They join current appointees of Melonie Bayl-Smith, Randolph Griffths, Dan Hill, Professor Tong Wu, Professor Andrew Benjamin.

	Professor Charles Rice Adjunct Professor Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He is currently Head of School, School of Art & Design History at Kingston University, London. Until 2010, Charles was Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Rice’s research considers questions of the interior across the arts. His 2007 book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity, analysed the way in which a modern concept of the domestic interior emerged from the beginning of the nineteenth century.
	Professor Richard Goodwin Adjunct Professor Richard Goodwin is currently a Professor of Fine Arts and Design at COFA in Sydney, a highly awarded and exhibited architect, and an internationally recognized installation and performance artist. Over a long career invested in the borderlands between architecture and art, research and design, Professor Goodwin has established himself as one of Australia’s preeminent “spatial” practitioners, a unique positioning of creative practice and research at the intersection of Architecture, Sculpture, Performance and Urbanism.
	Chris Bosse Adjunct Professor Chris is a founding partner of internationally renowned architecture firm L.A.V.A., and principal of the Asia Pacific office. Chris came to prominence as the design architect of the Beijing Olympic Swim center, the Watercube for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during his time at PTW in Sydney. Since that time, Chris has only reinforced his credentials as a leading international contemporary figure in the most cutting edge design in architecture crossing sustainability and natural systems research.
	David Neustein Associate David Neustein is a director of Other Architects, a collaborative, design-orientated architectural practice based in Sydney. He also teaches within the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Technology, Sydney, tackling diverse topics such as landscape infrastructure, temporary installations, neoclassicism and professional practice. In 2012 he received the biennial Adrian Ashton Prize for Architectural Journalism from the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects
	Adam Russell Associate Adam Russell is a registered , practising architect and Principal of DRAW in Sydney. He is recognised for a number of significant projects including his role on the SydneyCENRAL Parramatta Road Strategic Plan and DBE+W apartment project in Japan , both projects resulted from winning international design competitions. Adam has particular expertise in urban design and housing. Adam led the design team for the award winning Mondrian Apartment project whilst associate architect with Stanisic Associates.

Metro Sydney

This will be held at lunchtime *1pm* on Friday, 31st May 2013, Level 5 UTS School of Architecture (located directly behind the lifts), Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

Metro Sydney – Chris Johnson

My dialogue with metropolitan Sydney has evolved from designing individual buildings to master plans for major precincts to planning strategies for city centres to broad urban planning reforms. More recently my role has been as an advocate for the private sector developers by encouraging bottom up proposals for more jobs in Western Sydney or the Urban Renewal of the Parramatta Road corridor or even tapping into the retiring baby boomers wanting to live in urban locations. The big issue right now for Sydney is the pendulum swing from low density detached housing to more urban apartment living. Bernard Salt calls this the swing from “suburbia” to “apartmentia”.

Sydney’s growth has slowed down to 1.1% each year over the last 10 while Melbourne grows at 1.7%. Our housing supply over the last 10 years has been 14,500 a year when we require 27,500 a year. Sydney needs a good dose of pro-growth pro density confidence building to counter act the NIMBY anti-growth, anti-change mentality in much of the community. Through the Urban Taskforce, I am driving a campaign on EcoDenCity that demonstrates the positives of density as the city of Vancouver has done. With a growing army of ageing baby boomers wanting to protect suburbia, Sydney needs a new swat squad of younger urban dwellers to support the new apartmentia.

Chris Johnson AM, Chief Executive Officer

Chris Johnson is a former NSW Government Architect and former Executive Director at the NSW Department of Planning.   He has extensive experience in the planning system and the delivery of major projects.

Chris was a member of the Central Sydney Planning Committee for 10 years and the NSW Heritage Council and has represented New South Wales on many national bodies.

He is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) and a member of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). He has also received the Order of Australia in 2012. He has written 14 books on planning and architecture and has been an adjunct professor at three universities in New South Wales.

Chris has a Bachelor of Architecture from Sydney University; a Master of the Built Environment from the University of Technology, Sydney; a Master of Architecture from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Cultural Heritage from Deakin University.

Chris Johnson was Director of Chris Johnson Special Projects for 3 years undertaking consulting services in the areas of architecture, planning and urban design. He was also the recipient of the Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship award for 2011.

Sydney – Bigger and Better, not Bigger and Bigger

This will be held at lunchtime *1pm* on Friday, 24th May 2013, Level 5 UTS School of Architecture (located directly behind the lifts), Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

There needs to be a fundamental shift in thinking about Sydney as it approaches a population of 7 million around 2051. In ‘Sydney Since the Twenties’, in 1978, Peter Spearitt observed that, “we seem to get more excited about expanding rather than improving”. Increasingly Global Cities are competing to attract the best and brightest. How will Sydney compete on this stage? How will we attract Sydneysiders INTO the city rather than the EDGE of it?

David Holm – Director, Cox Architecture
David Holm is Director responsible for Transport and Infrastructure projects working in Australia and internationally. David’s design focus is in the provision of memorable and successful public built form driven by the interaction of design philosophies and practical constraints.  His key projects include Hyderabad “Aerotropolis” Exhibition and Convention Centre and the new North West Rail Link in Sydney. David works regularly with several education institutions, is a recipient of the NSW Board of Architects Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship and a current Churchill Fellow.   He is passionate about drawing and has published two books; ‘Drawing Italy’ and ‘Drawing Paris’.  He is a Councillor on the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and a New South Wales Board of Architects Registration Examiner.

Philip Graus – Director, Cox Architecture
Philip Graus is a partner of Cox Architecture, a national design practice involved in architecture, planning and urban design. Philip is primarily responsible for residential, urban design and master planning projects. Philip is involved in industry and professional groups including the UDIA Urban Renewal Committee, and AIA and PIA Built Environment and Urban Design Committees respectively. A major focus has been investigating the challenges facing urban renewal.  Philip has qualifications in Urban and Regional Planning from the UNE as well as in architecture from the University of Sydney and University of Pennsylvania. Awards include Fulbright and Eugene Kohn Fellowships, Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship as well as the Stephenson and Turner Scholarship and Medal.

Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones

The shortlist, which comprises a record number of submissions, was selected by the Institute’s Venice Biennale Committee (VBC) led by Immediate Past President and Venice Biennale Commissioner Brian Zulaikha.

Shortlisted entries are:

Under Construction – Dr Elizabeth Farrelly, Grace Mortlock, David Neustein and Dan Hill with Other Architects and Fabrica (NSW)
Augmented Australia 1914-2014 – felix. + Sophie Giles & Simon Anderson (WA)
Flatpack Pavilion – Zanny Begg, Chris Fox, Helen Lochhead and John Choi (NSW)
Openings – Andrew Burns / Mark Gowing / Brett Boardman (NSW)
Distinctions + Contradictions, At Home with Australian Architecture by Associate Professor Jay Younger, Lindy Johnson, Elizabeth Watson Brown, Jennifer Taylor (Advisor), and Tony Gooley Design (QLD)
Between – FloodSlicer and Two4K (VIC)
The Peephole Hoarding – The AU: Monica Earl, Daniel Fink, Tamara Frangelli, Nic Moore, Gabriele Ulacco with Suzanne Boccalatte of Boccalatte (NSW)

For the next stage of the competition each team will further develop their proposal and present to the VBC on June 6. The appointed Creative Director Team will be announced in July.

“around the globe’s surface and under the space junk – the metropolis ? – don’t think so”

This will be held at lunchtime *1pm* on Friday, 17th May 2013, Level 5 UTS School of Architecture (located directly behind the lifts), Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

This talk and speculation looks at ‘things’ which have, do and may underpin the evolution of urbanism (and the metropolis). It is often what you don’t see (as an architect) which determines the ‘metropolis’; put simply; trade, laws, politics, wars, capital flows and collective imaginations. Geography, gravity and demography are easier to spot.

With over 50% of humanity living in our networked ‘metropoli’, what is it we might actually be building around the globe’s surface and under our space junk?

Dale Jones-Evans is an artist, award-winning architect, property developer, independent publisher (POLIS: a journal on planning, urban geography, politics and design 1993-96), contemporary art collector and philanthropist.

http://dje.com.au

To download the pdf document of ‘What Does An Architect Do?’, please visit:

http://architectureinsights.com.au/education/what-does-an-architect-do/

Burying the Dead.
Commemoration and the Secret of the City’s Survival

This will be held at lunchtime *1pm* on Friday, 10th May 2013, Level 5, UTS School of Architecture (located directly behind the lifts), Faculty of DAB (Building 6), 702 – 730 Harris St, Broadway 2007

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His books include Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy’s Literature (2001), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004), Writing Art and Architecture (2010) and Of Jews and Animals (2010).

Andrew Benjamin is currently a Distinguished Professor at UTS.

Image: architecture.about.com

International Symposium, ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory, Aedes Network Campus Berlin, 1-2 October 2013

In the light of increasing environmental awareness, timber emerged at the forefront of material investigations in architecture over the past decades. Waste material from the end of the manufacturing process, or recycled material is fused with other materials to produce composites with changed structural, performative and aesthetic properties. Pulped, cast, bundled, 3D-printed, and robotically-stacked, new technologies enabled a radical shift away from traditional tectonics and towards articulations previously associated with other materials such as concrete, masonry and plastics. Together, these experiments give rise to a new techno-aesthetic paradigm that could be described as a form of transmateriality.

In nineteenth century architectural theory, Gottfried Semper’s Practical Aesthetics already suggested a synthesis between artistic and technological developments brought about by processes of material transfiguration (Stoffwechsel). Today, new visual languages emerge alongside innovative technologies that  permit the realistic study of material changes across structures:  in folded plates, grid-shells and multi-reciprocal frames, structural integrity is achieved through grading, layering and fusing of surfaces. In practice, developments in timber range from Walter Gropius’s and Konrad Wachsmann’s Packaged House, which unsuccessfully attempted to sell the modern dream of technologically advanced living to the masses, to Jürgen Mayer H’s Metropol Parasol whose captivating elastic forms promise the activation of public space.

In order to explore the interplay between aesthetics and technology in timber architecture, we seek submissions that probe the topic of transmateriality from perspectives that redress imbalances and missing links in the debate.  We welcome critical investigations of historic or theoretical content, as well as practice-oriented contributions and case studies exploring the latest technological research in timber. We also invite proposals for workshops.

Submissions:
Please send a 500-word abstract and a short cv to the symposium convenors Sandra Karina Löschke (sandra.loschke@uts.edu.au) and Matthias Ludwig (matthias.ludwig@hs-wismar.de) by 3 June 2013. Abstracts will be double-blind refereed and notifications will be sent out by 17 June, 2013. If accepted, they will be published on the institutional websites.

The symposium is supported by ARUP and the UTS Centre for Contemporary Design Practices.

Presentation with guests
Friday 3 May 2013, 2PM
Atelier du Grand Paris
Palais de Tokyo
Paris

As part of the Master studio Forms of Displacement, the two-week workshop speculates on the definition and production of environments – hybridising infrastructure, transportation networks, architecture, landscape and collective spaces in the context of the current urban planning consultation for the future of Paris as well as a potential case study for Sydney’s metropolitan strategy.
A broad agenda, combining heterogeneous conditions of space, mobility and program in a system of situated and performative relationships, will be used as theoretical and operational responses to potential effects and side effects of urban transport development.
Without relying on a predictable outcome, intellectual and formal investigation will exploit opportunism, mistakes, complexity and unpredictability to generate and re-establish the role of these territories of displacement.

image: J. Capparelli, J Harrex