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Architect Victoria With thanks to our Gold Patron autumn / winter 2019 Carey Lyon

02 President’s message 03 Chapter news 08 Special feature 10 Editorial 16 Campus heritage 20 Open campus 24 City shaping 28 The international campus 32 Art on campus 36 Planting architecture in design 38 The regional campus 40 On campus living 43 The vertical campus 46 Russell Elliott interview 52 Broad perceptions 54 Student perspectives 56 Place value 58 Profile 60 Slice 63 Books

Australian Institute Managing Editor On the Cover Architect Victoria acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Architects Ruth White Original artwork by Eloyse McCall depicting different of the land on which our office is located, and pays Victorian Chapter Editorial and Publishing architectural typologies often found in a university respect to the Elders past, present and future. Level 1, 41 Exhibition St Coordinator campus. Disclaimer Melbourne, VIC 3000 Emma Adams Art Direction Readers are advised that opinions expressed in articles ABN 72 000 023 012 Graphics Coordinator Annie Luo and in editorial content are those of their authors, not of Become a Patron Eloyse McCall the Australian Institute of Architects represented by its Printing Victorian Chapter. Similarly, the Australian Institute of [email protected] Guest Editors 03 8620 3866 Printed in Melbourne Architects makes no representation about the accuracy Jocelyn Chiew of statements or about the suitability or quality of goods This Publication is Copyright Laura Held and services advertised. Advertise with Us No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval [email protected] Editorial Committee system or transmitted in any form or by any means 03 8620 3866 James Staughton (Chair) including electronic, mechanical, microcopying, Elizabeth Campbell photocopying, recording or otherwise without the Subscriptions Laura Held Five print issues per year, permission of the Australian Institiute of Architects Yvonne Meng Victorian Chapter. including Awards edition John Mercuri (AUD) $80 Australia/NZ Justin Noxon $120 Overseas Sarah Lynn Rees Keith Westbrook President’s message —

The university is a business. A big the importance of informal working The architecture business. This is not a bad thing, just spaces and the role they play in a fact. In recent years we have seen relationship to the classroom and of universities increases in capital expenditure and other programmed spaces within a conscious investment in upgrading the campus. We have seen many and redefining the university campus. successful examples of these building This edition of Architect typologies being delivered through Victoria has been guest edited by RMIT University with New Academic Jocelyn Chiew and Laura Held. Street (Lyons in collaboration with Manager of Campus Design at Monash MvS Architects, NMBW Architecture University and current Victorian Studio, Harrison White and Maddison Chapter Councillor, Jocelyn has been Architects), Monash University advocating for the role of architecture, Learning and Teaching Building (John landscape and urban design to Wardle Architects) and more recently reshape our university campuses. in the commission by the University From a historical perspective, of Melbourne of the New Student the architecture of universities has Precinct (Lyons in collaboration with its roots in urban design and city Koning Eizenberg Architects from planning. Originally appropriating and the US, Breathe Architecture, NMBW occupying city buildings designed for Architecture Studio, Greenaway other purposes, universities evolved Architects, and Architects EAT). into communities of their own. In The establishment of the many instances, they have sustained Education Category in the Victorian the life of the city in which they are Architecture Awards program in located and created an opportunity 2015 recognises the important role to manifest new ideas through education buildings play within the architectural experimentation – the public realm as an independent symbolic and institutional architecture typology. of European university buildings, the Experimental and unafraid enclosed courtyard typology of Oxford to agitate, the agenda has been set and Cambridge, the open academic for education buildings to continue village layout of American colleges. developing new learning environments Universities in Victoria evolved from and sustainable communities. This each of these typologies and created a may not always be to the liking of very diverse academic landscape. all those who engage with these The historical evolution buildings; however, universities should of campus design is essential in be congratulated for their ability to see understanding the use of iconic the value of encouraging a memory Victorian Chapter President architecture for branding purposes, of time and place associated with Amy Muir and is a very powerful tool to sustain a university experience defined by the business of our universities. architecture. This is priceless. With student intakes rising and the I would like to thank our prevalence of international students, members who have significantly the parallel between campus contributed to the realm of education design and urban planning and the design. Their expertise and advocacy acknowledgement of branding through for change through architecture is constructed environments are more incredibly important. relevant than ever. I would also like to The campus might sometimes congratulate Jocelyn Chiew, Laura resemble the 24-hour city as students Held, the Editorial Committee and the find ways to work, sleep, play and be many contributors for providing an in- educated. It then becomes important depth understanding and celebration to recognise the pressures that of this typology. students face and to understand the inherent value and wellbeing that architecture can bring to students lives. We are today very aware of Chapter news —

From the Victorian In May we welcomed Carey Lyon as The shortlist for the 2019 a Gold Patron of the journal. Patrons Victorian Architecture Awards was Executive Director allow us to continue providing and announced at the Exhibition of Entries publishing a place for professional opening at No Vacancy Gallery. The Ruth White discourse. We are thankful for your 2019 Graduate Prize was also awarded support. on the night, congratulations Louis We also celebrated the 40th Nuccitelli from RMIT University anniversary of the Burra Charter, first for the project ‘Beyond the Selfie’. adopted in 1979 at the historic South The graduate prize recognises the Australian mining town of Burra. The successful balance between design, charter defines the basic principles construction and practice excellence. and procedures to be followed in Thank you to all those who the conservation of heritage places. participated. The Awards program The 'nitty-gritty' of the architectural offers an opportunity for public and profession was discussed with Ask an peer recognition of the innovative Architect. We also brushed up on our work of our members. Over the past knowledge of designing in decorative weeks 14 juries, which includes 43 concrete with an ArchiTECH session awards jurors and 14 graduate jurors, by Holcim (Australia). Graeme Gunn have been travelling across Victoria discussed 'Embracing Space' in the visiting shortlisted projects. We look Gold Medal Series seminar and we forward to hearing the results of rounded out the month with a warming all 14 categories and the Victorian ArchiTECH session by Supreme Architecture Medal on Friday 28 June Heating. at Peninsula in Docklands. Tickets The Novation Survey, which now on sale. closed 26 April, is an important first step to allow us to undertake further research and industry engagement supported by the findings. Stay tuned for this.

Education The main focus of action by highly sensitised about instances of the committee draws on the effort fire-spread on high-rise residential Committee by the newly formed Continuing facades and individual cases of Professional Development (CPD) uninhabitable new-built apartments, Dominik Holzer sub-committee led by Catherine as covered by the media. Where does Duggan. Since its formation in late the buck stop, and who is ultimately 2018, the group has assisted the accountable for these instances Victorian Chapter in producing an of (presumed) negligence? These engaging and highly targeted CPD questions are likely going to be raised program that focuses on contemporary among professions and agencies who Over the past few months, members topics related to skill-acquisition by deal with the design, commissioning of the committee have continued architects. The CPD sub-committee and construction of buildings. The conversations about the nexus will continue its work to ensure the Education Committee has been between activities undertaken within program will evolve and tie into the discussing compliance issues and architectural practice and teaching national effort for CPD programming their relevance for architectural within academia. Anthony Clarke from undertaken by the Institute. education in order to prepare Black Line on X Architecture Studio The recent discourse about architects for potential changes to (BLOXAS) was welcomed as a new the accountability of professionals current legislation further down the member with extensive ties to tertiary responsible for the design and delivery track. education and we look forward to his of construction projects has not gone contribution. unnoticed. The public has become

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Victorian Practice of circles are addressed in combination presented a paper on building safety to ensure efficient action is taken. and industry reform, and encouraged Architecture These are in turn reported to the NPC. the need for swift action, strong policy Architecture Committee The latter half of 2018 saw position and a taskforce to address the release of new Acumen notes. the biggest issue of our time. We thank Matt Gibson The 2019 Client Architect Agreement him for his contribution. was reviewed before its release in Various surveys were Awards April with input from the ARBV and orchestrated at national, state and NPC, thank you to Bruce Allen and local levels gauging current issues Representing the small, medium Hayley Franklin. Briefing notes were such as the Procurement Survey, the and large practice forums, senior — 2019 prepared on important hot topics Time Cost Calculator and various local counselling service, AACA, SONA, such as novation. Thanks to Karen surveys conducted by the Medium the National Practice Committee McWilliam for her substantial ongoing Practice Forum. We encourage all (NPC), Acumen Content Review Panel contribution in this area. A practice practices to spare a half hour of your and Chapter Council, the committee manual at national level is continuing time to make a small contribution meet each month to discuss issues of to be reviewed and hopefully soon to by filling out these surveys for your architectural practice in Victoria. This be released. own benefit as well the good of the way there is overlap and assurance In February, former National profession. that similar issues within different President and CEO Michael Peck

Student Organised the semester with Ask an Architect We are looking forward to Network for with great success. Students had partaking in the national Upscale Presentation the opportunity to sit down one- event which is currently in planning. Architecture to-one with practicing architects to The event provides students with chat about careers, graduation and the opportunity to collaborate with Dinner Amarinda Bazeley university, and to start building their their peers, architects and technical professional networks. advisors, and works to foster a Following this, with our mentoring network. 2019 focus on community, SONA ran an event for first year students at We have had a very busy semester to Monash University. Students bought date! The Student Organised Network their portfolios along and had the Tickets Close for Architecture (SONA) kicked off opportunity to mingle with like-minded 14 June people and meet the SONA reps. Medium Practice Salary fact sheet for Medium is the most popular. Forum Practice principals. • Average owner PAYG salary was • Contract Administration Fees – $112k, taxable income $156k. Matt Gibson trends – how are they allocated. • Annual salary of a senior architect • Average office billable rates and in a medium practice. multipliers. • Stage splits – SD stage is • Financial ratios – employment becoming proportionally larger. • Charge-out rates as an average The Medium Practice Forum met expense, overheads and profit as per staff member. in November to discuss its annual proportions of revenue. Results The 2019 conveners are Financial Ratio benchmarking results. showed that profit had a decline in Jonathon Boucher (BE Architects), A presentation of the results revealed: 2018 yet employment expenses for practices increased proportionally David Wagner (Atelier Wagner) and • The financial and operational facts against previous years. Revenue Albert Mo (Architects EAT) ably of 22 medium-sized practices. average of AUD 1.67m. assisted by Mel Bright (Make). • Average Revenue for a medium • Number of Associates or named Thanks to all for making this size practice in Melbourne. positions per practice size. such as a successful forum since it • What Principals pay themselves • The naming of senior members commenced in 2013. Book online at • What staff are paid – setting up • What office management software architecture.com.au 04—05 Architect Victoria Chapter news —

Sustainable 2. Disruption hosted at the Dome The feedback from the I was joined by Peter Maddison and festival directors and coordinators Architecture Forum Jeremy McLeod to deliver a talk on along with the attendees was very Nadine Samaha ‘Towards zero emissions’ for over 250 positive. The festival now want us to be attendees. involved every year. We acknowledge Renee van Trier, Caitlin Scott Wiley's initiative last year in Sinclair and Emma Adams from the starting our forum's involvement with Victorian Chapter of the Institute the festival. The Sustainable Architecture Forum were outstanding in their support In the last meeting at the ran two very successful events at the to all architects involved. Flyers request of Belinda Strickland, forum 2019 Sustainability Living Festival. with information on reducing CO2 members provided feedback to the 1. Speed Date an Architect hosted at emissions were handed out at both Department of the Environment and Off the Grid events and advanced copies of Energy regarding Your Home 6th Five generous Institute architects from Architect Victoria were made available edition. SAF, Peter Hirst, Fiona Winzar, Nicola at the Off the Grid venue. Eloyse Smith, Terry Nott and Cathi Colla McCall from the Victorian Chapter assisted 20 attendees with general was fantastic in providing us with the information about reducing CO2 graphics for the flyer. emissions in their houses.

Emerging Architects an eye on our Instagram page for a CPD this year and our events will be chance to meet everyone. EmAGN is held at their new flagship location on + Graduates Network about being inclusive, not exclusive Collins Street. There is also our forum and we welcome all graduates and which will talk about money – always Camilla Tierney emerging architects to be a part of a sensitive subject – so what are the discussion. As your EmAGN the best ways to go about it. We are representatives we want to ensure grateful to Kosloff Architecture who that we are always accessible. If you will be supporting us through 2019. It's exciting to announce Daniel have any questions or concerns – Finally, we are working on Moore as newly elected Co-Chair to please reach out to us at emagnvic@ some new digital media that we are the Emerging Architects + Graduates architecture.com.au or say hi on our excited about and hope to share at the Network (EmAGN). Daniel has already EmAGN Vic Facebook page. National Conference in Melbourne in been on the committee for a year and The year started with a June. is a welcome addition at the helm. Graduate CPD event that focused on There are a few new working with consultants. Brickworks members who have joined – keep have kindly agreed to support our

Regional Practice our local architects with the university. giving greater voice to members and Bendigo discussed planning architectural advocacy in Victorian Forum challenges, particularly contrary regions. heritage advice by local authorities. As always, should you Kim Irons The discussion highlighted the be interested in joining any of the difficulties in more remote locations regional forums, please contact myself where authorities have less access or Renee van Trier, at the Victorian to consistent resources. It also Chapter office. Bendigo and Geelong and Surf Coast raised the recurrent question of what regional forums met in February. capacity regional forums may have in Geelong and Surf Coast will be linked advocating in their local areas. to the Deakin University Real Lecture However, by the time you series, a student-operated series read this, the Victorian Regional which invites presentations from workshop will have been conducted. practicing architects. It’s a welcome Representatives of each will meet opportunity for further engagement of to develop a collective framework,

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What vision do you have for promoting profession. This is a key priority and we Q & A – the value of architecture to both look forward to sharing the outcomes government and private industry of this project with members as soon Julia Cambage, organisations, leaders, influencers and as possible. the general public? In the rapidly changing CEO Australian environment we currently work in, As you would be aware the Institute adaptation is essential. I see stronger has, in conjunction with members, Institute of contracting arrangements, sub- developed a detailed strategy around contractor arrangements and the three core pillars of advocacy, Architects championing of better procurement education and practice. The strategy protocols as important areas of focus. is designed to strengthen the Similarly, improved training in contract architectural profession, articulating management and negotiation at all the unique proposition that architects James Staughton (Chair, Editorial levels of a project have the capacity to offer in promoting community, inspiring Committee, Architect Victoria) deliver better outcomes. clients and ultimately creating spaces put some questions to the CEO It will be important to be the that deliver measurable benefits and on issues which the overall knowledge leaders in the space leading improve the quality and sustainability membership might like to know, the conversation rather than following; of our built environment. and/or expect the Institute to drawing on our incredible members’ I see my role and that of the both have a position on and to experiences to drive the process. Institute as implementing that strategy act on. which will lead us to a stronger, more How do you see the Institute adapting united profession that is better able to to support the profession in a world influence. of constantly evolving building We want architects to have procurement processes (from both a seat at the decision-making table, design and contractual viewpoints)? with their expertise and capacity to contribute to stronger communities There has been a recent research recognised and valued. project in this space that will be Unity, alignment, commitment released in the near future. This and a people-centric focus will be provides some much needed research critical in achieving our objective. to inform and promote our position. We have a role to focus on the How do you see the support role of profession’s pain points and advocate the Institute to the profession as a for solutions. This area will be a priority collective whole (delivering on the for me and I am confident that my long overdue promise of an ACCC background in procurement will assist acceptable fee guide for example) as in driving the change needed. well as to individual members (through Acumen, mentoring, professional How do you see the role of the counsel etc)? Institute in the ongoing evolution of the regulatory environment (building and In my first few months in the role I have planning regulations, architects act seen a number of opportunities where etc)? the Institute can be a more dynamic participant in supporting both the Strategic positioning and clear profession and individual practices. advocacy is the way to influence. For example, our digital transformation Using our strong voice in a united project will allow for the delivery of and planned way will deliver the best services including CPD through a outcomes. I am focussed on developing variety of modes including webinars a clear advocacy agenda in conjunction and discussion platforms. This is just with input from National Council and one example of how we are revitalising our state and territory Chapter Councils practice toolsets. We've also engaged in line with our strategic intent. Gill Matthewson, a research expert I see this process delivered from Monash University, to undertake at a national and state level through extensive data analysis of fees and our presidents and spokespeople. project types following our survey on There is also a role working with all time and cost implications within the levels of government, ensuring we

Looking In, Looking Out have a process for engagement and the issues, embracing sustainability and resources to deliver. advocating for its integration into Architects are among the the design process, or being part of most highly qualified, comprehensively important dialogues on Livable Housing regulated of any building practitioner. Design guidelines for example. Their expertise should constitute a What we stand for should be valuable input for governments and clearly articulated and reflect the values policymakers when contemplating the of our members. We have more work to regulatory environment. The Institute do in this space! has been a vocal advocate for reform and improved compliance and will How do you see the ongoing and future continue to champion sensible policy relationship between the state and solutions on behalf of the profession national chapters of the Institute? and for the benefit of the wider I am excited by the work that the community. Chapters are doing. The level of engagement and service delivery is high. As an objective newcomer to the There is also a degree of innovation in architecture profession what do you see the delivery of services that is great as the visible strengths and weaknesses to see, and this is to be encouraged. I of both the Insitute and the profession would like to see greater sharing and as a whole? adoption of innovation across the Starting with the Institute I think organisation. that great work has been done over a The role of a central office number of years to build a nationally as I see it is one of shared delivery as focussed and vibrant peak body. part of a continuous feedback loop. Change is not a simple process and We provide support to ensure that our it often takes many years to change Chapters can deliver quality services culture and direction. At this point and engage with the membership in a in time, my view is that the structure meaningful way. In turn, they provide requires further refinement but that feedback back to us to enable the there is great good will and commitment provision of better and more services. to be better. For me this is the most The relationship should operate in a difficult part, so the good news is way that offers the organisation an that we have good people, who are opportunity to be nimble, dynamic and committed to building an Institute that better able to meet the market. our profession can be proud of. In terms of the profession I What is your view on the cost of see the passion, drive and complete Institute membership, striking a balance commitment to making the lives of between affordability and overall others better as a huge strength, but revenue to deliver on the aims and also a weakness because it is a complex charter of the organisation? thing to be able to express simply and We are currently undertaking a full consistently. Concisely articulating the membership review, as provided for in value of architects is no mean feat! our strategy. The first phase of one- on-one sessions has been completed How do you see the leadership role of and I have reviewed the outcomes. the Institute regarding ethical issues in Stage two will comprise some focus the profession (sustainability, gender groups and then we will survey the equity, design for disability etc)? entire membership. We anticipate that, This comes back to my point above following feedback, a new membership around advocacy and leadership. A structure will be ready for release strong, values-led organisation must around August ahead of next year’s have a well-defined position on the membership renewals. This consultative matters you have raised. approach will help ensure we strike the Institute members have right balance and are best able to meet made headway on many of these members’ needs.

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accounts for almost 32 per cent of Looking in, Australia's onshore international students.4 In 2016—17, international looking out education in Victoria generated AUD 9.1 billion in export revenue, Words by supported almost 58,000 jobs and Jocelyn Chiew had a national market share of 31.7 percent.5 Higher education is the single biggest contributor to international education, representing around two-thirds of the total value.6 Nationally, Australian universities added an estimated AUD 140 billion to the Australian economy in 2014, 'educated more than 1.3 million students in 2016 and directly employed 120,000 full-time equivalent staff'.7 In 2018, Universities Australia found that 16,000 university partner companies derive AUD 10.6 billion in revenue from these collaborations – a return on investment of AUD 4.50 for every dollar invested.8 Such is the impact of universities on our economy, In recent decades, universities have Growing global demands for that in 2019, the Victorian Government been among the greatest patrons of education, combined with increased identified International Education contemporary architectural investment competition from online providers as one of eleven priority sectors.9 In and innovation in Australia, and and uncertain funding frameworks, 2018, the Property Council of Australia particularly in Victoria. Anyone who has cemented the need for Australian also launched its Knowledge Clusters walked down Swanston Street in universities to differentiate Development Committee.10 the nineties will recall the indelible themselves. Australia has 43 universities. 1 impact of RMIT Building 8 and Storey With a population of 4.8 Victoria’s ten universities have 96 2 Hall on a city otherwise dominated million, Melbourne is Australia’s disciplines rated above world standard by monochrome office buildings, second largest city and remarkably, in research excellence11 and feature which slumbered on weekends. These one of the world’s top university cities. prominently in world rankings by buildings enlivened a streetscape that In 2018, it ranked third behind London subject. Notably, Monash Pharmacy 3 was yet to become iconic globally and and Tokyo, both considerably more and Pharmaceutical Sciences is indicated that something interesting populous at 8.8 million and 13.6 million ranked second in the world after and palpable was occurring behind respectively. By comparison, Sydney Harvard. Anthropology at Australian closed facades. Beyond imagery, at 5.2 million, is ranked ninth. Ranking National University is ranked seventh and even iconography, architecture is an aggregate of six key indicators: and Anatomy and Physiology at the assists in the attraction of talent to affordability, employer activity, University of Melbourne is ranked universities. Australian universities desirability, student mix, institutional joint-eighth.12 Seven Victorian that have risen and continue to ranking and student view. While universities rank in the world's best. rise through world rankings wish Melbourne doesn’t rank in the top ten However, Australian universities need to remain globally competitive in for affordability, it performs especially to invest and internationalise more if areas of research, learning, teaching, well in student mix and student view, they are to grow and improve. enterprise and innovation. Buildings indicating the city attracts students There are three commonly which incorporate contemporary from diverse international locations cited international university technologies and pedagogies, and and backgrounds. Having attractive rankings: Academic Rankings of which nurture, inspire, welcome and campuses that are compelling, World Universities (ARWU); Times contribute broadly to their contexts, accessible and photogenic assists Higher Education (THE); and, QS assist these ambitions. with selling both the campus image World Rankings. Chinese universities Australian university and experience. have been steadily improving their campuses have undergone significant International education is performance on these platforms change over the last decade and Australia’s largest services export for the past decade. So much so continue to evolve in response to industry and has been Victoria's that THE editorial director Phil Baty multiple challenges and opportunities. largest for over a decade. Victoria singles out ‘the rise of China as the

10—11 Looking In, Looking Out Above Storey Hall, RMIT University, 1996 Architecture by Ashton Raggatt McDougall Photo by John Gollings

most important trend over that time’.13 long-term beneficial outcomes when This is significant because China is developing their estates. They are the largest source of international therefore well placed to implement students in Australia with 170,500 and test precinct-level initiatives that enrolments in 2018, followed by India would otherwise be hampered by at 64,300 and Malaysia at 25,400.14 multiple landowners and restrictive Additionally, our region is affected planning requirements. Furthermore, by the fact that 103 of Japan’s the intensely competitive nature of universities are now ranked – ‘more attracting and retaining prospective than the UK and second only to the students, educators and researchers US’. Given current political climates has entailed greater emphasis in the US and the UK, countries that on architecture as a means of are more welcoming of international establishing campus identity, quality students and global talent may see and ‘stickiness’. On par with this, is a greater opportunities for growth.15 growing interest in smart technologies So, what does all this mean and their integration with architecture for Australian architecture? By virtue, to create responsive, didactic university campuses are ideal testing and environmentally sustainable grounds for bigger initiatives. They environments that are in themselves have all the complexities of cities with tools for learning, teaching and the advantages afforded by wholly or research, not mere receptacles for mostly single ownership. And in some activity. → instances, exemption from lengthy planning approvals. As the owner- operators of their sites, it is in the university’s best interest to implement

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I worked on countless team of architects and designers planned and delivered. The next strategic plans and feasibility expanded from one position to eight, evolution of thinking will likely emerge studies during my time as a demonstrating the beneficial impact as universities stretch their impact and consultant, including the Chapel that design thinking, and curation partnership beyond the campus into Vision Structure Plan 2007—2031 has had on the briefing, design the broader precincts and National and Monash Caulfield and Clayton and delivery of compelling campus Employment and Innovation Clusters Campus Masterplans 2010—2030 environments. of which they are a part. (undertaken at MGS Architects). I The impact of precinct- The programming of enjoyed the scale and complexity of based design approaches to campus academic ambition at Monash has such projects, but wondered after a development has been nothing short already extended beyond buildings, period of several years, whether any of transformative. Monash students, into the landscape, with projects of them would be implemented. The staff and visitors are on campus more including Burnley Biodiversity Green role of Manager, Campus Design, often and for longer. They advocate Roof (Hassell 2013) and Monash Quality and Planning at Monash for the organisation in ways that are Earth Sciences Garden (Rushwright, Univeristy offered an opportunity to different than before. This approach OSW, Paul Thompson 2015) placing work client-side, to initially assist to campus development has infiltrated learning and research overtly on and then drive the implementation other parts of the organisation, show. Universities want to engage of unique and ambitious campus culminating in a 2018 United Nations and connect with their communities. visions and strategies. The university Momentum for Change award for the This is reflected in increased established new roles to support university’s Net Zero Initiative.16 The university participation to Open House the implementation of its first award recognises lighthouse activities Melbourne programs and events, as contemporary masterplans – a – the world’s most practical, scalable captured by Monash University Vice- university architect, Design Review and replicable examples of solutions Chancellor Margaret Gardner AO, who Panel and Architect Selection to tackle climate change. Numerous wrote: ‘Architecture and human-made Committee. architects are contributing to this landscapes can be transformative Over a period of eight initiative, pushing the boundaries of for the vitality of communities. Our years, we delivered thirteen new standard architectural and building built environments at Monash reflect buildings, countless refurbishments practice in Australia and enabling this principle, fostering cultures of and numerous landscapes. We ongoing research that responds to the collaboration, innovation, inclusion, introduced a new fleet of award- potential for universities to be living and sustainability.’20 winning architectural practices – labs, in and of themselves.17 When I commenced established, evolving, and emerging. Projects such as RMIT New employment with Monash University We wrote the university's first Public Academic Street18 and the University in 2010, I expected the move from Art Masterplan and secured an of Melbourne New Student Precinct19 consulting to last a few years. In 2018, ongoing fund for the commissioning are redefining how institutions share following the implementation of two of public artworks. We developed knowledge and invite interaction with masterplans, and the development of new interior and exterior design and the broader precincts and city of an additional four masterplans and development controls to introduce which they are a part. These are highly updates, I had notched eight years. consistency to the campus experience contributory, innovative environments My time client-side is now parallel across Monash’s multiple locations. that offer a level of community with my consulting experience, which Forty new retail tenancies were accessibility and altruism that is inevitably begs the question, where to established and a new addressing currently unmatched by other sectors. from here? system at Clayton was implemented Their delivery model of multiple For me, the university is a to improve user experience. We also interdisciplinary design professionals marvellous place to work because introduced comprehensive new online working closely in collaboration to I have never stopped learning. resources that enabled broad internal deliver a comprehensive precinct, Universities by nature are political and external buy-in to the vision and is also different from what has ecosystems. To be presented with strategies we were working towards. been done before – entailing a level the opportunity to work with your This has helped us to build better of design diversity, collaboration heroes and role models across a large partnerships with local, state and and integration that is highly body of challenging and impactful federal government agencies. complementary to university projects doesn't happen often. I’ve We established an identity functions and ambitions. Universities been privileged to work for leaders and brand – any work undertaken increasingly value cross-disciplinary who believe in the role architects on campus, whether large or small, collaborations and partnerships, play in affecting curated, forward- strategic or maintenance, contributes understanding this is where innovation focused and enduring outcomes. I’ve to the campus vision and is therefore most commonly springs from. also been fortunate to work alongside a part of our Monash Masterplan. Industry awards are evidence of individuals whose work I have long Along the way, our in-house the exemplary environments being admired, including Professor Shane

Looking In, Looking Out Above The University of Melbourne Student Precinct, 2019 Architecture by Lyons (Principal Architect) Render by ASPECT Studios courtesy Lyons

Murray, Peter Elliott AM, Shelley Penn, campus trends. Charlotte Day delves Maudie Palmer AO, Charlotte Day, into the topic of campus sites for Perry Lethlean, Ron Jones, Gini Lee cultural inclusion, art and discovery. and Callum Morton. And I’ve enjoyed Jane Burry looks at inherited and the numerous collaborations with new architectures in the context other architects, landscape architects, of setting up a new school at designers, artists and stakeholders. Swinburne University. The regional These are exciting times campus is considered by Michael for universities and architects on Bouteloup and Tim Daborn. Ken multiple sides of the drawing board. Ng writes about the importance of In this issue of Architect Victoria, we student accommodation in creating assembled a unique group of experts holistic and nurturing university to explore the diversity, potentiality experiences. Sarah Ball demystifies and legacy of university campus the concept of the vertical campus design. Hannah Lewi, Cameron Finally, the issue is rounded out by Logan and Andrew Murray advocate various perspectives on the campus for the recognition of expansion-era experience. The university perspective university buildings and landscapes, is told by interview with Russell Elliott, arguing that architects have a the public perspective is covered critical role to play in preserving by Emma Telfer, and various quotes campus heritage. Peter Elliott and have been submitted by students and Perry Lethlean reflect on the idea graduates from across the state. of the open campus as a model for Welcome to the university inclusive campus development. Rob campus edition of Architect Victoria. McGauran, Elliet Spring and Katherine We hope you enjoy the read. Sincere Sundermann explore the role of thanks to the Editorial Committee, and campus masterplans in transforming particularly Laura Held who assisted Australian suburbs. Michaela Sheahan in the coordination of submissions and Sheree Proposch provide an from Hannah Lewi, Rob McGauran, overview of internationally emerging Michael Bouteloup, and Ken Ng. →

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Jocelyn Chiew is a registered Notes architect, landscape architect 1 1993, Edmond and Corrigan in association with The and urban designer with 16 years Demaine Partnership 2 professional experience in consulting 1996, Ashton Raggatt McDougall 3 www.topuniversities.com/city-rankings/2018 and client roles. In the role of Manager 4 Victoria State Government - Jobs, Precincts and of Campus Design, Quality and Regions, International Education webpage, updated 23 Planning, Jocelyn is responsible for April 2018 https://djpr.vic.gov.au/priority-industries- the masterplanning and design of sectors/international-education/economic-value-of- victorias-international-education Monash University's sites in Australia. 5 Victoria State Government - Jobs, Precincts and Jocelyn manages and is a member Regions, International Education webpage, updated 23 of the Monash Design Review Panel April 2018 https://djpr.vic.gov.au/priority-industries- sectors/international-education/economic-value-of- and Architect Selection Committee, victorias-international-education a Founding Member of the Monash 6 Deloitte Access Economics, The importance of Public Art Committee and co-author universities to Australia’s prosperity: A report prepared for Universities Australia, October 2015, p vi of the Monash Public Art Masterplan, 7 Universities Australia Data Snapshot 2018 an Australian Institute of Architects 8 Paul Karp, $2.2bn funding cut to universities 'a cap on Victorian Chapter Councillor, Property opportunity for all', 28 Feb 2018 Council of Australia Education www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/28/22bn- Precincts Committee Member funding-cut-to-universities-a-cap-on-opportunity-for-all 9 and a 2019 Australian Institute of https://djpr.vic.gov.au/priority-industries-sectors 10 Architects Victorian Awards Juror. Rebranded in 2019 as the Property Council of Australia’s ‘Education Precincts Committee’, She has led multiple Master of Urban www.propertycouncil.com.au/Web/Membership/ Design studios at the University Divisions/Victorian_Office/Committees/Web/ Membership/Victorian_Division/Committees. of Melbourne, and participates in aspx?Division=VIC&hkey=1c55804e-4ad8-4569-8409- critiques and juries for architecture 74b7c21886d2 and landscape architecture. 11 www.arc.gov.au/excellence-research-australia 12 www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2018 Laura Held is principal architect 13 Department of Education and Training and editor at Studio OneOne, a 14 Department of Education and Training multi-disciplinary architectural 15 Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Nikkei Asian Review, 26 practice with a focus on architecture, Septermber 2018 https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/East- Asian-universities-climb-higher-in-global-rankings communications, publications, 16 Monash Net Zero Initative Brochure www.monash. awards and media. Laura is a edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/1140365/Monash-Net- registered architect, fellow of the the Zero-Brochure.pdf# Australian Institute of Architects and 17 Recent and emerging works by DCM (Biomedical Learning and Teaching Building 2019), ARM (Chancellery Architect Victoria Editorial Committee Building 2020), Grimshaw (Technology Education Building member. Her roles have included 2020) and JCB (Gillies Hall 2019) are all helping to deliver juror for the Victorian Architecture on this ambition by incorporating on-site solar energy generation, precinct thermal stores, recycled water ring Awards and SuperStudios, City main, low embodied energy materials including CLT, and of Melbourne Future Melbourne high performance construction methodologies in Passive House. Committee and CPD presenter on 18 Lyons in collaboration with Harrison White and awards and communications within Maddison Architects, MvS Architects, NMBW professional practice. She has also Architecture Studio and TCL Studio 2018 been a mentor within architectural 19 Lyons in collaboration with Koning Eizenberg Architects USA, Aspect Studios, Breathe, NMBW, Greenaway graduate programs, and guest critic Architects, Glas Urban and Architects EAT 2021–22 for architecture design studios at the 20 In 2018, following eight years of continuous campus University of Melbourne and Monash renewal, Monash University opened the doors to thirty-six buildings and fourteen landscapes across its University. Laura is an advocate four campuses in Australia for the annual Open House for architectural education and the Melbourne Weekend. It was by far the largest Precinct entrepreneurial spirit that exists Partner offer in the eleven-year history of the program and enabled our academic community to re-engage with within our burgeoning architectural neighbours, alumni and first time visitors. profession.

Left Monash University’s award-winning Learning and Teaching Building at Clayton campus, looking into one of Victoria’s busiest bus interchanges Architecture by John Wardle Architects Landscape Architecture by McGregor Coxall (Monash Transport Interchange) and ASPECT Studios (building curtilage) Photo by Trevor Mein

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campus life in that period. Yet, the Campus heritage postwar campuses in Victoria have just one heritage-listed representative, the Monash University Religious Centre designed by Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchell in 1967-8. This is an important building with Words by integral artworks, but a type hardly Hannah Lewi, Cameron Logan emblematic of the postwar education and Andrew Murray revolution that played out at these institutions. Despite the lack of formal acknowledgment by heritage agencies, or by the universities themselves, the postwar education boom produced an array of high quality and significant buildings. The expansion-era campuses procured landmark buildings by some of the country’s most prominent architects alongside young practices who could stretch their capabilities beyond the domestic sphere. But it also acted as a kind of ‘proving ground’ for a range The process of recognising places depth. We engaged with the rich of emerging practitioners including as historical and having heritage archives of the universities, talked to urban and landscape designers, value is never settled. It is an uneven planners and architects who shaped and through the commissioning of process, somewhat quixotic and often the universities across the period, significant works from progressive contentious. Some moments seem to and heard from decision makers artists like Norma Redpath, Lenton demand that we revise and reassess about their priorities for Australia’s Parr and Leonard French. The largely established critical judgements and campuses. This allowed us to identify blank slate of the new campus also cherished assumptions. A few years a pattern of contemporary thinking created a setting for the testing ago it became evident to us that this and planning that often disregards of technological innovations and is the case for Australia’s postwar and devalues much that is valuable the exploration of large-scale university campuses. In around 2015 about the recent past. masterplanning solutions. That many a group of seven researchers from A quick survey of heritage of the country’s finest and earliest five Australian universities, led by listings around the country underlines examples of Brutalist buildings and Associate Professor Andrew Saniga these characteristic attitudes to curtain wall innovations are located at the University of Melbourne, the architecture of expansion-era within these suburban campuses perceived a pressing need to campuses. The Victorian State is testament to their capacity to undertake a rigorous reassessment of Heritage Register includes a very wide support and enable architectural the so-called expansion-era university range of buildings completed on the progress. Consequently there campuses. Places such as Macquarie, University of Melbourne’s Parkville remains a raft of typically ignored and Monash, Murdoch, Flinders and campus in the nineteenth century underappreciated or misunderstood La Trobe, developed in the wake of and a handful of well-regarded buildings and ensembles located a higher education funding boom early twentieth century buildings. within the, admittedly, highly variable between 1958 and 1975. In 2016 the Interestingly the register also includes quality of campus environments today. group was awarded an Australian three key postwar projects: the Important postwar examples Research Council (ARC) Discovery Underground Carpark (Loder and found across Victoria include Menzies Grant to fund this work and produce Bayly in association with Harris, College by Romberg and Boyd 1968, a forthcoming book on the modern Lange and partners, 1972), Wilson and Chisholm College by Chancellor Australian campus. Hall (Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, and Patrick 1972 – both at La Trobe Over the past three years 1956) and the Beaurepaire Centre University; La Trobe’s masterplan by we have been building a corpus of (Eggleston, Macdonald and Secomb, Roy Simpson of Yuncken Freeman; information about the history of 1956). These were all distinguished the Humanities Building by Eggleston, Australian university architecture, projects that broke decisively with MacDonald and Secomb 1961, and planning and landscape design that the traditional campus image while Robert Blackwood Hall by Sir Roy is unprecedented in its scope and underpinning a reinvigoration of

Looking In, Looking Out Above Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, 1971 Architecture by Sir Roy Grounds Photo by Templo Photography, courtesy State Library Victoria pictures collection.

Grounds 1971 – both at Monash them is the former Bendigo College of University; alongside a raft of Advanced Education, now a campus major buildings by Daryl Jackson of La Trobe University with the (Deakin University, the University of remarkable cream-brick megastructure Melbourne), Guilford Bell (Monash of the Student Union/Library building University) and John Scarborough designed by Buchan Laird Buchan in the University of Melbourne, Monash association with Californian architect University). This is not to mention Ernest J. Kump in 1977. the number of former Colleges of The problem, as we see it, is Advanced Education which were twofold. The first reason is that this absorbed into the university system lack of recognition and protection in the early 1990s. Notable among contributes to the general tendency →

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Top La Trobe University looking north across campus. Photo courtesy La Trobe University photographic collection Above Menzies College Stage 1, La Trobe University, 1969. Architecture by Romberg and Boyd Photo by Peter Wille, courtesy State Library Victoria Pictures Collection

18—19 Looking In, Looking Out to value what is more obviously Macquarie University, for example, historical and visibly ‘old’ (and thereby recently destroyed their Central sits easier with campus marketing and Courtyard (Macquarie University branding). Such a tendency makes Architect Planners Office, consultant heritage conservation a dead letter, Richard Clough, 1967), a defining a set of more or less thoughtless landscape element composed of a transcripts for received wisdom careful grid of lemon-scented gums. and taste. It should instead be a Let’s hope that we see less of these vital and forward-looking cultural kinds of campus refresh projects tool for engaging with the historic that ultimately diminish the holistic environment of all ages. The second environmental quality and cultural reason is more specific to the value of campuses. Architects have an tertiary education sector. In a period important role to play in this. As Louis where competition has overtaken Kahn insisted, architects should not cooperation as the watchword for serve the brief without reflection. It is universities, leaders in the sector their role to help define and redefine look to architecture more than ever the nature of the institution by for its role in image promotion. The imaginatively responding to their brief. expansion-era campuses have thus This includes historically informed been caught in something of a pincer consideration of how all existing hold. On one side are the so-called buildings and landscapes have sandstone campuses which can uniquely shaped higher education call upon the solidity of tradition as institutions in Australia over time and manifest in various collegiate Gothic of their ongoing value to them. buildings and other traditional styles. On the other side are the former technical colleges and institutes such Hannah Lewi is Professor in as RMIT and UTS that heavily promote Architecture and Co-Director the dynamism of their urban locations of the Australian Centre for and cutting-edge architectural Architectural History and Urban and propositions. Cultural Heritage in the Faculty of Postwar suburban campuses Architecture, Building and Design at have responded by attempting to the University of Melbourne. import an urban atmosphere with pop-up food venues and the like, Cameron Logan is an urban and while commissioning eye-catching architectural historian and Director of new buildings that have not always the postgraduate program in heritage responded in an informed way to conservation at the University of established masterplans or well- Sydney. conceived growth patterns. Of course expectations of how a university Andrew Murray is a research assistant campus should function must and for the Australian Campus project and will continue to grow and change, PhD candidate at the University of and many of the experiments played Melbourne. out in the 1960s to 1980s were less than successful. These can This work is supported by an be sensitively worked with to draw Australian Research Council out better outcomes for ongoing (ARC) Discovery Grant. For more flexible use and sustainability. By information, see https://msd.unimelb. providing a better understanding of edu.au/research/projects/current/ the recent history of the Australian campus-building-modern-australian- modern campus we hope to engender universities that the heritage value of modern campuses can reside not just in a few singular buildings, but also in their landscapes, their visionary planning and social and artistic significance.

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University of Melbourne have their Open historic core buried in an expanded campus network, or RMIT University, campus which is scattered through the fabric of the city. There are various strategies Words by for repairing and renewing campuses, Peter Elliott which can be tailored to each found and Perry Lethlean circumstance. For instance, Monash University had become a tangled maze of pathways criss-crossing the campus. Drastic action was needed to establish a legible circulation network of generous pedestrian walks and public spaces. At RMIT, a more surgical approach was required, as there was a complete lack of defined public spaces and connections. Each part of the campus was assigned a new public space role. A road became a pedestrian path, a carpark became a lawn and dead end lanes were opened up and connected into the network.

Over the past few decades universities dominated by roads, cars and service Identity and marketplace have embraced a much more outward infrastructure. From the 1990s Universities now actively market their looking perspective beyond the universities began to question the identities to attract staff and students confines of the traditional campus nature of the modern campus. Rather based not just on their academic model. Campuses are no longer seen than the familiar insular defined credentials, but the quality of their as isolated citadels but engaging campus, a new open campus model campus environments and facilities. places that are more open and inviting, evolved which turned the campus This is an international competition providing more student-friendly inside out, connecting more strongly to and everyone shops around, so spaces with stronger connections to their local neighbourhoods. comparisons are easy and they matter. the wider community. The ideas driving the open Every university now attempts The idea of the open campus campus ran concurrently with the to define a distinct identity. The has transformed the evolving identity transformative thinking that happened University of Melbourne promotes and role of the university within the within our cities, where priority was its history and tradition through the life of our cities. The campuses that given to pedestrians and improved clock tower and the cloister, RMIT designers inherit are largely already quality of public space. Instead by contrast, heralds extraordinary built, so the challenge is how best to of public spaces being seen as contemporary architecture and adapt, renew and extend them to suit incidental, or the areas left between Monash reinforces a university a new generation. buildings, public space in all its situated in an Australian parkland The more successful campus iterations, became the primary binding setting. The more successful transformations have focused element of our cities focused on campuses have a consistent and on improving the quality of the people. University campuses borrowed cohesive approach to standard details public realm experience, as well as from the city’s experience, which and materials. Like great cities, the commissioning a new era of local has helped inform a new language of idea is that the public spaces form a architecture. Everyone is aware that campus development. coherent setting for many and varied students spend less time on campus architectures. Campus bones than in the past, so the aim is to Pressure from the create campus environments that Designers are typically reworking international student market has engage students in new ways. campuses that already exist. In this fostered the delivery of more on- context it is critical to understand and campus housing. This has required New campus model build upon the different DNA of each universities to host more support Until relatively recently university individual campus. Some have the services with the added benefit of campuses were typically internally strong bones of a planned campus making campuses more vibrant places. focussed, often with poor building structure like La Trobe and Monash fabric and degraded external spaces universities, while others such as the

Looking In, Looking Out Above Marysville recovery continues to struggle Photograph by Robert Stent

Above Campus Green, Monash University Caulfield Landscape architecture by Taylor Culity Lethlean Studio, intergrated artwork by Agatha Goethe-Snape, 2015 Photo by John Gollings

Successful governance Lastly, there needs to be proper procurement processes, which fosters The more successful campus a range of design-led practices from transformations have been achieved emerging to established practitioners, through a strong governance and with major projects delivered in procurement structure. Firstly, campus instances via design competitions. transformations are dependent on good leadership beginning at the most A shift to precinct planning senior university levels, with support Masterplans have been the from the chancellor, vice-chancellor traditional form of campus planning. and their executive teams. More recently, the idea and role of Secondly, there needs to be masterplans has radically changed, a forum to promote and assess design shifting from fixed and finite visions quality. This is typically achieved via into high level strategic plans. a design review panel, comprised Campus planning must anticipate of senior academics and prominent and adjust to the changing demands design professionals in architecture of the modern university. In reality and landscape architecture. Thirdly, universities are no longer limited to a separate budgets need to be allocated single location, but are now comprised for the campus spaces that are of a network of campuses, each with separate to the building program. their own identity. →

20—21 Architect Victoria Top RMIT University Lawn, 2012. Architecture by Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design. Photo by Dianna Snape Above University Lawn before as a carpark

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The translation of the Peter Elliott is a Melbourne architect university’s strategic plan best and recipient of the 2017 Australian occurs through a design framework Institute of Architects Gold Medal. plan. This is the guiding document He is currently an Adjunct Professor that provides a robust vision for the of Architecture at the Faculty of Art physical development of the campus. Design and Architecture at Monash Under the framework, defined campus University. In 2015 he was awarded precincts of a manageable scale an honorary Doctor of Architecture by are identified for more detail design the University of Melbourne. He has planning. Here the role hierarchy and a special interest in the design of the the character of the public spaces are public realm, and has lectured and deemed paramount and determined written extensively on contemporary prior to building commissions. This architecture and urban design. ensures the campus structure is the higher order rather than individual Perry Lethlean is Managing Director of building programs. It is unwise to step the landscape architecture and urban straight from a high-level strategic design practice TCL and Adjunct plan to a design commission without Professor of the School of Architecture first testing and developing a feasible and Urban Design at RMIT. He was approach, brief and budget. one of the first students to participate in the RMIT University landscape Part of the city but different architecture program at its inception The university campus is not a mini- in 1982. He later completed a Master city, although it has similar attributes. in Urban Design (1992) followed by a Universities that are situated in a PhD (2014), both at RMIT. His work suburban context are attempting to is widely published, particularly rebuild themselves in the manner his successful competition entries of a micro-city, with a vibrant mixed and awards for major national and use program otherwise lacking in international design projects including their immediate context. On the other Auckland Waterfront, The Australian hand the city-based universities Garden and the National Arboretum in are openly integrating and merging Canberra. into their adjacent urban fabric, in a synergetic arrangement of city and campus as one seamless place. Each are striving for a vibrant city life, as a means of providing dynamic campus experiences and to better engage with industry partners and the community at large. This approach has delivered multiple benefits for the institution as well as assisting in the regeneration of adjacent dormant neighbourhoods. As a model for city transformation, universities have been very successful, for they possess large land holdings under a singular governance structure. This has allowed for a complete transformation of whole city blocks into pedestrian friendly environments of great civic quality.

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services and vitality of a university City shaping city. The suburban campus While the sandstone historic universities in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide have occupied premier Words by central locations and benefitted Rob McGauran, Elliet Spring from historic public transport and Katherine Sundemann connectivity, later universities were often built at the edge of the city and almost entirely reliant on the car. This has undermined the amenity of campuses, while the changing nature of economies has meant students have had to travel further to part-time jobs and homes. Research in recent years has shown how divisive this combination of factors is on both student experience and learning outcomes. At the same time, peer-to- peer learning and cross-disciplinary research questions have become While our national press and political themselves only with the narrowly significant elements of globally discourse might have us believe that defined needs of the school or competitive universities. our future is all about our mineral university at the time. Elsewhere In Victoria, the designation resources and governments have buildings are ageing and no longer of our major suburban university progressively reduced their support suited for contemporary learning and campuses as hearts of National per student, our university sector teaching, while the spaces between Employment and Innovation Clusters has shown remarkable resilience facilities are often neglected and (NEICs within Plan Melbourne), such and success. For states like Victoria, dominated by outmoded service as Monash, La Trobe and Sunshine the sector is our largest export and entitlement paradigms. Despite is an important first step. It has industry, a major employer and a their increasing interdependence, reframed the role of these locations major driver of both our capital and connections to surrounding city as central generators of economic regional city prosperity. This growth neighbourhoods, partnership prosperity, innovation, employment has corresponded with the rapidly enterprises and economies and urban reshaping but needs now changing natures of work and the are frequently defensive and to be matched with urgent investment urban transformation of our capital disconnected. in public transport connectivity, cities and regional centres. affordable key worker housing and The university city For Australian universities, enabling zoning and governance attracting the best talent to the The global success of university initiatives at precinct level. city partnerships in the past physical campus is contingent on Town and gown providing a compelling campus twenty years is evidenced with the Universities have realised that the experience. Often designed and benchmarks in east and westcoast best learning and research outcomes constructed in the mid-twentieth North America, Europe and more continue to be delivered where an century, in then edge-of-the-city, recently Asia. Similarly, Australia enabling campus and workplace car-dependent locations, Australian must find ways to better shape our experience exists. Recent research universities are constructed around cities, so that they leverage the has demonstrated a strong nexus introverted models. Similarly, central city, middle and outer urban between the provision of high quality they are typically composed of and regional city campuses and the accommodation for students and disciplinary schools or faculties and talent they attract to maximum benefit key workers near campuses and campus futures are determined by for our communities, enterprises improved academic results and independent initiatives in a frequently and economies. This presents an research outcomes. Corresponding uncoordinated way. opportunity to strategically rethink the to this has been the desire to embed Recent solutions have campus as a welcoming knowledge the university within the story of the sometimes delivered outcomes that neighbourhood: one that supports future city with the development of fail the test of relevance, utilisation innovation, partnerships and a network of NEICs. More recently, and utility as they have concerned contemporary pedagogy with all the

Looking In, Looking Out Above University of New South Wales, 2018 Photo by Ethan Rohloff Photography

universities including University of reconsider and integrate with abutting New South Wales (UNSW), University neighbourhoods. of Wollongong, La Trobe, Monash, In turn the role of design is Victoria and Federation universities changing, with an increased priority have all developed masterplan in commissions for some universities initiatives, that have sought to ensure given to architects able to deliver great the university promotes integrated solutions for all campus users and not community and city programming, with simply those utilising the facilities. more government partnering in the Changes in pedagogy delivery of infrastructure. At Monash University, For many campuses, these seismic this has seen the delivery of the shifts, combined with rapid Transport Interchange, the proposed growth in student populations Victorian Heart Hospital, Alexander and internationalisation of the Theatre redevelopment, a refocus on student body, has also challenged translational research and enterprise traditional teaching pedagogies and the extension of campus street and campus experiences, and, in networks to edges; cementing the core turn, budgets and priorities. Once campus as the focus of a larger NEIC. packed lecture theatres are now In other cases, where frequently underpopulated as students campuses are expanding beyond watch lectures online, advanced traditional boundaries, universities communication technologies enable have sought to engage meaningfully spaces to be rapidly adapted for with abutting faculties and university the needs of differing disciplinary uses, streets and neighbourhoods. cohorts and priorities are being given Examples include the University to projects that can deliver great Square Precinct of the University impact often through high utilisation. of Melbourne, the western precinct Students occupying cramped living of RMIT and the expansion of conditions, combined with the UNSW, where campus expansion increasing value of peer-to-peer has forced these institutions to learning are challenging how the →

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At Monash and the life-long learning needs of Those that have sought to embrace University, design excellence has twenty-first-century workforces are information that will acknowledge both been underpinned by key initiatives demanding deeper relationships successes and failures have been able initiated under former Vice-Chancellor between universities, communities, to more quickly adapt to change and Professor Ed Byrne and Chancellor economies and enterprises. apply their capital more effectively Dr Alan Finkel, which have continued with Monash, University of British under the current leadership of Simon Design for place and learning Columbia, University of Pennsylvania McKeon and Margaret Gardner. Key Successful campuses are now examples of such an approach. changes were the adoption of a new designing for place, rather than a governance and procurement process The role of the masterplan fashion parade of different faculty that first established a vision for the buildings that could be individually This process of transformation university. This was then supported modestly successful, but contribute must start with a masterplan that by the commissioning of a campus nothing to the spaces in between choreographs the campus vision, vision and masterplan for Caulfield or to the development of necessary socialises the challenges that each and Clayton campuses led by MGS interdisciplinary skills and insights. campus faces, and puts forward Architects. Importantly, these plans For Monash University, new an ambitious framework for action. incorporated a new governance work has focused on the creation of Successful masterplans are formed process that centralised campus a legible campus environment where from a thorough understanding of the realisation funding and priorities, curiosity is inspired, collaboration social, political and physical elements adopted procurement systems that enabled and where the excellence of the campus and context, and are used architecture award recipients in learning, teaching and research aligned with the identity, ambition as a key source for the shortlisting is showcased. The aim has been to and capacity of the university. Rather of design consultants, and utilised a connect new facilities to great external than preconceived ideas, it draws on proactive Design Review Panel which social and learning spaces connected international best practice for campus included leaders from both within the by a quality network of streets. The design, grounded in evidence-based university and from external industry. briefing of these buildings has sought solutions, and a deep knowledge of As a result, a new generation of design to activate the campus and optimise place, people and purpose. Finally, it talent has been able to find a voice on utilisation of expensive capital works provides a framework for intervention, campus. projects through relatively inexpensive facilitating buy-in from both internal The framework also but impactful public realm projects. stakeholders and community, industry established measures of success A university that had in recent years and government partners. against which progress might been largely defined by its introverted Good governance be reported, as well as clear faculty-focused buildings and poor accountability, essential in our view In order to successfully implement spaces for peer-to-peer, cross- for a learning institution focussed on a masterplan, there needs to be disciplinary learning, legibility, student continual improvement. A next long- an effective governance structure. life and experience, and walkability, overdue step being considered by There is a role for the university has with committed leadership and several leading public universities is architect or masterplanner to act as curatorship, become a model of what to curate for gender equality in project choreographer, ensuring each new can be possible. procurement. Measures such as this building or public realm project relates Organisations more confident and the utilisation of new projects back to the intent of the masterplan. in their role, vision, governance important to good decision making Equally there must be input from and reporting have also sought to could not be achieved without good external voices through a design implement reporting processes for and accountable governance and review panel, and clear accountability their plans that agree on measures of reporting mechanisms. for all participants. For many public success. The campus environmental For too long, the contributions universities, this transparency and footprint, biodiversity, modal of architects to campuses through strategic alignment is a stretch too shift, space utilisation, residential their design inputs were often narrowly far but for those who have developed occupancy and learning outcomes, targeted. Projects that could have had such a plan the results can be extra-curricular engagement, retail a legacy of positive transformation demonstrated through successful and expenditure, research achievements, have instead thwarted ambition coherent implementation. awards, student satisfaction and time through poor placemaking, briefing Many campuses have spent on campus can all be measured and programming. The result of this examples of poorly conceived and and reported against targets. All combination of measures has been integrated tenures. With campuses can be invaluable research and an expanded role for architects in hosting multiple partners, good

26—27 Looking In, Looking Out Above RMIT Swanston Academic Building, 2012 Architecture by Lyons Photo by Rob McGauran courtesy MGS Architects

creating great precincts and joined-up Elliet Spring is Associate Director projects that do more than meet the of MGS Architects and co-project narrow ambitions of sponsoring deans lead of masterplans for Trinity or campus managers. These projects College Parkville and UNSW Campus enrich campuses and build the culture Framework. of curiosity and sharing knowledge Katherine Sundemann is Associate and infrastructure that enable skills to Director of MGS Architects and be nurtured and questions asked that co-project lead of masterplans for collectively meet the challenges of this University of Wollongong and La new conceptual age. Trobe Bendigo, and masterplan update Rob McGauran is Founding Director of for Monash Clayton, and UNSW MGS Architects, Adjunct Professor of Campus Framework. Architectural Practice and Inaugural University Architect (2010—16) Monash University and Professorial Fellow Melbourne University.

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gates and departmental barriers, The international these buildings now include soaring atria, commercial workplace design, campus fabrication labs and maker-spaces. They deliver more than productivity; they are buildings that people love to be in, with event spaces, Words by cafes, lounges, and art galleries. Michaela Sheahan Ideas borrowed from other fields and Sheree Proposch that challenge academics to reach out beyond their departmental boundaries. At international universities, three different campus strategies reflect this willingness to engage with industry. 1. You come to us Bringing businesses into faculty buildings is the most common approach. It capitalises on existing university land, infrastructure and proximity to other academic departments. For industry, a campus Globally, a major priority for both research is changing architecture on presence increases exposure to government and higher education is to campus more and more. specialised talent pools. It also prepare the next generation for jobs in We expect universities to doubles as a subtle advertisement for science, engineering and technology explore the big challenges of our their work. – and new architecture on university time, and then to find a way to solve A self-described ‘front campuses reflects that shift in focus. them. As a result, universities are door to the UK advanced materials As education moves from starting to connect with industry in community’, the Henry Royce Institute ‘what can we know?’ to ‘what can a more inclusive way. Partnerships by NBBJ (opening in 2020) will we do?’ science and engineering are not only paths to more funding connect academics at the University buildings are no longer insular and and more productive research. of Manchester and other institutions hidden, but facing outward toward Affiliation with a university also brings with all parts of the advanced their communities – transparent credibility to commercial ventures, materials supply chain. It will invite and architecturally striking places just as a business partnership brings everyone from start-ups to multi- that feel better connected to the commercial potential to academic nationals to participate at a range of world beyond their walls. They are research. scales – from daily equipment hire designed to contribute to a campus In the past, universities to long-term research projects in identity that exudes commitment to allocated each faculty a building with sectors as diverse as healthcare and 1 innovation and purpose, and to attract staff offices, lecture theatres and aeronautics. heavy-hitting talent and funding. tutorial rooms – hopefully all close to It will also contribute to a Industry engagement is central to this a library and a few cheap-food outlets. compelling story about the university’s transformation. Science buildings were full of cramped commitment to industry, including Thanks to our insatiable labs and musty corridors where most recently the National Graphene appetite to know who’s doing what, academics shared critical discoveries Institute (Jestico+White), and the no one stays ahead of the pack for with each other. Outsiders were current Manchester Engineering long. Design strategies on Australian really not part of the picture. But the Campus Development (Meccanoo). campuses are similar to those in new drive to commercialise research While Manchester’s model Europe, the UK and North America, means these faculties now want includes many changing partnerships, reflecting changing curricula, spaces with transparent and flexible the University of Bolton's National technology and demographics. architecture, in landmark locations, Centre for Motorsport Engineering Collaborative learning hubs, bookless so they can showcase their talent and has partnered with just one highly libraries and smaller teaching spaces achievements. specialised company, RLR Motorsport. are appearing everywhere. But the rise This creates a raft of design The new facility combines teaching of industry partnerships in academic opportunities. Dispensing with walls, and labs with a vast event and display

Looking In, Looking Out Above Marysville recovery continues to struggle Photograph by Robert Stent

Above National Centre for Motorsport Engineering University of Bolton, 2017. Architecture by HASSELL Photo by Mark Cocksedge

space, an incubator for start-ups, Robohouse at the Technical University and technical workshops for robotic Delft has been transformed into an engineering, carbon-fibre weaving open, flexible space full of large-scale and wind tunnels. Bolton’s students technology. And over a dozen robotics get hands-on experience with high- companies use it to test their products performance racing technology – and while networking with students and RLR gets access to emerging talent. researchers.2 Some universities are 2. We’ll come to you repurposing old facilities rather than starting afresh. But the critical As the space squeeze intensifies on design elements remain the same – inner-city campuses, universities are visual connection and flexibility. For looking to industrial zones for their example, Science Gallery London, a larger engineering operations. listed building recently upgraded by The University of Sheffield has LTS Architects, fuses the art industry, invested heavily in engineering, local community and researchers bringing industry onto the city campus from King’s College London in an in their signature building, The experimental program of exhibitions. Diamond, and working with industry →

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Above Robohouse, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, 2018 Architecture by ArchitectuurMAKEN Photo by Ossip van Duivenbode

in their own setting further afield at 3. Somewhere new city Toronto.4 A large atrium space the Advanced Manufacturing Research Some universities are choosing connecting the researchers and start- Campus. The Diamond brings Siemens to reimagine the old science park ups working in the towers is also used data and researchers in close contact model with a more visible academic for community events, publicising with students in a lounge beside presence. Here they can make a bold research activity to a broad audience. a small maker-space, while their statement of intent, with room to grow And on Roosevelt Island in ‘landmark circular glass building’ and architecture that accommodates New York City, Cornell Tech is a fast- – Factory 2050 – on the outskirts the objectives of multiple parties. growing technology precinct anchored of town provides ample space for Three Canadian universities (Toronto, by the Tata Innovation Center (by industrial-scale technology used by York and Ryerson) are partners at Weiss/Manfredi), where students, 3 the university, Boeing and Siemens. MaRS, a private, not-for-profit biotech start-ups and established researchers incubation organisation in inner are co-located on a prominent island

30—31 Looking In, Looking Out campus with parks, a function centre, Sheree Proposch is an architect and hotel and residential accommodation.5 principal at HASSELL, focusing on At first glance, these social infrastructure precincts and approaches are similar across the projects – universities, healthcare world, but there are subtle regional and research facilities, the industries variations due to political and they engage with, and the knowledge economic circumstances. In the US, clusters they create. the long-lasting effects of the Great Recession combined with student demand have created unprecedented Notes investment in new facilities at the 1 BBJ, 2019, www.nbbj.com/work/henry-royce-institute/ expense of maintenance of old 2 Design Boom , Robots are taking over this 6 buildings. former campus building at Delft University, www. In the UK, Brexit negotiations designboom.com/architecture/robohouse-robovalley- may lower European student demand7 architectuurmaken-tu-delft-university-01-18-2019/ 3 AMRC, 2019, Factory 2050, www.amrc.co.uk/facilities/ and dull the potential for industry factory-2050 partnerships as companies threaten to 4 MaRS, 2019, www.marsdd.com/about/ relocate to Europe. Despite this, new 5 Cornell Tech, 2019.Website at https://tech.cornell.edu/ medical research and STEM facilities campus/tata-innovation-center/ represent the largest area of capital 6 Sightlines, 2017, State of Facilities in Higher Education, www.sightlines.com/insight/2018-state-of-facilities/ spending from the Russell Group 7 The Australian, 2018, Warnings that Brexit could impact universities – and they promise the overseas student enrolments. January 17th, 2018 best return on investment for the UK 8 Biggar Economics, 2014, Economic Impact of the government.8 Russell group Investment Plans, www.russellgroup.ac.uk/ media/5256/economic-impact-of-the-capital-investment- Once upon a time, plans-of-the-russell-group-universities.pdf education’s focus was self- improvement and enlightenment. Now, tertiary education is an economic driver for governments and a means to a job for students. Gone are the days of individual faculty buildings with a host of obscure spaces. Now, transparent, multi-faculty science and engineering facilities have emerged as an open invitation for industry to work with academia. Whether they’re on campus, off campus or in brand new collaborative precincts, these buildings symbolise a university’s dedication to solving some of the most pressing problems facing our world.

Michaela Sheahan is a senior researcher at HASSELL. Michaela provides HASSELL designers with evidence to inform their project work across a number of sectors, with a focus on education, health and urban design. This broad spectrum of work enables Michaela to bring a holistic outlook to the research, analysis and benchmarking exercises that large dynamic projects require.

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In most instances though, these Art on campus dedicated expenditures have been established by arbitrary means rather than through a set percentage of the capital works program budget. This is an exciting time and context for art-making because it Words by involves a high degree of collaboration Charlotte Day and consultation, between artists and architects, landscape architects, experience designers, educators, building and property divisions and so on. This interdisciplinary work can lead to a range of publicly accessible outcomes including permanently sited works, temporal elements and ephemeral interventions. Nonetheless there is a considerable difference between making art for a gallery or related supportive setting and working outside of that context. The big challenge for those commissioning public art is to embrace the opportunity to be innovative and Artworks have been integrated into rooms for studying cultural material not restrict the artists or kinds of the buildings of Monash University and spaces for public exhibitions. practices represented. It is important since the opening of the university Likewise, the University of Sydney’s that there is a commissioning context in the early 1960s, and pieces by ambitious 7,600-square-metre Chau in which risks can be taken and artists Leonard French, John Perceval and Chak Wing Museum, designed by are supported to work together with Clive Murray White remain some of Johnson Pilton Walker, which is architects and relevant stakeholders the most recognised and appreciated due to open in 2020, will bring its to test new approaches to public art. artworks on campus to this day. broad ranging arts, archeology and Many universities are taking Monash’s art collection has grown and sciences collections under one a leadership role in this space. As developed across the intervening sixty roof and across fourteen separate well as making a contribution to years along with the university itself. exhibits. Both projects are examples art and culture, universities are One of the principle drivers of the Art of how collections are increasingly often motivated by the desire to on Campus program, which includes recognised as valuable educational enrich the campus experience and substantial displays of artworks from resources and demonstrate how to contribute ‘a sense of inclusion, the collection in over 66 buildings, is a they are being put to use in specific diversity, openness and engagement’ mission to inspire students and staff teaching and learning programs. to quote the University of Sydney’s through art experiences that challenge As this issue of Architect Art in the Public Realm Strategy. and encourage seeing, thinking and Victoria attests, many universities This is a common thread. At Deakin feeling differently. across Australia have initiated University, Professor David Cross and Universities with longer major infrastructure and campus Associate Professor Katya Johanson histories, like the University of enhancement projects over the have established the Public Art Melbourne, have collections last decade, and art and related Commission to research the curation acquired over hundreds of years that collections are playing an increasingly and delivery of public funded and encompass Classical antiquities, important role in the process of commissioned arts projects. Their archeological artefacts, scientific these campus renewal programs. research will also focus on measuring instruments, natural history items, Many universities now have public the impact of public art initiatives and First Nations material culture, art masterplans that are linked to is anticipated to become a very useful contemporary art and much more. The other planning documents, visions resource. → recently opened Arts West building in and strategic frameworks. Some, like Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts designed the universities of Melbourne and by ARM Architecture includes Sydney, are planning new or expanded integrated display areas for different cultural facilities, and many others Left Kulata Tjuata (many spears) consists of 277 hand- carved spears made by a group of senior men working collections, specially designed have committed public art budgets. with young men from the Tjala Arts Centre, 2015 Photo by Dianna Snape

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Some of the most exciting Another project underway the opportunity for many people to developments recently are projects at Monash by Quandamooka woman be engaged in its conception, have that acknowledge the traditional artist Megan Cope involves a number investment in its realisation and plan lands and Indigenous custodianship of interventions into the plaza that for its future activation. of university campuses. Monash welcomes students onto campus. A consultative process is University’s recently released Cope’s project includes words and also recognised in RMIT University’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander phrases in twenty languages that were Ngarara Place located in the centre of Framework clearly prioritises shared with the artist by Indigenous its city campus. Led by an Indigenous ‘integrating Indigenous perspectives staff and students at Monash. This design team including Greenaway and knowledges into our buildings and work will also includes a cast bronze Architects, the project was conceived landscapes in prominent and visible sculpture that references an early to create a place for ceremony, positions’. Kulata Tjuta, which consists nineteenth century tarnuk held in the remembrance and reflection and of 277 hand-carved spears made by First Peoples collection of Museum includes built elements, plantings and a group of senior men working with Victoria. The original tarnuk was art. The result is both a dynamic site young men from the Tjala Arts Centre made from the gnarl of a gum tree of cultural expression as well as an in the community of Amata in South hollowed out by gouging and fire, educational setting that articulates Australia, is the focal point of the Cox while the bronze replica has been the six to seven seasons of the Architecture—renovated Matheson cast from a mould of a 3D model of Kulin Nation. The architect of this Library at Monash Clayton Campus the original, thus marrying customary project, Wailwan and Kamilaroi man, and brings Indigenous knowledge and practice and new technologies. Cope’s Jefa Greenaway, is a high-profile culture front and centre in the home of project has involved consultation with commentator and advocate for the humanities. communities and Elders and created integration of Indigenous knowledge

34—35 Looking In, Looking Out into the built environment and busy Fenn Place thoroughfare within public realm. Moving away from a the City West campus of University of focus on the production of artefacts South Australia. Although temporal, to concentrating on process and the scale and prominence of the involving Indigenous principles in words, asserts the significance of relation to siting, sustainability and Indigenous languages in defining cultural awareness, Greenaway’s culture and identity and highlights the approach is leading the way forward in enduring presence of Kaurna culture public practice. and connection to country. Another Bidjara, Garingal and model initiated by the University of Ghungalu man Dale Harding’s artwork Melbourne is generative in a different SPINE 2 at the University of Sydney way. In the lead-up to the design and will consist of three elements (the first build of the New Student Precinct completed) and is an extraordinarily project the university collaborated elegant work that references the with the art organisation, Next sandstone that defines many of the Wave, to produce a series of public university’s buildings, and connects art installations, programming and to the sandstone country that rises mentorship initiatives that creates and falls along the spine of Eastern connection to the past, the present Australia. This major public art and also contributes to the future of commission also draws on its location the site. in proximity to the environmental In researching this article, sciences department, acknowledges there were a great number of the coexistence of different knowledge significant university art projects in systems, and creates the opportunity development that were not able to be for dialogue between them. made public yet, suffice to say that it As in Harding’s project, looks to be an incredibly productive which will involve the establishment period of public realm activity ahead. of a garden of Indigenous plantings Watch this space! too, the most interesting public art developments are where artists play Charlotte Day joined Monash a key role in the conception and University Museum of Art as Director design development of a building in 2013. Previously she worked as or site. At Monash, artist Callum an independent curator and was Morton was employed as an artist Associate Curator at the Australian consultant to great effect, working Centre for Contemporary Art with Kosloff Architecture and Monash (ACCA) where she worked on large- Arts Projects on a new skin and entry scale commissions by local and to the building housing the Science international artists. Charlotte has and Psychology departments. We are worked across a range of public and currently working with ARM Architects private contexts, from advising on on an art colonnade to grace the new temporary and permanent urban-sited Chancellery Building. This project works to the acquisition of works for involves a number of artists who public and private collections. will create ‘cultural markers – each culturally, materially and formally unique – an assembly that together represents the qualities and endeavors of the University itself’ according to the vision of architect Ian McDougall. Not all projects are necessarily permanent materially although their impact may be far longer and deeper. In 2018 Kuku Yalanji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr man Vernon Ah Kee installed a series of large words across the

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The Swinburne Design Planting architecture Factory, (now Design Factory in design Melbourne or DFM),9 is a pioneer network node of the original Design Factory in Aalto University, Finland. It brings together teams of design, business, engineering and IT students Words by for design-led innovation with Jane Burry industry. In 2018, DFM moved from the AMDC into the new Innovation Hub next door in the extended historic Hawthorn Fire Station on Williams Street (H2o, 2018).10 DFM’s former home with the design studios on AMDC level 5 was converted to just- in-time architecture studios and a new state of the art 'soft prototyping space' with student friendly small-scale robotics, laser cutting, 3D printing, hot-wire cutting and more. Meanwhile the new Swinburne Protolab on the corner of Wakefield, John and William streets, is In 2018, Swinburne University of opportunities to work with other the expansion of the digital fabrication Technology opened its doors to disciplines. Design academics in all workshop that already boasted an undergraduate architecture students.1,2 disciplines in the School, including exceptional collection of advanced Architectural engineering was Centre for Design Innovation technologies for the industrial design launched simultaneously. This year, researchers,8 currently work with and product engineering programs 11 in August, Swinburne will welcome industry, community and colleagues (H2o, 2019). It has vastly increased the first postgraduate students in across health, social science, media, the size and scope of the workshop to the Master of Architecture, Master of film and TV, engineering, even accommodate the new architecture Urban Design and combined Master of astronomy and biotechnology to make cohorts, to upscale industrial robotics, Architecture and Urban Design.3 a difference in headline areas such and create an open visual interface to These programs are as design for wellbeing, opportunities the campus. Importantly it supports planted into the fertile ground of of advanced manufacturing, and the opportunity to take multiple one of Victoria’s oldest and most architectural and urban ecologies. classes simultaneously more easily prestigious design schools.4 They The Advanced Technology into the making spaces. join established courses in interior Centre (H2o 2011), and AMDC building The university has committed architecture, industrial design, transformed the face to Burwood to a major refit of floors on the AMDC product design engineering and wide- Road. Wakefield Street is a fondly building occupied by the School ranging disciplines in communication inhabited park in the heart of the of Design. To date, the School has design. All are located at the campus, providing views of greenery slotted into and worked within shared Hawthorn campus in the Advanced to the Vice Chancellor’s office and occupancy spaces conceived for Manufacturing and Design Centre student housing alike. Glenferrie higher educational activity, pleased (AMDC) – an 11-storey building with station, central to the campus, happily to be co-located as a School within deep atria, sky lounge and elevated locates us within 12 minutes of the same building. The refit will give garden, atop a line of incorporated Flinders Street. The two pedestrian greater visibility and identity to design local shops (UK-based Wilkinson Eyre concourses running under the railway activities, including architecture, with Jacobs SKM, 2014).5,6,7 line that bisects the campus are the within the building. This means not Swinburne’s Faculty of life lines linking the two sides of the only conceiving of staff work areas Design became a School in the Faculty campus, and, by channelling the whole and teaching spaces that are able of Health, Arts and Design in 2014 as community through them, vital locales to accommodate future growth part of larger university restructuring. for chance encounter, a favourite spot supported by workplace research, The newly created School of Design for pop-up booths and student activity. but foregrounding ‘designerly’ traded its historical creative heartland activity, formal and informal display on the Prahran campus next to and exhibition, and accommodating Chapel Street for cross-university diverse ways of working: making,

Looking In, Looking Out Above Swinburne University of Technology from Burwood Road features H2o Architects timber dome structure for Swinburne's FOFI project (factory of the future). Photo by Trevor Mein

prototyping, experimentation and Notes scholarship. This also means 1 underpinning the collaborative work www.swinburne.edu.au/study/course/bachelor-of- design-architecture/ culture with spaces that genuinely 2 ssuu.com/swinarchitecture/docs/architecture_booklet 3 support it, are more open to external www.swinburne.edu.au/news/browse-by-category/ design/ partners, and exploit the building’s 4 Formerly known as the National School of Design (NSD) 5 natural advantages of light and www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/advanced- manufacturing-centre-swinburne-university-of- spectacular Hawthorn views to do so. technology-melbourne 6 Kerstin Thompson Architects have just www.swinburne.edu.au/research/strengths- achievements/specialist-facilities/advanced- been appointed as the architect. manufacturing-and-design-centre/ 7 While other universities www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXF11UBf09w 8 www.cdiengage.com.au are already enjoying the fruits of quite 9 dfm.org.au/about/ 10 radical long-term masterplanning, www.swinburne.edu.au/innovation-precinct/ 11 fhadprotolab.com the sense of anticipation and further spatial and organisational potentiality at Swinburne makes it a very exciting place to work right now.

Jane Burry is the Dean of the School of Design in the Faculty of Health Arts and Design at Swinburne University of Technology.

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local power station. The architectural The regional outcomes of such mergers are less coherent and often result in newer campus buildings urgently seeking to create an identity, usually with mixed results. The contemporary regional campus is distinguished by these two Words by origins, which are also reflected in Michael Bouteloup their architecture. Regional campuses and Tim Daborn also have greater demands placed on their buildings and facilities as they do not have the economies of scale of larger campuses and funding margins are much tighter than a campus where there is a critical mass of buildings. Hence, many regional campuses have been pragmatic with buildings that have evolved under a series of different institutions. A great architectural example of this is the Clyde Cameron College (c.1975) in Albury by Kevin Borland of the Architects Group. Originally designed as a Trade Union Training Academy, Many of Victoria’s first regional into a formalised landscape of the campus subsequently became a universities were established concourses, concrete structure was College of Advanced Education before following an increased national focus expressed, with repetition and shaped La Trobe University acquired it. on tertiary education during the feature buildings. The modernist The wider impact of a Menzies era through the Australian language was further extended by university beyond its campus Universities Commission in 1959. Robin Boyd in his design for Menzies perimeter is also evident more Monash University (Clayton c.1958), College. While some may view the significantly in regional centres La Trobe University, (Bundoora c.1964) original Yunken Freeman vision at La than in metropolitan areas. Where and Deakin University (Geelong Trobe as a limitation on the capacity historically a town was typically c.1978) created campuses evolved for change, there have been projects designed around the location of its from the traditional understanding where the campus' emblematic church, town hall, post office and of the campus as a ‘field’1 and also architectural tropes are used to break primary school, the university is now became known as the verdant or the mould. For instance, the La Trobe the key driver of urban and social 'gumtree'2 universities. Where Deakin Institute for Molecular Science (Lyons planning within many regional towns University was first established solely c.2013) explores repetition and the use and cities, where the large influx of as a regional campus, Monash and of the concourse. population has a wide-felt impact on La Trobe universities have since A further impact on regional the regional city as a whole. expanded to add regional campuses.3 campuses was the removal of the Ballarat, Bendigo, As new universities, distinction between the university and Warrnambool and Geelong now gain a their architectural language was non-university sector in 1988, which great deal of their identity through consciously modern, typically permitted new generation universities being university towns, where the constructed of concrete and glass where colleges and technical ever-changing infrastructure of rather than the stone and brick of the schools were incorporated into new La Trobe, Federation and Deakin first universities. Their designs heavily universities, inheriting a collection of universities, physically define each referenced the modern architectural buildings of varying type and style. city. Deakin University, for example, concepts derived from new English Ballarat University originated from the was originally sited on a paddock universities such as the University 1870 School of Mines and a number beyond the boundary of Geelong at of Sussex (c.1961), East Anglia of organisations over its lifetime until Waurn Ponds. Now surrounded by University (c.1963) and the University becoming Federation University in development, the campus has been of Essex (c.1963).4 Yunken Freeman’s 2013. Similarly, Monash University’s paramount to the growth and function masterplan and architectural work Gippsland Campus – which also of the southern region of the city. The at La Trobe University used a similar became part of Federation University university has also redefined existing language as seen in Essex, where – began life as the Yallourn Technical infrastructure: its waterfront campus, networked courtyards were embedded School in 1928, training workers for a

38—39 Looking In, Looking Out Above School of Medicine Optometry Clinic, Deakin University, 2019 Architecture by Bourke & Bouteloup Architects Photo by Tom Ross

when opened, instantly regenerated to an evolving education program. Tim Daborn is a Graduate of a desolate area of the city and The inherent flux in a campus can be Architecture at Bourke and Bouteloup strengthened the university’s influence addressed in a manner which does Architects and worked on the Deakin on the city as a whole. not dilute identity or coherence, but University School of Medicine, The Waurn Ponds campus uses existing architecture and spaces Optometry Clinic. has expanded to include a number as infrastructure for reconceiving an of large low-rise technical buildings existing architectural language. Notes around a student centre and new There are many fine examples 1 campus sporting facilities (reflecting where the strategic thinking of The term campus derives from ‘field’ (‘open field, battlefield’ from camp ‘open space for military exercise’) a push for student wellbeing, common universities combined with equally originating in Roman military installations eg Campus across contemporary campuses). The thoughtful architectural responses Martius. The German ‘kampf’ (also from camp) refers more directly to ‘battle’ or ‘struggle’. Campus was first recent Epworth hospital adjacent the have permitted change and new space used in a college sense at Princeton University, (previously campus has a physical connection typologies for the campus. Whether College of New Jersey, 1746) as a transformation of the Italian word ‘campo’, meaning shaped piazza, court or with the university. This reflects regional or metropolitan based, pitch (eg campo da tennis) 2 the relationship with the city as a campuses also act as a catalyst on Moodie, G. Types of Australian Universities, www. academia.edu/310547/Types_of_Australian_universities university town and demonstrates a critical parts of the city or region and accessed February 2019 3 new outward focus that campuses are also as microcosms of the city. Some of these campuses were regional at the time of founding and have since been subsumed by Melbourne’s harnessing. relentless urban growth. As such, in many instances the One of our recent projects, Michael Bouteloup is a Director at changed relationship of the regional campus with the city and suburbs has forced a re-consideration of their role the School of Medicine Optometry Bourke and Bouteloup Architects and identity. 4 Clinic at the Waurn Ponds campus, who specialise in campus, learning University of Essex, masterplan by Kenneth Capon, Architects Co-Partnership, was designed as a new combines a learning space with and research buildings. Michael University in the UK in New Brutalism, see J Lubbock, an accredited optometry practice. undertook a Design Research Masters 'Something Fierce' Exhibition Guide, September 2014 for further discussion. Also, University of Sussex, masterplan The design allows students to gain at RMIT University in 2010, titled by Sir Basil Spence with feature circular plan buildings experience with patient diagnosis and Campus and Effect, Ways of Designing similar to the original La Trobe masterplan. consulting – evidence of a university Incompletely. tailoring a relatively recent building

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providers, developing accommodation On campus on and off campus. living The student accommodation typology takes on many forms. Typologies include multi-bed cluster apartments in large accommodation buildings and stand-alone shared Words by houses; colleges with all meals Ken Ng included, and also colleges which are self-catered. The private sector continues to pursue high-end studio type apartments off campus, whereas, universities seek to provide diverse options for students requiring greater affordability in housing. Student accommodation built in the past ten years has trended from an individual centred living model, towards a traditional collegiate and cohort centred model. Masterplanning of most campuses has moved away from traditions of a centralised academic core with Living on campus has been vital to In Australian universities, peripheral residential accomodation a good education since the early living on campus is not compulsory to vibrant 24/7 hubs, as is the case days of universities. This experience and is not a requirement for obtaining with RMIT University. Day-time not only promoted academic degrees. Teaching, examinations and classes and nocturnal lifestyles mean excellence, but also imbued students conference of degrees are centralised Swanston and Elizabeth streets, with with the necessary skills for life within the university, and colleges their mix of faculties, the State Library and a network of life-long friends. and halls are separately governed, of Victoria and high-density student Unlike other housing typologies providing accommodation and pastoral accommodation, provide an economy which are for a wide demographic, care only. Regardless of governance of eateries and service providers student accommodation caters and the extent of academic functions that cater specifically to the student almost exclusively for 17 to 24 year that a college or hall may provide, demographic. In the push to create olds. The architecture of student students that live on campus have ‘sticky’ campuses, universities are now accommodation therefore is informed demonstrably higher academic developing a lifestyle where student by the needs of this demographic, achievements and an enhanced accommodation is at the heart of traditions of a university, its history, university experience. the campus and provides all the culture, governance, contemporary With compulsory contact time necessities from morning to night. pedagogy and market forces. reducing, it is academic excellence Our approach to student Although colleges and halls and the enhanced student experience accommodation architecture is of residences have traditionally from on-campus living, along with that there is not a one-size-fits-all provided accommodation for students the ever-increasing demand for solution. Each university campus on campus, their relationship to a education and university places and each project will have different university and what academic and that have motivated universities to requirements based on site context, pastoral-care functions they provide, increase accommodation offerings the university’s strategic vision and its varies from university to university and to attract their share of the best and masterplan, demand demographics from country to country. Universities brightest. Many universities now and the mix of current accommodation such as Oxford and Cambridge have offer accommodation guarantees offerings. Every project will require its colleges and halls of residences that for all their undergraduate students own innovative approach to functional were formed by the university under and encouraging them to take up a and operational requirements, social a federated structure. These colleges once in a life time, live on campus and architectural design responses. and halls provide accommodation, and education. In addition to traditional In 2013 Deakin University also performed all of the tutorial and and independent colleges and halls, opened a 300-bed residence at → formal teaching functions while the universities are now building and university conducted examinations operating their own accommodation, Right Waratah Place, Deakin University, 2017 Architecture by Nettletontribe Architects and conferred degrees. and also in partnerships with private Photo by Chris Matterson

Looking In, Looking Out Architect Victoria Above Wamburun Hall, Australian National University, 2019 Architecture by Nettletontribe Architects Photo by Rodrigo Vargas their Waurn Ponds Campus, and Bouverie Street in Carlton. Common Waratah Place has semi-private a further 100-bed residence at to all, is the need to create a safe, communal spaces overlooking open their Warrnambool campus. These inclusive and healthy environment. walkways and circular voids around projects were laid out in an all studio Students need spaces for private vertical circulation nodes. At Deakin configuration across large sites in study and sleeping as well as social Geelong, apartment living and dining low-rise buildings, each with central spaces that facilitate interaction areas looking into a shared communal and dispersed communal spaces and for recreation and group academic void provide views across to each linked by landscaped edible gardens. activities. other and across Corio Bay. Victoria University opened Space planning that allows The architecture of student the 508-bed UniLodge@VU in graduated levels of privacy, providing accommodation is first and foremost 2015 in partnership with a private students the privacy that they governed by the need to facilitate provider, comprising studios and a need, the opportunity for chance social interaction, balancing the need substantial mix of two- and six-bed meetings, and the gathering of for private study and sleeping with shared apartments. Deakin University small and large friendship groups the need for human contact. Our opened Waratah Place with 577 beds will facilitiate students with a responsibility is to create spaces with in Burwood and 410 beds in Geelong, well balanced and social lifestyle. affordable rents that shape the best also in shared configurations. Shared accommodation has its days of one’s life, while designing and In 2015, the University of obvious advantages. Living in these providing beautiful buildings that are Sydney refurbished the Queen Mary environments means that students will robust and rigorous to accomodate building, a former nurses quarters have others that will look out for them. and nurture student life. in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital In studio-oriented developments, the Ken Ng is a studio director of precinct. This project aimed to offer location of essential shared facilities Nettletontribe with over ten years accommodation 30 per cent below such as bathrooms, laundries, rubbish experience designing student market rent, and reversed the norm chutes, lifts, stairs, entries and accommodation for universities and of apartment-style buildings. The foyers become critically important. private providers around Australia. building featured 800 single occupant Circulation routes that pass through His work in this area spans Deakin bedrooms with centralised shared nodal points increase the opportunity University, Victoria University, the bathrooms and extensive communal for human interaction. A single point University of Melbourne, University areas throughout. The 500-bed of entry and reception is a way of of Tasmania, University of Sydney, Wamburun Hall at the Australian ensuring some interaction and the University of Canberra and the National University recently opened in chance to assess the wellbeing Australian National University. Ken 2019 with a similar self-catered college of students as they come and go. has insight into creating designs model. The University of Melbourne Good sightlines across all spaces is specific to a university’s traditions, is following with a 578-bed hall on also important. At Deakin Burwood, ethos and constituent cohorts.

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campus to knit into the existing city The vertical infrastructure – transport, food and beverage, retail and accommodation. campus A true vertical campus is multi- faculty with a range of typical campus functions to enhance student experiences within one building. Words by The rise of the vertical Sarah Ball campus has also been made possible by universities embracing new financial models. Where typically universities are owner, developer and occupier of their education buildings, vertical campuses are being delivered in partnership with developers and universities taking on long-term leases. In 2016 Western Sydney University (WSU) opened its flagship campus in Parramatta, Sydney. Now known as the Peter Shergold Building, the Parramatta City Campus is a standalone campus within an A-grade commercial building. It was Tall university buildings are not new. Academic Street revitalises Building developed and is owned by Charter At 11 storeys and 50 metres tall the 8, 10, 12 and 14 where, by reconceiving Hall. WSU has a 15-year lease with modernist Menzies Building has been the heart of the campus, the student options up to 40 years, confirming a a landmark at Monash University’s experience is enhanced. Learning long-term commitment to the campus Clayton campus since the 1960s, spaces are interconnected and the and the Parramatta Square precinct. while the Redmond Barry Building spatial planning prioritises informal, The 14-storey building was a catalyst (12 storeys, 1961) and the Raymond incidental and social interactions. project driving the renewal of one of Priestley Building (11 storeys, 1970) Deakin University’s Geelong Australia's biggest urban precincts have long stood tall on the University Waterfront Campus is another vertical and supports the ambition for the of Melbourne Parkville campus. campus setting. Here, all the university transformation of Parramatta into a These and traditional buildings like functions – teaching and learning, true university city. them in a landscaped campus setting staff, library, student services, and Embedded in central were for the most part designed for food and beverage – are housed Parramatta, students and staff can a single faculty and are programmed within the multi-level architecturally access public transport easily with in a customary way. From elevated significant historic Woolstores building the adjacent transport interchange, lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and in the city centre. connecting rail and bus networks laboratories, students and staff come Vertical urbanism – hybrid to the Sydney CBD and beyond. down to the ground plane to use education buildings programmed Digital wayfinding at the front common facilities such as the library, to make full use of the vertical door and throughout all levels of social settings and student amenities. dimension to support better the campus indicate links to the In contrast, RMIT and experiences – is the key difference transport hub. Students are within the Australian Catholic University, between these contemporary and reach of local facilities, and in turn, with their inner-city locations and traditional examples. More than just the local community has access to limited campus footprints, have been tall buildings, they represent the WSU’s educational, research and compelled to expand and redevelop emergence of a new typology. As consulting services. The design their campuses by going up rather universities compete for enrolments, facilitates through-site connections than out. Building 8 on Swanton the key driver of this emerging to a local network of civic and cultural Street signified RMIT’s commitment typology is the quality of student strategies. → to a forward and design-led building experience. program, setting a new standard for The vertical campus is often a RMIT’s infrastructure in the 1990s. The satellite city campus to an established multilevel building housed multiple university’s main suburban campus. faculties, a library and the student In the heart of a central business union. The recent completion of New district their location invites the

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Right The central atrium of the Western Sydney University Parramatta City Campus is the building’s heart; vital for activation and high utilisation, 2016 Base building by Architectus, fit-out by Woods Bagot Photo by Nicole England

The 14-storey building is a a showpiece for blended learning (a are exploring traditional commercial pivotal campus whose vertical learning combination of online and face-to- office buildings as sites for new environment is designed to connect face learning) in a future-focused, campuses. At a time when almost the university to business, industry spatially diverse and student-centred every single space typology on campus and the community – a hallmark environment. With an agnostic is being reconsidered, many of these of WSU’s emphasis on developing approach to the interior fit-out, the spaces can work within a commercial employable and work-ready graduates. design allows for truly flexible and floorplate and be developed within a Originally intended as an office future-proofed learning environments. commercially-focused financial model. building, it was transformed into an Free-flowing movement across What differentiates a education campus part way through each floor plate creates moments vertical campus from tall buildings the design, after rigorously testing the for discovery and serendipitous on campus? Rather than a faculty- flexibility and resilience of the initial interactions for students and staff. based tall building with teaching commercial base design. The first ten Similarly, Victoria University spaces in the lower levels, a vertical storeys are occupied by WSU with (VU) is reconceptualising its city campus blends a variety of occupants PWC occupying the top four floors. presence in Melbourne’s CBD. and spatial typologies, distributed The challenge within these Announced late last year, the new throughout the tower. A one-stop-shop campus buildings over so many City West Tower is being developed for learning in a single building. floors is to create and support by ISPT and leased back to the the opportunities for students university. The new 24,000-square- Sarah Ball is a principal at Woods and educators to co-mingle and metre building spanning 32 levels will Bagot and leads their education interact. Centred on the concept drive consolidation of its city campus sector in Australia. Core to her role of me (student), we (university), us into a single precinct. The precinct is enhancing learning opportunities (community), the interiors concept will include library, student services, through design; driving every for the Peter Shergold Building informal learning, active classrooms project is Sarah’s abiding interest in intends to blur the lines between a for undergraduate, postgraduate, understanding how people relate to traditional commercial office tower pathway programs and the VU one another in a learning environment and a functional university campus. Polytechnic, alongside the academic – and supporting those exchanges The building has a porous core; the and administrative workplace. VU and interactions through design. central atrium is the building’s heart, research centres will also have an Equally, Sarah is attracted to projects promoting a sense of community and important presence. It will be a true where knowledge and research are connectivity for greater mobility while vertical campus in height, mix of transferred across typologies, where aiding sightlines between floors. A functions and access to a spectrum of projects – largely because of their central lift core sees students and stacked spaces bringing people and complexity, but also because of new industry mingle on the ground-floor resources closer together. Flat-floor procurement models – demand a lobby. Interconnecting stairs and learning spaces and course-specific highly coordinated and integrated voids encourage collaboration and spaces are supported by informal approach. organic conversation as all users move spaces throughout. With no lecture through the campus. Voids and stairs theatres the campus is able to be may occupy otherwise lettable space developed within a commercial tower but without them activation and high design. Importantly, the planning and utilisation of the vertical campus will inclusion of social spaces promote fail. student and staff interaction across Changes in pedagogy and most levels. technology have enabled such a True vertical education campus to evolve within a commercial campuses are changing what we building. There are no lecture theatres; think a tertiary campus must be, as instead, the design focuses on an well as the way in which universities interactive approach to teaching design and deliver their assets. and learning – a prominent aspect With a commitment to blended of WSU curriculum. The campus is learning environments universities

44—45 Looking In, Looking Out Architect Victoria Interview — were consolidated to become 39 universities. Scale was seen to provide opportunities and was one of the key Russell Elliott reasons for the consolidations.) This was a period of major interview redevelopment at Burwood [an existing campus formerly occupied by the Victorian State College and the Burwood High School]. We did Interview by the Health Sciences Building J (Wood Jocelyn Chiew Marsh 1996), Icon building and those around it (Wood Marsh with Pels Innes Neilson Kosloff 1997), Deakin Central (H2o 2006), and started the International Centre and Business Buildings (H2o 2008). We appointed some very good masterplanners and architects, had a very capable buildings and grounds team and we focussed deliberately on what building design and landscape design meant for those who worked, studied on, or visited our campuses. The designers we worked with, chosen through either competition or by select lists were in There are few people in the university really started in the mid to late 1980s sympathy with what we were trying to sector with Russell Elliott’s breadth when I assumed responsibility for do to provide congenial spaces which of experience in campus design Deakin University’s Property Services suited the needs of students, staff and development. He has led Division as part of my role as Vice and the communities within which the transformations at Deakin, Melbourne President (administration). I was in various campuses were located. and Monash universities, where he this role for twenty years. (Prior to this, On Melbourne and the emergence of has helmed significant changes to Russell trained as a geophysicist and highly civic partnership projects procurement practice and policy, was an educator, a role that explains chaired innumerable PCGs, and his reputation as the Gentleman Chair, After my time at Deakin I was very overseen the delivery of highly such is his ability to skillfully and fortunate to spend a period of time at significant projects – now an indelible affably manage complex projects.) the University of Melbourne looking part of these institutions’ identities. after their Property and Services On Deakin and the emergence of a His projects have changed the face of Division, while Melbourne undertook new university model our city – impacting parts of Geelong some major developments including and Southbank, and resonating at a Deakin was a university that was its involvement in the Southbank- city scale. In October 2018 Russell growing rapidly, both through mergers based Melbourne Theatre Company was appointed Associate to the Chief and organic growth, and through (for Major Projects Victoria/the Operating Officer (property) at Monash its pioneering efforts in distance University of Melbourne/Melbourne University. Prior to that he was Vice- education in Australia. While I was Theatre Company, ARM 2008) and President (services), a position he held there we undertook a significant Melbourne Recital Centre (for Major for nine years. Following a project number of major capital projects, both Projects Victoria/the University review meeting at Monash University at the regional campuses at Waurn of Melbourne, ARM 2008), their City Conference Centre, we sat down Ponds and Warrnambool and at the Business and Economics Building for half an hour to discuss Russell’s university’s waterfront campus in (‘The Spot’, Metier 3 2009), Melbourne insights into the way universities think, Geelong. I was involved in the creation Brain Centre (Lyons 2011), and major where they might head in the future of the latter, and through mergers with refurbishments of other ageing and to recap on a long and illustrious other institutions at Warrnambool infrastructure and buildings. I was career. and various sites across Melbourne, subsequently asked to be Chair of undertook the development or the group overseeing the design and How long have you been working in redevelopment of campuses in build of the new Melbourne School of this space and where did it all start? Geelong, Warrnambool, Rusden, Design (John Wardle Architects and I’ve been working in universities for Burwood and Toorak. (Between 1987 NADAAA 2014) and Arts West (ARM more than forty years. However, the and 2004, 89 institutions in Australia and Architectus 2017), both of which keen interest in physical environments offering higher education courses are outstanding buildings in my view.

Looking In, Looking Out Above Deakin Health Sciences Building J, 1996 Architecture by Wood Marsh Photo courtesy Wood Marsh Architecture

On Monash and an intense period of It’s very pleasing to see today campus renewal the difference in campus appearance I joined Monash at a time when the and legibility that has been created university recognised that a number in the last eight or nine years. Major of its buildings and the areas in which building developments have included: they were located were looking tired a 600-bed NRAS-supported student and not able to serve adequately accommodation development (BVN the purposes for which they were 2011), New Horizons (Lyons 2013), now being used. It was very exciting Green Chemical Futures (Lyons 2015) to be a part of the team leading the and the North West Precinct (JCB rejuvenation of Monash’s campuses, with MGS masterplanners 2014), a principally at Clayton and Caulfield, thousand-bed student accommodation but also at Peninsula. It was a [referring to Turner, Logan, Campbell time when Monash more seriously and Holman Halls (JCB, MCR, Hayball acknowledged the importance of and RMA 2016)], the Learning and good design in delivering quality, Teaching Building (JWA 2018), fit-for-purpose buildings, which Biomedical Learning and Teaching sat appropriately in their particular Building (DCM 2019), Gillies Hall/ campus context. Peninsula Accommodation (JCB 2019), the rebirth of Alexander Theatre and →

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Above Gillies Hall, Monash University Peninsula campus, 2019 Architecture by JCB Architects Photo by Peter Clarke

the new Jazz Club and Sound Gallery is a large sum, but it follows on from a we had to do more by way of providing (PEA 2018/19), the new Chancellery period of sustained under-investment amenities, including food outlets that Building (ARM 2019), and Technology in campus facilities which are critical students like, together with social Education Design Building (Grimshaw to a university’s ability to deliver what spaces and activities including events. 2020). A major reworking of Monash’s is expected of it, particularly in what These and contemporary formal landscapes with clear connecting is now a highly competitive national learning spaces and informal study walkways and well-designed garden and international environment. Such spaces are essential if we are to keep and study spaces are now a feature of major works don’t come cheap but students a part of the physical campus its campuses. the investment is worthwhile and and to enable them to enjoy the social It’s been a lot of buildings! necessary if we are to keep our experience of being at university. campuses as places that students and It’s a star-studded cast of university On the future of university campuses staff want to be and where they can projects. enjoy spending time. Our work has I still see the social side of learning, On the cost of campus development been guided by the desire to make and learning from interactions with Some people have focussed on how campuses places to come, and places other people, as an important part of much money these buildings cost – it to stay. And the understanding that the university experience. I believe

48—49 Looking In, Looking Out that campuses have a future but they On the value of masterplans and will have to change and offer more design review than many do today. We have to have Masterplans have a huge role to play spaces that are functionally suited in the evolution of campuses. They to the kind of research that is done prompt questions and challenge today, and they can be very demanding project teams to think differently in terms of technical requirements and about how they might otherwise specifications, but they also have to approach a project. They help to be places that students and staff feel ensure that we are creating the welcome and able to do the things right outcomes and places for our that are important to them. Learning campuses. spaces have changed and will no Melbourne formed its Design doubt continue to change. There is Review Panel in the time that I was a challenge in keeping pace with there and it considerably lifted the students’ preferred learning modes. quality of building design on its But there is no choice if we are to campuses. Monash did likewise when I maintain what we see as our important arrived (in 2009). Design review panels role in the development of the next provide invaluable advice and keep generation of professionals and our architects on their toes – knowing future leaders. they are going to have a group of The services that learning experienced design professionals spaces offer – including retail and interacting with them on the nature food – provide opportunities for respite and quality of the designs that they and rejuvenation as well as study, deliver. meaning that students don’t have to go off campus to get the services On workplace design they want and need. Technology will More attention has been paid recently continue to be a growing area of focus to workplace design in universities, – not just for learning but so students noting it is more evolved in the and staff can keep up to date with the commercial sector. Picking up best communities they wish to be a part practice examples of how other of. Shade is important, as are our big organisations arrange their workplaces screens (and other campus activation will assist. Lend Lease and Arup’s devices). Students are increasingly new offices in the Melbourne Quarter concerned that our campuses improve (Arup and DCM 2018) have much to their environmental performance commend them in this respect. also, and this is an area where we can and should play a leadership role. On working with architects and other Historic buildings need to be treated professionals sensitively and offer opportunities for I’ve been privileged to be able to work greater precinct renewal and identity. with wonderful teams of architects, Deakin’s Geelong Waterfront Campus consultants, builders and in-house (McGlashan Everist 1997) revitalised professionals to do such exciting and the historic (and neglected Dalgety) satisfying work. → Woolstores on Corio Bay. Lastly, the spaces between buildings are just as important as the spaces within them, in terms of their impact on student and staff experiences.

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Looking In, Looking Out Left Melbourne School of Design, located within the historic centre of the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus Architecture by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with Boston architecture firm NADAAA, 2015 Photos by Nils Koenning

It was a happy coincidence to create interesting spaces that work, for me that I arrived at Monash when are pleasing to look at and to be in. I did, I was able to work with Perry We push for ever-better energy and Lethlean, Peter Elliott, Geoffrey environmental performance (and have London, Professor John Redmond, just completed the university-first Professor Shane Murray and others, passive house major project). If we, as who brought such terrific ideas to institutions who prepare graduates in Monash processes, projects and these fields can’t show what can be initiatives. I’ve done three very done to deliver high performing well- satisfying projects with John Wardle designed buildings, who will? Architects – including two stunning I have also had some very new buildings (the Learning and satisfying experiences with today’s Teaching Building at Clayton, and new generation of builders. Builders Melbourne School of Design at the who appreciate the importance of University of Melbourne). I have also design and who make great efforts to been very pleased to work with ARM find ways of faithfully delivering what on two projects, and Lyons (four architects have imagined. They have projects) together with MCR, JCB (four been a source of creative construction projects), DCM, McGlashan Everist, approaches, ideas on improved BKK and now Kosloff Architecture. material choices and fabrication and As well as working with many other ideas that have been put big established practices and well- to great benefit in the constructibility respected designers, we have sought and quality of many of our buildings. out emerging architects and provided opportunities for them to demonstrate their capabilities. It has been a great experience for these people to be able to work with university design review panel members and the experience it can add to projects. We choose our architects carefully. We take meeting fit-for- purpose and budget as given and are looking for imaginative ideas and selection of materials as well. We want

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We have hosted Sensory Broad perceptions City Tours through RMIT New Academic Street in partnership with OoPLA, tours that contemplated the sensory nature of the spaces from the perspective of a person with low vision or blindness. The tours focused Words by upon not what the building looks like Emma Telfer but what it feels like, smells like and sounds like, and how this supports or isolates different building users. Why are universities an important part of our program? Along with the expanded program of critical yet accessible enquiry, they offer a hub of experimentation, innovation and regeneration. University buildings are often historically and/or architecturally significant, using the latest in materials and construction techniques, award winning, and some offer insight into the architectural process – all criteria we look for when selecting buildings for our program. Open House Melbourne is an explore the ever-expanding campus. independent organisation that This invitation assists in fostering a Emma Telfer is the Executive Director fosters public appreciation for culture of university campuses as of Open House Melbourne, and like architecture and public engagement public space instead of the cloistered the organisation, she champions the in conversations about the future of academic precincts of the past. city of Melbourne through its built our cities. Along with 100-plus special Monash University offered environment. Emma is also a founding events programed throughout the no fewer than 37 locations across partner of the Office for Good Design, year, the much-loved Open House four campuses in the 2018 Open a unique curatorial group that works Weekend has become an important House building program, creating with private organisations and major celebration of architecture across an opportunity for academics, cultural institutions to realise their the city and within most major architects, staff and students who interest in design, architecture, and university campuses. While there are passionate and knowledgeable the broader creative industries. is no fee to be involved in Open about their facilities to hone their House, universities have hard costs skills in presenting complex ideas to a such as staffing, security, cleaning, general and industry audience – along Right ‘The Australian Ugliness’, a three-channel video programming, etc., when opening with the curious wider community, work by Australian artist Eugenia Lim and installation by their doors for extracurricular events the Open House audience contains WOWOWA. Photo by Tom Ross. such as ours. Some go further and a healthy number of architects, become financial supporters of our designers, planners and urbanists who program, contributing to Open House jump on any opportunity to take an Melbourne’s mission in increasing architecture tour of significant new design literacy and inviting people to university buildings and precincts. participate in conversations about University participation architecture, urban planning, and the also offers an opportunity for deeper built environment more broadly. reflection. In 2018, we co-presented Why do they invest in with Melbourne School of Design ‘The conversing with the general public? Australian Ugliness’, a three-channel What’s the appeal? Melbourne video work by Australian artist Eugenia universities are property behemoths, Lim and installation by WOWOWA with new buildings, precincts that took Robin Boyd’s ideas from the and renewal projects popping up 1960s and stretched them to consider every other day. Open House is an gender, race and identity in relation to opportunity to be a good neighbour our built environment. and invite the local community in to

52—53 Looking In, Looking Out Architect Victoria Compiled with assistance from Bridget Nathan, graduate architect at McIldowie Partners, and Jacquelyn Mangubat, graduate architect at Gray What does the university Puksand. campus give you? ‘From my own experience as a student and exploring other study environments across Melbourne ‘A university campus provides an ‘A good university campus can give (including other universities and opportunity for sparking connections you the mental space needed for community libraries) I believe Deakin among groups from a variety of stimulating education and research. Waterfront campus successfully backgrounds. Alike to a city, this The campus can become so much delivers an effective learning results though planned, timetabled more than it’s physical space If environment. The celebration of interactions, but also, in a very needless distractions are removed diverse spaces encourages students rich way, through spontaneous and individuals have spaces where to learn in multiple ways, which is occurrences that lead to lifelong they can come together to effectively essential to self-development. It also professional and personal friendships. discuss their learning. Whether strengthens the sense of student As the campus interacts with the positively or negatively, a campus is community, as students who utilise greater urban environment, a late bus, the reflection of a universities values.’ the campus spaces can discuss, a traffic jam, an incorrect map, we Sam Lee, Research Assistant collaborate, critique and motivate are forced out of our comfort zones Computational Biology and Human each other outside teaching hours. and are encouraged to interact with Genetics, Deakin University and 2018 This kind of experience can’t be each other, enabling the connections Graduate, Human Molecular Genetics, substituted by online courses. Located our educational communities pride Victoria University of Wellington within a small city, the campus themselves upon.’ and Woolstores provides valuable Bridget Nathan, Graduate opportunities for learning and Master of Architecture, University of development as an aspiring architect.’ Melbourne and Bachelor of Design, Jacquelyn Mangubat, Graduate Swinburne University Master of Architecture (Design Management) and SONA Representative, Deakin University What do you enjoy on the campus?

‘In terms of the campus and facilities provided I really enjoyed Swinburne. I ‘As a mature part-time student, being was lucky as the new Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre in Hawthorn on campus gives me the opportunity had just opened [and it] was where the majority of my classes were. The to engage with students and staff, classrooms and facilities were very up to date – especially tech wise. The in a sophisticated and high quality overall design brought a lot of natural lighting through a central light well learning and social environment. The which was beneficial for relaxation in crazy study time, but there simply wasn’t diverse range of formal and informal enough utilising of study space around this.’ Chris Bullen, Graduate spaces – internal and external – Bachelor of Interior Architecture (Honours), Swinburne University provide me with choices on campus to study, meet, eat, and drink amongst the stimuli of a learning environment. ‘The university space is a conglomerate The quality of the campus architecture of historic buildings merged with new communicates to me the University's build innovative design precincts. respect of their students by offering Bustling with students reminding me inspiring, contemporary and professional simultaneously of my joy to learn.’ spaces.’ Louise Dann, Student Alissa Flatley, PhD Student Master of Urban Planning and Design, Geography, the University of Melbourne Monash University

Looking In, Looking Out ‘In comparison to global examples, I would like to have felt more of How does the a certain permanency (the kind that perhaps architecture studio environments create) but across other university architecture disciplines. Studying engineering at Monash Clayton has allowed me to communicate to you? see the difference. A lot of students don’t come to lectures or spend much time on campus and in the common areas. For those students in ‘Situating myself in my studies ‘I chose to do my MBA on campus which travel is difficult; how can we physically makes a big difference to rather than online. I find that being on implement a sense of belonging and how I do so mentally. A big portion campus and in class better enables ‘permanency’ that architecture studios of my course focuses on art history me to: engage with my class content, create for them? I think that online and theory, and I find that being on interact with my classmates, build learning tools have many benefits campus helps me dilute the things rapport with my teachers and also but how can we mitigate the risks I’m learning into the world around helps me to focus my attention on of social isolation they may create? me, and make sense of how different studying. When I arrive at school it Can we plan and design for all of individuals have done so, similarly, puts me in the frame of mind to study. our users and all students? I think before me. Face-to-face conversation Overall the campus facilities are really the experience could be improved and discussion also plays an nice and enjoy being there. The quality by further considering the user especially important part in stretching and facilities of the small rooms to do experience of a student after hours. my perspective, which would be lost – group work are really important. My Also more bikes/scooters!’ or at least eroded – if it was all online!’ school has just built a bar and cafe. Leanne Haidar, Student Harriet Jones, Student It’s a really nice space and I enjoy Bachelors of Architectural Design and Bachelor of Art History & Curating, being there.’ Engineering (Civil), Monash University Monash University Emily Coldbeck, Student Melbourne Business School the University of Melbourne

How do you interact with the university campus?

‘Personally, it is nice to do my work/study in one place and the remaining ‘The campus gave me a place that time in another place. I prefer real life communications rather than online welcomed and encouraged thought communications. The possibility to meet people doing similar activities helps exploration. Open 24/7, the campus to open discussion, listen to different perspectives and enrich connections gave me a constant ground – separate with a wider range of students and researchers from different academic from home – where I could go down backgrounds. Usually, the campus is better for learning.’ the rabbit hole, asking questions and Ziad Al Bkhetan, PhD Student, Computer Science, the University of Melbourne exploring tangents.’ Heather Chapman, Graduate Bachelor of Design (Landscape ‘The university campus provides me with Architecture) & Bachelor of Applied Science the classroom, often on level three, for (Planning), RMIT University my lectures, tutorials and workshops. I know that there is an amazing food forest grounded within the centre of the city campus.’ Prudence Rothwell, Student Master of Food Systems and Gastronomy, William Angliss Institute

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civic-minded approach to campus Place value development that has seen the campus open to the city. The university’s transformation has gone beyond the creation of new buildings, Words by urban spaces and identity to create Sophie Patitsas value within and beyond the campus, enhancing the student experience of the city (and the city’s experience of the university). The next step in the evolution of the city to the north will see the City of Melbourne, in partnership with RMIT University and the University of Melbourne create a Melbourne Innovation District – a smart city initiative to drive investment in the knowledge economy. The new Metro Tunnel is a major catalyst and is creating both momentum and imperative to reimagine this part of the city. The question is how this initial transport investment will be leveraged to not only capture value ‘Single-purpose spending is done’1 amenity and creates value for the but to create value for the community. community. How can an urban innovation district There was strong attendance by Perhaps there is a lesson enhance the public’s appreciation of the architecture profession at a here for the University of Melbourne’s this part of the city? recent site visit to South Melbourne potential new, seven-hectare campus Within government there Primary School organised by Learning – also at Fishermans Bend. The is a clear intention to maximise Environments Australasia. The visit university’s investment in a new economic, social and environmental extended to a robust panel discussion engineering school at the campus value from the State Government’s with the school’s architect, school is already being positioned as a unprecedented program of investment principal and a former councillor – a ‘catalyst for new collaborations and in infrastructure, precincts and testament to the critical role that investments, connecting industry and services. This is articulated in public buildings and their services research in the precinct.’2 How might Victoria’s Value Creation and continue to play in our community. this ambition for a new 21st century Capture Framework. The framework This much-celebrated school is campus manifest in an emerging urban applies to a variety of sectors important as Victoria’s first purpose- renewal precinct? How might an urban including transport, health, housing built vertical primary school but goes design-led approach, underpinned and education. It is an important above and beyond by combining both by principles about Place, People, recognition of not just project as community services and education, Governance and Leadership,3 catalyse ‘capital’ but of project in ‘context’. to serve the future population of an outcome that challenges business- Recent organisational changes and Fishermans Bend which will be one as-usual? realignments within government that of Australia’s most densely populated Over a 30-year period give effect to this policy framework urban renewal areas. RMIT University has shown how an reflect this shift. Resources are The school principal spoke ‘institution occupying and spread being formally aligned around places with pride about the value of key out through an existing urban setting and precincts. The Office of the aspects of the design of the primary (can do more than simply) co-exist in Victorian Government Architect aims school including a highly-contested a state of semi-permanent conflict.’4 to capitalise on this shift to raise fenceless public plaza that welcomes The change from an institute of awareness on the critical role of the community and facilities in the technology to university has been design in this emerging context. We school that are available for use accompanied by a carefully curated will continue to articulate our more outside of school hours. His sentiment capital works program that embraced nuanced understanding of ‘value’ was echoed by the panel in a broad heterogeneity5 and innovation in and the need to embed urban and ranging discussion about the concept its procurement of architecture. architectural design excellence across of a school design that looks beyond This concept of diversity has been all public investment. This (we hope) its site boundary, enhances public enhanced by a consistent and

56—57 Looking In, Looking Out Above South Melbourne Primary School, 2018 Architecture by Hayball Photo by Chris Matterson

will enable and empower government, Notes stakeholders, industry partners, 1 Lynn Richards, President and CEO of the Congress of architects, landscape architects and New Urbanism speaking at the Plan Melbourne Showcase other allied disciplines in the built (held 20 April 2019) environment to play their part in a new 2 https://www.alumni.unimelb.edu.au/university- announces-new-engineering-campus norm. 3 Terms that are capitalised have the corresponding meaning: Place (enhancing, connected, diverse, enduring), People (comfortable, vibrant, safe, walkable) Sophie Patitsas is a member of RMIT and Governance and Leadership (context, engagement, University’s Design and Development excellence and custodianship), in Creating Places for Committee and Master of Architecture People, An Urban Design Protocol for Australian Cities 4 Tom Wilkinson, Typology: Universities, The Architectural Program Advisory Committee and Review (6 October 2015) Chair of the Urban Design Program 5 Peter Elliott, Episodic Urbanism: the RMIT Urban Advisory Committee. Contributions Spaces Project, 1996-2015 by Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design (URO Publications 2015): 141 made in her capacity as Principal Adviser, Architecture and Urban Design for the Office of the Victorian Government Architect.

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a project, Dayne works closely with Dayne Trower different fabricators having portions of building elements made at 1:1 before Architects their construction on site. There is a certain level of rigor to this method of practicing architecture. A level that is not often Words by realised during early design phases Elizabeth Campbell with computer modelling. As well as clarifying thought through models, Dayne uses the technique of model making as a way to reduce risk and eliminate often unwelcome surprises on site. Model making ‘slows down the pace of realising architecture, so the decisions made are hopefully the right ones.’ Model making is also a method of investigating how an off-the-shelf material, such as brick, can be used in a unique way. In one of DTA’s current projects, a custom brick has been made to construct a wall with varying textures across Dayne Trower embodies all the Dayne worked for Sean its surface. This brick has a direct qualities of an architect you can Godsell Architects first as a student, relationship with the existing bricks imagine. He is carefully measured progressing in his professional on site providing a discourse with the in his approach to conversation, career through graduate to registered history of the site, but also referencing considered in his appearance and architect. He established his own both the time and place it has been extremely thoughtful in his methods of practice in 2017, Dayne Trower constructed. architectural practice. When chatting Architects (DTA). The practice ethos with Dayne, there is a certain quality of is to ‘celebrate the process of making effortless sophistication – every detail architecture through building, research of a question is contemplated before a and art practice.’ Dayne elaborates, response is given. ‘it is about refining every element Dayne started his architecture back to its essence.’ In many ways, Left Project models by Dayne Trower Architects career differently to most. He worked this clarifies the relationships in for well-known graphic designer Brian his projects – some of which are Sadgrove while studying design at alterations and additions and others Swinburne University National School which are new residences. of Design. Seeing the way in which Each project is approached Dayne approached design, Brian with care. With the inception of each suggested he shift his focus from the project, Dayne mentions that he is two-dimensional world of graphic ‘always looking for clarity in process design into the three dimensions of and finding the most simple way to architecture. do something. That is why model Coming from a design making is a big part of the practice.’ background, Dayne used model Dayne sees this as straight forward, he making at RMIT University, viewing notes that ‘it’s not complicated – and it as a way to remove himself it doesn’t need to be.’ Model making from anything that had graphic is used by DTA at every stage to connotations into something that was clarify design thoughts, relationships, physically made in three dimensions. material junctions and scale. Some ‘It was a tool to work things out and I models are made in timber as sketch always understood if you could figure it models, others are presentation out in model form, you could figure out models for client meetings. Each model how something would go together as a is a refining tool making the design built outcome.’ intent clearer. In the later stages of

58—59 Architect Victoria Slice — New projects

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Project 1 Project 2 Sally Draper Architects Kennedy Nolan Christ Church Grammar School Main Campus Kooyong

It is easy to miss Christ Church Grammar School, hidden Kooyong, named for its location on Kooyong Road, on the edge of Fawkner Park behind the elegant bluestone Armadale is a hybrid multi-residential building. of Christ Church with its curiously spotty spire. Essentially a row of six townhouses, it has a common Although discreetly positioned within its heritage basement carpark and a street presentation which is surrounds, the new building cleverly accommodates a informed by the singular expression of the mansion block, significant program of spaces. Sally Draper Architects in or perhaps a single dwelling. association with McIldowie Partners were appointed to Armadale is characterised by large, detached undertake a masterplan for the school’s main campus. family houses – with a preponderance of heritage styles Using an unconventional strategy of locating learning from the Victorian to inter-war Georgian. The area is spaces below ground level and opening them to sunken also known for its well-established bio-mass made up courtyards and north-facing voids, an open airy learning of mature street trees and established gardens with an environment has been created, which responds sensitively abundant canopy of mostly exotic trees. to the historic and religious context of Kennedy Nolan Architects' aspiration for the school. Kooyong was that it would be a sophisticated response The campus achieves a delightful and enriching to this privileged environment and integrate a higher environment for its community and provides a valuable residential density sensitively and unobtrusively. and timely model for schools in dense urban and historic contexts.

Photographer Trevor Mein Photographer Derek Swalwell

60—61 Looking In, Looking Out Project 3 Project 4 Taylor Knights Decibel Architecture Fitzroy Terrace MFB Marine Response Headquarters

Fitzroy Terrace is an intricate and holistic re-working of Located at an existing marina in Port Melbourne, the a previously run down double-storey terrace in the gritty, marine response facility is the first building of its northern fringes of Fitzroy. The design itself represents kind, designed to provide critical infrastructure for the an obscuring between the old and the new through Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) along the banks of the deliberate play of thresholds and vertical journeys the Yarra River. The building is comprised of two pre- through the internal spaces. This in turn responds to a fabricated portable units that contain fire facilities for the restrictive site, the solution for which is best captured in MFB's water-based division of firefighters. section. The necessity of water access meant that flood Tasked with tackling a deep, narrow site, locked water management and ease of access to marina facilities on both sides by double-height party walls, and plagued was a key consideration. A custom perforated metal with issues of darkness, damp, and poor ventilation – facade and portico envelops the portable units providing our approach focussed on injecting light deep into the a sheltered access ramp and stair to the elevated units. footprint of the home through a series of light-catching The project’s brief required a pragmatic and sculptural volumes and openings. In addition, the interior time effective solution that was low cost, lightweight spaces have been reconsidered using the principles and would also allow for the relocation and repurposing of inverted living, flipping the original arrangement by of building materials when a more permanent facility is lifting living spaces onto the first floor, improving natural required in the future. cross-ventilation, accessing valuable northern light, and capturing city views to the south.

Photographer Peter Clarke Photographer Decibel Architecture

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Designing the Architectural Guide Global City Australia Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison and Richard Hu Sarah Zahradnik

This text explores how architectural and urban Architectural Guide Australia presents over 200 design values have been co-opted by global cities projects. Each chapter, dedicated to one of the to enhance their economic competitiveness by nation’s eight state capitals, presents buildings creating a superior built environment that is not just that represent the major moments in the country’s aesthetically memorable but more productive and architectural history, from its colonial origins to the sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central contemporary era. The book includes an introduction Sydney through its policy commitment to ‘design to Australia’s most influential architects as well as excellence’ and more particularly to mandatory essays by Harry Seidler (1923 – 2006), John Gollings, competitive design processes for major private and David Bridgman. development. Seidler’s essay argues for the incorporation Framed within broader contexts that link of sunlight and shadow, phenomena so distinctly it to comparable urban policy and design issues characteristic of the country’s climate, into in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, it provides architecture both from an aesthetic and practical a scholarly but accessible volume that provides standpoint. Gollings offers a historical sweep a balanced and critical overview of a policy that of Australian architecture before identifying the has changed the design culture, development three major architectural strands of contemporary expectations, public realm and skyline of central Australia. Bridgman explores the challenges of Sydney, raising issues surrounding the uneven designing in the hot-humid tropics in particular, distribution of benefits and costs, professional outlining the climatic considerations that must be practice, representative democracy, and implications accounted for when building in those regions. of globalisation.

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publisher DOM publishers

Looking In, Looking Out Resident Dog Beaumaris Modern Nicole England Fiona Austin

Just as every home is different, so is every dog. Beaumaris Modern is a collection of mid-century In this stunningly photographed book modern Beaumaris houses, beautifully documented of architecturally superb houses – many of them by Jack Shelton, a bayside local now living and architects’ own homes – we see how the presence working as a professional photographer in LA. Some of a dog brings warmth and life to the most dramatic are original in their design and are the architects’ spaces. From mid-century raw brick to a penthouse own homes from the 50s and 60s and other homes apartment, gracious Edwardian to Scandinavian have been sensitively restored and renovated. modern, from beach house to country retreat, there All the houses have a back story, is always room for a dog or two. fascinating interiors and architectural details, Seemingly oblivious to designer furniture, particularly the houses in which the owners have heritage considerations or serious design aesthetics, lived for over 50 years. Each house features a dogs can make themselves at home anywhere. history, written by Fiona Austin, a Beaumaris In fact, the rooms in this book are all the more resident, interior designer and local Beaumaris appealing because of their resident dog. heritage expert, and Alison Alexander, a Beaumaris Resident Dog captures magnificent mid-century home owner, writer, editor and daughter architecture and divine interiors, but within every of prominent architect Ross Stahle, from the frame, the dog’s idiosyncratic personalities can’t architectural practice Mockridge Stahle Mitchell. help but shine through. Each house includes a biography of the original architect, written by mid-century expert and architectural historian, Simon Reeves. A detailed floor plan also accompanies each house.

Publisher Thames & Hudson Publisher Beaumaris Modern

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