2004 atriumfaculty of architecture building and planning the university of melbourne issue three

Work–Life Balance

Gold Medals for Corrigan and Burgess

Paul Carter

Safe Spaces

Seachange and Development

Rare Architecture Books Online

Books Photo: Andrew Saniga Andrew Photo: Graduates Refl ect John Maidment with rare books from the Architecture and Planning Library. Photo: Paul Richiardi Paul Photo: and Planning Library. the Architecture books from John Maidment with rare FROM THE DEAN KEVIN O’CONNOR PRIZE FOR TOP Professor Ruth Fincher APPOINTED PROFESSOR YOUNG PLANNERS by Professor Ruth Fincher

Doloi and Ms Sarah Wilkinson. Dr Sidh guests was the architect and urban have been infl uential: The Economic Sintusingha will be a new lecturer in designer Professor Claire Parin, of Role of Cities: Economic Change and Landscape Architecture. As you will L’École d’Architecture et de Paysage in City Development (K. O’Connor and R. see elsewhere in Atrium, the research Bordeaux, France. Stimson, 1995, AGPS), Population and achievements of our academic staff are Employment Growth in Australia: Regional expanding and becoming more diverse. Professor Parin was at the University as Hot Spots and Cold Spots 1986–1996 (R. part of a group of students and staff from As I write this message to you, classes This is attributable in no small part to Professor Kevin O’Connor took up a Stimson, F. Shuaib, K. O’Connor, 1999, A prestigious new annual prize for her University in France, participating in have just fi nished for the 2004 academic those who have joined our ranks in the position as Associate Professor in the UQ Press), Community Opportunity and the top graduate in the University what we refer to as the ‘BMB’ Project. year and our students are about to last few years. Urban Planning Program of the Faculty Vulnerability in Australia’s Cities and Towns of Melbourne’s Bachelor of Urban BMB stands for Bangkok-Melbourne- enter the examination period. Members of Architecture Building and Planning. (S. Baum, R. Stimson, K. O’Connor, P. Planning and Development program

One outcome of our growing size is Bordeaux, representing a three- atrium of the academic staff are engaged in This appointment followed a long and Mullins, R. Davis, 2000, UQ Press), and was launched in July 2003 by the Dean that we now have additional buildings university collaboration in teaching and the important but time-consuming successful career at Monash University, Australia’s Changing Economic Geography: of Architecture Building and Planning, allocated to us on the central campus. learning. During 2004, staff and students process of end-of-year assessment. Our where he began as a Lecturer in 1975. A Society Dividing (K. O’Connor, R. Professor Ruth Fincher. In 2002 the Faculty took occupancy of from the three universities came to administrative staff are gearing up for Professor O’Connor had encountered Stimson, M. Daly, 2001, Oxford UP). most of the Baldwin Spencer Building, Melbourne for a week-long program, The Ledgar Prize in Urban Planning the processing of examination results, the University of Melbourne previously, people to the north-west of our main building. having previously been to Bangkok for In Melbourne, Professor O’Connor’s the selection of new students and re- taking out a Bachelor of Commerce commemorates the contribution of the Students from our coursework Masters the same purpose (see page 14). In April research has assessed patterns and enrolment of continuing students for (Hons) in 1966, a Diploma of Education in late pioneer and academic-leader in 2 programs in design are located there, 2005 the program will conclude with a causes of suburban development, 3 2005. The rhythms of the new academic 1967, and a Master of Commerce in 1971, urban and regional planning, Frederick along with staff teaching design in the workshop in Bordeaux. industrial change, and the links between year are starting even as the present one all at this University. His PhD in the fi eld William Ledgar, to both the education postgraduate programs of Architecture employment and housing markets. His of planners at the University and to the is yet to be completed. Singling out events of particular note of urban economic geography is from and Landscape Architecture. In the next voice is often heard and read in the media profession of urban planning. in the past year or so is diffi cult, as McMaster University in Canada. At the end of 2004 the Faculty has a total two months, we will also be occupying in Melbourne, for journalists rely on his there have been so many. Close to my atrium of 1793 students enrolled in its programs, the Old Commerce building immediately Professor O’Connor’s work on the expert interpretations of a wide range of Professor Ledgar was Victoria’s, heart was the launch of the Ledgar of which 1429 are undergraduates. Most to the west of the Architecture and urban economic trends. and the University of Melbourne’s, Prize in Urban Planning, a student prize Of particular interest have of these are full-time students. More Planning building. Clusters of staff been his investigations fi rst Professor of Town and Regional established in perpetuity to honour the Over many years Professor O’Connor than 30 per cent of the undergraduates from the Urban Planning and Property of international trade Planning. foundation Professor of Town Planning has contributed his work to governments enrolled in the Faculty are international and Construction programs will have in services, and of the in the Faculty, Professor Fred Ledgar and to groups within the planning, Key guests at the launch of the prize students; our Faculty has the second offi ces there, along with a group of airline and global fi nance (see page 3). Staff and alumni of the property and construction professions, included members of the Ledgar family, highest percentage of international administrative staff. A new Faculty industries. Faculty’s planning program worked hard an important role for a senior academic who travelled from interstate, friends, undergraduates in the University, its reception desk will be placed on the to raise funds for this prize, and we were economic structure and planning of in urban planning. He has been evaluated staff and work colleagues of the late percentage in this regard exceeded only ground fl oor. To this set of expansions delighted to meet Professor Ledgar’s cities has focussed on changes in the as a magnifi cent teacher by scores Professor Ledgar and members of the by that of the Faculty of Economics and are to be added the fi rst steps in wife, Renee, and other members of his character and location of manufacturing of undergraduate and postgraduate planning profession. Commerce. In 2004 we had 55 members refurbishment of the Architecture and family at the launch. Another event I and services industries and how students and was awarded the Faculty’s of academic staff and 32 administrative Planning building. We have worked with Professor Fincher, whose fi eld is urban want to mention is the inaugural meeting these have infl uenced urban form and inaugural Faculty Teaching Award. He staff. So the Faculty is growing, and one Bates Smart on the Master Plan and its planning, said generous support for the of Universitas21 deans of faculties and employment patterns. Internationally, has been a consistent high achiever of our ambitions in the next few years is implementation for the past six months. Ledgar Prize in Urban Planning led to schools of the built environment, which is he is best known for his research on in competitive research grant rounds, to increase the number of academic staff a total of $58,000 being raised over the Once again the Faculty’s Dean’s Lecture to be held at the University of Melbourne producer services industries—he has and his contributions to academic in relation to the number of students we past two and a half years, which was Series has been a huge success. We are this month. Universitas 21 is a network led most expertly the establishment management are consistent, generous teach. “well over target”. all grateful to Dr Greg Missingham for of universities around the world whose of international working groups on and effective. He is a longstanding this topic, collaborating with a large We have made some exciting new planning this major series which draws interest is in furthering collaborative contributor to international and “Support has come from various work number of fi ne scholars. Of particular appointments to the academic staff of our current and past students, together learning, research and benchmarking. national professional organizations in colleagues who knew Fred and from interest have been his investigations of the Faculty in the past year. The eminent with members of the local community of We have high hopes that this meeting, planning, regional science and economic planning fi rms and organisations. international trade in services, and of the writer and artist Paul Carter has joined built environment professionals, to our which we have initiated, will begin to geography. Particularly generous have been the City airline and global fi nance industries. us for a fi ve-year term as a Professorial Faculty in the evenings to hear wonderful establish additional, useful networks for of Melbourne, the Urban and Regional The Faculty of Architecture Building and Fellow (Paul’s work is discussed on page lecturers. This year, as in the past, the Faculty’s staff and students around Land Corporation and the Melbourne Within Australia, his writing on economic Planning applauds the contribution of 9). Rob Adams, the well-known urban speakers from universities and practices the world. company Ausvest Holdings. performance in our country’s regional Professor Kevin O’Connor to the fi eld designer and architect from the City of far and wide have made presentations, I will close by expressing my appreciation cities and towns, his comparisons of of urban planning, and celebrates his “The prize provides for the winning Melbourne, has become an Honorary as have our own eminent staff and some for the Faculty’s wonderful staff and Australian regional labour markets, and promotion to professor in 2003. student to receive a substantial award in Professorial Fellow of the Faculty. In the of Melbourne’s leading practitioners students, for their fi ne achievements and his documentation of the great Australian cash,” she said. Property and Construction program, Dr including RAIA Gold Medal recipients collegiality over the past year. It has been divide between metropolitan Australia Lynne Armitage joined us in mid-2004. and Faculty alumni Gregory Burgess Andrew Burridge (BUPD 2003) was awarded the a pleasure to work with them. and the rest, have drawn most attention. Two more new colleagues will begin in and Peter Corrigan (see pages 4 and inaugural Ledgar Prize in Urban Planning at the Here, his four jointly-authored books Faculty’s annual Dean’s Honours and Awards Night that program in early 2005: Dr Henanta 5). Included amongst the international on Friday 2 April, 2004. He received $2000. BEARING PETER CORRIGAN GIFTS FOR GREGORY BURGESS RAIA Gold Medal Awarded 2004 CATALYTIC PASSION RAIA Gold Medal Awarded 2003 by Professor Paul Carter by Dr Greg Missingham

Gregory Burgess’s (BArch 1970) buildings around memories of arrival and leaving. as the simultaneous invagination and Peter Corrigan (BArch 1966) finished his on the use of sketch models, like the of Architecture and Design at RMIT release the poetic in language. As Spiritual, topographical and visual projection of space that occurs in that 2004 Dean’s Lecture, Room Temperature, theatre design. From the unbuilt Trinder University. In 1983–84, he was a Guest buildings do not stand in for senses alignments are braided into energy forms turning I mentioned before. comparing his first final-year design House project at Corio through to the Professor in the Graduate School of that could be communicated differently, that supply the other of the architectural project, a religious centre, with his most notable public buildings at Mortlake, Design at Harvard University. In 1989, so with the ‘language’ appropriate will to form. The result is a ‘contorsion’, a Here, at the Northcote Community Health recently completed project, the Newman Keysborough, Box Hill, Sale, RMIT, he received the first Honorary Doctorate to evoking the meaning of Greg’s turning, that recovers the active sense of Centre, or at the Church of St Michael and St Mary’s Colleges’ Education Centre, Belconnen, Ringwood, Southbank (for the of Architecture from RMIT for his buildings. It is a language that takes orientation. Greg’s houses are tropical, in and St John, Horsham, upright bearing is on the same site—behind Newman Melbourne Theatre Company) and now contribution to Australian architectural

atrium responsibility for the creative principle implying a turning towards. the patent of a local under-standing. The College, against the University Oval. the University, the work has been both theory and design. In 1991, he was Guest at its core. It does not shave words away tallness is the windhover’s, imagining its Failed for being at the pub or theatre provocative and formally innovative. Lecturer at the Politecnico di Torino, to unsustainably sharp definitions; it The allusion to light brings me to a wings extended like hawsers to the earth. rather than in the studio … Italy and, in 1999, he was included in the second sense of bearing, the bearing of Here the figure of wrath is transformed Corrigan has led both follows instead their branching, tracing by example and through Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, one of the one presence or form on another. The into the figure of Piero’s Madonna della In the end, I was rather pleased. It gave people the associations simultaneously felt in the vigorous promotion world’s foremost references to artists of different directions as expressions of a relationship with others can be linear Misericordia. It is a bearing towards the me another year at the University, another all periods, regions, and cultures. and universal, or it can be weblike and earth, from which its strength (and its year’s mooching, drinking, thinking, of the architecture and 4 generative impulse. architects of this city in 5

branching. It can be solar or stellar. In materials) are, most notably at Horsham, talking.1 Corrigan has led both by example and people arts, educational, public, In this way, language and architecture this regard Greg’s proclivities are clear. humbly drawn and redistributed. And it is through the vigorous promotion of the The early part of his lecture was a publishing and political find their common root in poiesis, that From the pentagonal entry hall of the a bearing up, a resolve to make a life at forums. architecture and architects of this city in act of articulation that makes us human. aptly-named Southern Cross Primary that place, whose combination produces running, detailed critique of his 2003 A arts, educational, public, publishing and S Hook Memorial Address. This public If this were not the case, we could not School of 1982, with its star-shaped shelter, the condition of fruitfulness. The middle section of his Dean’s Lecture political forums. examination of his experience, the atrium explain that sense we have, repeatedly Greg’s buildings bear bodies as creatures considered the design for the Ligetti Greg’s buildings bear profession and architecture in Australia It is no accident that Melbourne is also and enduringly in Greg’s buildings, that bear children. opera, Le Grande Macabre, at the bodies as creatures exhibited the passionate commitment to home to such sources of other, colourful, they call to us, that they listen for our Komischeoper in Berlin. (The brilliant bear children. This notion of bearing up introduces education and to the cultural life of his nonrectilinear architecture in Greg response. success of the Barry Kosky production another theme. The cosmic lyricism of community for which he is known and Burgess, Ashton Raggattt MacDougall, is widely credited with saving that A poetic word, a word considered skylight, to the Catholic Theological Greg’s constellated settlements is not in loved. Lyon Architects, Lab Architecture Studio company.) Twice winner of Green Room poetically, that articulates the nature College Library, he has imagined the freefall. It has its historical landscape—a and Wood Marsh, and that Corrigan was Awards as a prolific designer for drama of Greg’s architectural understanding influence thoughtful places exert on one sense of existential homelessness which Corrigan’s own education began with the behind (the sadly missed) Transition and opera around Australia, originally in is bearing. Tracing the relationship another in terms of starlight. Community the last century bequeathed us, and, Christian Brothers in St Kilda, included magazine. the US and now in Europe, as with the between the word’s different, but is, of course, a matter of gathering, but locally, our unfinished business with the an incomplete Commerce degree and architecture, the emphasis of Corrigan’s related, connotations is analogous to it is also a question of giving room to people in whose homes we live. Here, I completed Bachelor of Architecture For all his contributions, Peter Corrigan work is on the connections between the experience Greg’s buildings afford the dark reaches between. In the elastic see Greg’s work staging the responsibility at this University, and a Master of was declared the Royal Australian program, discourse and ideas. us when, wandering in and out of waveforms of Greg’s roofs and walls, architecture must take for the conditions Environmental Design at Yale. But his Institute of Architects Gold Medallist in erudition is as much self-generated as them, we experience an association of a reflection of the environment is both of its production. Repose is, as it were, The work of Edmond & Corrigan has 2003. gathered and spread out. Darkness is formal. A voracious reader of everything places whose infolding unfolds without reposed, as something conditional on the been widely published in Europe, the US, 1 woven into the light in a magical way from art history, Aristophanes and Simon In an interview, 4 May 1979. A more complex exhaustion. making of community; and one obvious Japan and Australia and has been the project of a similar program on a site at Monash Schama to Nugget Coombes and Joyce that produces both shelter and the tropic implication of his constellated spaces, subject of two monographs.2 The firm University passed in the following year, 1966. In such mindful structures there are Carol Oates, besides architecture, his 2 Hamann, Conrad (with Michael Anderson, dance of Greg’s distinguished series of whether it’s Brambuk Living Heritage has won 22 state awards (three state many entrances. Here, to begin, bearing arbours and pavilions. deservedly legendary office library fuels Winsome Callister), 1993, Cities of Hope, Oxford Centre or Burraworrin, is their intent to medals), four National Architectural University Press, Melbourne, and: van Schaik, describes an orientation. As destinations, an eclectic intelligence. make room for those histories, scattered Design Awards, was invited by the French Leon, exec. ed, 1996, Building 8, Schwartz buildings, like natural features, give What are the fruit that buildings bear? Transition Monographs, Melbourne. across the night sky of our collective government to represent Australia at one bearings; as points of departure, What are the children born there? I He worked for such architects as Phillip memory, but rarely regarded. It is the the Paris Biennale, exhibited in 1991 Dr Greg Missingham’s research interests they are places from which one takes think Conrad Hamann is right when he Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Caesar Pelli incorporation of this dispersed intelligence both at the Venice Biennale and in the include meaning, symbolism and interpretation one’s bearings. These definitions imply a emphasises the image of sexual union and Kevin Roche in New Haven and New (hermeneutics), formal rhetoric, place settings at that makes the intensification of shadow Third Triennial of World Architecture, home and work, design approaches and methods, mobility that is linear. In contrast, Greg’s that Greg’s buildings afford. The Hackford York when, in 1975, he was brought in Greg’s buildings bearable, transforming Belgrade and, in 2003, the Chapel of St contemporary media and architecture. Current buildings characteristically incorporate House, the twelve Apostles Information back to do the set for Don Giovanni for source materials include classical Chinese gardens, the melancholy associated with care into a Joseph received the State Chapter Award a double movement, counterpointed centre: in their different places, these the Australian Opera. Then he began Chinese, Japanese and other literature, first caring, a load that can be born hopefully. for being the most significant piece of architectures, key Melbourne architects, alchemy, energies that hook into each other. The are buildings that dig in and leap out; architectural practice in Melbourne with architecture in Victoria for the last 25 Greenaway’s and others’ films and the television of orientation thus implied is rotational, at once, as Conrad puts it, phallic and None of these connotations of bearing Maggie Edmond. Dennis Potter. fallopian. It is here, if anywhere, I locate years. tilted or frictional. Habitation—one would bear on our subject, if they did If the public rhetoric is replete with pithy the Aboriginal resonances of Greg’s might think of the relatively early Young- anecdotes, the architectural method Corrigan is Adjunct Professor of work, in the intuition of the fertile place Pash House project of 1980—revolves continued on page 21 and discussion with clients depends Architectural Design in the School RARE ARCHITECTURAL GEMS TOURS CAREER MENTOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN URBANISM: SEARCHABLE ONLINE PROGRAM Beijing Study Tour An Intensive Short Course By Dr Jianfei Zhu

In 2004 the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning initiated career mentoring programs for students in architecture, property and construction, and landscape architecture. The purpose of these programs was to facilitate connections with the professions and to provide insights into the realities of the workforce. The ultimate aim was to assist students with their Outstanding holdings of architectural collections of local architects and from ABP is offering a number of international transition out of the University and into their To help create a cross-cultural teaching The bilingual proceedings of the seminar materials dating from 1736, many of the library of the former Royal Victorian study tours in 2005. These tours are open careers. and learning environment and to expose is to be published as a commercial book great rarity and historical value, are Institute of Architects. to current students, alumni and members students to an international work by a Beijing publisher. China Central available to scholars and the public of the community. The architecture and property and environment, Jianfei Zhu and Steve Television (CCTV, channel 4) visited the for the first time though a University of “Significant collections of material from construction programs were offered to Whitford offered a short course in the seminar and interviewed staff from The City Assembled: Melbourne library catalogue on the web. major local architects and planners third-year students prior to their work winter of 2004: Contemporary Asian Melbourne. The focus of the interview Study Tour of Germany, Italy and the experience year. Forty-one architecture such as Harold Desbrowe-Annear, A E Czech Republic Urbanism. This subject introduced the was on the relations between Melbourne atrium The rare materials collection in the students were matched either singly or Twentyman, A R and Walter R Butler, 18 June–13 July 2005 conditions, problems and aspirations and Peking Universities. Architecture and Planning Library Bart Moriarty, Alec S Hall, Frank Heath in groups with 17 mentors, and the 31 of Asian cities by looking at Beijing includes seminal architectural texts and and Alan R Murray may be found together Mario Gutjahr, the Faculty’s Head of property, construction or quantity surveying as one of the primary examples. After the exhibition in the atrium, ABC graphic materials dating from settlement with those of collectors such as Frederic Urban Planning, is leading a 25-day study students were matched with 18 mentors. Imparting established knowledge was Radio Australia interviewed some of to the early-20th century, including Dougan Bird,” he says. tour of Germany, Italy and the Czech The landscape architecture program was combined with on-site exploration the students (Jess Herzberg, Yu-Fan news engravings and lithographic plates. Republic in June and July 2005. offered to later-year undergraduate or of the new and the problematic. A Lin, Conor Larkins, Allan Xu and Rowan Brown) and both staff members. This 6 the University holds “Some materials include annotations postgraduate students, with 15 students history of Beijing, a history of modern 7 and architectural ideas can be followed For a full itinerary, cost and reservation form and interview will be broadcast in early

news a complete set of further information please contact: matched with 13 mentors. and current urban and architectural the major works of through to specific buildings. Desbrowe- Australians Studying Abroad design in China, and methods of urban 2005 in a program featuring Beijing and Students and mentors met at the official renowned architect and Annear’s books have a stunning Level 1, Office 6 and social analysis were introduced another five cities as part of a series on 1087–1095 High Street Armadale launch by the Vice-Chancellor in April and mega-cities in the region. writer A W N Pugin in bookplate designed by his friend and PO Box 285 Armadale as a tentative framework. Within this original editions client Napier Waller, depicting a galleon arranged to have five further meetings Victoria 3143 Australia framework, each student was able to Steve Whitford teaches design in the undergraduate atrium throughout the year. Meetings included in full sail.” choose his/her own particular topic. architecture and Master of Urban Design programs. Architecture and Planning Librarian, Telephone Number: +61 3 9822 6899 office-based discussions, site visits or His work in collaboration with Brearley Architecture Facsimile Number: +61 3 9822 6989 The topics included contextual issues Mr John Maidment, says access to the Mr Maidment says cataloguing has meetings, and visits to completed projects. and Urbanism (BAU) in Shanghai includes four Freecall: 1800 645 755 (outside metro Melbourne) (e.g. history, statistics, cinema), urban international competition winning entries. materials follows completion of an greatly facilitated access to and usage of Email: info asatours.com.au One of the meetings was a career forum @ design (Tiananmen Square CBD), and extensive project to catalogue the many the Library’s holdings, which previously Web: www.asatours.com.au where mentors spoke about their career Jianfei Zhu teaches design and undertakes research architectural ‘moments’ (including Henry thousands of volumes in the library’s were mostly unknown. “Researchers had paths and students talked with a range of with a focus on urban issues in cross-cultural Murphy in the 1920s, National Style of the perspectives. closed access stacks. to obtain items from elsewhere on inter- mentors. Alvar Aalto and the Organic Tradition: 1950s, and Cui Kai and Yung Ho Chang library loan or travel overseas to places Study tour of Finland Images: He says the cataloguing, by Information such as the Royal Institute of British Students have enjoyed the opportunity to in 2000). The final submissions will be 1. A generic urban landscape of Beijing, Photo: Acquisition and Organisation (IAO) 3 July–16 July 2005 put together as one collective document, Steve Whitford Architects library in London.” develop networks, gain practical insights 2. Students in a street near the Drum Tower. specialist Ms Barbara Spiller Dr Scott Drake, Senior Lecturer in and experience, and explore the diversity of based on students’ research and the Photo: Steve Whitford (Information Division), required more The collections catalogue is searchable from the open framework developed from the 3. At the collaborative seminar. From left to right: Architecture and Planning Library home page at Architectural Design, is leading a 12-day their career options. “Although my mentor subject coordinators’ earlier research. Zhang Jie (Tsinghua University), Cui Kai (China than 18 months’ work, with support from www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/architecture or study tour of Finland in July 2005. The is a very busy man we talked and discussed Architecture Design and Research Institute), other key IAO staff and from Professor the main library homepage. so solidly that we lost track of time. He is Jianfei Zhu, Steve Whitford, Yung Ho Chang tour will focus on the work of Alvar Aalto Twenty-four students were selected for Miles Lewis. exactly the type of person that I could have (Peking University). Materials are available on request for study in the (1898–1976), and will also visit works of the six-week program. The program Photo: Grace Amelia Djayaprabha. Architecture and Planning Library on level four of the hoped to meet.” (Tristan Turner, Property & Bibliographic record searches on the contemporary architecture throughout was divided into a three-week intensive 4. Changan Avenue: the east-west boulevard. Architecture and Planning Building. Construction) Photo: Jianfei Zhu National Library of Australia’s Kinetica Finland. study in Melbourne, a 10-day visit to Enquiries +61 3 8344 0444. database show more than 30 per cent of For further information and to register your Mentors also enjoy the program, and Beijing, and a week and half of research the material is nationally unique. interest in the tour please contact Scott Drake on sometimes find they are unexpectedly after returning from Beijing. The final [email protected] or tel: + 61 3 8344 7061 by no later than 31 December 2004. learning too, as well as giving something submission was on display in the atrium “For example, we now know that the back to the profession. “The students are a during July 2004. University holds a complete set of the In association with: pleasure to work with and I hope that they major works of renowned architect and Archtours In Beijing, there was a collaborative Linnankoskenkatu 1 A 2, are enjoying the experience and gaining writer A W N Pugin in original editions, workshop where staff and students 00250 Helsinki, FINLAND from it.” (David Morrison, Hassells) together with those of E E Viollet-le- Tel: +358-9-4543044 from both Peking University and the Fax: +358 9-445742 Duc,” says Mr Maidment. If you are interested in becoming a mentor and have the University of Melbourne, together Email: archtours@archtours.fi time for six meetings with students in 2005 please visit Web: www.archtours.fi www.services.unimelb.edu.au/cmc/ or contact: with influential Chinese architects and scholars, presented their reflections and The collection has largely been built up Liz Everist studies on Beijing. Melbourne students from donations, particularly from the Careers Mentor Connection Program Tel: + 61 3 8344 3377 Asha Nicholas, Paul Bickell and Victoria Email: [email protected] Reeves chaired three sessions of the presentations. THE SMITH STREET REPORT CREATING RESEARCH by Professor Miles Lewis by Professor Paul Carter

Faculty members recently collaborated Melbourne 2030 policy. How was it + Activity centres, such as that in Joining the Faculty at the beginning of 2004 The larger context of this work is a five-year anthropology and sociology of listening— in an important initiative in planning possible that a policy which is almost Smith Street, would destroy major with a brief to promote ‘creative research’, research plan to explore the fate of public a chapter reflecting my long history as reform. A major development proposed universally supported could have produced heritage assets (in fact almost all the I’d have to say that the publication of space in a time of decline. The imperilling a sound installation artist and radio for Smith Street, Collingwood seemed such an outrageous result? And this would nineteenth century shopping strips in Material Thinking (Melbourne University of public space, like the phenomenon of maker. Any overlap in the readerships so outrageous and so serious an issue be a precedent for the future, not just in inner Melbourne). Press, October 2004) has been timely. global warming, is hard to prove. If it is of these two volumes must, I suppose, in terms of public policy that Professors Smith Street, but all over Melbourne. Subtitled ‘the theory and practice of creative cognate with the emergence of democratic be minimal. But, despite their manifest Kim Dovey, Philip Goad, Miles Lewis and + Local councils had not been consulted research’, Material Thinking explores the forms of government, it may be that public difference of subject-matter, the cultural The essence of Melbourne 2030 is that the Kevin O’Connor agreed to collaborate in a about the choice of these centres, nor difficulties artists, performers, painters space has only ever existed in curtailed program of both chapters is the same. It

critical review. city cannot be allowed to keep on growing any attention paid to existing planning and transitory forms. In public artworks atrium and film-makers as well as designers, face is to enunciate the conditions of a richer, outwards. Nor is it acceptable that every controls and policies. when required to put the making process like Relay (with Ruark Lewis, Homebush more peaceably-configured place of A number of other experts were invited suburban street should be degraded by into words. Its context is a research culture Bay), commissioned for the Sydney 2000 association and mutual understanding or to contribute to the report, including badly designed and uncoordinated flat + Property owners and developers in that, ironically, devalues acts of invention, Olympics and Nearamnew (with Lab at least respect. My Docklands proposal representatives from bodies like the developments which are parasitic upon the chosen areas would get massive and hence disparages the knowledge that architecture studio, Federation Square), I argued for a public space conceived as a research National Trust, the Town & Country the neighbours. This is what gave rise to unearned profits, which ought to material thinking produces. Defining a have explored the role of public space as multiplicity of meeting places. The other Planning Association, and the local the Save be turned to the provision of public discourse ‘of’ making, rather than one that a place of discourse—both these artworks chapter called for the breaking down of 8 Collingwood Action Group. From within absolutely nothing was Our Suburbs facilities, conservation and related 9

being done to provide works. talks retrospectively ‘about’ the process of feature lettering the anthropological distance associated research the Faculty further contributions were movement. any public benefit artistic invention, I hope that the distinctive The kind of work I that playfully with ‘hearing culture’, urging instead a made by Nigel Flanningan and PhD Instead, new do is often called - such as urban spaces, The report, Inner Urban Conservation and knowledge that creative research yields integrates model of sociability based on the contract candidate Kate Shaw. residential ‘interdisciplinary’, community facilities or Development, was launched on 16 August will be recognised as a powerful mode of ‘treading and implicit in listening to the other. Both development but it would be The proposal in question was for a large conservation work. and attracted considerable media interest, cultural and environmental understanding. reading’, in this investigations thus return us to the should be better to describe it atrium scale, mixed-use development between especially in The Age and the Australian as non-disciplinary way remaking larger question of public space and its concentrated in ‘activity centres’, chosen My five-year appointment is intended as an Smith Street and Little Oxford street. It Financial Review. On 8 September it bore with a strong public spaces constitution. for their accessibity to public transport, opportunity to put these claims for creative included 253 dwellings in three towers, fruit. It was reported that the Planning linguistic or poetic as sites of retailing and other facilities, and for NOT research into practice. Although auspiced It is important that these ideas circulate a 24-hour supermarket, other retail Minister, Mary Delahunty, was to give substrate. political self- threatening important heritage or other by the University of Melbourne, the artistic widely. By the time this is published I shops, offices, and a multi-level carpark. councils emergency powers “to help ward determination. assets. collaborations detailed in Material Thinking will have participated in a colloquium at The site itself seemed to contain little off monster developments proposed in the In a book I published in 2002 (Repressed developed extra-murally. The object now the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, of importance, but was part of a larger The report’s authors were not required to name of … Melbourne 2030”. Spaces, the poetics of agoraphobia), I argued is to extend these kinds of collaborative Massachusetts. Our topic is the future of conservation area in Smith Street. conform to any common view, and they did that public space (classically represented This was only the beginning, for practices into the Faculty’s research art museums and, by implication, the role not do so. But amongst the concerns they by the ‘other place’ of the agora) was negotiations have been begun to review program. Earlier in 2004 I spent two months of collecting in the life of democracies. There were good arguments for raised were: attenuated and largely mute, and I called increased residential accommodation in the development proposal in the light in Berlin, co-directing a stage work of mine for a reinvigorated public space design, These closed meetings are excellent the area, but it was hard to see how roads + Melbourne 2030 assumed an increase of sight angles and envelope controls (What Is Your Name/ capable of creating what I called, rather intellectual ‘think tanks’, and attract proposed in the report by the local I hope that Wie ist dein Name). prestigious scholars (colleagues at this like Smith Street, Johnston Street, and of one million people in Melbourne's the distinctive cumbersomely ‘other “other places”’. My Victoria Street, already packed at peak population, though the benefits of this architect, Steve Fargo. Other policy This, a collaboration book in progress, Erotic Zones, is intended meeting will include Homi Bhabha). implications of the report are also being knowledge that hour, could accommodate extra traffic. were doubtful, and such an increase creative research with Prompt! to supply the historical and theoretical Next April, as a guest of the London The effect on the scale of Smith Street was beyond the capacity of existing debated and copies of it have been ordered yields will be Berlin and the Free rationale of such an enterprise. Consortium, I will deliver lectures, and would be catastrophic, and the impact on urban infrastructure. by a wide range of developers, planners recognised as a University, offered conduct seminars in the UK. I regard the neighbouring apartments, facing high and policy makers, including the Office powerful mode students a chance to The kind of work I do is often called these occasions less as forums in walls and loading docks in Little Oxford + Melbourne 2030 had not been sold to of the Premier and Cabinet of South of cultural and be involved in making ‘interdisciplinary’, but it would be better to which to report on work done, more as Street, would be most unpleasant. But the public, and so much resistance Australia. environmental a creative work, and describe it as non-disciplinary with a strong opportunities to initiate new projects, had now been stirred up that the task understanding. linguistic or poetic substrate. more importantly, absolutely nothing Professor Miles Lewis currently teaches and incorporating their collaborations and lines of enquiry which, would now be impossible. researches in the area of architectural history and creative research into as they materialise, offer leading ideas was being done to provide any public In any case, the exploration and sometimes conservation. His research interests include Australian theses contributing to higher degrees. It’s a for the directions of creative research benefit such as urban spaces, community + Activity centres had been chosen architectural and building history, prefabrication, reshaping of the sensuous world is model that can be adopted here – perhaps within our own Faculty. facilities or conservation work. without any assessment of whether vernacular architecture and traditional building always shadowed, and sometimes internationally, and medium density housing policy in Save the Wall, the sequel to the Berlin existing roads, parking and public produced by, writing. This gives apparently For further information, visit Paul Carter’s The nub of the issue examined in the experience, a project that imaginatively website:www.comfortlevels.com. transport could cope with the Image: Postcard, c.1906, Foy & Gibson, Smith heterogeneous activities a certain report was that this development Street, Collingwood. The Shirley Jones Collection of integrates indigenous language revival For information about Save the Wall, increased population, or any provision relationship with one another. In 2004 visit http//whatisyourname.comfortlevels.com proposal had been rationalised as being Postcards, State Library of Victoria, no H90. 160/1012. and heritage landscape design, and which to upgrade these where necessary. I published chapters on, respectively, in conformity with the Government’s is planned in 2005–6 as a collaboration a Melbourne Docklands public space involving the Victorian College of the Arts strategy which the developers Lend Lease and an industry partner. commissioned from me in 2003 and the + consider ways to reduce employees’ affect emotional exhaustion indirectly The difference between emotional and WORK-LIFE CONFLICT IN THE AUSTRALIAN work hours; and via work–family conflict. The implication practical support should also be noted. of these findings is that the reduction of Emotional support (i.e. listening to CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by Valerie Francis + develop a work culture more work–family conflict, for example through employees’ family issues) from both conducive to work–life balance. the implementation of family-responsive employees’ supervisors and co-workers Public sector employees demonstrate management interventions, may be an was associated with lower levels Table 1 Demographic characteristics of sample higher levels of continuance commitment effective control measure for the risk of of emotional exhaustion. However, N % N % employee burnout. emotional support did not moderate the Age Job description than private sector employees. The public relationship between work–family conflict 20 – 29 years 39 19.3 Site/project engineer 34 18.8 sector organisation should address the Supportive workplace: 30 – 39 years 72 35.6 Project/construction manager 41 20.3 issue of high continuance commitment and burnout. Only practical support had 40 – 49 years 41 20.3 Contract administration 15 7.4 The results also clearly demonstrated among its employees. The following the effect of weakening the relationship 50 – 59 years 43 21.3 Foreman/supervisor 7 3.5 the importance of a supportive work between work–family conflict and 60 years + 7 3.5 Support services 25 12.4 should be considered as strategies: environment. Perceived organisational Engineering services 16 7.9 burnout. In order to buffer the effect of Gender Corporate management 16 7.9 + job enrichment or rotation, to ensure support (POS), emotional support from work–family conflict, supervisors and co- Substantial changes, not only in the Male 178 88.1 Other 6 3.0 employees perceive that their skills one’s supervisor, and emotional support workers must actively provide practical Female 24 11.9 demographic composition of the and experience remain “current”; from one’s co-workers all had effects support to assist employees. This could Description of household on employees’ emotional exhaustion. Australian workforce, but also in the Hours worked per week Couple with dependant children 85 42.1 involve measures such as re-arranging + support managerial autonomy and roles and expectations of men and 0 – 29 hours 4 2.0 Couple with non-dependant children 31 15.3 Individuals who enjoyed these types of or swapping work shifts. women, have lead to organisational 30 – 39 hours 26 12.9 Single parent 6 3.0 decision-making; and support had lower levels of emotional 40 – 49 hours 92 45.5 Couple without children 32 15.8 exhaustion while, where employees Flexibility and control over work: and employee attempts to reconcile 50 – 59 hours 44 21.8 Single person 48 23.8 + professional development perceived their supervisors to be critical The role of flexibility or control that the demands of work and home. Many 60 hours + 36 17.8 opportunities to ensure employees’

atrium or resentful of their work-family issues, employees have over their work was of the job and organisational factors technical and managerial skills emotional exhaustion was high. examined and the extent to which this found to be negatively associated with remain up-to-date and in line with The results suggest that attempts to perceived control has an effect on family functioning are pertinent to the Major findings and recommendations: practices in the private sector. In addition to these main effects, the work of construction professionals. Various aspects of job demands, reduce employees’ perceptions of work employees’ levels of work–family conflict results also suggest that POS and research interference with family could yield Burnout: and/or moderates the relationship A growing body of research has found including increased work hours, work supervisors’ and co-workers’ practical positive benefits for both employees and The respondents to the survey, between work hours and work–family that the implementation of “family- responsibility (for things and people) support for employees mitigates the ill- 10 friendly” or “work–life” policies and and perceived workload, were found organisations. Creating a supportive irrespective of whether they worked conflict was tested. When employees 11

effects of work–family conflict. The ability felt they had control it was found to have research work environment may also have in the public or the private sector practices can lead to greater productivity, to increase work-family conflict and of a supportive work environment to positive benefits for employees and reported high levels of burnout. Burnout a major effect on work–family conflict lower turnover intent and increased emotional exhaustion. buffer the effect of work–family conflict organisations. is conceptualized as a syndrome of but did not moderate the impact that organisational commitment. In addition, on burnout suggests that interventions providing a work environment that is Efforts to reduce work–family conflict emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, work hours had on work–family conflict. through the creation of policies and Private/public sector differences: designed to engender an organisational or cynicism, and reduced personal Organisations, in particular those in atrium supportive of employees’ family roles can culture supportive of employees’ work– procedures supportive of work- The results highlight some important accomplishment or professional efficacy. the private sector, need to find ways help to alleviate burnout and improve life balance would be beneficial. general health. life balance by addressing specific differences between the work–life At present it is likely that employees are to provide employees with a degree of experiences of employees in public and antecedents, such as work hours or under-performing and possibly suffering The results also emphasise the control over their work arrangements. private sector construction organisations. The impact of job demands on the family subjective quantitative overload are adverse behavioural or health effects due importance of supervisory support and Unless such arrangements are abused, functioning and well-being of people likely to be they should not significantly affect the A growing body Private sector employees work to the extreme levels of burnout. highlight the importance of a flexible employed in the construction industry is of research has beneficial. work culture and the provision of training quantity or quality of work an employee significantly longer hours (56.5 hours) In comparison with international not well understood. This article outlines found that the In an effort for supervisors on how to deal with accomplishes but could considerably than public sector employees (43.3 ‘norm’ scores for burnout, the levels some of the findings of a study recently implementation of to reduce employees’ work–life balance issues. reduce the negative outcomes of work– hours). Private sector employees express experienced by respondents in the undertaken by Valerie Francis, a senior “family-friendly” or overload, When supervisors were perceived to be family conflict, benefiting individuals, a higher turnover intent than public sample were high (see Table 2). These lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture “work–life” policies time critical or resentful of employees’ family their families and organisations and practices can lead sector employees and have significantly figures are of concern and, given that no Building and Planning, and Helen management issues, employee burnout was higher. Lingard from ARK Consulting, for the to greater productivity, training less work related flexibility than public statistically significant differences were Work–life preferences: sector employees. They also experience Construction Industry Institute, Australia. lower turnover could be found between burnout among public and The final level upon which support Preferences for work–life benefits were significantly higher levels of work intent and increased provided private sector respondents, indicate that can impact upon employee’s work–life found to vary considerably between The study provides a greater organisational to staff. interference with family life than their burnout is a problem common to both different groups within the sample. commitment. balance is co-worker support. Where co- understanding of the work-life balance public sector counterpart. Compared sectors. However, The desire for childcare assistance was experiences of construction industry there may also be a need to reduce work with public sector employees, private Table 2 Cross occupational comparison of mean burnout scores highest among employees aged between employees in the private and public loads by limiting the number of roles or sector employees find engaging in leisure sectors. Of particular interest was activities with family and friends and Construction Military Technologist Management Nursing 30 and 49 and was significantly greater tasks assigned to employees or providing Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean(SD) Mean(SD) Mean(SD) among employees who were partnered the relationship between job and more resources for work to be done. taking part in domestic and child rearing family characteristics, work–life activities significantly more difficult. It Emotional exhaustion 2.76 (SD=1.5) 2.05 (SD=1.23) 2.65 (SD=1.31) 2.55(SD=1.40) 2.98(SD=1.38) with dependent children than those in conflict and employees’ well-being, Work–family conflict was also related was concluded that the private sector Cynicism 2.25 (SD=1.5) 1.63 (SD=1.35) 1.72 (SD=1.14) 1.32(SD=1.06) 1.80(SD=1.24) other family structures. By comparison, family functioning and work-related to emotional exhaustion and turnover organisation needs to address the Professional efficacy 4.29 (SD=1.0) 4.60 (SD=0.93) 4.54 (SD=1.03) 4.73(SD=0.88) 4.41(SD=0.99) wellness and personal development attitudes. The study also examined the intention, suggesting that when following issues in particular: benefits were of greatest priority among The extent to which work–family conflict experiences of employees in different employees perceive that their work workers were perceived to be supportive, the 20 to 29 year olds and progressively mediates the relationship between job life stages, for example, child-free interferes with family life they are more + focus on the reduction of employees’ burnout was lower and the relationship declined with age. Wellness and personal demands (work hours, responsibility and employees, employees with children and likely to become “burnt out” and be work–family conflict as a means of between work–family conflict and development benefits were most subjective workload) and the emotional older workers. Table 1 provides some inclined to quit their jobs. This finding reducing turnover intentions; burnout was less pronounced. Team- strongly preferred by single persons and exhaustion dimension of burnout were information on the sample. has important implications for human building within workgroups is clearly partnered employees without dependent + develop strategies to improve investigated. The results from the study resource managers who might wish to important in such cases. children. employees’ control over their work were consistent with those of other reduce costly employee turnover. arrangements; researchers who report that job demands continued on page 21 GRADUATES REFLECT by Noel Madigan (B Bldg 1980)

In 1973 I entered what was then known project was fi fteen storeys high and was Land had been procured and roads and We had had a six month wet season in In July 2001, after a routine mammogram as the Bachelor of Building (now Property built in record time and to a quality that infrastructure already completed; the Jakarta where, yes, it rained just about during a family visit to Melbourne, my and Construction). It was during the fi nal exceeded even the owner’s expectations. master plan included in excess of 30 sites every day; in the Emirates we saw rain wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. year that I met guest lecturer Robert At completion, while there were other to be developed over a six- to eight-year three times in two years. Our weekends Our world was turned upside down and Milne, who offered me my fi rst job with projects on the horizon, it was time to period. But then my fi rst project within were on Thursdays and Fridays which quick decisions had to be made. My E.A. Watts in 1980. move on. the development was about to move took some adjusting to, especially when wife was determined that life should into design development when major conducting business with the outside remain as normal as possible for the E.A. Watts was one of Victoria’s The opportunities for employment were recession hit Indonesia. The project was world. And then there was the heat. From family and chose to stay in Australia largest general contractors and I was plentiful at the time in Indonesia and I placed on hold in April 1998 due to the May until September, the temperatures for treatment while the children and I appointed to the estimating department, accepted a job as Development Manager economic crisis and political uncertainty. hovered between 45 and 50 degrees every headed back home to Bahrain and the When building took its place alongside overseeing successful tenders through with P.T. Pakuwon Jati, also a Jakarta- day. The nights stayed around 40 degrees plan was to continue the expat life. If the University’s traditional disciplines in to completion. Three years of experience based developer and property owner. President Surharto was struggling and the humidity meant that any outdoor our world was turned upside down by

atrium 1958 no one could really be sure of how with Watts then led to an opportunity with The company was about to embark on a to hold on to his power base and the venture had you sweating profusely this event, the whole world was rocked, well its graduates would be received. the Costain Group as Senior Planning mixed use project in Surabaya. I was to city was very tense as student unrest within seconds. only a few months later, by the horror The reality is that early construction Manager. During this period I worked remain working on the project in Jakarta frequently spilled out onto the streets of September 11. Within months the graduates were not always readily on a wide range of exciting tenders and for the fi rst eighteen months and then of the capital. This culminated in large Emaar Properties was the vision of the work in Bahrain dried up and another accepted in the workforce and that the projects, including the Como Project on relocate to Surabaya. However, after scale rioting over a three-day period Crown Prince of Dubai, his Excellency, change of country was eminent. With my people degree was in no way a “meal ticket” the corner of Chapel Street and Toorak three years of being settled in Jakarta in May 1998. After the most intense Shiekh Mohommad. The company was wife still in Australia and employment 12 of any sort. What is by now a matter Road, South Yarra. both my wife and I realised that we rioting ever witnessed in Jakarta, and listed publicly and owned solely by possibilities few and far between, the 13 of record, however, is that those early wanted to stay. news that the mobs would destroy

people My experience in critical path analysis Emirate nationals. Emaar Properties was logical step was to return to Australia at graduates had an enormous impact anything left standing we (by this time enormously successful with its portfolio least until she was well again and, in late on the construction industry and set and construction techniques gave me I looked for alternative work before we had started a family) decided to fl ee the confi dence to move to the property resigning from Pavulon Kati and of projects and was by far the largest December 2001, I returned to Melbourne the stage for outstanding success both to Bali. Welcomed in Bali by my former developer in Dubai. Projects included with our children. Fortunately for me, in Australia and overseas. Now I am development sector and my fi rst accepted a job with P.T. Lip Poland. Their Indonesian secretary we witnessed West Side the Australian property industry was atrium able to report a similar level of success opportunity presented itself in 1987 with Lipo Village project was a residential history in the making as Surharto Fortunately for MacDow Properties as Construction development of approximately 2000-plus Marina and experiencing a prolonged boom and work applying to graduates of our property stepped down and a calm swept over me, the Australian Emirates opportunities were plentiful at home in Manager. MacDow was the perfect detached property industry program. The Dubai/Indonesia Jakarta. We were then able to return to Lakes, both Melbourne. Within weeks of returning employer and these were boom years in homes and the capital and I clearly remember the was experiencing a Noel Madigan’s profi le which follows the Australian property market. contrast could not an associated prolonged boom and valued in to Australia I had accepted a position have been more tanks on the streets and burnt buildings. the billion as General Manager of Development is the third in an ongoing series. His super mall, Even the super mall had been the scene work opportunities Unfortunately the property industry soon startling. The were plentiful at home dollar range. with the MAB Corporation. The position career has been entirely different from greenness of the located about of intense looting and almost destroyed those of Peter Martin and Fiona Dunster entered recession, MacDow wound up, 20km outside in Melbourne The time allowed me to quickly reacquaint and I was left to fi nd new employment. tropical rainforests by the fi re. The city was in chaos, the at Emaar myself with the local industry through which have excited much interest and was now replaced Jakarta. Finding work during a recession can national economy had ground to a halt was rewarding but frustrating, as the MAB’s major projects in the Melbourne comment from Alumni (see earlier with the treeless Designed by with the rupiah near on worthless, and editions of Atrium). Noel’s is a good certainly put one to the test, but in sand deserts of the the Jeered political situation within the company Docklands. In 2003 I accepted the September 1989, I eventually accepted an all building work was of course at a was horrendous. While we enjoyed Dubai, position of Development Manager for example of the sort of diverse local and Emirates. Group from standstill. international existence enjoyed by a exciting opportunity in Jakarta. Los Angeles, the uncertainty was unsettling and in May Divine Limited to deliver the Victoria 2000 I decided to take up an opportunity Point Development in the Docklands. signifi cant proportion of Property and Indonesia was very exciting indeed. It was it involved some 200,000m² in gross The boom times in Indonesia were Construction graduates. building area and was completed on over and it was time yet again to move on the small island of Bahrain, in the so different from what I had been used Persian Gulf just off the coast of Saudi Now we are settled back in Melbourne, I to in every respect. Most major projects budget and in a record time of 19 months on. Having made a decision to remain have taken the opportunity to embark on including fi t-out and commissioning of expatriate, where to go next was the Arabia. I accepted a position with a in Jakarta at the time were on average medium sized architectural practice my own personal building project. After Peter Williams twenty to twenty-fi ve storeys high and 217 tenancies, some of which included position. Asia was out of contention as all much consideration and consultation Head of Property and Construction Wal-Mart and other big name American the Asian economies were in crisis. Such and property developer as Business built with very large labour forces but Development Manager. the decision to build a new home rather little equipment. Unfortunately safety stores. A peak labour force of 4000 men did not apply to the Middle East however, than renovate the old was made. The last was not high on the agenda for the was employed on site and as could be with Dubai the most popular destination Like Dubai, the island of Bahrain was six months have seen me on site every workers. I recall projects losing many imagined quality remained the greatest amongst the expatriate community in a fascinating place in which to live weekend getting down and dirty, dawn a young man who had dropped off the obstacle. Jakarta. So, in June 1998, I boarded a and work. The glitz and wealth were until dusk, building what I know will be building or tried to sleep in the electrical plane to the United Arab Emirates and not present but the smaller expatriate a fi ne French provincial-style home. It In December 1997 the super mall was within two weeks accepted a job with boxes. Labour was cheap and plentiful. fully operational and it was time for community in Bahrain made us feel most will be our fi rst “real” home in 14 years Unfortunately quality was scarce and the Emaar Properties. The Dubai/Indonesia welcome and we quickly settled into a and, yes, it will be home for at least a me to look for the next project. An contrast could not have been more willingness to improve was even scarcer. opportunity emerged in Jakarta as more gentle life. The fi rst year passed year or two. If you ask my wife, Indonesia startling. The greenness of the tropical quickly and the prospects of an extended is calling and on cold Melbourne nights, My fi rst Indonesian employer was Senior Development Manager with rainforests was now replaced with the P.T. Arthra Graha Tama and Property stay in Bahrain looked very favourable I have to say that sometimes I can hear a property company developing treeless sand deserts of the Emirates. indeed. Unfortunately that was not to be. it too. commercial towers in Jakarta. The initial Developer. The project was known as the Sudirman Central Business District. BMB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SEACHANGE COMPROMISING GREAT OCEAN ROAD LIFESTYLE Dr Darko Radovic discusses the ongoing collaborative BMB project.

1 1 2 3 4 In last issue of Atrium I introduced BMB, practitioners in the design process; the A rising wave of city dwellers moving to his research and gauge the concerns of development proposals and, when a trilateral, collaborative teaching, planned disciplinary and cultural mix Victoria’s coastal towns for a ‘sea change’ residents and other interested parties. necessary, fight against inappropriate design-research and research project of students; a workshop atmosphere; may be compromising the very quality- projects,” he says. organised and conducted by l’Ecole a ‘sleeves up’ design environment with of-life they seek, according to a study by “Outside studies of the assessment d’Architecture et de Paysage de involvement of staff and guest designers; Dr Ray Green. of character are notoriously at odds “Such community action groups Bordeaux, the Faculty of Architecture, regular working pin-up sessions; a with what local people think,” he seem to reflect a loss of faith in local Kasetsart University and our Faculty. continuous peer-review process; and an The study on perceptions of town says. “People familiar with their local councils and government planners to

atrium Since then, the first two workshops emphasis on the production of ideas, on character finds that the population influx environment possess a high degree of effectively conserve features thought to have been held. The first workshop both process and product—all that in an is having a significant detrimental impact understanding about their towns and be instrumental in conveying town and was organised by Kasetsart University atmosphere of careful informality. on the environs of the Great Ocean individual neighbourhoods. They are the neighbourhood characters.” in October 2003, and the second in Road, affecting every town along its 260 experts when it comes to assessing town The workshop was conducted from15 to 2 research March 2004 was run at the University of panoramic kilometres. character”. Dr Green feels local and state Melbourne. 26 March and focused on the Melbourne Local communities government can benefit by being 14 waterfront, in particular the reach of Local communities are experiencing an are experiencing an “I aware of what people feel constitutes 15

The 2003 workshop focused on the the Yarra River from Port Philip Bay environmental and research environmental and character shift that is discovered the character of their towns when future of Bangkok’s fragile coastal area. upstream to the Westgate Bridge. creating discontent and friction between character shift that that in deliberating on development proposals An understanding of the complexity of The workshop was organised with the individuals, developers, councils and the is creating discontent every town that could have a negative impact on Bangkuntien, the place where Bangkok generous support and active participation Victorian Government. and friction between common environmental integrity and heritage meets the sea, was necessary for the individuals, developers, of the key urbanists from the City of values have values. atrium New and old residents of towns such as councils and the development of locally grounded and Melbourne (Mr Rob Adams), City of Port emerged. Torquay, Anglesea, Airey’s Inlet, Lorne Victorian Government. Dr Ray Green is the Head of the Faculty’s Landscape culturally relevant solutions. Kasetsart Phillip (Jim Holdsworth, David Brand) Most people and Apollo Bay feel they are losing their Architecture program. His research interests University and VicUrban (Mark Allan). prefer include the perceptual consequences of tourism The diverse cultural town’s individual character to ‘progress’. development in small town communities, community organised a 3 natural features and views of natural and disciplinary It is difficult to explain the richness of Establishing a set of ground rules to participation in environmental planning and the superb two features such as rivers, beaches, the development of methods for modelling perceived backgrounds of the these workshops. This is why I have measure perceptions of local character is workshop participants weeks of ocean, hills, forest and grasslands and landscape and urban character. One of his primary fieldwork, chosen to use photo-reportage. I believe the focus of Dr Green’s research project. concerns is using his research findings to inform facilitated rich nature reserves. They prefer buildings design actions that will be sensitive to local with a that the photos and brief descriptions can debates. Funded by an Australian Research to be smaller rather than larger and ecological and cultural conditions. number communicate at least some of the energy Council Discovery Grant (2003–2005), screened from the road by indigenous of comprehensive briefing sessions. and the excitement generated by the Images Dr Green’s research involves both foliage. 1. Coastal cliffs at Aireys Inlet integral to town The diverse cultural and disciplinary BMB@MU. quantitative and qualitative studies of the character. backgrounds of the workshop Dr Darko Radovic’s research interests include “Historic buildings, such as the Airey’s 2. The Cumberland Hotel at Lorne, considered perceptions of local residents in coastal to be ‘inappropriate development’ by local participants facilitated rich debates. ecological sustainability for urban and architectural Inlet Lighthouse, the Lorne Pier, and design, concepts of place and urbanity, regulation of communities, aimed at identifying key residents. Working in collaboration with the local older houses in each town are considered 3. Agricultural land in Apollo Bay being urban processes and Lefebvrian analysis of space. factors that define their distinctive town experts helped participants develop an He is currently working on a number of research a valuable part of the heritage and should transformed by rapidly increasing residential 4 characters. development. exciting blend of local and global quality. projects including Architecture and Settlement be conserved as an integral part of town Patterns of Australian Deserts; Sustainable Office 4. Agricultural landscapes in Apollo Bay identified Building; Patterns of Destruction and Reconstruction Dr Green sees the study’s findings character. Understandably at the bottom as key to conveying town character. In 2004 our Faculty organised the of Cities in Former Yugoslavia, and Urban and informing local planning decisions with of the list are new, large, boxy houses workshop, providing an opportunity Architectural Integration of Active Solar Components. the hope that some disasters of the past unscreened by vegetation. Generally, to test our teaching methods within a He has also directed part of his research towards problems of internationalisation in the design will not be repeated. vegetation rates highly, but exotic species unique international environment, and professions and joined the University’s Centre for typically rate low.” to gain valuable feedback, both from Studies of Higher Education (CSHE) in their research “The removal of Lorne’s Senior Citizen’s experienced overseas academics and project ‘Navigating Other Cultures’. bowling green from the foreshore to Dr Green was impressed by a their students. We wanted to promote Images: make way for a large city-style asphalt sophisticated local knowledge of plants the regular features of our Master of 1. BMB participants at St Kilda Town Hall car park for tourists, is a classic example and animals and the passion that 2. BMB organising team local people feel for conserving the Urban Design and Master of Landscape 3. Fieldwork—on the boat of redevelopment showing disregard for Architecture program, which include: a 4. Initial presentations 5 both community and town character,” he character of their towns and individual thorough pre-workshop briefing; active 5. David Brand and Jim Holdsworth at final says. neighbourhoods. presentations participation of non-academic partners/ Dr Green has addressed many “Many towns have an action group community meetings along the Great whose job is to monitor undesirable Ocean Road to disseminate the results of BOOKS BOOKS

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150 years of Australian Architecture to embrace it, according to University of atrium ruins the eyesight and the morals of the at the scale of a building, a city and a Year End Show) exhibition. As its name details their pioneering vision, unique Author and artist Paul Carter provides Melbourne property expert Dr Richard young, but how may of us realize how large civil-engineering project? Were suggests this exhibition showcases work journey and contribution to Australian an intimate, fi rst-hand account of how Reed. Dr Reed outlines his fi ndings in much it changed the confi guration of the constructions of the Great Wall, from all the architecture, landscape Architecture over the past 150 years. ideas are turned into works, and how the Reverse Mortgages. the average home? Where was the best the Grand Canal, the city of Beijing and architecture and urban design students

material thinking these artworks embody vantage point for watching? And what the Imperial Palace interrelated? Does of the Faculty. books Professor Philip Goad, editor and major Reverse mortgages allow homeowners produces new understanding about should one eat while doing so? And that reveal a layout of power relations, contributor to the book, says, “It took to access the equity they have built up ourselves, our histories and the culture odder still, what should one wear? TV a formalistic aesthetic or an existential EYES reveals the breadth of design 16 three years to research, write and in their homes. Repayment is typically 17 we inhabit. pyjamas perhaps? What was to be done worldview? By examining the buildings projects undertaken in the Faculty. source rare images and sketches to made from the sale of the house or when It also provides an insight into the

books with the necessary but space-stealing of Imperial Beijing (1420–1911) this book present an impartial view, which shows heirs use other assets to repay the debt. Taking as his subject several artistic fi replace, when the set became the new seeks to answer these questions, and increasing complexity and professional how a Melbourne group of architects collaborations which resulted in family hearth? In addition to the changes explore a generic approach to spatial relevance of these projects as students gave shape to their city and in effect Reverse Mortgages explores the broad performances, exhibitions or videos, wrought in the physical environment, Dr disposition in the Chinese tradition. progress through their courses. to the rest of the country. In Australia, implications for older homeowners, atrium Carter explores how each unfolded. In Grove also traces the infl uence of the the contribution of Bates Smart over those currently in the workforce and the Readers of EYES will be inspired, given the course of this analysis he constructs ‘idiot box’ on the national imagination, Drawing upon recent work in social 150 years is signifi cant and in effect overall market with the wider availability an insight into current pedagogical a philosophy of how the practice and with the importance of stars, concepts, theory, Dr Jianfei Zhu provides a spatial chronicles a nation’s architectural of reverse mortgaging in Australia. methods as well as have an opportunity theory of making art are interconnected, and whole shows from the US and and political analysis of the Forbidden history, realised through the works of a to identify emerging talent. a philosophy powerful enough to provide Britain. It is hard to resist the conclusion City, and a realistic, analytical and critical single architectural practice”. The concept of reverse mortgaging an intellectual underpinning for this that the family inside the Australian account of Imperial Beijing. This book EYES 2003, now in full colour, can be purchased from was created in the USA to allow elderly transcends the convention of formal the General Offi ce of the Faculty of Architecture The scope of this book is ambitious. The new, and still developing, fi eld of creative home was altered just as dramatically as Building and Planning for $25 homeowners access to their home equity descriptions of Chinese buildings and sheer amount of work produced by the research. the house itself by the advent of the most to pay increasing living expenses or cities and will appeal to all those with an fi rm has meant that not all buildings are important household appliance of the 20th Professor Paul Carter is a Professorial Research emergency bills without having to sell interest in Chinese architecture from a covered in detail. However it chronicles Fellow in the Faculty. For more information on his century.” their homes. broad perspective. the changing architectural styles through research and art practice, please see his article on page 9. Professor Karal Ann Marling, the ages from Corinthian (State Library Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing 1420–1911 Dr Reed says reverse mortgages appear Department of Art History, The University is published by RoutledgeCurzon, London and New Material Thinking is published by Melbourne of Victoria) to Romanesque (Independent York (2004). ISBN 0 415 31883 1 University Press (2004). ISBN 0 522 85124 X to offer benefi ts to a limited number of of Minnesota USA. Church, Collins Street) and Roman elderly households, especially those that Revival (The Melbourne Town Hall) and Dr Derham Groves’ research interests include are “asset rich but cash poor”. Chinese temples in Australia, the infl uence of showcases icons such as Rippon Lea. popular culture on architecture and vice versa, and Reverse Mortgages is published by Wrightbooks everyday architecture. The book includes over 500 colour (2003), an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane, photographs and drawings, detailing and is widely available through bookstores. ISBN 0 TV Houses is published by Black Jack Press, Carlton 731 40074 7 North (2004). ISBN 0 958 0785 5 6 historic to contemporary buildings. Essays by Philip Goad, George Tibbits, Professor Miles Lewis and Dr Julie Willis outline the journey and depict the fortunes of each decade, recording the directors’ visions, dating back to Joseph Reed in 1853.

Bates Smart: 150 years of Australian Architecture is published by Thames & Hudson Australia (2004). ISBN 0 500 50014 2 BOOKS SAFER SPACES: 3 PROJECTS by Dr Carolyn Whitzman

Manning Clark House Landscape and Building Cool: The 60s Brisbane My current research lies at the that whereas the central city was once my co-authored report on the ‘lessons Design for Bushfi re Areas House intersection of urban planning, public the fi rst place of settlement for new from good practices’ will be published Refl ections health promotion, and violence migrants and refugee claimants, it is on-line by the end of 2004. Our work has prevention. There has been a great deal now the outer suburbs which are facing been supported by the Canadian federal An absorbing collaboration between an Many factors affect the chances of a Cool: The 60s Brisbane House is the written about the impacts of violence the service challenges associated with government (National Crime Prevention artist, an architect and an historian has building surviving a bushfi re. If you are catalogue of a recent QUT Art Museum and fear of violence on cities: from the migration. Preliminary research with Council and Status of Women), the resulted in a new publication on Manning designing landscape and buildings in exhibition, co-edited by Tracey Avery decline in use and provision of public local governments and service providers UNCHS Urban Management Programme,

Clark House—a beautiful full-coloured bushfi re areas you need to be aware (current PhD candidate) with Peta Dennis and the International Centre for the atrium space, to the ‘bubble wrap’ generation in outer suburbs of both Melbourne and book about the house and the life of its of these factors so that the chances and Paula Whitman. Working as a freelance of children whose parents are afraid Toronto, Canada, has taken place over Prevention of Crime. inhabitants over many decades. of losses to life and property can be curator, Tracey secured Major Grants to let them roam around freely in the the past several months, supported The fi nal project is in conjunction with minimised. funding from Arts Queensland in 2003, face of ‘stranger danger’, to increasing by a Faculty Research and Publication Each of the three contributors has spent Latrobe University’s School of Public enabling the project to enlist design and anti-Muslim racism in the wake of urban Scheme grant. In this preliminary research many hours, and in the case of historian This new design handbook, by the Health. We have applied for funds from conservation professionals. terrorism. As serious as these problems research, I am discovering what sorts of Roslyn Russell many years, at the house Faculty’s Lisle Rudolph and CSIRO’s Dr the Department of Human Services are, I am more interested in the obverse services presently exist in these outer 18 and in the gardens. G. Caird Ramsay, integrates the latest The work is based on interviews with 11 to look at how the 2002 World Health 19 of this problem, the creation of ‘safer suburbs, how they are funded, and

books scientifi c knowledge about buildings and architects (Graham Bligh, John Dalton, Dr Organization Report on Violence and spaces’ within communities. How do how both agencies and funders identify Photographer Trevor Creighton shared bushfi res with a fl exible design approach. Graham du Gruchy, Robin Gibson, Peter Health might be conceptualized at people access help and support in the violence prevention issues and ‘good the life of the place and spent several Heathwood, Maurice Hurst, Nevil Miller, the local level. In partnership with face of complex violence issues they may practice’. As the research progresses, nights at MCH to take photographs at all First, it gives a clear description of the Geoffrey Pie, David Roessler, Stephen a Victorian municipality, we will be times of day that go well beyond mere environment in which bushfi res occur, face? How do people, individually and I hope to further investigate how ‘safe Trotter and Don Winsen), fi rst undertaken identifying and analysing existing data on atrium collectively, work to make themselves space’ is developed, in both physical recordings of the physical structures. how a fi re attacks, and how buildings by Brisbane heritage architect, Peta Dennis violence in its broadest sense, including and their communities safer? And how and discursive forms, by individuals and are ignited and destroyed. Second, it for her 1999 QUT BArch dissertation. Peta self-directed violence, child abuse, Peter Freeman (BArch 1965) has written can urban policy, particularly planning organizations. An article for Australian sets out a practical design approach for was subsequently awarded the National partner abuse, elder abuse, acquaintance about the house and the family’s life in it policy, work to support these efforts? Planner has been written on the project, the application established knowledge Trust of Queensland’s prize for the best and stranger violence, and collective through the eyes of a practised heritage to the design of buildings and their with another more theoretical article heritage-based dissertation. Since arriving at the University of social, economic, and political violence. architect, and has contributed a set immediate surroundings. It presents being developed for Planning Research Melbourne with my newly minted PhD in We will be working with stakeholders, of fi ne drawings that complement the a range of options for designing the The catalogue and exhibition use a and Practice. July 2003, I have worked on developing including local government planners, book’s text and photographs. various elements of both landscapes and selection of published and unpublished three related research projects that At the international level, I am continuing health promotion and family violence buildings in bushfi re-prone areas. work to examine a range of infl uences on Historian Roslyn Russell was for twelve seek to answer these questions. First, my work with a group of academics workers, and police, to develop a Brisbane houses of the period, including years Manning and then Dymphna in conjunction with the University and community activists who have comprehensive and integrated approach The book encourages design for bushfi re architectural training, climate, and changes Clark’s research assistant. Reporting to of Melbourne’s new Centre for the formed an organization called Women to preventing violence in the community, to be included as a normal part of in technology and lifestyle. the house daily, she grew to know well designing in bushfi re-prone areas, rather Promotion of Mental Health and Well- and Cities International. Over the including how Municipal Public Health the large family and the patterns of their than as an undesirable add-on. It will During the preparation for the exhibition Being, VicHealth, Crime Prevention past two years, we have organized a Plans, Municipal Strategic Plans and lives. assist planning and building regulatory and catalogue, many of the architects, Victoria, and conference on Women and Community other local government tools can I hope to further other partners, Safety in Montreal, which attracted over facilitate interventions. We will also Manning Clark House Refl ections is available from authorities to improve and administer now aged in their 70s, brought out investigate how ‘safe Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest regulatory requirements and guidelines. previously unseen sketch plans, blue- I am putting 200 participants from 30 countries; be applying for a National Medical and ACT 2603. space’ is developed, Health Research Council grant to further prints, drawings, all rendered by hand in both physical and together a competition on good practices that Landscape and Building Design for Bushfi re Areas is an ARC uncovered 22 outstanding projects in develop this intervention model. published by CSIRO publishing, Collingwood (2003) from their student and practice days. The discursive forms, and is widely available through bookstores. many extracts from Peta’s interviews by individuals and Linkage Grant Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas; Dr Carolyn Whitzman’s current research interests provide greater insight into the architects’ organizations. application and have developed a website that include the development of safe spaces for recent that will look allowed organizations from around immigrants and refugees, international linkages ideas and infl uences than can generally be between women and local governance issues, and gleaned from their published work. at violence prevention services for new the world to share information in social planning for urban diversity in outer suburbs. arrival women in three outer suburbs. three languages (English, French, and She is currently supervising research students The catalogue contains essays by Peta My focus is on services by and for women Spanish). In November, I spoke at undertaking the following projects: drug use prevention in high-rise public housing; how local Dennis, Jennifer Taylor and Philip Goad and recently arrived from the Horn of Africa, the Second International Conference government can help retain and expand the stock was designed by noted stage and graphic the Middle East, and South Asia, who may on Women and Community Safety, in of single room occupancy housing for low-income designer, Bill Haycock. people vulnerable to homelessness; and community be escaping situations of violence in their Bogota, Colombia. I have just completed opposition to wind farms. Cool: The 60s Brisbane House is published by the School home countries, as well as encountering a short chapter on the project for of Design and Built Environment, QUT, Brisbane racism and diffi culty in accessing an annual publication called Human (2004). ISBN: 1 74107 066 X. Copies can be purchased mainstream services in Australia. My Rights and the City, produced by the in Melbourne from Architext bookstore or from Tracey Avery (Tel: +61 3 8344 7053). spatial focus comes from the recognition University of Vallodalid in Spain, and THE HENRY AND RACHEL ACKMAN AND THE 1970S Bearing EMPLOYING ABP Designing Futures: Community Gifts for Gregory Burgess: NEWS FRITZ JANEBA SCHOLARSHIPS and Technology in Architecture and GRADUATES by Julie Firkin (BArch 1997) Urban Design continued from page 4

I was awarded the Henry and Rachel and the Dean of the Design School, Associate Professor Paul Walker and not help us reflect on our subject’s If you are looking for staff, the Faculty New Staff Ackman and the Fritz Janeba Scholarships fellow University of Melbourne graduate, Dr Sandra Kaji-O’Grady convened a bearing. The qualities displayed by Greg’s can help you. Rob Adams, City of Melbourne and in 2002 to study at Harvard University’s Peter Rowe. We had been invited by the symposium on the subject of Community work embody a stance, at once moral, Professor Gordon Clark, University of Oxford were recently appointed as Honorary Design School in the Masters degree government to investigate Pudong New and Technology in Architecture and emotional and intellectual. They reflect Each year graduates from the Bachelor Professorial staff. program. I moved to Boston in September Area and to gauge how successful this Urban Design in the 1970s. The his tallness in every sense, his grace, of Planning and Design (Architecture) 2002, and shared an apartment in a lively major urban development has been in symposium took place in the Faculty in his passion and poise. But it would be a and the Bachelor of Planning and Design Dr Lynne Armitage commenced work in student neighbourhood, Cambridge, attracting residents from across the river September 2004. mistake to take any of this for granted. (Property and Construction) are looking the Property and Construction program in an inner suburb of Boston and home to in Shanghai. The seemingly effortless harmonisation for employment opportunities. These July 2004. Dr Armitage is a property expert The symposium focussed on the Harvard’s campus. The post-professional of potentially turbulent energies, which students are required to complete at who has held various academic positions configuration of technology and Masters degree program is aimed at I was selected to curate an exhibition of Greg’s buildings so magnificently stage, least 26 weeks of full-time industry at Hawkesbury Agricultural College (now

community in built and unbuilt proposals experience before returning to the University of Western Sydney), QUT and the atrium people who have already practiced as student works in Weaving at the Sheldon implies an equally tumultuous psychic for new cities and architectures in the Papua New Guinea University of Technology architects, and the people I studied with Art Galleries in Saint Louis, Missouri. journey, one that has had repeatedly Faculty to complete their professional 1970s. The testing and invention in the in Lae. had worked all over the world. I was in Weaving was a seminar course I attended to balance a wilful, even Expressionist degrees. Many of you will have architectural medium of new forms of a relatively small class of twenty-eight, run by Toshiko Mori, the Chair of the temptation to remake nature with an undertaken this experience and Dr Henanto Dolio will join the Property and community through the application, recognise the benefits to both the student which meant that, although Harvard is Architecture Department at Harvard, in equally powerful impulse to quietism, a Construction program in 2005. news invention or rejection of technologies was a large ivy-league university, there was which we analysed material fabrication, sense of being called to one’s place, if we and the work place. central to the symposium’s concerns. Neil Robinson commenced work as the 20 familiarity, friendship and support between looking at its history and technical can but endure unknowing. Likewise, graduating students in Urban new general manager in August, following 21

us. innovations, and created models which people Reinhold Martin from the Graduate the resignation of Marian Costelloe, who To draw the shape of the place where Planning, Landscape Architecture, exploited material properties of pliancy, School of Architecture, Planning and took up a position with Monash University’s these energies can be mutually Architecture and Property and The degree was composed of design softness, stiffness and strength to Preservation at Columbia University, Victorian College of Pharmacy. Neil has transformed is, and continues to be, his Construction are seeking longer term studios and a broad range of course- create structures that can be robust, New York and an editor of the journal opportunities in their respective fields. for the past several years been Manager of work options in the fields of architecture, inhabitable, and adaptive. genius. Strategic Development and Change in the Grey Room opened the symposium and atrium University’s Faculty of Education. Prior to urban design, planning, and landscape led the discussions. The symposium This is an abridged version of a speech presented on We can advertise any vacancies directly Not only did I have these travel this, Neil held a senior management role architecture. We were also permitted to will result in a book of diverse essays the occasion of Gregory Burgess’s AS Hook Memorial to these students via noticeboards in our opportunities, but I had the opportunity Address and the presentation of the RAIA Gold Medal, at Shelter, the largest housing charity in take classes at the other Harvard graduate on key projects, themes and people buildings and direct email. to meet and work with a number of Friday, 16 July 2004 in the Prince Philip Theatre, The Europe, and also served for eight years schools and the neighbouring MIT. There including: the impact of Boeing 747s on University of Melbourne. prominent international architects. I For information on Professor Paul Carter’s research If you have a vacancy please send details on one of the largest local authorities in was a lottery system for the most sought- architecture; Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti participated in a design studio instructed activities, see his article on page 9. of the position and your company, England where he had responsibility for after design studios and classes. I was and Arcology principles; underwater by Herzog and de Meuron and am now including contact details and closing planning and transportation. lucky enough to win opportunities to travel and floating cities; Frei Otto and Kenzo working at their firm in Switzerland. dates, to abp-info unimelb.edu.au Dr Sidh Sihtusingha in America and overseas. Tange’s arctic project, the Archigram @ joins the Landscape I would like to thank the University of Architecture program in 2005. group; and corporate, special interest Work–Life Conflict in the Melbourne for these scholarships, which You should also provide details to the I was sponsored to travel to the Galapagos and sporting communities. Australian Construction Industry: have made it possible for me to graduate University’s Careers and Employment Sarah Wilkinson will be joining the Property Islands to produce design studies for a continued from page 11 and Construction program as a Lecturer in with distinction from the Master in Associate Professor Paul Walker’s research interests Unit via their Careers Online system at proposed marine biology research station. Construction Technology from mid-2005. Archictecture degree program at include 19th and 20th century architectural theory, http://careersonline.acs.unimelb.edu. The focus of this design exercise post-colonial approaches to architecture and Harvard. The experience has inspired au/cae/employerscae/ Visitors was on environmental sustainability and landscape, and architectural discourse in colonial The results suggest that no single me to be involved in research and to and post-colonial contexts. Professor Mike Batty, Professor of Spatial on having a low impact on the natural work–life balance solution is applicable teach in the future, and has opened Analysis and Planning at University College, ecology, as the station is to be located Dr Sandra Kaji-O’Grady’s research interests to all employees and we recommend that up opportunities for me in practicing London, visited the Faculty from January in a national park. I was also funded to inlcude contemporary architectural theory, art and workforce profiling, by business unit or architecture. architecture after 1960, the transfer of techniques to March 2004. Professor Batty, whose visit travel to Korea to investigate the urban and technologies from other fields to architecture, organisational sub-unit, might be useful was hosted by Associate Professor Bharat re-development of central Seoul. Up until contemporary Japanese architecture, conceptual art, in identifying the most beneficial and Dave, is one of the best known innovators recently, the Cheonggyecheon stream For information on postgraduate scholarships, and futures. in the field of geographical information including the Henry and Rachel Ackman and the Fritz highly valued initiatives to implement. which runs through the heart of the old Janeba Scholarships please visit systems and modelling. He also directs the city has been covered with a highway http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/Research/Degrees/ Care should also be taken to consider Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and treated as a sewer. The Korean Scholarships.html strategies that may not be a priority for which is one of the world’s leading GIS research and modelling laboratories. government is planning to restore this Applications for the 2005 Fritz Janeba Scholarship, existing employees but which might be stream and redevelop the surrounding which was worth $21,000 in 2004, close on 1 March implemented in order to attract groups Dr Gabriella Olshammar, Goteborg 2005. area. The aim of our project was to design of employees who are not currently well University, Institute of Conservation, alternatives to typical contemporary represented and improve workforce Sweden, has been a visitor to the Faculty western riverfront redevelopments which diversity. since Febraury 2004, departing late would instead maintain a sense of place. Research work in this area is continuing and any December 2004. Dr Olshammar is a From Korea, I traveled to Shanghai, China, organisations or individuals wishing to be part of this postdoctoral visiting researcher with a where I met with eight other students should contact Valerie Francis on +61 3 8344 8762 or email [email protected] News continued over page NEWS NEWS fellowship from the Swedish Research Professor Catherin Bull’s book, New work, visit http://www.abp.unimelb.edu. AusIndustry. Led by Clare Newton and for exhibition at the annual FRESH! show but also an opportunity for the audience Council for Environment, Agricultural Conversations with an Old Landscape au/staffpages/selenitsch. Dr Scott Drake from the University of at Craft Victoria. They were Hallstand to critique that work and the world of Sciences and Spatial Planning, and is being (IMAGES publishing group, 2003), was Melbourne, Dominique Hes from RMIT by Robert Sheng Si Yu and Rockabye by architecture in general. hosted by Professor Kim Dovey and Dr awarded the Australian Institute of Valerie Francis and Dr Richard Reed were Centre for Design, and Craig Langston Rosalyna Wee May Yung. AND was a new lecture series run by Darko Radovic. Landscape Architects highest accolade, promoted to Senior Lecturer in September from Deakin University, the team also Miki Mitsuta early-year undergraduate students. the 2004 National Award. The book 2004. includes, from the University of Melbourne: , (current MLArch) was Professor Graham Brawn, Dr Darko awarded an intern program with EDAW Speakers included Morry Schwarz, Kerstin Associate Professor Steve Harfield, also won the Communications Award of The Semester 1, 2004 Faculty Teaching Radovic, Professor Jon Robinson, Peter Pty Ltd and a trip to work on architectural Thompson, Sean Godsell, Cassandra Fahey, University of Technology, Sydney, was a Merit in the 2004 American Society of Award has been jointly awarded to Williams, John Wilson, Lu Aye, and David planning for the Bahamas in June 2004, Michael Wright and Walter McIvor. visitor of the Faculty during February, Landscape Architects Awards. The jury Professor Kim Dovey and Associate Ho; from RMIT University: Andrew Walker- followed by a working scholarship/ March, May and June of 2004 and was declared the book a “beautifully presented Professor Paul Walker for their excellent Chelle MacNaughtan (BArch 2001 and Morrison, Graham Crist, Maazuza Othman, placement in Hong Kong for six weeks. hosted by Professor Philip Goad. assemblage showing the great diversity teaching contributions to the Faculty. current PhD candidate) held an exhibition, of works of landscape architecture. High Dinesh Kumar, and Peter Lawther; from Justine Image Sound in the Space of Architecture, from Associate Professor Han Sun Sheng, The 2003 Award went to Professor Kevin (final-year BLArch) has been quality photography and clear text reveal Deakin University: Graham Treloar, Mark 2–12 November at George Paton Gallery. Department of Real Estate, School O’Connor. awarded second place in the Australia- the beauty and diversity of the natural Luther, and Bob Fuller. The 10 studies The show featured Chelle’s PhD work-in- of Design and Environment, National wide Hassell Travelling Scholarships in and man-made landscape of Australia. . . Tony Mussen was awarded a Life Fellowship will address energy harvesting, air and Landscape Architecture. progress. University of Singapore was awarded an Presented for a wide audience. . . Easy to at the RAIA Life Fellows and Past physiology, cooling and heating, lighting, Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas21 read in-depth or casually browse.” Presidents luncheon on Tuesday 26 October water use, materials, structure and Hui-Chuan Wang, a current MPD (by Events Fellowship to join the Faculty from March 2004. This prestigious award recognizes construction, workplace environment, the Research) student, held an exhibition of her intentCITY is a street forum celebrating Hamish Hill Alex Selenitsch 2004 to March 2005. He is being hosted by and exhibited Tony’s work as a senior counsellor business case for sustainable design, and recent paintings, Bodhisattvas, where are the launch of Architects for Peace, to be Professor Kevin O’Connor. furniture pieces with the Victorian providing expert advice to RAIA members, nature and æsthetics in the sustainable city. you at the Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery in July held at the Hamer Hall undercroft, the Woodworkers Association as a part of the CH is a revolutionary new building that will and August 2004. Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Dr Ranjith Dayaratne from the Department for his work as an educator and Head of 2

atrium Working With Wood show at the Exhibition set new standards for sustainable design on Saturday 20 November, 11.00am to of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Architecture and for his contribution as Centre in October 2003. All the work in the in Melbourne. It has been given a six-star Cristina Rus (BArch 2001, current MUD) 7.30pm. Jointly coordinated by Beatriz University of Bahrain recently arrived as an elected RAIA Victorian Chapter Council show was made from pallets used by IveCo Member. rating from the Green Building Council of and Joyce Li (BArch 2004) collaborated Maturana (MUD 2004) and other founding an academic visitor of the Faculty from to import truck engines from the USA. on roomplooms, an exhibitition of recent Australia. Details on the CH2 project can be members, this event offers a public forum October 2004 to June 2005. Dr Dayaratne artworks at George Paton Gallery, in July Research found at: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info. to discuss the ‘political city’, the built news is undertaking a research project on Professor Paul Carter was awarded the ABP hosted the second AASA (Association cfm?top=171&pg=1223 and August 2004. environment, ecology, and in particular ‘Reconstructing culture and place: the Sri Woodward Medal for research in the of Architecture Schools of Australasia) our involvement in war and what can be 22 Lankan society and space in Melbourne’. humanities and social sciences in October Janet McGaw (BArch 1990, MArch 2000, 23 conference in September, 2003. Alumni done to prevent this. Architects for Peace Academic hosts during his visit are Dr 2003. Named for Sir Edward Woodward, Current PhD) curated Urban Threads, an

news Alois Leopold Blank (BArch1971) died on is a forum for planners, architects, urban Anoma Pieris and Professor Kim Dovey. former Chancellor of the University, and Staff of the Faculty have been successful in architectural installation in Melbourne’s Sunday 17 August, 2003 at the age of 58 designers, environmentalists, academics Lady Woodward, this medal is awarded the following 2004 ARC Discovery-Project alcoves and lanes from September to after a short battle with cancer. and students seeking urban development Dr Zhen (George) Chen from the Institute each year to one of the University’s Grant applications: October 2004. Urban Threads explored based on social justice, solidarity, respect of Technology and Engineering, Massey academic staff members for outstanding Andrew Byrne (BArch 2003) was awarded the ways in which those without land, and peace. For more information visit www. atrium University, New Zealand arrives as an performance and distinction in research + Associate Professor Nick Low with joint second place in the 2004 RAIA & money and power shape the urban fabric: architectsforpeace.org. academic visitor February 2005 for a 12- over the previous three years. Professor B Gleeson and Ms CA COLORBOND® steel Student Biennale, in particular, the private territories that month visit jointly hosted with the Faculty Curtis were awarded a grant valued at Australia’s most prestigious student are staked out in the public realm and the The Faculty is hosting the 11th annual of Engineering. Dr Chen is undertaking Andrew Hutson stepped down from the $193,000 for the project “Discursive architectural design award. spatial practices that connect them. All Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference several projects about sustainable buildings role of Head of Program, Architecture and Institutional Barriers to Urban creative works in the installation were from 23–27 January 2005 with a theme and will be working with Dr Lu Aye and in December 2003, after three years Environmental Sustainability: A Neville Quarry (BArch 1956) passed away produced by women who are homeless of Property Investment. For further Associate Professor John Wilson from Civil of exemplary service. While Andrew Comparative Study of Infrastructure on 21 October 2004. Neville was a much and socially isolated, during workshops information on the conference visit www. and Environmental Engineering, and Dr continues to teach and research as before, Policy in Sydney, Melbourne and loved teacher in the Faculty from 1961 to facilitated by Janet at a regular support conferences.unimelb.edu.au/prres, Scott Drake and Clare Newton from this Professor Philip Goad has taken up the Perth.” 1970 before leaving to set up a school of group that is run by Living Room Primary telephone +61 3 8344 6389 or email sa- faculty. Head of Program role, with Dr Scott Drake architecture at the University of Lae, Papua Health Service and Wesley Mission + Professor Paul Carter was awarded [email protected]. coordinating the Bachelor of Planning New Guinea. He returned to Australia in Melbourne. Staff $50,000 for the project “Sustaining 1976 and was Head of Architecture at the and Design (Architecture) and Dr Sandra Dean’s Lecture Series Dr Helen Lingard, Senior Lecturer in Kaji-O’Grady coordinating the Bachelor of Places: Public Space Design in a time NSW Institute of Technology (now UTS) until At the end of 2003, five students and Dr The Dean’s Lecture Series 2004 featured: Property and Construction, resigned from Architecture. of loss.” 1989. He was awarded the RAIA Gold Medal Richard Reed were sponsored by the Royal her position in the Faculty in November in 1994. Institution of Chartered Surveyors to travel + Marco Frascari + Associate Professor Paul Walker 2003 to pursue other opportunities. Dr Darko Radovic received first prize to Sydney and compete in the inaugural + Claire Parin was awarded $131,000 for the project at the Salon of Urbanism, Yugoslavia in Professor Peter Rowe (BArch 1968) stepped interstate RICS moot court against UTS. + Andrew Olszewski Peter Ashford, Senior Lecturer in Property “Building Difference: Architectural the research category and also received down from the role of Dean, Harvard Design After three hours of presenting case law, + Miles Lewis and Construction, was awarded one of Strategies in Colonial Museums.” a research fellowship at the Osaka City School, Harvard University as of 30 June debate and closing addresses, the bench + Steve Harfield three University of Melbourne Universitas21 University in 2003/4. 2004 after 12 years of service. He plans to fellowships. The fellowship recognizes + Dr Jim Smith with Associate Professor awarded the case to the University of + James Cain return to teaching and research at Harvard Melbourne but the overall night to UTS. excellence in teaching and provided for Dr Derham Groves curated an exhibition PE Love, Prof DH Walker and Associate + Gabriella Olshammar after a year’s sabbatical. Yash Bonno (final-year BUPD) was awarded an eight-week program consulting with of Sherlock Holmes paraphernalia, In the Professor M Loosemore were awarded + Peter Corrigan the best counsel. This year a team will be and teaching at Universitas21 Universities Privacy of Their Own Holmes, at the Baillieu over $243,000 for their project Professor Helen Tippett (BArch 1955) died + Kevin O’Connor travelling to Sydney to contest the trophy on overseas. Library in May 2004. He also participated “Forensic management approach to in New Zealand on Wednesday 11 February + Greg Burgess 26 November, 2004. in the Community Collections exhibition rework mitigation and prevention in 2004 after a long battle with cancer. Ian Bishop, long a member of ABP’s construction.” at Melbourne Museum, exhibiting his Professor Tippet gave an enormous amount Value Added is a new lunchtime seminar To receive information on the Dean’s academic staff jointly with Geomatic collection of 300 clip-on bow ties. of herself to the Faculty over many years Lecture Series 2005 please email Engineering, was promoted to Professor in A team of 19 academics across three series to be held at least monthly. and was instrumental in the (then) radical Presenters will always be students, abp-info unimelb.edu.au or visit July 2003. Ian commenced full-time work Alex Selenitsch’s artwork featured in Universities, including nine from the @ decision to add project management to the presenting projects they’ve completed www.abp.unimelb.edu.au with a new Cooperative Research Centre in HERESY, The Secret Language of Materials, University of Melbourne, have been Faculty’s architecture curriculum in the at university, outside of university, for the Faculty of Engineering in 2004. a group show at Craft Victoria in June appointed to carry out a series of 10 studies 1970s. competitions, or have had built. It is 2004. Another group show he had work of the environmental features of the new a celebration of the student voice in Dr Paul Mees, Dr Anthony Mills and Dr in, SCRIPT, was installed at the Maquarie ‘Council House 2’ (CH ) building for the City Students 2 architectural discourse. It will not only Jianfei Zhu were promoted to Senior University Gallery, in Northern Sydney of Melbourne. The studies will be supported Two pieces from the Faculty’s 2003 Timber involve presentations of student work, Lecturer in September 2003. at the same time. To view some of Alex’s by a $50,000 research grant, funded by Furniture Workshop elective were chosen ALUMNI RELATIONS

Alumni is a Latin word which means + access to faculty, departmental and Reunions former students. There are about 140,000 college alumni networks The urge to get together periodically men and women located in over 100 to celebrate with one’s peers is strong, + the Alumni Melbourne website countries who are part of the University @ with reunions being a familiar part of Melbourne alumni community. For further information about alumni of university life. If you would like to organise a reunion for your year level The University’s alumni relations relations at the University of Melbourne the Faculty and the University’s Alumni program offers you opportunities contact: Relations Program can offer support to continue networking with former Phone: +61 3 8344 7469 in several ways. Please contact Dean students and staff, and provides links to Fax: +61 3 8344 6895 Mundey on tel: +61 3 8344 3740 or email: employers and careers services. Email: [email protected] [email protected] for more You do not need to join up or pay any Web: www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni information. fees. When you leave the University of Melbourne you automatically become part of the alumni community. If you keep Graduate Profiles us updated on your current address, we The Faculty is seeking to include short will keep you informed of University news profiles of its alumni in future editions of and events via our free annual alumni Atrium. The University’s alumni website atrium magazine, Melbourne University Magazine. allows you to provide your profile online at: Other services available to alumni include: www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/ vgapprofileform.html + our free email bulletin— 24 GradNet@Melbourne Whatever you studied, and whatever you’re doing, we are keen to hear + alumni career programs about what you have been doing since graduation. Fellow alumni will also be + access to alumni networks interstate intrigued to hear the stories of those they and overseas once sat next to in classes.

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