr David Nichols eloquently examines howbuildings and communities reflect eachother, using the Melbourne suburb ofKew as a historical and modern case study.As David establishes in his article, even asthe function of public buildings change overtime, they remain vitally important to oururban development and cultural resilience.

We also profile a unique project thatseeks to capture those involved in thecreation of communities. The Encylopediaof Australian Architecture had eventuatedsolely due to the generosity of oursupporters. This remarkable publication,due to be released next year, drawstogether 260 scholars from Australiaand overseas to result in the firstcomprehensive overview of Australianarchitecture. Edited by Professor PhilipGoad and Associate Professor Julie Willis,it will encompass around 1300 entrieson all aspects of Australian architecture,including indigenous, colonial, modernand contemporary buildings.Our lively reunion program continuesthis year. Last year we met with classesof 1959-61. In this issue, Richard Hansenreflects on the reunion of his BBdlg classof 94, held at the Robin Boyd House inSouth Yarra. Of the 30 graduates in 1994,22 were able to attend – a great turn-outgiven that many now live and workoverseas. These reunion events representa wonderful opportunity to reconnect andreflect on the success of our graduatesas the Faculty evolves.Noel Henderson’s occasional addressat the Conferring of Degree Ceremonyin March offered inspiration to our mostrecent graduating cohort. Noel sharedhis insight into the construction industry,where he has worked as a leading builder,contractor and developer over the last40 years, and highlighted the transformativechanges that have occurred over this time.He also reflected on how the Faculty andour educational programs have evolvedsince the 1960s, an era where buildinggraduates were distrusted because theywere perceived as ‘over-educated’without site experience. Noel concludedhis address by noting that the skills ofour graduates are now highly regardedin Australia and around the world, thattheir efforts are transforming the deliveryof projects and that diverse professionalopportunities abound for our new graduates.Work has now started in the designof our new building under the leadershipof John Wardle Architects and Office dA.A consultant team is being marshalledand funding aligned to ensure that theproject progresses with the anticipationthat we will be moving out of our currentfacilities next year. While it is in its earlystages there is little detail that can bereported but we expect to be highlightingthe project in future issues this year asthe design emerges.2010 has so far proven to be a yearmarked by research achievement forFaculty staff and alumni. Several staffhave distinguished themselves withvarious awards, grants and publications,which are highlighted in our sectionon achievements in ‘From the Faculty’.Considerable media attention has beengenerated around the world by theforthcoming exhibition in the AustraliaPavilion in the 12th Venice ArchitectureBiennale. Of the 17 projects selected byCreative Directors John Gollings and IvanRijavec, three teams are led by membersof our Faculty and six consist of our alumni.This is an extraordinary representation forour Faculty in one of the most importantevents on the international architecturecalendar. As part of one of the chosenteams, for the Fear Free City project,I am personally looking forward to beingin Venice in August and experiencingthe energy distinctive to the Biennale.Our rich event culture continues in 2010,with the Dean’s Lecture Series and theABP Alumni Retrospective Series leadingthe way. We were delighted to host theChilean architect Mathias Klotz in March,who spoke about his architectural practiceto a capacity audience in the CarrilloGantner Theatre. In May, we hostedWilliam Cobbett, Manager of theWashington D.C. based organizationCities Alliance, who presented an intriguingDean’s lecture on the challenge of scalein a rapidly urbanising world. As part ofthe ABP Alumni Retrospective Series, wecelebrated the work and vision of one ofour most successful alumni, Daryl Jackson,when we presented an exhibition of hisselected projects in April. The exhibitionincluded a documentary of Professor PhilipGoad in conversation with Daryl, and drewa wide range of media and communityinterest. The next alumnus we will profilein this series will be the architect Peter Hoin September.To keep in touch with our changingcalendar of exhibitions, public lectures,conference and activities, please visitour website: http://www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/ A

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE04 | 05THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGABP Alumni:Cities and CampusesALAN CHOE:SINGAPOREThe urban redevelopment authorityafforded Mr Choe the opportunity toplay a key role in Singapore’s urbanrenewal program, the legacy of whichis reflected in the contemporarySingapore masterplan.Mr Choe was awarded a Bachelor ofArchitecture degree, a Diploma in Town& Regional Planning from the Universityof Melbourne and a Fellowship Diplomafrom the Royal Melbourne Institute ofTechnology. He is a Fellow Member of theSingapore Institute of Architects, SingaporeInstitute of Planners and Royal AustralianInstitute of Architects. He is also a memberof the Royal Institute of British Architects,Royal Town Planning Institute, RoyalAustralian Planning Institute and theAmerican Planning Association.Mr Choe was the first architect andtown planner to return to Singaporefrom overseas. He was appointed asthe first architect and planner for the newlyestablished Housing and DevelopmentBoard and helped plan many of thehousing estates and public housingin Singapore’s public housing program.He subsequently went on to form theUrban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in1964 and became its first general managerto undertake comprehensive urban renewaland redevelopment of Singapore’s CentralAreas. His role was to clear slums andcreate a modern and vibrant commercialprogram. The legacy of his role is reflectedin the contemporary Singapore MasterPlan. He left URA and became a SeniorPartner in one of the largest architecturalpractices in Singapore.Mr Choe continues to be a prominentarchitect and town planner in Singapore.He became the Chairman of the SentosaDevelopment Corporation (SDC). He wasbehind the transformation of SentosaIsland, from a British military base intoa popular recreation and internationaltourist destination. His retirement fromthat position in 2004, marked the endof his 24 year association with Sentosa.He subsequently also formed SentosaCove Pte Ltd (SCPL) and became itsfirst Chairman. Sentosa Cove becamethe first life style waterfront housing andis today the most successful and wellknown landmark in Singapore.Mr Choe was named in the SingaporeNational Day Awards in 2001 and receivedthe Distinguished Service Order. Mr Choehas also been Chairman of Pasir Ris ResortPte Ltd, a Trustee of NTUC Income andmember of the Singapore Tourism Board.He was also a Director of Keppel LandLimited and currently sits on the Boardof several listed companies.He was awarded the Public AdministrationMedal (Gold) in 1967, the MeritoriousService Medal in 1990, the DistinguishedService Order in 2001, and a Gold Medalfrom the Singapore Institute of Architects(SIA) in 2004. The SIA Gold Medal award,first introduced in 1998, is the Republic’shighest award for architects who havemade significant contributions toarchitecture during their lifetime andis awarded only every two to three years. A

Our alumni have made a tremendous contribution in designingcommunities both in Australia and abroad. Here we profile thecontributions of four distinguished graduates who have influencedthe way in which people across the world have engaged and developedcommunities: Alan Choe in Singapore, Bill Mitchell in Boston, SeanGodsell in Melbourne and Hijjas Kasturi in Kuala Lumpur.HIJJAS KASTURI: MARAINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYHIjjas Kasturi studied at the Universityof Adelaide and the University ofMelbourne (Bachelor of Architecture,1965, Graduate Diploma of Town andRegional Planning, 1966). He returnedto Singapore in 1966, and then movedto Malaysia in 1967, where he foundedthe School of Art and Architecture atMARA Institute of Technology. He wentinto partnership in 1969, and thenformed the practice Hijjas KasturiAssociates (HKAS) in 1997.Characterised by the major concerns ofarchitecture, town planning and building,in addition to the arts-oriented influencesof industrial, graphic and textile design,and fine arts, the practice of HKAS hasa unique vision.Major buildings in Kuala Lumpur suchas Menara Maybank (1989), Tabung Haji(1986), Putrajaya Convention Centre (2003)and the 4G11 Tower (2008), currentlybeing built in Putrajaya, are examples ofthe influential buildings designed by HKAS.Hijjas Kasturi’s work is recognisedinternationally. In 1998 he receivedthe Tokyo Creation Award and in 2001the Malaysian Architect’s Institute GoldMedal. He was also awarded an HonoraryDoctorate from the Unviersiti Malaya in2005 and from the University of Melbournein 2008.In addition to being a member of theMalaysian Institute of Architects andMalaysian Institute of Planning, Hijjas actsas an external examiner for several schoolsof Architecture Malaysia and he has beeninvited to teach in several universities inMalaysia and abroad. The practice haswon many awards for its work includingthat for the Kuching Civic Centre bythe Association of Engineers, California,USA (1989); ASEAN Award (1990), inrecognition of work in the visual arts(architecture); the 12th Tokyo CreationAward by the Tokyo Fashion Association,Japan (1998); and the Pertubuhan ArkitekMalaysia (Malaysian Institute of Architects)2000 Excellence Award for the SecuritiesCommission Building, Kuala Lumpur.In 2001, Hijjas received the PAM GoldMedal Award from the Malaysian Instituteof Architects (PAM).Hijjas Kasturi has made a significant andlasting artistic, environmental, technologicaland professional contribution to architectureand identity in Malaysia. He is a fittingambassador for the success of theColombo Plan and its education of thefuture leaders of the professions in Asia,and the University of Melbourne’s proudrole in that endeavour. A

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE06 | 07THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGABP Alumni: Cities & CampusesBill Mitchell:MIT AND SMART CITIESBill Mitchell, (BArch (Hons) 1968),and Professor of Architecture, MediaArts and Sciences at MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT), USA.As a former Head of Architecture & UrbanDesign at the University of California (LosAngeles), former Director of the DesignStudies Program at the Graduate Schoolof Design, Harvard, and former Dean ofthe School of Planning at MIT, ProfessorMitchell has an international reputationas one of the most prolific researchers,writers, thinkers and institutional leadersin the fields of urban design, architecture,sociology and mobile information systems.Professor Mitchell coordinated MIT’sbillion-dollar campus architecture andurban planning redevelopment to buildstate-of-the-art facilities for emergingareas of research, to support residentialand community life, and to revitalizethe physical campus.Originally from Melbourne, ProfessorMitchell completed a Bachelor ofArchitecture (Honours) at the Universityof Melbourne in 1968, and subsequentlycompleted a Master of Environment Designat Yale, and a Master of Arts at Cambridge.He holds honorary doctorates from boththe University of Melbourne and the NewJersey Institute of Technology.Professor Mitchell is the head of theSmart Cities research group at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). The group focuses on using newtechnologies to enhance urban designand transport systems.Smart Cities research is particularlyconcerned with the emerging rolesof networked intelligence in fabricationand construction, urban mobility, buildingdesign and intelligently responsiveoperation, and public space.The group explores the new formsand functions of cities in the digitalelectronic era. It suggests design andplanning directions for the future andfocuses on creating innovative waysto change how we live in urban areasthrough, in part, the application of newtechnologies that enable urban energyefficiency and sustainability, and enhanceopportunity, equity, and cultural creativity. A

SEAN GODSELL:RMIT DESIGN HUBSean Godsell was born in Melbournein 1960. He graduated with First ClassHonours from the University ofMelbourne in 1984. After travelingin Japan and Europe he worked inLondon from 1986 to 1988 for Sir DenysLasdun, before returning to Melbournein 1989 and joined The Hassell Group.In 1994 he formed Godsell AssociatesPty Ltd Architects.In July 2002 the influential English designmagazine wallpaper listed him as one often people destined to ‘change the waywe live’. He was the only Australian andthe only architect in the group.In July 2003 Sean received a Citationfrom the President of the American Instituteof Architects for his work for the homeless.His Future Shack prototype was exhibitedfrom May to October 2004 at theSmithsonian Institute’s Cooper HewittDesign Museum in New York.Sean has received numerous local andinternational awards. In 2006 he receivedthe Victorian Premier’s Design Award andthe RAIA Robin Boyd Award and in 2007he received the Capochin residentialarchitecture award in Italy and a ChicagoAthenaeum award in the USA – all forSt Andrew’s Beach House. In 2008 hewas a finalist in the wallpaper InternationalDesign Awards and a recipient of hissecond AIA Record Houses Award forExcellence in the USA for Glenburn House.In 2008, noted architectural historianand Professor of Architecture at ColumbiaUniversity Kenneth Frampton nominatedhim for the inaugural bsi Swiss ArchitectureAward for architects under the age of 50and his work was exhibited as part of theMilan Triennale and the Venice Biennale.He is currently working on projects inChina and Australia and his first majorbuilding, the RMIT University DesignHub, a post graduate research centrefor design, is currently under constructionin Melbourne.The Design Hub will provideaccommodation in one buildingfor a diverse range of design researchand postgraduate education. The Hubwill provide a collegial research base wherepost graduates in fields such as fabricand fashion design will work alongsidethose involved in architecture, aeronauticalengineering, industrial design, landscapearchitecture, and urban design. A

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE08 | 09THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGThe Architectureof CommunityDr David Nichols,Lecturer in Urban PlanningHub, Hall and HabitatHow do community and the builtenvironment reflect each other? Ourcities and towns are rich with evidenceof attempts to build, and then to celebrate,community spirit: buildings and spacesdesigned to create, reflect or reinforcethe nature and strength of social grouping.Many of these continue to function todifferent degrees of effectiveness; some,like small-scale health or educationbuildings, have pragmatic uses withdefined parameters. Others – suchas halls available for group booking –are multi-purpose. But the ways thatcommunity and the built environmenthave interacted over time give us insightinto architectural developments andconceptions of the architect’s (or builder’s)role, and the changing perceptionsof government, governance, democracyand duty.The present-day rhetoric of communityis not substantially removed from thatof a century ago; for many Australians,this rhetoric has clearly reflected realityin many ways. But the built environmentrecord of community buildings showsthe many permutations the notion hasgone through since European colonisation.Australia’s community buildings comefrom a number of diverse sources: mostcommonly created and commissionedby local government, or built by residentsthemselves. The community may alsolobby local government either for a facilityor merely the land to build it on – frequently,through much of the 20th century,volunteer labour of local residents wouldthen create an amenity which might thenalso be run on a voluntary basis.The Melbourne suburb of Kew is perhapsnot an intuitive choice to look for a varietyof perspectives on the idea of ‘community’as it relates to buildings and networks.With all due respect to this middle-ring,middle-class suburb, there is perhaps apervading understanding of middle-classsuburbs that they are generally comprisedof upstanding – and rarely outstanding –individuals who look to their own hearthfor contentment, rather than to formingbonds with their neighbours – whether itbe for mutual betterment or social activity.Whether this is true or not (the truth nodoubt resides in examination not of peopleor a class per se, but of ages and lifestages) what is undeniable is that Kewprovides the researcher on communityand its impact on the built environmentwith a large number of unusual examplesof specific community building types –and types of community. Kew citizens’scramble, over a century, for a purpose-builttown hall and civic centre was surely partof the reason behind the creation of somany other ad hoc community places;the slow expansion of a suburb at thewhim of transport planners and widereconomic fluctuations may be another. 1How would people of Kew meet,communicate, rally or be entertained enmasse in the early 20th century? As wellas the small publicly available space attheir Town Hall – a reconfigured MechanicsInstitute building of 1860 – Kew citizensat the turn of the last century were ableto use the city’s Recreation Hall, another‘second hand’ building built in 1880,acquired by Kew in 1917 from a firm whichhad operated it as a private leisure centre.Like many such amenities, the RecreationHall often hosted money spinning ‘nights’such as the New Vogue Ballroom, in thelate 1930s. 2While buildings such as the RecreationHall served as Kew’s social and communitycentre, those in other areas of the suburbsaw the potential for new networks and,perhaps, new local government. From the1920s and long into the 20th century, theEast Kew Progress Association aspiredto the construction of a hall for concerts,dances and meetings, to be funded onan ongoing basis by shops at ground level,built on a block it had acquired. 3 Itshonorary secretary, Mr Bland, referringto the wealth of the region’s residents,predicted ‘there should be no real difficultyin raising enough money to build a modernhall for Kew people’, adding that ‘the bestway to get this done was to tackle thejob in the true Australian spirit and doit themselves.’ 4 The 1930s Depressiondamped the EKPA’s initial surge and1. See David Nichols and Hannah Lewi, ‘The KewClub: the modernist mythology of a middle-ringsuburb’ in Panorama to Paradise: SAHANZConference proceedings Adelaide,September 20072. See for instance ‘New Vogue Ballroom: KewRecreation Hall’ Kew Advertiser 27 May 1937 p.33. ‘East Kew progres [sic] hall’ Kew Advertiser12 May 1927 p.14. ‘East Kew Progress Association: Successfuleuchre party and dance’ Kew Advertiser 26 May1927 p.15. ‘Social Events: Kindergarten Dance’ MelbourneArgus 4 July 1925 p.34

uildings and spacesdesigned to create, reflector reinforce the nature andstrength of social grouping.subsequent events saw this sectionof Kew more properly incorporatedinto the suburban area.The council of the City of Kew werehardly shirkers when it came to providinga network of structures germane to theideal of supporting health, welfare andsocial development at a local level – andalso, by extension, contributing to widerAustralian society. Local engineer RolandChipperfield designed infant welfarecentres, kindergartens and sports pavilionsacross his small patch of Melbourne.Facilities such as kindergartens, clearlyseen as important components ofcommunity life after and before the FirstWorld War, were often also the productsof local voluntary campaigns. In mid-1925the Free Kindergarten Union, based inKew, engaged the Wang Wang orchestrato play for a ‘Kindergarten Dance’ atHawthorn Town Hall raising money fora Kindergarten Holiday Home. 5The postwar era saw a conceptionof community encouraged by Federalgovernment hoping to harness a wartimespirit of collectivism. It was somewhatsimilar to Mr Bland’s idea of self-sufficiencyand ‘spirit’, reinforced by former PremierAlbert Dunstan when he opened a Kewkindergarten in 1948; Dunstan spokeagainst people who ‘lean upon thegovernment, and let them providekindergartens… That spirit would getus nowhere, and it was only when thecommunity pulled together that we wouldaccomplish anything’. 6 A group callingitself the ’Kew Civic and CommunityCentres Movement’ lobbied the councilfor one central and three smaller CivicCentres, the larger one ‘to be built ona commanding central site’ includingadministrative offices, halls for culturalactivities, club rooms, library, youthcentre, ‘health’, and a café, the smallerto incorporate kindergartens and infantwelfare centres, leisure halls and juniorand adult libraries, and adult educationfacilities. Notable architect JohnScarborough was commissioned toprepare designs for these buildings. 7None of these plans came to fruition.When Kew Civic Centre, designed by A. C.Leith and Bartlett, was opened in 1960,the Q Club – a jazz, and later rock, venueof the 1960s and early 70s – continuedthe practice, now largely unknown, ofcouncils providing alcohol-free musicand dance events for youth; a publicservice that also happened to be lucrative.Here a wider sense of community wasembraced, and the building became ahub for youth, not just in Kew but acrossMelbourne. Most certainly Kew youth werein the council’s minds – not least becauseof fear of antisocial activities of bored youngKewites, and also anxiety over what Kew’syouth might grow up to be.It is easy to imagine that these examplesfrom a bygone era represent a time whenentertainment and social activities requiredmore exertion, and identity was far moreclosely related to locality and environmentthan it is in the 21st century. Kew itself wasabsorbed into the City of Boroondara in1994, and the civic centre building so longfought for is now the local library. Voluntaryactivity in Australian communities is lessconnected to the enlightened self-interestof, for instance, weekend working-beeconstruction of public buildings than it wasin the post-war period, and most of thesefunctions have devolved to governmentand/or professionals.Yet as much as public buildings’ functionmay change over time, their importancein urban development and in culturalresilience cannot be denied. The Federalgovernment – and many State equivalents– are seemingly once again convincedof the importance, value and power ofthe very local. The architecture of localcommunity is intrinsically bound up inthe networks and local manifestationsof broader ideals. ACommunity: Building ModernAustralia, edited by Hannah Lewiand David Nichols, will be publishedby University of NSW Press laterthis year.6. Melbourne Argus, 29 April 1948 p.57. W D Vaughan, Kew’s Civic Century Kew:W D Vaughan 1960 p.38

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Occasional AddressNoel Henderson - Conferringof Degree Ceremony 10 March 2010AT the University of MelbourneTonight we see the formal recognitionof the years of Academic study, andmost Architecture Building and Planninggraduates will be looking to work, orare already working, in the propertyand construction industry. I have beenworking for 40 years now as a builder,contractor, developer and client.My focus has always been on thefuture, but history is a great teacherand understanding the past, and inparticular, the modern era of the last40 years of the building industryhelps to shape the way forward.There have been significant changesover this period. At this University inthe mid 1960s there were 150 studentsin the first year of Architecture Buildingand Planning and 7 were enrolled forBuilding. The faculty had moved at theend of 1963 from a prefabricated buildingto a half-finished building, where it is stilllocated. The students raised significantdonations of materials and money tohelp finish this building.Up to the 1960s the traditional trainingfor builders was a trade course incarpentry and then learning in variousroles working on building sites and inthe builder’s office.The early building graduates wereinitially distrusted because they did nothave what was perceived to be ‘siteexperience’. But things quickly changed.High-rise construction, created demandsfor improved performance by builders,and we should remember that in the early60s the tallest building in Melbourne wasthe ICI building which was enormous at20 stories. The tallest building is now over80 stories. The ICI building also broughtnew technology to the industry becauseit was the first major building with a glasscurtain wall facade.>

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE012 | 013THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGAt the same time there were otherchanges occurring as the industrysaw the emergence of the BLF.During the 70s there was clearly a needfor much tighter control and managementof building projects. This created rolesfor the increasing number of buildinggraduates but also led to much moresophistication in the way building projectswere planned and carried out. Criticalpath planning became an essential toolto monitor the day-to-day activities,in fact planning hour-by-hour activitieson projects.One of the great strengths of the buildingindustry is that it has been able to adaptand evolve. Builders on commercialprojects started to look at alternative formsof construction. Pre-cast concrete startedto be used during the early 1980s and nowwe see most of the vertical elements ofbuildings being constructed using pre-castconcrete and indeed a number of buildingswhere pre-cast concrete has been usedboth as floor system and for the verticalcores and walls. This innovation by thebuilding industry, particularly in Melbourne,enabled the industry to remain productive.The first major use of grey panels or tilt-uppanels was at the Safeway Warehouse atMulgrave and involved an energetic youngengineer from New Zealand who in a visitto the United States had seen thesepanels. This was in the mid 1960s. Bythe late 1960s a group of three studentsfrom this University were given a uniqueopportunity to design and construct a majorcommercial project, the Preston Market.I was one of those three students andthe outcome that we achieved wasvery different from the earlier marketsof Melbourne and showcased newmethods of construction.In some respects the project was builtbackwards. We built the car park firstand used the time while the earthworksand car park were being carried outto design and document the buildingin detail. We then constructed the pre-castconcrete walls onsite using the car parkas the casting bed and then erectedthe panels directly to the perimeterof the buildings.We had designed a three-dimensionalspace frame roof structure which gavecolumn free space to each of the buildingsand large sections were built on theground then lifted into position. Thisprovided a very quick construction timeand allowed the developer to open wellahead of his scheduled date. It also gaveus the opportunity to employ a numberof fellow students in a range of roleson the project, which injected a levelof energy that ensured success.After that, delivering challenging buildingsbecame a personal focus and involvedprojects such as the Trade Union TrainingCollege at Wodonga, the Concert Hall atthe Victorian Arts Centre, Republic Tower,Federation Square and Wembley Stadium,and some of the pioneering public privatepartnership work in Australia. The greatchallenge for builders is not only to buildprojects, but is to build organisations andproject teams that can manage anddeliver projects.Then, reorganise the project teams atthe completion of a project and moveto new projects. This is a great skill, andnot all get this right which is why at timesthere is significant movement of peoplein the industry and this applies equallyto Architects and Builders. Continuity isdifficult in an industry that rises and fallsso sharply with the economy.To grow a business you first need togrow the people and have the peoplethat are capable of growing. This is whyin 1984 I set up a graduate programmelinked to Melbourne University. In over25 years more than 100 graduates havebeen employed through this programme.Some still work with me and many othersnow either run their own business, aredirectors of large construction companiesor operate in related sectors such asfunds management and development.Many have also had the opportunityto work throughout Australia and NewZealand and overseas, in the MiddleEast and the UK – including a team ofgraduates that were moved to the UK in2004 to work on the two largest projectsin London – Wembley Stadium and WhiteCity Shopping Centre.My relationship with the Faculty continuestoday - in my current business we have15 graduates in our programme, ten arefrom the Faculty, as well as 14 other alumni.Each year the graduate team isencouraged to undertake a communityservice project and raise the necessaryfunds for the project. There have beenmany significant projects but one thatstands out, was the challenge to renovateand restore the house at Balibo inEast Timor. Two years of planning andorganisation, generous donations ofbuilding materials and shipping containers,resulted in the famous ruin of a housebeing converted into a new communitycentre. The message for graduatesafter this was clear – detailed planning,organisation, teamwork and focus onthe task is the key to achieving thedesired outcome – no matter wherethe project is located.In recent years there has been a growingfocus on environmental issues as theyrelate to buildings. We are at the beginningof this journey and graduates have anexciting task in front of them to designand construct smarter and more sensitivebuildings and cities. In our Engineeringbusiness we are involved in the renewableenergy industry as we have formed a jointventure with a Spanish company to designand construct precast concrete towers forwind farms. Steel towers have been usedto date, but we believe precast concretewill be faster to manufacture and useless energy in the process.

The skills and disciplines developedby graduates should not be seen asrestricting them to the constructionindustry. As an example, I have usedthe core skills of project management,cost control and financial planning tobuild a large agricultural business. Someyears ago we established and developeda super-fine merino stud. The house andfarm complex was designed by some oldstudent friends – Denton Corker Marshall.When the farm complex was designed in1996 we did not set out to build an iconicbuilding. But a clear brief based on whatwe did not want, together with theextraordinary site for the house, andthe strong relationship between thearchitect, the clients and of course thebuilder has resulted in a breathtakingoutcome that has received internationalrecognition in a number of publicationson the top 100 houses of the 20th century.Graduates, you are about to build a careerin what I think is a most totally engagingand challenging industry. An industrywhere builders will have the opportunityto work with some of the great architectsin Australia, and in some cases the greatarchitects of the world, as we see moreinternational design competitions for majorprojects in Australia. Look around youtonight, some of the future great architectsmaybe sitting with you.Australia has a stable economy,and stable politics and this will presentsome of the big challenges in the futurefor architects, builders and plannersas population increase accelerates.In Melbourne we are certainly seeingpopulation increase at the moment,and the outcome, when this is notplanned, results in chaos on the roadsand the public transport system, andan ever spreading city with housingthat is becoming unaffordable.Melbourne has forged a reputationfor innovative design and innovativeconstruction techniques. There is anew design hub now being built downthe road at Rmit, and a new architectureschool established at Monash.But more importantly, there has beenan international competition for a newFaculty building at this university andthis should ensure that the Facultymaintains its exceptionally highstandards and reputation.The skills of graduates from the Facultyhave been seen in Australia and aroundthe world so there will be no shortage ofopportunity. But, the important thing is thatat all stages in your career you don’t let goof the culture and discipline that you havedeveloped, and the relationships you haveestablished, at this University. This hasprovided you with the essentials to startand continue on a professional path to achallenging career in an ever-changing anddemanding world. I wish you all good luck. AL-R: Associate Professor Peter Ashford, Professor Thomas Kvan, Noel Henderson, Associate Professor Peter Williams, Professor Paolo Tombesi.

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE014 | 015THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING2010 VeniceArchitectureBiennaleSymbiotic CitySteve Whitford andjAmes BrearleyArchitects + UrbanistsThe Faculty of Architecture Buildingand Planning will be well representedat the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale.Three Faculty projects will help representAustralia at the 2010 Venice ArchitectureBiennale, the world’s most importantarchitecture event.The Australian Institute of Architectureannounced in March the list of 17 teamswho will exhibit as part of the AustralianPavilion’s ‘NOW + WHEN AustralianUrbanism’ exhibition at the VeniceBiennale starting in August.The three successful projects ledby Faculty staff are:» Symbiotic City (Steve Whitford withJames Brearley, BAU Brearley Architects& Urbanists)» Mould City (Dr Peter Raisbeck, NicolaDovey and Simon Wollan, as part ofColony Collective)» The Fear Free City (AssociateProfessor Justyna Karakiewicz,Professor Tom Kvan with Steve Hatzellis,WSH Architects)ABP alumni feature strongly in12th Venice Architecture BiennaleA number of our alumni are also involvedin the teams selected to exhibit theirprojects at the 12th Venice ArchitectureBiennale. We congratulate you on thisprestigious achievement:» Peter Corrigan (with Michael Spooner)for A City of HopeThe successful proposals were chosenfrom a shortlist of 24, selected from 129proposals submitted to the competition,run by the 2010 Venice ArchitectureBiennale Creative Directors, John Gollingsand Ivan Rijavec.The ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’exhibition will feature six Australian urbanand anti-urban regions as they are ‘now’and then represent 17 futuristic urbanenvironments which pose an imagined‘when’ in 2050 and beyond. Visit the AIAwebsite for details of all the winning teamsand projects: www.architecture.com.au.The Venice Architecture Biennale wasinaugurated in 1980 and is now heldevery two years, alternating with the ArtBiennale. Thousands of the world’s leadingarchitects and city planners and over52,000 people visited the AustralianPavilion in 2008 and similar numbersare expected this year.The 12th Venice ArchitectureBiennale dates are:Vernissage:26, 27, 28 August 2010Exhibition:29 August – 28 November 2010» Fiona Dunin, Alex Peck, AndrewSimpson, Martina Johnson (with PeckDunin Simpson Architects, Third Skin,Eckersley Garden Architecture, AngusMcIntyre, Tim Kreger) for -41 + 41.» Jocelyn Chiew and Eli Giannini (withMcGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild+ Dyskors, Material Thinking, CatherineRanger, Bild - Ben Milbourne, Dyskors- Edmund Carter, Material Thinking - PaulCarter) for Loop-Pool/Saturation CityNew Scientist, February 2009, presenteda 2099 world climate map in which mostof Australia’s existing cities sit within newlyformed deserts. Symbiotic City seeks tobring awareness of such pending realitiesof climate change. It further seeks toprovide a zero-climate-impact modelfor city design. The project challengesthe conventional Australian planningwisdom of large-scale land-use zoning,centralized and low density. This designproposes continuous networks of land-useto enable a city rich in super-adjacencyproviding fertile environments for synergiesbetween city functions.Symbiotic City consists of a network ofhigh-density urbanity overlaid with a ruralnetwork. The resulting city has a tartan liketexture of pure urban areas (or cells), purerural cells, and cells which are a hybridof rural and urban. Each network bandis approximately 1.8 x 1.8km. The ruralnetwork harnesses renewable power,treats all waste, and grows food for thecity. 90% of the city’s power is generatedvia wind channeled through the ruralnetwork. This eco-polis comprises richarchitectural imagery made coherentthrough consistent solar controlledbuilding envelopes. The overlappingnetworks of program provide arrays ofhybrid zones, providing the city with vitalflexibility for a sustainable future.The city is situated on an Australian surfcoast where tidal and wave power stationsprovide a backdrop to ongoing Australianbeach culture – a place for humorousreferences to the traditional great outdoors.This extraordinary eco-polis, a greenoasis sitting in the desert provides a richdialectic image. A

Fear Free CityJustyna Karakiewicz,Tom Kvan andSteve HatzellisMould CityPeter Raisbeck, Nicola Doveyand Simon Wollan(as part of Colony Collective)Michael Sorkin (in Local Code) assertsthat “…freedom, pleasure, convenience,beauty, commerce and production are thereasons for the city… participation in theseattributes is a fundamental civic right andmust ever be refined through the filter ofconsent”. Why is it we escape the freedomof the city and head for the suburbs whereour families become prisoners of ourdreams, isolated by the car fromcommunity involvement into zonesof privatization and disengagement?From the popular press, you mightconclude that we fear the city, its crimeand antisocial behavior. In search of safeand affordable living, we flee, movingfurther from the centre, thus spendingmuch of our free time commuting. Wesearch for space, but we end up witha tiny hardscape garden barely enoughfor a barbeque and a few potted plants.We fear climate change, knowing that thislifestyle is unsustainable without drasticrevision. We shower more efficiently,compete with our neighbors by reducingwater consumption to a minimum, andwatch our precious garden die. We knowthat this is not enough so we blamegovernment (or the rest of the world);we all carry on in fear of the future. Eachday we open the Pandora’s box in whichsomeone has forgotten to put hope.This project seeks to flush away fearand reveal the many opportunities for arewarding, sustainable city. The proposalstarts with NOW: 7 Desperate Dreamsfollowed by THEN: 7 Desiring Dreams,which lead us to develop the foundationwhere dreams become reality in theFEAR FREE CITY. AMould City is an urban system whichreconfigures the relationship betweenhumans and shelter. In 2050 Australiansuburbs and cities will require a newenergy system which will require a newlanguage of urbanism. Mould Cityproposes that the garlands of the Vitruvianprimitive hut have been given a new lifeof the physicality of inanimate materials.Mould City is a response to the currenturban situation. A situation in which carbonproduction is choking the earth’s citiesand suburbs. In response to this situation,Mould City reconsiders the Australiansuburbs and city of 2050 as a family ofsensual experiences which reverberatewith the seasons, the moon and the sun.Mould is an integrated, interacting systemsof environs. The mould is introduced on theoutskirts of the suburbs. It was designed togrow in the new environment on thesuburbs existing infrastructure. Mouldcolonies form and reform. Along withshelter, the mould provides food. As words,mould urbanism evokes both the intricaciesof slime mould and those vessels whichgive form to plastic material. The mouldgrows across over and through the oldinfrastructure of the city. The mould isan urban architecture which needs directsolar energy. It changes and respondsto the sun’s orientation during the seasons.It waxes and wanes with the moon.It spreads across the suburbs andis sensitive to the energy levels of itsinhabitants. It is like a foam that aeratesitself when happiness abounds. Poreswill form in the mould so it can breathe.Water vessels and reservoirs will formin the mould both as heat sinksand as replenishment. Mould factorieswill produce new products. The mouldwill adapt to the seasonal and diurnalcycles of its inhabitants. It will be thesetting for new rituals and harvest festivals.The architecture of the mould allows a newrealm of sensual experiences to come intoplay for its inhabitants. Smell, sight touchand taste and thermal experiences areall. The mould is a living organism of thecommunity nursed by the sun. It nurtureslife and offers protection to all within itsrealm. The mould helps its inhabitants torelease new energies which reverberatewithin it. This promotes bio developmentinstead of techno degeneration. MouldCity bridges the gulf that divides anurbanism based on digital diatoms fromone based on radical community politics.Colony is a collective of architects whoproduce utopian vision in response totoday’s climate crisis. Our inspiration isthe architecture of the 60s mashed withthe suburbs of Corrigan. Our inspirationis Yona Friedman, Archigram, Superstudioand Archizoom. A

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE016 | 02 017THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGThe Encyclopaedia ofAustralian ArchitectureA UNIQUE AND AMBITIOUS PUBLICATION IN THE MAKINGlouisA RAGASA unique and exciting publishing projectis currently underway within the Facultyof Architecture, Building and Planning.The Encyclopaedia of AustralianArchitecture. This publication is beingcompiled and edited by Professor PhilipGoad and Associate Professor Julie Willis,with assistance from Research FellowDr Kim Torney and will be published byCambridge University Press in 2011. Thisambitious project draws together scholarsfrom across Australia and overseas toresult in the first collection of its type onAustralian architecture.The Encyclopaedia of AustralianArchitecture will embrace all Australianarchitecture to the present day, includingindigenous, colonial, modern andcontemporary buildings. To underpinthe truly national scope of this project,the editors established a national advisoryboard with coordinators appointed foreach state. Members of the board includeacademics, architectural historians andheritage professionals. Managementof the project is based at the Faculty ofArchitecture, Building and Planning (ABP).Around 260 scholars and practitionershave contributed their expertise by draftingentries for the Encyclopaedia. Many ofthese are from our own Faculty including,Miles Lewis, Scott Drake, Hannah Lewi,Peter Raisbeck, Paul Walker, AndrewSaniga, Denham Groves, Andrew Hutson,Clare Newton, Philip Goad and Julie Willis.Two of the most interesting entries areon Aboriginal architecture and TorresStrait Island architecture, both byProfessor Paul Memmott from theUniversity of Queensland.The breadth of the publication issignificant: there will be around 1300entries across a broad range of subjects.There is a strong emphasis on biographicalentries (individuals and firms), includingmajor architects and firms, as well asentries discussing the professions ofengineering, construction, planning andlandscape architecture, as they relateto the design of the built environment.There are also entries for major buildings,movements, styles, building materials andbuilding types, technical developmentsand materials, as well as related issuessuch as building regulations, urban designand environmental architecture.The Encyclopaedia of AustralianArchitecture is envisaged as a generalreference work, and individual entries willbe accessible to a secondary school pupilas well as the specialist reader. The aim ofthe project is to make factual informationconveniently available to the reader, as wellas provide critical insights into the contextin which the architect(s) practised and thecontext in which building was designed,constructed and received, bothprofessionally and publicly.Overall, the Encyclopaedia will be theonly one of its kind in Australia and itwill become the standard reference toolon Australian architecture for experts,students and the general community.This project has been made possibleby the generous support of Lovell ChenArchitects & Heritage Consultants andLorenz and Manola Grollo, Equiset,Grollo Group. A1. 2.Image captions:1. Detail of the Australia window,Sydney Town Hall, designedby Lucien Henry (Photographby Greg Piper)2. Launceston Holy Trinity, Tasmania,architect Alexander North(Photograph by John Maidment)3. The Ether Building at Moorilla,designed by Rosevear Architects>

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE018 | 02 019THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGMSD SummerResearch InternshipsSUPPORTING TALENTED STUDENTS TOdevelop AND PUBLISH INNOVATIVE RESEARCHLOUISA RAGASThe Melbourne School of Design (MSD),the graduate school within the Facultyof Architecture Building and Planning,is committed to creating opportunitiesfor its students to extend their researchand writing talents and make an impactin communities beyond the Universityof Melbourne. It is one of the factors thatdistinguishes the Melbourne School ofDesign, its teaching program, knowledgetransfer and research activities.The MSD Summer Research Internshipsprogram launched this summer embodiesthis spirit of engagement and studentdevelopment. It encourages highachievingstudents across all MSDdisciplines – architecture; urban design;urban planning; landscape architecture;property; construction management -to extend, refine and publish researchthat they may have worked on withina specific subject. The program wasspecifically devised to encouragecoursework students to publish theiroriginal research, with flow-throughbenefits back to both the student andthe Faculty. Developing and publishingtheir research boosts the student’sscholarship score employability,and by connection increases theFaculty’s publication profile.MSD students who had completed a25-point research project as part of theircoursework were eligible to apply for thesummer internship program in late 2009.Eight applications were received andassessed by a panel of Faculty academics- Professor Kim Dovey, Professor PhilipGoad, Professor Bharat Dave, AssociateProfessor Julie Willis and AssociateProfessor Paul Walker. Following thiscompetitive application process, four8-week internships were offered andthree were taken up: by Christina Collierand Matthew Ford, both Master of UrbanPlanning students, and by Allison Stout,a Master of Architecture student.Each of the successful students haddemonstrated an aptitude for researchand proposed ‘current’ topics they werepassionate about - topics which wereinnovative, in-depth and had the potentialto be published in high-profile, refereedjournals. The three interns were eachpaid a bursary of $500 per week andwere given office space to write up theirresearch projects, to bring them to apublishable standard, with the supportof their supervisors.Allison Stout chose to refine her researchproject on indigenous housing andcommunity engagement – a topic borneout of her experience working withindigenous communities in the NorthernTerritory, Southwest Victoria and mostrecently Papua New Guinea. Her paper,‘Giving voice to indigenous housing: acase study of design consultation with‘top end’ fringe communities’, identifiesways to negotiate different avenuesof imagination across cultural divides.It outlines the consultative processemployed in a MSD project to renovate aderelict house in a town camp communitynear Darwin. The paper discusses therenovation project conducted in 2009,and reflects on the collaborative andcreative problem-solving process thatoccurred during three-month consultationand ten-day renovation periods.‘During my studies, my passion forsustainable and socially aware designbecame focused on Indigenous Housingand Architecture after completing adesign studio during my second yearat the University of Melbourne,’ Allisonsays. ‘The studio was Dr David O’Brien’sfirst attempt to work with IndigenousAustralians after doing similar workin Indonesia.’For Allison being a MSD SummerResearch Intern had numerous benefits.‘It gives the hard work put into writinga research paper a sense of realization,’she says. ‘Being a part of anotheraspect of academia has been extremelyinteresting and eye-opening. Also, beingable to let future employers know thatI am most likely going to be publishedis an added bonus that has assuredan interview everywhere I’ve appliedthus far.’ Allison also praises hersupervisor Dr David O’Brien for makingthe experience ‘fantastic’ and actingas her mentor throughout the process.Allison, who aims to specialize inIndigenous Architecture, is currentlyworking as a research assistant at theUniversity of Melbourne and has juststarted her own design practice. ‘I dohope to continue this sort of work asit has become a lifelong passion andpursuit,’ she says.Christine Collier, another of the successfulInterns, concurs with Allison’s positiveview of the internship program. Herpaper ‘Urban Planning Regulations forEcologically Sustainable Development(ESD) in Victoria: Beyond BuildingControls’ explores the current andpotential ability of urban planningassessment mechanisms to achieveecologically sustainable buildings,using the Victorian planning systemas a case study.‘Being a recipient of the internship hasgiven me more confidence in my abilities.I worked closely my supervisor, Dr AlanMarch, who guided me through theprocess and assisted in refining myarguments and improving my writingskills. This was fundamental tosuccessfully turning my thesis into anarticle,’ Christine says. ‘The internshipalso gave me a better understandingof the nature of research and of thewider research community. Theopportunity to interact with researchstudents at the faculty gave me aglimpse of what it’s like to be anacademic researcher and has promptedme to seriously consider undertakinga PhD.’

We’re inthis togetherCreating viable and ecologically sensitivecities through the inclusions of ESDprinciples in planning controls has longbeen an interest of Christine’s. ‘My particularinterest in the nexus between buildingand planning regulation stems from myundergraduate studies and professionalexperience in the field of constructionmanagement. This experience exposedme to the scant regard conventional buildingpractices have for the natural environmentand prompted me to pursue a career whichwould allow me to influence the environmentalperformance of buildings from the outset.ESD in the built environment is definitelya research area I’m interested in pursuingfurther in the future.’The MSD Summer Research Internshipprogram is just another way the MSD issupporting students to extend their researchpassions and impact their own futures.To set up and fund the program, ‘StrategicInitiative Funding’ was secured from theFaculty of Architecture, Building andPlanning. The aim, however, is for theinternship program to be self-sufficientthrough external support.Giving opportunity:If you are interested in supporting the MSDSummer Research Internship program andfurthering the careers of high-achievingMSD students, please contact TheoGouskos - tgouskos@unimelb.edu.auor phone: 03 8344 1191. AThroughout its history, the Faculty of Architecture, Building andPlanning has received the generous support of alumni and friendswho donate each year to provide scholarships for our studentsand support our teaching and research staff.In the early 1960s a student appeal committee comprising RobertPeck (chairman), Margaret Suchestow and Miles Lewis in associationwith Prof. B.B.Lewis (Dean of Architecture), L.U.Simon (Directorof Building) and Rai Rahni wrote:‘The School of Architecture and Building at the University ofMelbourne is appealing for support to complete its building. Therehave been appeals in the past, and the response has been generous.The building exists in spite of governmental indifference, and solelybecause the building industry has loyally donated brick by brick,the bulk of the materials needed.We are asking for more than this. The School has emerged asa leader in the British Commonwealth, and locally as a centre forbuilding, architecture, and the arts. To maintain these functions theSchool MUST have research and testing laboratories, postgraduatefacilities exhibitions spaces, and a library capable of serving theindustry The School WILL have these because 700 students areasking, and will continue to ask, for help from every source. Thisappeal concerns the whole business community. The building industryis vital to the economy of the country, and is as desperately in needof trained architects and builders as it is of adequate research andtesting. We firmly believe that this project should be shouldered byevery company, every foundation, and every individual capable ofhelping in any way. We are not merely struggling for existence;we are planning to make this School the best in the world’.Today the Faculty of ABP is embarking on its next stage of evolution.Although the times have changed, our vision to create one of theworld’s leading architectural and design centres remains the same.In their call to action at the time the students and staff asked thatthe community to invest in their future. Such foresight ensured therewas capacity to educate generations of students, many of whom aredistinguished graduates, leaders throughout all of our professions.Once again, we are at a definitive moment and ask you to continuethe tradition of investing in the future generation of graduates fromour Faculty. AMSD Summer Research InternsChristine Collier and Allison Stout

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE020 | 021THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGYES! I want to support the Faculty of Architecture, Buildingand Planning, University of Melbourne through my gift of:Here is my single gift of:$100 $250 $500Chancellor’s Circle$1,000 $2,500 $5,000 Other $Please establish a recurring gift (Visa or MasterCard only):$20 $30 $50 $75$100 $250 $500Chancellor’s Circle > $1,000 Other $Monthly orAnnually for:1 year 2 years 3 yearsEnclosed is my cheque or money order(Payable to University of Melbourne) orPlease charge my credit card:Visa MasterCard American ExpressAccount NumberExpiry Date /Name as appears on cardSignaturePlease direct my support to:Scholarships Research New BuildingThe Faculty’s Highest Priorities:In publications and donor honour rolls,I/we wish my/our name to read as follows:Please do not publicly acknowledge this gift.I am considering leaving a bequest to the Universityand would like some further information to be sent.Please return your form to:University of Melbourne Advancement OfficeUniversity of Melbourne VIC 3010 AustraliaTel: +61 3 8344 1751 Fax: +61 3 9348 0013Email: university-fund@unimelb.edu.auURL: www.unimelb.edu.au/givingThe University of Melbourne is a certified DGR. All gifts over $2.00to the University are tax-deductible in Australia. ABN: 84 002 705 224The University of Melbourne must comply with the Information Privacy Principlesof the Information Privacy Act 2000 (Vic) when collecting, using or handling personalinformation. Your details will not be passed on to a third party in breach of privacy laws.The University’s privacy policy is available at http://www.unimelb.edu.au/unisec/privacy.

1994 ReunionRichard Hanson(BPD (Bldg) 1992, BBldg 1994,MBA 2004)The 1994 Bachelor of Building graduatesheld a reunion on the 18th November2009 to celebrate 15 years since thecompletion of studies, as well as toreacquaint themselves with old friendsand to engage with the ongoing changesat the University. The night was hostedby Professor Thomas Kvan, Dean of theFaculty of Architecture, Building andPlanning, and it was his very generoussupport which enabled the functionto be held in the stunning surroundsof the Robin Boyd House in Walsh St,South Yarra.Of the 30 or so graduates from thatyear, 22 were able to attend, which isremarkable given that quite a numberare now living and working overseas.Also, there was the current head of theProperty and Construction Department,Paolo Tombesi, and Peter Williams, theformer head of the Bachelor of Buildingprogram and personal friend to manyof the year group.The group was given a tour of thehouse and garden prior to dinner,which included a talk on the historyof the house and Robin Boyd’sarchitectural philosophies. We wereblessed with a balmy November night,which allowed the dinner to be heldin the central garden courtyard andcertainly added to the special feelingof the night.Professor Kvan welcomed the guests,and gave an insight into the changesoccurring at the University, particularlywith regard to the Melbourne Modeland the Faculty of Architecture, Buildingand Planning. He also mentioned theexciting proposed new building to housethe Faculty, and the design progresswhich has been achieved so far. PaoloTombesi gave insights into the currentdevelopment of the curriculum andother recent achievements.Peter Williams gave a warm and heartfeltspeech which was appreciated by all.He also encouraged the year group todevelop a culture of giving back to theUniversity, and he publicly made apersonal commitment to this cultureby announcing his signing up to theDean’s Circle there and then! A numberof others also subsequently madesignificant contributions to the newbuilding fund, including other newDean’s Circle members.I gave a vote of thanks on behalf ofthe year group to Professor Kvan andhis generous hospitality. We will longremember this special night. It was agreat opportunity to catch up with oldfriends and 15 years of news. It wasalso great to hear of the continuingstrength of the Construction andProperty programs which all of theattendees benefitted so much from,and which we to wish to continue tosee prosper. Many also noted theirwillingness to contribute to the programswith the further development of closelinks with industry, to assist with makingthe courses as relevant and practicalas possible. A

Atrium13 | 2010PAGE022 | 023THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNINGFrom the FacultyExhibitions, Lecturesand ExpeditionsCatherin Bull and Kim Dovey recently tookpart in the Prime Minister’s National Summitfor the Future of Australian Urban Centresand Cities. They were ‘expert contributors’in the Designing the City working group,led by Pru Sanderson (CEO of VicUrban).Paul Walker participated in the 2009World Architecture Festival (WAF) late lastyear, as a representative of ArchitectureNew Zealand, the New Zealand mediapartner of WAF. Paul published a pieceon the WAF in the Jan/Feb 2010 editionof Architecture Australia.Philip Goad was guest speaker at andopened the exhibition Wilson Hall: Centreand Symbol of the University in the LeighScott Gallery in the Baillieu Library in March.The exhibition, which documents the Reedand Barnes Gothic Revival design, as wellas the modern Wilson Hall, has beencurated by the Conservation Programwithin the Cultural Collections of theUniversity Library and is on showuntil 17 May 2010.Also in March, Philip Goad was guestspeaker at an event held at the Robin BoydHouse, South Yarra. This was the first eventfor bequest donors as part of the Universityof Melbourne’s Heritage Society calendar,an initiative of the University’sAdvancement Office.Jianfei Zhu travelled to Nanjing, China inearly April to present in a workshop ‘Words,Drawings and Translations in Architecture’at Southeast University (31 March – 4 April).It was the first event in a six-year longproject titled ‘AS Contemporary ArchitectureTheory Forum’, jointly organized by theAA School of Architecture, SoutheastUniversity, and SMAG (Shanghai ModernArchitecture Group).Strewth: That’s Heritage!, coordinatedby Andrew Saniga and Hannah Lewi, wasthe first ABP exhibition for 2010, held inthe Wunderlich Gallery in February.This photographic exhibition, held inassociation with the Green Fields, BrownFields, New Fields Australasian UrbanHistory/Planning History Conference,presented images of heritage sites, andchallenged our perceptions what defines‘heritage’.The exhibition WOOD/cardboard:furniture, prototypes, models, byHamish Hill and Alex Selenitsch 1992-2010 ran in the Wunderlich Gallery from22 March to 16 April. Hamish Hill and AlexSelenitsch have taught a furniture electiveat the Faculty of Architecture Building andPlanning since 1992, and their creativeinteraction in the workshop extends overthe same period. That interaction formedthe subject of the exhibition, which broughttogether individual and collaborative works.The first event in the 2010 Dean’s LectureSeries saw the prominent Chilean architectMathias Klotz travel from Santiago toMelbourne to present a fascinating lectureto a capacity local audience. The lecturegave us a very personal insight into hisarchitectural practice and vision. Mathiashas achieved international recognitionfor his residential, commercial and publicarchitecture. His work encompasses aconcern for the environment, local historyand culture and a strong sense of place.In May, we hosted William Cobbett,Manager of Cities Alliance (WashingtonD.C.) who presented an intriguing Dean’slecture on the challenge of scale in arapidly urbanising world.The Faculty also hosted Erika Esau, VisitingFellow from the School of Humanities atThe Australian National University, in March.Erika presented a free public lecture on thearchitecture connections between Australianand Californian house design based uponresearch for her new book Images ofthe Pacific Rim: Australia and California1850-1935. This intriguing lecture drewa large audience passionate aboutarchitectural heritage and design.The first exhibition in our ABP AlumniRetrospective Series for 2010, profilesthe practice and vision of one our mostprominent graduate architects –Daryl Jackson. The exhibition entitledARCHITECTURE: A cultural confluenceof change: structure / form / programme/ expression was presented in theWunderlich Gallery from 19 to 30 April.Established in 1965, Jackson Architectureis an international practice with offices inMelbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane,London, Vietnam and China. The practiceencompasses a range of experience andexpertise including schools and universities;libraries; sports arenas and recreationalspaces; commercial offices; hospitals;hotels; and airports. Major projects include:Etihad Stadium, the Sydney Conservatoriumof Music, Wesley College, the MCG’sSouthern Stand, the University of Ballarat,and the Australian Film, Television & RadioSchool. The ABP Alumni RetrospectiveSeries is intended to highlight theextraordinary range and contribution tothe urban environment of alumni fromall professional programs within the Facultyof Architecture, Building and Planning,both recent and past. As ProfessorPhilip Goad noted:‘The exhibition shows the diversity ofJackson’s practice and the extent of hiscollaborative reach, and the internationaland national presence of his work. Aboveall, it shows his ongoing commitment toan idea of the city as a place that is vital,in flux but cognizant of its past, resilientand robust, and as a place where buildings,their spaces and the spaces between aremicrocosms of the world of propinquity andall the social structures that coalesce asthe city of today.’ ACover:Page 2-3:Associate Professor Justyna KarakiewiczJoel Lee, Master of ArchitecturePage 4-5:mike Thomas and Jonathan Long,Master of ArchitecturePage 6-7: sarah Crowley, Master of ArchitecturePage 14-15: tim Clarke, Master of Architecture

CongratulationsThree projects from the Faculty ofArchitecture, Building and Planning havebeen selected as finalists to exhibit in theAustralian Pavilion at the 2010 VeniceArchitecture Biennale, the world’s mostimportant architecture event. The winningABP projects are:» Symbiotic City (Steve Whitford withJames Brearley, BAU Brearley Architects& Urbanists)» Mould City (Peter Raisbeck, NicolaDovey and Simon Wollan, as partof Colony Collective)» The Fear Free City (JustynaKarakiewicz, Tom Kvan with SteveHatzellis, WSH Architects)For full details of this significantachievement for our Faculty, readthe Venice Biennale story on page 14.Congratulations to Anna Hurlimann,Clare Mouat and David Nichols fora very successful outcome of the 10thAustralasian Urban History, PlanningHistory conference held in the Facultyin February.Congratulations to Alan March, whosepaper ‘Institutional Impediments toPlanning Professionalism in Victoria,Australia’ was selected by the GlobalPlanning Education Association Network’sInternational Board as a ‘Global Best’paper for the period 2007-9. The paperwill be republished in Dialogues in Urbanand Regional Planning Volume 4 in 2011.Congratulations to Tony Arnel (alumnus),Victorian Building Commissioner, onbeing awarded the Australian Instituteof Architects Inaugural Leadership inSustainability Prize. This is a wonderfulrecognition of Tony’s contribution to policydevelopment in the area, and is reflectedin the increase in the standards ofsustainable building practice.Several of our recent MSD graduateshave distinguished themselves by beingawarded major architecture prizes.Fiona Lew won the BlueScope SteelGlen Murcutt Student Prize for herindigenous housing project, announcedat the inaugural Australian Achievementin Architecture Awards (AAA) in March;and Daria Leikina won the Bates Smart/University of Melbourne prize. AKey events coming upbooksDEAN’S LECTURE SERIES 2010Jane Wernick (Jane Wernick Associates,Consulting Engineers, London)Engineering Delight - collaborationson projects to make you smile3 August, 2010, 7pmCarrillo Gantner TheatreBasement, Sidney Myer Asia CentreThe University of MelbourneFor full details visit: www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/deans-lectures/wernickCONFERENCEAUBEA 2010Construction Management(s)Australasian Universities BuildingEducation Association 35thAnnual Conference14-16 July, 2010Faculty of Architecture,Building and Planning,The University of MelbourneFor full details visit the MSD website -www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/conferences/aubea2010/GRANT SUCCESSCarolyn Whitzman secured an AustralianDevelopment Research Award withthe Nossal Institute on Global Health:‘Improving access for people with disabilitiesthrough inclusive infrastructure developmentin rural and urban PNG’ (2010-2013).Carolyn will be working with Jennifer Dayon this important research.Sun Sheng Han was recently successfulin an international grant applicationto the Asia Pacific Network for ClimateChange Research (March 2010) on atwo year project entitled ‘The impactof spatial parameters on GHG emission:a comparative study between citiesin China and India’. He will lead aninternational team of researchers fromChina and India to work on the projectin 2010-2012.Qinghua Guo’s book The mingqi PotteryBuildings of Han Dynasty China 206 BC–AD220: Architectural Representations andRepresented Architecture was publishedin March by Sussex Academic Press.In this fascinating publication, Qinghuaexamines a particular type of mingqi- pottery buildings unearthed in China.Dr Muharem (Harry) Karamujic launchedhis book The Determination of HomeLoan Interest Rates and an EmpiricalAssessment of their Cyclicality andSeasonality on 24 March. Harry is a SeniorLecturer in Property and Finance in theFaculty and worked with the National Bankof Australia before becoming an academic.EYES 2009, featuring a collection ofinnovative projects and research bystudents and staff in the Faculty, waslaunched in March. This year the EYESpublication is a set of three books basedon three distinct themes: Communities,Cities, Global. Copies of eyes 2009 areavailable through the University ofMelbourne bookshop.Page 19:brandon Wong, Master of Architecture

PAGE024 | 02Atrium13 | 2010contactfAculty of Architecture,Building & PlanningUniversity of MelbourneVictoria 3010 Australiaphone + 61 3 8344 6417www.abp.unimelb.edu.auPublished by the Facultyof Architecture, Building and PlanningAuthorised by Professor Tom Kvan, DeanFaculty of Architecture, Building & Planning,May 2010ISSN 1447-1728The University of MelbourneCRICOS provider code: 00116K