- A professional entry degree in Architecture or enabling discipline
- Experience in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in lecture, seminar and design studio format
- Demonstrated capacity for achieving research outcomes
- International experience and engagement with practice and industry is desirable.

Appointment at the higher level of Associate Professor will require you to demonstrate a further depth of knowledge and experience in a leadership role within a university context.

The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is one of Australia’s leading universities. The School of Architecture at UTS is known internationally as a dynamic intellectual environment with strengths in architectural design, urban design, technology and public engagement. Located in the City Campus, the school is situated at the core of the fast developing Sydney Creative Precinct.

Please refer to the position description and selection criteria for further information.

Salary: $101,861 – $130,747 (gross) per annum plus 17% Superannuation.

Please include (1) a complete curriculum vitae, (2) the names of three referees, and (3) A listing of research papers and/or design portfolio in your application.

Click here to receive additional info and to apply:
http://www.jobs.uts.edu.au/job/job_details.cfm?id=703511&from=

Closing date: 16th March 2012

Location:     Sydney
Category:     Academic
Work Type:     Permanent Full Time
Job Ref :    R100112
Open To:     All applicants

- A PhD qualification with a depth of knowledge in issues across contemporary architecture
- Demonstrated excellence in research and teaching
- International experience and demonstrated intellectual leadership in issues across contemporary architectural – theory, design and practice, and their implications for the future of the discipline.
- A record for obtaining and managing successful research grants. You will also be widely published.

The role will involve developing the research culture in the School, leading academic staff in research direction and outcomes and the supervision of postgraduate students.

The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is one of Australia’s leading universities. The School of Architecture at UTS is known internationally as a dynamic intellectual environment with strengths in architectural design, urban design, technology and public engagement. Located in the City Campus, the school is situated at the core of the fast developing Sydney Creative Precinct.

Please refer to the position description and selection criteria for further information.

Salary: $152,666 (gross) per annum plus 17% Superannuation.

Please include (1) a complete curriculum vitae, (2) the names of three referees, and (3) A listing of research papers and/or design portfolio in your application.

Click here to receive additional info and to apply:
http://www.jobs.uts.edu.au/job/job_details.cfm?id=703543&from=

Closing date: 16th March 2012

Location:     Sydney
Category:     Academic
Work Type:     Permanent Full Time
Job Ref :     R110112
Open To:     All applicants

The UTS Great Hall is the primary ceremonial venue of the university which plays host to graduations, public lectures and other major events of the university.

The signature element of the project is “The Mantle”, a fluid skin of perforated aluminium comprising more than 1000 unique facets. The Mantle lines the ceiling and walls, integrating lighting, audio-visual, fire and mechanical services into a dynamic whole, breathing new life into the space.

Beyond the initial brief is the proposed “The Balcony Room”, a soaring reception space annexed to the Hall that capitalises on a commanding view across the future Alumni Green. The Balcony Room adapts a previously underused terrace, enclosing it to provide a link between the main building foyer and the rich, warm interior.

For more pictures and details of the Great Hall project visit: http://www.draw.net.au/projects/uts-great-hall-balcony-room/

Photography by Brett Boardman. Copyright.

6-17 February 2012
Registration closes in January.

In late 2010 and early 2011 Australia experienced the most devastating flooding in years. As a consequence of climate change and rising sea levels, all coastal cities are now at risk of evanescence – fading away. But Sydney, with over 100km of coastal edge and harbourside, will be a ground zero for these changes.

Using Sydney as our testbed, we will develop floatable prototypes and experiment with their potential use in different scenarios. Our focus will not be on land reclamation for urban expansion – as it is in other cities around the world – but rather on land retention and the expansion of new grounds. We will investigate how to manage the tenuous conditions between the manmade and the natural.

The ten-day studio-based design workshop will explore the potential of articulated envelopes and grounds through the use of computational design approaches and the construction of 1:1 inhabitable and floatable spaces. The workshop will be taught by tutors from the AA School and the University of Technology Sydney and will also include input from specialist participants.

In phase one of the workshop, two strands will run in parallel. The first of these is a tooling up session introducing parametric approaches and relational methods, while the second strand is a hands-on material exploration of inflatable structures, floatable surfaces, driftable scapes and lands that surf.  Phase two will see the participants developing a scaled prototype along with a comprehensive future vision of their prototypical landscape deployed in the context of Sydney. This structure will allow the agenda to be approached from varied critical points of view.

Alongside studio-based design tutorials and seminars, a series of lectures and supportive presentations will also take place. During the workshop, we will tour some of the 50 coastal and 12 harbourside beaches that Sydney has to offer to investigate local conditions and test the prototypes in situ.

The intensive ten-day course is open to current architecture and design students, young architects and other designers worldwide. Software Requirements: Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino 3D.

For further information, or to register for the AA Visiting School 2012, please visit:

http://sydney.aaschool.ac.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Infloatables-AA-Visiting-School-Sydney-2012/166891590007638?sk=wall

THE DATES AND INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2012 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

August 29th – November 25th. (Preview August 27th+28th.)

David Chipperfield has been named Director of the Architecture Sector with the specific responsibility of curating the 13th International Architecture Exhibition as part of the 2012 Venice Biennale which will be held in Venice, at the institutional venues of Giardini and Arsenale, from August 29th to November 25th 2012 (preview on August 27th-28th).

Anthony Burke and Gerard Reinmuth, working with TOKO Concept Design, are 2012 creative directors of the Australian Pavilion.

David Chipperfield studied at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association in London. After graduating he worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster. He has taught and lectured worldwide, including as Professor of Architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der BildendenKuenste, Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001; and as visiting professor at schools of architecture in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. David Chipperfield is currently Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University.

David Chipperfield Architects was established in 1984 and currently has more than 250 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. Amongthe practice’s major recent works are the renewed Neues Museum in Berlin; the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska; the City of Justice in Barcelona; the Des Moines Public Library in Iowa; Ninetree Village, a residential district in Hangzhou, China; the new Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany; the Kaufhaus Tyrol department store in Innsbruck and the Peek &Cloppenburgflagship store in Vienna; a laboratory building on the Novartis campus in Basel; and in 2011, the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate and The Hepworth Wakefield, both in the United Kingdom.

Ongoing current projects include a new gallery for the ColecciónJumex in Mexico City; the luxury five star Hotel Café Royal on London’s Regent Street; the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia; the Marrakech Gallery in Morocco; Elizabeth House, a major new office and residential development near Waterloo in London; the James Simon Gallery, a new entrance building to Berlin’s Museum Island; a new wing for the Saint Louis Art Museum in the United States; the Ansaldo City of Cultures in Milan; and a new building for the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland.

From the beginning of his career, David Chipperfield has also been interested in the design and function of interior spaces, including shop interiors for Issey Miyake, Joseph, Dolce &Gabbana, and Valentino,as well as a range of furniture, lighting, and tableware.David Chipperfield’s Tonale range of ceramics for Alessi received the Compassod’Oro in 2011, and the Piana folding chair has recently been acquired for the permanent collection at MoMA.

The practice has won numerous international awards and citations for design excellence, including RIBA and AIA awards, the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007, and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2011. In 1999 David Chipperfield was awarded the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an Honorary Member of the Bund DeutscherArchitekten in 2007 and he was awarded both the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts and the Grand DAI Award (VerbandDeutscherArchitekten- und Ingenieurvereine) for Building Culture in 2010. He holds honorary doctorates from Kingston University (2009) and the University of Kent (2010).

In 2004 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to architecture. He was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 2006, and elected to the Royal Academy in 2008. In 2009 David Chipperfield was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – the highest tribute that can be paid to individuals for service to the nation – and in 2010 he was knighted for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011, he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture; given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen.

http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/news/board27-12.html

UTS Senior Lecturer, Juliet Landler and a group of nine UTS students are currently in Papua New Guinea for Sago Studio 2011.

Sago Studio 2011 is a design-build community development project in Papua New Guinea that will bring together the energies of a range of project partners to address the water and sanitation needs of the remote communities of Laukanu and Kelkel. The project is coordinated by Sago Network and will address immediate needs within the community and aims to be capacity building to catalyse ongoing improvements by bringing together the following project partners:

• Laukanu and Kelkel Communities
• PNG University of Technology
• University of Technology Sydney
• Healthabitat
• Troppo Architects
• Arup Australasia
• Salamaua Local Level Government
• Huon District Administration
• PNG Sustainable Development Program

The studio is currently taking place from 5th December 2011 to 15th January 2012.

Visit the blog website: http://sagostudio2011.wordpress.com/about/

This is one of the travelling studio options offered the School of Architecture (11517 Global Field Studio). For a list of other travelling international studios in the school, please visit: http://www.utsarchitecture.net/index.php/menu/international-studios-travel/

In choosing how to begin your career in Architecture, you should take the opportunity to carefully study the various options and schools available to you. Each university course is unique with a different emphasis, and as you will be committing at least 5 years of study to your degree, you need to make sure to find the right fit for you.

To help you understand the context into which you are entering, a list of websites from both UTS and external Architecture groups and affiliations is included below, that we hope will be useful to you in choosing your course wisely.

At UTS, you will discover we are a publicly oriented, energetic and progressive school, with a design and technology focus and a committed international perspective. Please do not hesitate to contact info@utsarchitecture.net if you have any queries about our course.

Info Day

We will also be hosting an Info Day for commencing students at UTS on the 4th of January, 2012 where we can answer many more questions you might have in person.  More information on Info Day can be found here: http://ug.uts.edu.au/infoday/

USEFUL WEBSITES

UTS Architecture
http://www.utsarchitecture.net/

UTS Faculty of Design Architecture and Building
http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/
http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/architecture/index.html

Course Handbook information
http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/dab/index.html

UTS
http://uts.edu.au/

Facebook and Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/pages/UTS-Architecture/228248767188665?sk=wall
http://www.facebook.com/UTSDAB
https://twitter.com/utsarchitecture
https://twitter.com/utsdab

Australian Institute of Architects
http://www.architecture.com.au/
http://www.architecture.com.au/venicebiennale/?page=12811

Architects Registration Board
http://www.boarch.nsw.gov.au/home.cfm
http://architectureinsights.com.au/

Practices we work with (these can be found on our links post)
http://www.foga.com/
http://terroir.com.au/
http://www.johnstonmarklee.com/
http://www.emergentarchitecture.com/
http://ar-ma.net/
http://assemblage.org.au/
http://www.bencoorey.com/
http://biketank.org/
http://www.biothing.org/
http://www.draw.net.au/
http://dje.com.au/
http://frankminnaert.com/
http://lacoste-stevenson.com.au/
http://l-a-v-a.net/
http://liquidarchitecture.com.au/index.php
http://officefeuerman.com/
http://richard-goodwin.com/web/
http://scalearchitecture.com/
http://silvesterfuller.com/
http://sixdegrees.com.au/
http://supermanoeuvre.com/

Other Supporting networks
http://www.object.com.au/
http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/
http://ulab.posterous.com/
http://isdesignuts.com/
http://utspsm.com/

Of Interest
http://sagostudio2011.wordpress.com/
http://arch-exhibit.blogspot.com/
http://reganching.net/
http://www.australiandesignreview.com/
http://www.monumentmagazine.com.au/
http://www.dezeen.com/
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/gehry-competes-with-ghosts-for-architectural-vision-20101216-18zqq.html
http://www.fmu.uts.edu.au/masterplan/
http://www.fmu.uts.edu.au/masterplan/projects/building6-podium.html

2012 will see the completion of a major facilities renovation in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. New lecture halls, lab spaces, exhibition spaces, common areas and workshops are part of the refurbishment of the building 6 which after nearly 2 years of work will be complete for the 2012 academic year.

Adding to refurbishments in the computer labs, photographic studios and workshops spaces prior to this, building 6 will have a significant new feel as the new spaces open next year.

Importantly for Architecture students, we will gain a full masters studio floor, giving each masters student their own permanent working space and facilities as well as break out spaces, seminar and pin up rooms, and informal lecture and events spaces.

See the link below for more information:
http://www.fmu.uts.edu.au/masterplan/projects/building6-podium.html

It’s December and in Australia that means summer holidays, something I still find difficult to grasp as a native of the northern hemisphere. One of the benefits of teaching at a university is that “school’s out for summer.” But before everyone hits the beach, we must first celebrate and reflect on the work that has been done over the past year.

Architecture programs around Sydney have recently held events to showcase the talents of their best students. In architecture school, it is a rite of passage to exhibit your work. Late nights with little or no sleep become the norm. So much strategic thought and energy goes into every single line drawn on a page. Often much of that hard work can go unnoticed so these venues become a way to showcase the dedication and sophistication of the next generation of architects and their committed teachers.

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) School of Architecture, where I am on the faculty, has hosted its end of year exhibition, INDEX, for the past couple of years. Celebrating the work of students and faculty across all five years of architecture, from first year bachelors to graduating masters students, the show itself has become a substantial event for the city of Sydney and specifically the architectural community. It is a venue for critical discussion and debate on issues of contemporary architecture and urbanism; a way to start a conversation with the community about the state of architecture today.

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Read the full article:
http://untappedcities.com/2011/12/14/celebrating-architecture-in-sydneys-streets/

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The project entitled Beirut Frame: The Architecture of Indifference was awarded the 2011 Institute of Architects NSW Graduate Design Medal earlier this year.

The exhibition will be on until 28 January 2012

Image: Beirut Frame: The Architecture of Indifference by Regan Ching, Laura Guepin & Albert Quizon

Full project description:
http://www.albertquizon.net/project/masterplan-for-beirut-lebanon