Design Is Research - Architecture Lecture Series

Associate Professor Andrew Kudless has been a visiting academic and researcher in robotic fabrication at the Abedian School of Architecture from May 2014. The founder of MATSYS Design, Andrew is an architect based in San Francisco where he is also an associate professor at the California College of the Arts. He has also taught at the Architectural Association (AA), Rice, Yale, and Ohio State where he was the Howard E LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners. Professor Kudless holds degrees from the AA (Emerging Technologies and Design) and Tulane University. His work has been exhibited in the US, England, France, Japan and China, and is in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre, the FRAC Centre, and SFMOMA.”

Clare Design was established in 1979 on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Lindsay and Kerry Clare are a husband and wife team who have produced architectural projects for more than 35 years, including a diverse range of housing and major urban and public buildings. Their work has been consistently acknowledged at home and internationally for design excellence and environmental performance. Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper write, “The Clares” ideas about experiencing natural light and ventilation are merged with their ideas about typology.They fuse ideas about type and climate into building form. Their buildings allow occupants to engage with architecture and the world outside, reinforcing the essential connection with place.”Lindsay + Kerry were jointly awarded the RAIA Gold Medal in 2010 and have over 35 RAIA awards for built works. Their practice is now based in Sydney and the Gold Coast to undertake selected projects across Australia’s eastern seaboard. Their recently completed Melbourne Docklands Library is the first public building to achieve a six star GreenStar rating.Alongside practice Lindsay and Kerry continue their review roles for local Council governments, and teaching as Visiting Professors at the Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University, and as Professors at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle.

Dr Dagmar Reinhardt is a practising architect, researcher and educator, and a principal of Reinhardtjung (www.reinhardtjung.de), a research-based architecture practice that has been widely published, and received numerous recognitions and awards. Lecturing internationally, she currently leads the Master of Digital Architecture Research at the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney. Reinhardt develops design-research through practice projects, design studios, exhibitions and grants in cross-disciplinary work with a focus on relationships between generative design, acoustic simulation, structural engineering, digital fabrication and spatial programming, currently developed as two research streams for physical computation through programming materiality: by engineering the acoustic behaviour of curved geometries in context to the built environment, by choreographing relationships between Kinect sensing, fabricated materiality, body, movement and space in context to interaction design. Her work has been presented to an international peer review through journal publications, invited book chapters, and conference papers (CAADRIA, eCAADe, RobARch, ii Journal, Leonardo). Reinhardt extends computational design towards design research and practice applications, developing design principles for a mathematical language derived from laws of the natural world, and shared between generative design, scripting, sound/music, digital fabrication, interaction design and architecture. She is the initiator and founding member of biome research cluster (www.biome.cc) which produces research interdisciplinary networks, exhibitions and symposiums that engage the design communities in ongoing research.

Dr. Paul Minifie, Associate Professor of Architecture at RMIT, is director of Minifie van Schaik Architects (MvS) which he co-founded in 1999 as Minifie Nixon. The work of Paul’s practice includes the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of Arts, the Australian Wildlife Centre at Healesville Sanctuary and the Edithvale Seaford Wetlands Discovery Centre - all award winning projects that have forged an innovative reputation. The firm is also known for their unbuilt and theoretical projects, including featured work in this year’s Australian exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Prior to MvS, Paul worked at Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) for ten years. He was a design architect on various notable projects including Storey Hall, St.Kilda Town Hall, and the National Museum of Australia. Having taught since 2001, Dr Minifie is a leader of the 'Advanced Architecture' stream of design practice at RMIT, which places emphasis on speculative modes of practice, often engaging with technological, social and economic drivers of architectural and urban transformation. He was also a founding academic at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL).

John Wardle founded John Wardle Architects (JWA) in 1986, leading the practice from small dwellings to university buildings, museums, public spaces, high-density housing and large commercial offices across Australia. John is an Adjunct Professor in Architecture at both the University of Melbourne and the University of South Australia. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker, guest critic, AIA Awards jury member and contributor to the architecture community locally and internationally. The work of JWA has been acknowledged with innumerable awards, including twice being recognised with the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for best public building in Australia in 2002 and 2006 by the Australian Institute of Architects. The Fairhaven Beach House was winner of the 2013 Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, and the nearly-completed Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne, completed in conjunction with NADAAA, received a Progressive Architecture Awards citation in 2014.

Kristen is a graduate of Manchester University and holds a M.Arch from SCI-Arch. Kristen has previously worked at Pritzker Prize winning Architects Herzog and de Meuron in Basel where he was involved with the TATE Modern and was responsible for leading the design of the Laban Dance Theatre, winner of the 2003 RIBA Sterling Prize. At Bates Smart, Kristen was lead designer for the new Melbourne Children's Hospital, Crowne Metropol Hotel Melbourne, 171 Collins Street Office Tower, the Emergency and Mental Health facilities for Dandenong Hospital and the Australian Synchrotron visitor centre. Kristen currently leads the shortlisted competition entry team for 447 Collins Street, designed in collaboration with Snohetta, Norway.

Skylar is Director of MIT's Self-Assembly lab and Founder and Director of multidisciplinary design practice SJET LLC. He is a graduate of Philadelphia University and holds a Masters of Science in Design Computation and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from MIT. He has worked at various world renowned practices including Zaha Hadid, Asymptote and Point b Design. Skylar was recently awarded a 2013 Architectural League Prize, The Next Idea Award at Ars Electronica 2013, the Visionary Innovation Award at the Manufacturing Leadership Summit, a 2012 TED Senior Fellowship and was named a Revolutionary Mind in SEED Magazine's 2008 Design Issue. He has also built large-scale installations at galleries around the world and has been published extensively in various media such as the New York Times, Wired, Nature, Fast Company and various peer reviewed journals and books.

A presentation by Michael Holt, editor of AR Asia Pacific and Dave Pigram and Iain Maxwell of Supermanoeuvre and UTS.

John Choi is partner of CHROFI. Established in 2000, the practice's founding design, TKTS, has been widely recognised for its design innovation and urban strategy. His awards include New York Art Commission Award, Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture, and the New York's Building of the Decade. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, and serves on the board of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Choi will discuss the recent work of the firm, which includes Stamford on Macquarie, $100M boutique residential tower in Sydney, Lune de Sang - a forestry estate in the Byron Shire hinterland, and other civic and master planning projects currently undertaken by his practice.

Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, co-founder of Archigram, former Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art London (ICA) and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century. With architect Gavin Robotham, their design for the new school of architecture at Bond University is presented during the formal opening week of the edifice.

Arabella Masson and Csaba Tarsoly are practising architects based in Switzerland and Madrid. Currently teaching at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), they are graduates of the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. Having previoulsy worked in the office of Peter Zumthor in Switzerland and at Mansilla y Tunon in Spain, they founded their office, Masson-Tarsoly Architects, in 2004. Their lecture will conclude a 2-day charrette conducted with Bond Architecture students to start the 2014 academic year