CONTACT Faculty of Architecture, Atrium Building & Planning University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: + 61 3 8344 6417 THE UNIVERSITY www.abp.unimelb.edu.au OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, Published by the Faculty BUILDING & PLANNING of Architecture, Building and Planning Coordinating Editor: Louisa Ragas Design: Studio Binocular Authorised by Professor Tom Kvan, Dean Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning. ISSN 1447-1728 The University of Melbourne CRICOS provider code: 00116K CELEBRATING CELEBRATING CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS AUTUMN 2014 25 | 2014 Atrium PAGE 25 | 2014 02 | 03 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING DEAN’S MESSAGE 02 THE POWER OF GIVING 24 FEATURE: DESIGNING MINDS 04 OUR DONORS 26 SHOWCASING CONNECTIONS: ALUMNI PROFILES 12 GIVING FORM 27 MSD RESEARCH: INDIGENOUS PLACE 20 ADVANCEMENT EVENTS 28 NEW BUILDING UPDATE – DULUX PARTNERSHIP 22 INSIDE THE FACULTY 30 Dean’s Message In this our first edition of Atrium for “in and of itself a pedagogical tool". If you massive central Studio Hall inviting you 2014, we have much to celebrate. remember the competition brief in 2009, to enter at the north and south ends this aspiration was clearly articulated and and move up and through the studio Our future Faculty building, designed it is very pleasing that the jury saw that and common spaces. Many of you have by John Wardle Architects and NADAAA it was manifested in the design. already enjoyed a tour of the building under in association, recently won its first construction, and for those who haven’t, international award – a citation in Our new building is well ahead of schedule I invite you to contact our Advancement America's prestigious Annual Progressive and we anticipate its practical completion team to arrange a site visit. Turn to page Architecture Awards. The project was this August. It is a significant achievement 28 for details. one of only ten recognised out of 150 to complete a project of this magnitude entries from across the globe, at a special early and on budget, an outcome that Another key area in our new building event in New York on February 20, 2014. is a credit to Brookfield Multiplex, the will be the main gallery space. In the The jury – Nataly Gattegno, Marcelo Spina, consultants, project managers and the largest sponsorship of a University in Lise Anne Couture and Sasa Radulovic architects. I am excited with how our new the company’s history, Dulux Australia – were impressed by the holistic approach Faculty building has taken form, with key will sponsor this space. This soaring, to design with an eye towards practical features such as the timber coffered ceiling elegant volume, located on the ground realisation, common across all awarded and the suspended studios creating a floor, will be known as theDulux Gallery. projects. Speaking of the new ABP dynamic statement in the central atrium. Our Faculty’s exhibition culture is a vibrant building, Juror Lise Anne Couture noted The openness and transparency of the one and the communication of research the design intention to make the building building is also very apparent, with the and student projects is central to our Atrium 25 | 2014 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING purpose. By naming the primary gallery and defines them in the Designing With an alumni family in the thousands, in our new building the Dulux Gallery, we Minds feature. From social enterprise we can only ever profile a small number are reflecting the importance and value entrepreneur Lucinda Hartley, who of alumni at any one time. I hope you enjoy of industry partnerships in the field of graces the cover of the magazine, to this first selection of stories and invite you design. As a leading manufacturer of artist and architect Hong Yi (Red), this to contact ABP Communications Manager products that protect and enhance the crop of graduates will inspire you with Louisa Ragas – [email protected] – spaces and places in which we live and their understanding of how good design if you too would like to be profiled in work, our partnership with Dulux is aligned can improve our world. Atrium, or on the ABP website, particularly with the values and research ideals of in our lead up to our Faculty centenary our Faculty. You can read more about We also profile a number of alumni who in 2017. this partnership on pages 22 and 23. have enjoyed extensive careers to reveal how an education in our professions can Professor Tom Kvan The focus of this issue of Atrium, however, take you in many different directions. ABP Dean, Faculty of Architecture, is our alumni, and showcasing some of Advancement Director, Judy Turner has Building and Planning your incredible journeys and achievements. met with many graduates in Australia and Forging and celebrating our connections South East Asia over the last year and she Image: Render of the Studio Hall in our new building. John Wardle and NADAAA with you, our alumni, is important to us. shares a selection of their stories on pages For this issue, we have selected a number 12 to 19. of high achieving young graduates to profile and you can read about what drives Atrium PAGE 25 | 2014 04 | 05 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING Designing minds Meet a diverse group of young aLuMni wHo sHare a passion for design innovation and iMproving tHe pLaces in wHicH we Live Lucinda HartLey CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, CODESIGN STUDIO Landscape Architect Lucinda Hartley’s improved education facilities. However, on for social change,” says Lucinda. “We were commitment to community development consultation with a community worker she dealing with a diverse range of stakeholders through design led her to establish discovered a much more prevalent issue so, for each project, we had to ensure that CoDesign, a social enterprise working was moving around on foot during flooding, we continued to push for innovative ideas with communities, professionals which was a regular occurrence. Together and maintained integrity in design.” and service providers to build social with local professionals and community inclusion through neighbourhood members, Lucinda helped to create As well as practical projects, CoDesign improvement projects. elevated footpaths. Over the next few years engages in social experiments on city Lucinda worked on slum resettlements in design to bring the conversation to Lucinda gained early career experience Asia and gained a deep understanding the public stage. working across a broad range of projects of alternative approaches to city making. in Australia but it was her time abroad that Lucinda, recognised publicly for her work in set Lucinda on her current career path. CoDesign, born in mid-2009, began as a 2012 when she made The Age Melbourne volunteer led practice. Now, five years on, Magazines’s most influential Melbournian’s “I was exposed to the stark realities of the practice employs a full time staff and can list, sees herself playing a bigger role in poverty and really started to unravel the sustain three times the number of projects. strategic thinking about community design. possibilities of design,” says Lucinda. “We were doing something quite new, “I don’t know what it looks like yet, but I want While working as an English teacher in so it was a challenge to communicate the to influence change at a more strategic level.” Cambodia, Lucinda identified a need for potential of participatory design as a tool Atrium 25 | 2014 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING JEFA GREENAWAY ARCHITECT Leaving behind a childhood ambition Jefa’s passion for architecture and intense IAV maintains an advocacy role to promote to enter politics, Jefa Greenaway work ethic continued beyond graduation and the knowledge that each share, while also discovered a love of design and has resulted in a highly successful and diverse promoting the need for more Indigenous architecture in his 20s. After obtaining career. Not only does he run his own practice youth to consider Architecture as a a Diploma in Architectural Drafting Greenaway Architects, with wife and fellow profession. This is of immense value, at La Trobe, Jefa studied architecture alum Catherine Drosinos, he teaches at the Jefa believes, given Architecture’s critical at Melbourne University and went on Melbourne School of Design and runs connection to place, continuance of cultural to be the first Indigenous Architect Indigenous Architecture Victoria (IAV), the practices, and the potential for architecture to be registered in Victoria. centre he founded in 2010 with Rueben Berg. to speak to cultural expressions of identity. “Despite originally being a kid who found His Indigenous heritage is something which “I feel the need to give back and offer education a bit of a bore, I really evolved defines and drives Jefa’s professional life my skills to the Aboriginal community, and grew during my years spent studying and his engagement with industry and given the unique position I hold,” Jefa architecture,” says Jefa. “The Faculty had community. IAV is a foci for this passion. says. “I have a real sense of obligation a strong studio environment which suited to find ways to utilise the skill sets that me and it was a time in which I lived and “One of the drivers to the establish IAV I acquired through Architecture for the breathed the culture of architecture. I was was the realisation that there are so few empowerment and advancement of deeply involved in the student club, the Indigenous people directly engaged in Indigenous clients, organisations and formation of SONA, and the Australian Architecture … We both felt a need for the general community.” Institute of Architects. Alongside my studies, I an organisation that could act as a conduit worked part-time for an architect and worked between the Indigenous Community on competitions with colleagues on the side.” and the Architecture profession.” Atrium PAGE 25 | 2014 06 | 07 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING crystaL Legacy URBAN PLANNER & RESEARCHER Among our many high achieving years was the way the 50-strong group teaching she has done and looks forward to graduates is Dr Crystal Legacy.