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MELBOURNE
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
DESIGN
STUDIOS
SEMESTER 1_2021
Master of Architecture A
Master of Architecture C, D, E
Master of Architecture Thesis
Master of Landscape Architecture
Master of Urban Design
Master of Urban Planning
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NEW ELECTIVE SUBJECT
Visions and
Agendas in
Architecture
World War Z
WHAT WILL YOUR FUTURE BE?
Need help conceptualising and describing
your design studio projects?
Then this subject is for you.
Help materialise your future.
Vision and Agendas will introduce you to a body of theory
and polemics for architectural design and spatial practice,
from the late 20thc to today.
It will help you formulate your own ‘position’ and identify
and develop the conceptual interests that underpin your
practice as a designer and spatial practitioner.
And if you want, we will work with you on your current
design studio project to help you find the key topics and
ideas: the visual and written language to describe your
project.
Our readings cover: your origins, the role of process and
diagrams, storytelling, materiality (what is it, how do
you get it?), media, site/ground, bodies and space, the
climate emergency, post-Architecture architecture, and
new:202 1
design for social justice.
ABPL90403_
Course leader: Dr Karen Burns
Semester 1, 2021, Friday 11am – 1pm
Melbourne
School of Design
Faculty of Architecture,
Building and Planning
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INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
JULIE WILLIS ALAN PERT
Dean Director, Melbourne School of Design
Welcome to the Melbourne School of Design for 2021. While Architecture versus Housing
we remain in challenging times, and campus-based study may A critical role of design is to imagine and create alternative
not be an option for you just yet, the spirit of who we are and worlds with inventions, products, services, environments,
what we do at the MSD is still very much in place. We aim for a materials and processes that respond to current issues and
dynamic and vibrant environment in which ideas and innovation improve the quality of life for everyone. In 2021, Melbourne
thrive, situated within the wider context of a great design- Design Week asks: Which world will we make together when
focused city. The MSD provides space for both experimentation we know tomorrow will be very different today? NGV Design
and engagement, deeply connected to the multiple professional Week 2021
arenas that shape our built environment.
Melbourne School of Design will showcase the winners of The Future
Studios, online or face-to-face, are at the heart of the MSD. Homes Design Competition with a digital exhibition during Melbourne
The studio is an environment that forms, tests, challenges and Design Week (March 26th – April 5th) and with a physical exhibition
rewards; where the best designers and thinkers are forged by in MSD’s Dulux Gallery during April and May 2021. The competition
grappling with complex problems in creative and original ways. ran throughout semester 2, 2020 as a partnership between, The
As a student with us, not only will you develop your capacity Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP),
to conceptualise, represent and express ideas, but also to The Office of the Victorian Government Architect (OVGA) and IBA
communicate your propositions to a wide audience. Studio Melbourne. The exhibition will also celebrate the launch of the new
projects, problems and opportunities - from the speculative to Social (Housing) Innovation Lab which explores the relationships
the most pragmatic real world problems - are designed to test between research knowledge and form by examining and exploring
all aspects of housing as the prototype of architectural thinking,
your thinking and push you out of your comfort zone. The cycle of
planning policy and social innovation.
investigation, proposition and critical evaluation is fundamental
to the way the studio facilitates our learning. Studio is a place Martin Pawley’s 1971 publication ‘Architecture versus Housing’
where you can flourish in an environment that both supports you explained, that housing is a system - it is an assemblage of different
and delights in your success. actors, financial imperatives, policy goals, social conditions,
architectural ideologies, planning legislation and construction costs
The MSD offers myriad opportunities for you to make the most - in the Post War period it was also a lot to do with population growth,
of your engagement with us. Ensure you take advantage of the car ownership, a rejection of the mediaeval city and an optimism
these events to see, hear and engage with key practitioners and for all things future orientated! 50-years on the system is well and
experts. Draw upon this rich array to fully explore your potential truly broken. We seem to have lost our way in the production of
and prepare yourself for future success. We look forward to the built environment - our cities and suburbs are built for profit,
seeing you thrive. not for people, and we have a crisis of affordability. The market for
new housing is dominated by free-standing tracts on the fringes and
real-estate extrusions in the city. There are limited alternatives or
innovative models available on the market.
Modern architecture’s social mission - the effort to
establish a decent standard of living for all - seems a
thing of the past. Architecture is now a tool of capital,
complicit in a purpose antithetical to its erstwhile
ideological endeavour. Reinier De Graaf, Architectural
Review, 24 April 2015
Architectural historian Charles Jencks once cited the televised
demolition of Pruitt-Igoe in 1972 as the moment “modern architecture
died”. The racially segregated, middle-class complex of thirty-three,
eleven-storey towers, opened to great fanfare on the north side of St
Louis between 1954 and 1956. But within a decade, it would become
a decrepit warehouse exclusively inhabited by poor, black residents.
Within two decades, it would undergo complete demolition. Pruitt-
Igoe’s obsolescence would trigger a wave of similar spectator sport
demolitions across the globe, prompted by many public housing
estates failing to express the social and individual needs of the
occupants, with disastrous results. Whether you call Pruitt-Igoe’s
short, troubled existence a failure of architecture, a failure of policy,
or a failure of society, its fate remains bound up with, and reflective
of, the fate of many cities in the mid-20th century.
When Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Saturday 4th
July, that three thousand people living in nine public housing towers
in Melbourne would been placed under the harshest lockdown rules
of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia so far, the ongoing tensions
that have dogged public housing estates around the world over the
last 70-years suddenly resurfaced in our minds. Dr Tony Bartone,
AMA president, described the towers as “vertical cruise ships”,
comparing them with the explosive spread that happened on a
number of cruise ships in the early days of the virus. Daniel Andrews
went on to describe the residents living in these flats as among the
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INTRODUCTION
Martha Rosler, Housing Is a Human Right, Time Square Spectacolor animation detail, 1989
most vulnerable and heavily policed people in the state of Victoria, The troubled existence of these estates around the world are
with a high population of new migrants, Indigenous people, reflective of the complexity and contradictions of the housing
people experiencing severe mental illness and people who have system in each nation. For example, a comparative study of social
experienced family violence or homelessness. Minister for Housing, housing programs across the globe, would suggest, that they vary
Richard Wynne, said people living in these public housing estates substantially — in their histories of origin, who they serve, where
were “some of the most vulnerable people in our community” and housing is located, the means of financing new housing, and even
Health authorities said the drastic move was necessary because of how their housing subsidies work. What is similar though is the
the nature of the buildings, where many people live in close quarters generic architectural forms. The physical nature of the housing stock
and use shared facilities including lifts and laundries. In other words, seen in the images of Flemington and North Melbourne circulating
residents find themselves in the position where their health is across media platforms could have been from Chicago, Glasgow (a
primarily a product of their environment. quarter of Glasgow’s high-rises have been demolished in less than
10 years), London, Paris, Toronto or any number of eastern European
Richard Wynne who also grew up in the community around the cities that adopted the tower as a way of replacing post-war inner-
North Melbourne Public Housing Estate, then put these nine city slums.
towers in context when he made reference to all forty-seven high-
rise public housing towers across metropolitan Melbourne. These Since the late 1970’s, the initiative to construct the city
are the most visible legacy of the Housing Commission of Victorian has been left to the private sector. The financialisation
Commission, and the Commonwealth Government’s Nation Building of our housing stock has created a peculiar lens through
program, which provided tens of thousands of houses and flats which politicians, planners and the private sector regard
in Melbourne and many country towns between the late 1940s and the structure of our cities. Housing became a commodity,
the early 70s, providing low rent housing for low income families. All and cities, became eviscerated and stratified by wealth,
built using the same pre-cast concrete panel technology these Public class and race. The conservative revolution that first
Housing Estates remain a powerful symbol of the social, racial and sweeps America and later Europe, in the 70’s, forced
architectural tensions that have dogged our cities in the mid-20th an agenda of economic liberalisation and the slashing
century.
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INTRODUCTION
of government spending. The size of the public sector to enable different population groups to participate; and nobody
gradually reduced and large public housing projects should be able to guess a person’s social status or income level based
become a thing of the past. This period essentially and on their home address”. In a nutshell; the focus is on the dignity and
concurrently marks the end of an unfettered belief in the security of the people and the health of Vienna’s citizens”. IBA Vienna
merits of modern architecture or wholesale urban visions. recognises that, each social need which receives no answers creates
Large sections of society moved from being tenants in the a health problem and each health problem which remains without
post-war years to become home-owners and mortgages appropriate answers creates a social problem.
locked society into an inescapable financial reality.
Reinier De Graaf, Architectural Review, 24 April 2015 After the conservative revolution, the built environment
and particularly housing acquired a fundamentally
Now after 50-years of inaction in Victoria, the need to reframe new role. From a means to provide shelter, it becomes
priorities across the board, in funding, procurement, design and a means to generate financial returns. A building is no
delivery of social and affordable housing could finally be getting the longer something to use, but to own (with the hope of
urgent attention it deserves. increased asset-value, rather than use-value, over time).
Through the general deployment of the term ‘real estate’,
Minister Wynne’s announcement about the $5.4b “Big Housing the definition of the architect is replaced by that of the
Build” (15th Nov 2020) is an opportunity to stop finger pointing and economist. This is also the moment that architecture
instead implement a progressive social agenda for housing that becomes definitively inexplicable (at least in line with
redefines housing from a consumer product to an important public the criteria according to which architects usually explain
infrastructure; with a human touch. Affordable housing has been the architecture). The logic of a building no longer primarily
problem child perpetually tugging at the sleeve of the Minister since reflects its intended use but instead serves mostly to
he took on the role of Planning Minister in 2014. The tugging only promote a ‘generic’ desirability in economic terms.
intensified when ‘Housing’ was added to his portfolio in 2018. While, Judgement of architecture is deferred to the market. The
the announcement was as much about creating jobs as it was about ‘architectural style’ of buildings no longer conveys an
tackling the corrosive effects of social inequality the optimist in all ideological choice but a commercial one: architecture is
of us welcomes the opportunity to recalibrate Melbourne’s chronic worth whatever others are willing to pay for it. Reinier De
housing crisis; While the shortfall in numbers has to be a priority Graaf, Architectural Review, 24 April 2015
it cannot be simply a numbers game; it has to be a socio-spatial
agenda that is about quality and community. With a new political environment, there is now an opportunity to
drive and implement a progressive social agenda for housing in
As architect, Neave Brown once said about housing, “We have to face Victoria. With the new agency, we can redefine standards, finances,
it as a social problem, not as an economic problem for neoliberalism occupation, land use, acquisition and so much more. By adopting
to make money out of. And if we go on doing that, we are going into the model of an International Building Exhibition (IBA) we have the
a future of catastrophe with our eyes wide open.” We also have to opportunity to consider our 12,000 new homes as part of particular
move away from a fixation on traditional family stereotypes and instrument of urban development. IBA’s serve as spaces for
begin to consider the complexity of lifestyle choices in the future. experimentation, as urban development labs and prototypes for new
The realities of life have changed. Quality of life is so much more ways of living. IBA’s should be understood as temporary laboratories,
than minimum standards and square metres. Residential buildings as areas of both spatial and intellectual experimentation which would
constructed in the 1950’s and 60’s were almost exclusively conceived seem critical for Homes Victoria whose objective it is to generate
for small families, while models of living together are more diverse internationally effective contributions to New Social Housing - we
nowadays. Take Denmark for instance, where there are currently 37 need to avoid pursuing a course of business as usual, so that we will
different types of families registered by the government: An ever- not one day find ourselves faced yet again with the ruins of social
growing group of one-person households, flat-sharing communities, housing and the spectacle of demolishing estates.
life-partnerships and communities with and without children from
current and previous relationships, long distance and weekend As Reinier De Graaf, suggests, “the 20th century taught us that
relationships and many other ways of living have emerged. The utopian thinking can have precarious consequences”, but, if the
nuclear family made up of parents and their children is only one course of history is dialectic, the question for the new protagonists
model out of many. This alone calls for rethinking how we design (students, architects, planners, researchers, developers, community
housing. This calls for radical changes in the way we build and live, housing providers, politicians & policy makers), is what follows?
considering aspects of geography, identity, demography, and local
communities.
In a post-pandemic context; work, leisure and education are also
increasingly merging with housing. Spatial separation by functional
categories are being replaced by ‘living’ as a whole. The world of
work is no longer dictated by the 9am-5pm patterns of behaviour.
Working at the “home-office” has become normalised and the digital
age has altered our life and opened up new flexible opportunities,
where boundaries are difficult to fix. Leisure and work are spatially
exchangeable. Housing for too long has been defined by static ideas
about; rooms (one, two and three bedrooms) and by standards, Prof. Alan Pert is Director of MSD, Chair of IBA Melbourne and
rules and programs. The results are house types that have remained Research Director of The Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable
unchanged and unchallenged for many years. Housing.
The Big Housing Build aims to create over 12,000 homes in four
years. Of these, 9,300 are estimated to be social housing. The rest will IBA Melbourne was established as a unique collaboration across
be affordable or market-rate housing and the program will replace five of Melbourne’s built environment schools, who are committed to
1,100 old public housing units. The program comes with a new tackling the challenges and opportunities presented by Melbourne’s
government agency, Homes Victoria, and the promise of a ten-year growth and lack of affordable housing options. In Semester 2, 2020,
policy and funding framework. Maybe Homes Victoria, could adopt IBA Melbourne partnered with the Office of the Victorian Government
the principle of IBA Vienna 2016 - 2022, which states that “each and Architect (OVGA) and The Department of Environment Land Water &
every Viennese resident is to be able to benefit from the fundamental Planning (DELWP) on the delivery of the student iteration of the ‘Future
right to an affordable home; with a view to successfully living in the Homes’ design competition. An exhibition of the winning entries will be
community, manifold and suitable measures are to be developed presented at MSD as part of Melbourne Design Week 2021.
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Glasgow’s Red Road flats demolished on October 11 2015
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13MSD STUDIO DAYS AND TIMES Correct at the time of printing. Please check the handbook prior to classes.
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO A
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME
Master of Architecture Studio A Laura Martires and Marijke Davey Mondays 18:15-21:15, Thursdays 18:15-21:15. Omline
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE CDE
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME
VERTICALISING. High rise schools...
Studio 01 Isabel Lasala Mondays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 09:00-12:00
a new architectural type?
Studio 02 HACKNEY Rennie Liffen and Oskar Kazmanli-Liffen Mondays 13:00-16:00, Thursdays 17:00-20:00
Studio 03 Eternal Holiday Peter Stasios Mondays 18:15-21:15, Thursdays 18:15-21:15
HOPE IN PETURBANISM_
Studio 05 Professor Justyna Karakiewicz Wednesdays 09:00-15:00
Great Ocean [Road?]
Jim Stewart, Katie Skillington and Adam
Studio 06 What’s Next Mondays 13:00-16:00, Wednesdays 18:15-21:15
Murray
Studio 07 NoVacancy Gumji Kang and Javier López-Menchero Mondays 17:30-20:30, Thursdays 15:00-18:00
Studio 09 Duplex Studio Kate Finning and Andrew Power Tuesdays 13:00-16:00, Fridays 13:00-16:00
Studio 10 H2O David Mah and Leire Asensio-Villoria Mondays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 15:15-18:15
The Third Digital Turn of Non-
Studio 11 Melika Aljukic Tuesday 15:15-18:15 and Thursday 15:15-18:15
Standard Architecture
Studio 13 Embody Hella Wigge Tuesdays 17:00-20:00, Fridays 17:00-20:00
Teaching begins 30/3. Tuesdays 17:00-20:00, Fridays 17:00-
Studio 15 Machining Aesthetics V5.0 Dr Paul Loh and David Leggett 20:00, Intensive week Wednesday 7/4 - Saturday 10/4
10:00-17:00, Saturdays 8/5 and 15/5 14:00-17:00
Studio 16 Creative House Joel Benichou Mondays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 15:15-18:15
Studio 18 LikeHumans Darcy Zelenko and Danny Ngo: Tuesdays 17:00-20:00, Fridays 17:00-20:00
Studio 19 VR - Virtual Reality Ben Waters Mondays 18:15-21:15, Thursdays 09:00-12:00
Permanent Vacation:
Studio 21 Dr Toby Reed Mondays 17:00-20:00, Thursdays 17:00-20:00–
Rethinking Aged Care
Studio 30 Capriccio, Folly, City Kim Võ and Richen Jin Mondays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 09:00-12:00
Studio 23 Digital Natives Mal Bas, Tisha Lee and Ian Davidson Mondays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 17:00-20:00
Studio 26 Housing Home and Content(s) Colby Vexler and Pricilla Heung Mondays 17:00-20:00, Thursdays 18:15-21:15
Studio 27 CONNECT Kristen Wang Wednesdays 18:15-21:15, Fridays 13:00-16:00
Studio 28 With/In Antarctic Extremes Dr Miranda Nieboer Tuesdays 14:30-17:30, Fridays 14:30-17:30
Studio 31 Obstinate Persistence Andre Bonnice Tuesdays 17:00-20:00, Fridays 09:00-12:00
Studio 32 NHG. New Hamilton Gallery Simona Falvo and Dayne Trower Mondays 17:00-20:00, Thursdays 17:00-20:00
Studio 33 Studio Japan 2021 Mitchell Eaton and Nancy (Yao) Ji Mondays 12:30-14:30, Thursdays 13:00-17:00
Studio 36 NGV_C Anna Nervegna Mondays 13:00-16:00, Thursdays 13:00-16:00
Studio 40 Out of Date! Dr Dominik Holzer Mondays 17:00-20:00, Thursdays 13:00-16:00
Studio 41 Create | Curate: Sensory (Re)Treat Yui Uchimura Tuesdays 13:00-16:00, 17:00-20:00
Studio 42 RE:IMAGINE Matthieu Bégoghina 19:15-21:15 Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Studio 44 Ultimate Spinach Danielle Peck and Samuel Hunter Mondays 17:00-20:00, Fridays 13:00-16:00
Resonate: Architecture, Arts and
Studio 45 Dr Sofia Colabella and Michael Mack Mondays 17:00-20:00, Thursdays 17:00-20:00
Acoustics
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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE THESIS
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME/VENUE
Professor Anoma Pieris and
Studio 01 Centre for Creative Peacemaking Mondays 13:00-16:00, Tuesdays 13:00-16:00
Athanasios Tsakonas
Studio 02 The Art of Memory Dr Rory Hyde and Sir Jonathon Mills Tuesdays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 09:00-12:00
Studio 03 Inland (public) Virginia Mannering Mondays 13:00-16:00, Thursdays 13:00-16:00
Studio 04 Inland: Housing Ursula Chandler Mondays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 17:00-20:00
Studio 05 Total Yvonne Meng Mondays 18:15-21:15, Thursdays 18:15-21:15
Heather Mitcheltree and Mitchell
Studio 06 Forms of Enchantment Mondays 18:15-21:15, Thursdays 18:15-21:15
Ransome
Studio 07 The Body Keeps The Score Anthony Clarke Mondays 13:00-16:00, Wednesdays 13:00-16:00
Studio 08 2070 Benjamin Lau Thursdays 15:15-18:15, Fridays 09:00-12:00
Studio 09 Designing for Neurodiversity Dr Andrew Martel and Dr Kirsten Day Mondays 09:00-12:00, Fridays 09:00-12:00
Studio 10 It will not be over until we talk Marijke Davey Mondays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 13:00-16:00
Independent Thesis Dr Rory Hyde
MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME/VENUE
Mondays 16:15-19:15, Wednesdays 16:15-19:15; Mondays
Landscape Studio 01: Design Techniques Wendy Walls 17:00-20:00, Wednesdays 18:15-21:15 | Lecture Mondays
10:00-12:00
Pattern Potentials: bridging utility and Associate Professor Mondays 12:00-15:00, 15:15-18:15 | Lecture Mondays
aesthetics Jillian Walliss 11:00-12:00
Landscape Studio 03:
Speculations Albert Park’s Fitzroy Street Precinct: Associate Professor Mondays 12:00-15:00, 15:15-18:15 | Lecture Mondays
Coordinator: Associate displacement and intersection Andrew Saniga 11:00-12:00
Professor Jillian Walliss
Dr Alessandro Liuti Mondays 15:15-18:15, Wednesdays 15:15-18:15 | Lecture
Proxemic Materialities
and David Wyld Mondays 11:00-12:00
Tuesdays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 18:15-20:15 | Lecture
Re-imagining the concrete lawn as a wetland Professor Ray Green
Thursdays 15:15-16:15
Landscape Studio 05:
Sustainable Urbanism Enterprize Park: Provocative gestures towards Tuesdays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 18:15-20:15 | Lecture
Dr Anna Hooper
Coordinator: Professor reconciliation Thursdays 15:15-16:15
Ray Green
Tuesdays 18:15-18:15, Thursdays 18:15-20:15 | Lecture
Forging a fairway forward Madhu Lakshmanan
Thursdays 15:15-16:15
Landscape Thesis
Coordinator: Dr Sidh Thesis Dr Sidh Sintusingha Wednesdays 14:15-20:15, Thursdays 12:15-18:15
Sintusingha
Professor Alex Felson Tuesdays 15:00-18:00, Thursdays 15:00-18:00 | Lecture
ABPL90430 Designing with Country : Resilience Studio
and Jefa Greenaway Tuesdays 14:00-15:00
MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME/VENUE
A Studio A Leire Asensio-Villoria Mondays 09:00-12:00, Thursdays 09:00-12:00
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C Justyna Karakiewicz Wednesdays 09:00-15:00
Great Ocean [Road?]
Thesis H2O David Mah and Leire Asensio-Villoria Mondays 15:15-18:15, Thursdays 15:15-18:15
MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING
STUDIO TITLE LEADER TIME/VENUE
MUP
Studio I: Urban informality in Global Dr Redento B. Recio and
Coordinator: Thursdays 12:00-18:00
North Cities Tanzil Shafique
Dr Crystal Legacy
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ARCHITECTURE
STUDIO A
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A Laura Martires and Marijke Davey:
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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO A
LAURA MARTIRES
AND MARIJKE DAVEY
‘a’ is for Architecture
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older
measure
fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s
the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of
them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
David Foster Wallace, Excerpt from the speech“This is Water”
This is Architecture; an introduction to
architectural tools, process and methods.
People often say to architects something along the lines of, oh,
you’re an architect? I don’t know anything about architecture.
This, of course, is false. Almost everyone in the modern world
has spent their lives surrounded by architecture—tugging on its
door handles, gazing through its windows, bemoaning its shotty
construction when the roof leaks or the cold outside seeps through
the walls. We are all lifetime owner/operators of architecture and
we know lots about it. Or take for example cooking; just because
you are not a chef, it does not mean you don’t know anything
about food or cooking.
So what then defines the difference between the home cook
translate
and the chef? It lies in the time taken to re-learn how to chop
an onion, properly. Rigour, understanding, discipline, technical
excellence, dexterity, control, a mission, a vision—a wealth of
tools, methodologies and conceptual understanding that gives the
chef mastery over a discipline and the choice to cook with purpose.
It is much the same with architecture. It is firstly a new way of
seeing what has been around you all the time. A diciplined way of,
noticing, measuring, understanding, and looking with a critical eye
at the day-to-day fabric that frames our lives.
In this studio, students will be introduced to architectural thinking,
tools and methods.
Rather than providing a single path, this course is taught in a series
of three vignettes, each encompassing a different methodology for
operating as a designer and problem solver.
Tutors:
Laura Mártires
Marijke Davey
Studio times:
Mondays/ Thursdays
Time + Location TBC
Lectures:
negotiate17
Mondays
Time + Location TBCPROF. DONALD L. BATES
Chair of Architectural Design
Associate Dean (Engagement)
CDE DESIGN STUDIOS SEMESTER 1_2021
Architecture: “In Sickness and in Health”
Have you ever been healthy? I mean, truly ‘healthy’? Fully without All those who have written on the subject are filled with
disease or illness? prejudice. Before searching out and examining the mechanism
of causes of disease, they treat of ‘disease as such’, condemn
We operate with a sense of definition and certainty about our body it as an exceptional and harmful condition, and start out
and its physiology as defined by a condition of health, against which by detailing the thousand and one ways of combating it,
other moments are composed of ‘less-than-health’ or illness. disturbing it, destroying it; they define health, for this
purpose, as a ‘normal’ condition that is absolute and
And yet, can we really ever say we have been “healthy”? Truly immutable.
healthy?
Diseases ARE. We do not make or unmake them at will. We are
At each moment, when you think back about your health, about that not their masters. They make us, they form us. They may even
defining condition of everything being intact, correct, without fault, have created us. They belong to this state of activity which
without sickness, illness, injury, or ailment… When was that moment we call life. They may be its main activity. They are one of the
in your life when you didn’t – for all the apparent good health that many manifestations of universal matter. They may be the
you were in – also have a small sore on your foot; a sensitive and ever principal manifestation of that matter which we will never be
so slightly painful inflammation on your tongue; an itchy and barely able to study except through the phenomena of relationships
visible rash on the underside of your arm; a cuticle that had been and analogies. Diseases are a transitory, intermediary,
pulled/cut and was now faintly tender to the touch and showing future state of health. It may be that they are health itself.
traces of the blood that emerged when you tried to pull the skin
back? Coming to a diagnosis is, in a way, casting a physiological
horoscope.
In effect, when was there ever – in any form or condition or moment …
– not something less than perfect about your apparent health? Not
something that was less than optimal within your state of existence? Epidemics, and even more diseases of the will or collective
neuroses, mark off the different epochs of human evolution,
It would seem in such a condition, the very concept and sensibility just as tellurian cataclysms mark the history of our planet.”
of the ‘healthy’ body is made up of partial moments and partial
experiences of health that composite to form the whole of an The emphasis and highlighting are mine, but the sentiment and critical
apparently ‘healthy’ body. This is to say, that the measure by position of Cendrars allows me to understand that the very notion
which we use to define “in sickness and in health” is in fact always of health and the healthy body, the healthy city, is a constructed,
and forever a condition of only continual sickness and apparent assembled condition that we only experience as a pastiche.
health. We have never been healthy – and yet we judge our constant
condition against the register of something that is a constant state of [It is worth noting that Blaise Cendrars and Le Corbusier
not-quite-healthy. were both born in the same neighbourhood of La Chaux-
de-Fonds, Switzerland, 36 days apart]
Blaise Cendrars, the French novelist and poet in the lineage of
Rimbaud, wrote a fascinating, and complex text, emanating from his Another French writer, Albert Camus, writing not of France but of
experiences of World War I and the historic flu pandemic of 1918. In Algeria, set his novel The Plague (La Peste) in the city of Oran, in the
Moravagine, Cendrars writes: context and circumstance of an infectious epidemic in this North African
city. With Camus, we are forcefully reminded of our own pandemic
“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis circumstances and “rings of steel” as urban definitions; “closed
had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been borders” as political identities and the intimacy of “social distancing”.
approached in a strictly scientific fashion--that is to say, In the case of Camus, the plague is localised and the restrictions on
objectively, amorally, intellectually. movement (not far from our own “lock-downs”) set Oran apart from all
other cities and villages as an act of quarantine. This profound return
18MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE CDE STUDIOS
to the defence of city walls, is not in control of what is to be kept out, Modern architecture and the image of Modern architecture are both
but of what cannot be allowed to leave – our very contemporaneous enlightening and they provoke an “of course” moment upon witnessing
experience of Stage Three restrictions. Colomina’s thorough elucidation of her topic.
The Plague is a novel set in an epidemic. We, on the other hand, Yet the most provocative, the most ‘needle-to-the-heart’ moment
have experienced and continue to experience the condition of a comes from her declaration that it is the question of health and the
pandemic – a global, simultaneous infection, that within weeks (and medical environment that not only ‘influence’ Modern architecture,
certainly a few months) had infected and impacted all continents, even but that Modern architecture is nothing if not the consequence of
eventually, Antarctica. As a “pandemic” [pan + demos = all + people], health and its sterilisation of space. Colomina:
we soon found ourselves fully globalised - not as part of an economic
and/or political agenda (though economic and political forces are fully “That’s the central thesis of the book — Modern architecture
implicated in this pandemic) – but profoundly as a world in which we has more to do with the campaign for health than with
were all dealing with a contagious interruption at the same time and anything else.”
more or less to the same extent. This “world event” – an event not
just happening on the world – but an event that for all its nuances and “The ‘visual hygiene’ of modern architecture was not the
differences is particularly impactful in that no one is immune, and no symbol of an eradication of history, as it had been described
country can prevent its arrival. It is a comprehensive, simultaneous by other theorists, but rather simply that of germs and
and ubiquitous disruption. paranoia.”
In Book One, Chapter One of De Architectura, Vitruvius defines the There will be many questions asked of architecture as to how it will
educational prerequisites of an architect and includes within the respond to COVID-19 and our post-pandemic world. Most of the
broad, comprehensive knowledge framework, the advice that an responses will be superficial and out-of-date before they are even
architect should have an understanding and familiarity with medicine. implemented. But the question of what is our “health” and how do
The health of a city, the health of a house, the health of a populace we accommodate a world where the germs, bacteria and viruses that
are all tied to knowledge of the hygiene of a site, climatic impacts, we have often perceived as threats to our lives, are also always part
water supply and ventilation. This apparently simple and practical list of what it is to be human and to in fact be able to live. This should
of knowledge parameters for architectural practice (along with some allow us to keep questioning of how we move forward in sickness and
many others) is only more striking when compared to what today in health, through Architecture
is considered the appropriate education of an architect (based on
restricted accreditation constraints) and the increasingly limited role [a link to the DLS_ Beatriz Colomina:
that contemporary architects play in the built environment “X-Ray Architecture” can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/
In 2019, as one of the invited guests for our Dean’s Lecture Series, watch?v=0EcbsttGmr0&list=PLgGN9A-
Professor Beatriz Colomina spent four days with MSD, delivering the SZN9k8fjWCDQoeCP81EF5ut2XZ&index=4]
main DLS lecture, as well as numerous conversations and discussions
with students, faculty and teaching staff, and participating in a range
of events across Melbourne. Of particular interest in respect to the
focus of this text and our on-going accommodation of the COVID-19
pandemic, it was more than prescient that Prof Colomina’s primary
lecture centred around her newest book, X-Ray Architecture.
The medical imagery of an x-ray scan and the link Colomina addresses
between architecture and medicine, between health and the city,
between cleanliness, abstract and sterile (real and implied) spaces,
between white, purity and disinfection, between air, openness and
the body, all these references, linkages and direct relationships with
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CDE STUDIO ALLOCATION CDE STUDIOS SCHEDULE
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Studio Presentation Day will take place on CDE Studio Presentations
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Thursday 25 February from 10:00 - 15:30 in 10:00 start
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During this day all studio leaders will present
their studios and will also be available to Balloting for CDE Studios ends 9:00
answer questions outside the lecture theatre
immediately after their presentation. The MARCH WEEK
presentation day will be recorded and made Semester 1 starts 01
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allocated studios will be posted on Canvas on MAY
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studios, for which we do not yet know the full JUNE
consequences. We urge you to select eight
studios that will best suit your interests and CDE SUBMISSION OF FINAL PROJECTS
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are offered at times you can attend.
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preferences; gender balance; local and
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20MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE CDE STUDIOS
COORDINATOR: DONALD BATES | SENIOR TUTOR: KRISTEN WANG
CDE STUDIOS: SEMESTER 1 2021
Page 22 STUDIO 01 Isabel Lasala: VERTICALISING. High rise schools...a new architectural type?
Page 23 STUDIO 02 Rennie Liffen and Oskar Kazmanli-Liffen: HACKNEY
Studio C
NSCA Options
Page 24 STUDIO 03 Peter Stasios: Eternal Holiday
Page 25 STUDIO 05 Justyna Karakiewicz: Hope In Peturbanism_ Great Ocean [Road?]
Fully online
Page 26 STUDIO 06 Jim Stewart, Katie Skillington and Adam Murray: What’s Next
Page 27 STUDIO 07 Gumji Kang and Javier López-Menchero: NoVacancy
Fully
Page 28 STUDIO 09 Kate Finning and Andrew Power: Duplex Studio face-to-face
Page 29 STUDIO 10 David Syn Chee Mah and Leire Asensio Villoria: H2O
Page 30 STUDIO 11 Melika Aljukic: The Third Digital Turn of Non-Standard Architecture
Page 31 STUDIO 13 Hella Wigge: Embody
Page 32 STUDIO 15 Paul Loh and David Leggett: Machining Aesthetics V5.0
Page 33 STUDIO 16 Joel Benichou: Creative House
Page 34 STUDIO 18 Darcy Zelenko and Danny Ngo: LikeHumans
Page 35 STUDIO 19 Ben Waters: VE – Virtual Environments
Page 36 STUDIO 21 Toby Reed: Permanent Vacation: Rethinking Aged Care
Page 37 STUDIO 22 Kim Võ and Richen Jin: Capriccio, Folly, City
Page 38 STUDIO 23 Mal Bas, Tisha Lee and Ian Davidson: Digital Natives
Colby Vexler and Pricilla Heung: Housing, Home and Contents: A Soft Focus on
Page 39 STUDIO 26 Domestic Things
Page 40 STUDIO 27 Kristen Wang and Cox Architecture: CONNECT
Page 41 STUDIO 28 Miranda Nieboer: With/In Antarctic Extremes
Page 42 STUDIO 31 Andre Bonnice: Obstinate Persistence
Page 43 STUDIO 32 Simona Falvo and Dayne Trower: NHG. New Hamilton Gallery
Page 44 STUDIO 33 Mitchell Eaton and Nancy (Yao) Ji: Studio Japan 2021
Page 45 STUDIO 36 Anna Nervegna: NGV_C. National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary
Page 46 STUDIO 40 Dominik Holzer: Out of Date!
Page 47 STUDIO 41 Yui Uchimura: Create | Curate: Sensory (Re)Treat
Page 48 STUDIO 42 Matthieu Bégoghina: RE:IMAGINE
Page 49 STUDIO 44 Danielle Peck and Sam Hunter: Ultimate Spinach
Page 50 STUDIO 45 Sofia Colabella and Michael Mack: Resonate: Architecture, Arts and Acoustics
21MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 01
ISABEL LASALA
VERTICALISING
High-rise schools... a new architectural type?
The exponential growth that is currently undergoing in Australia's major cities
has brought significant changes in urban programs and activities.
Primary and secondary schools don’t escape this situation.
As the key buildings in the urban fabric of most communit ies, schools are
experiencing significant changes, in particular as the population is growing at
speed, and the land available is scarce and expensiv e.
As a way to deal with this new condition, the Australian Government has
started to “think about education vertically."
This translates into seven vertical schools currently being built, all in the most
populated areas of our major cities.
This situation presents us with an opportunity to explore new forms of spatial
organisation, and propose different formal and spatial configurations that
might eventuate into a new type of building.
This studio thus seeks to explore these new design challenges, and provide
students with the opportunity to re- think primary and secondary schools.
A key challenge to address is to re-organis e a program that normally requires
a considerable plan size.
Students will have the opportunity to formulate their own conceptualization of
what a contemporary vertical school might be, and in particular challenging
the boundaries between interior and exterior space.
The studio also asks students to implement a specific design strategy, based
on challenging the disciplinary boundaries that exist between architecture
and landscape architecture.
With this, it is expected that students will explore with the untapped
relationships that exist between these two apparently different disciplines.
The intention is to offer students with the opportunity to create the singular
spatial experiences and atmospheres that can be produced by the
ambiguous spatialit y that emerges from their combination.
The project’s site will be located in Prahran, at the corner between Malvern
Road and Little Chapel St.
The design process will be undertaken through three main methods that
complement each other, which include observation, case study methodology,
and design exploration. This project has to be represented employing a wide
range of different tools of architectural communic ation, i.e. physical and
digital models, drawings, and images, etc.
22MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 02
RENNIE LIFFEN AND OSKAR KAZMANLI-LIFFEN
RITUALS OF REPAIR
I walk to you after school along that rolling
A-road. Turkish kebab shop after Car repair shop
after Japanese supermarket. Summer stretching
between me and that moment. 6 days a week I’ll
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behind us and you tell me this merchant town is
lit up just for us. Like dreaming with eyes open
we corral a grandeur that would never be ours.
What everyone wants now is beyond perfection.
Brand. New. Satisfaction collapsing between
you and that moment. Watch enough unboxing
videos and you’ll see what I mean. Peel back the
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something out. Throwing something out is the
act of dropping something. It falls. You let it go.
Hold on Hackney
Studio 2 continues to investigate ‘the form of ritual’ in
architecture by exploring intimate and idiosyncratic
projects that reveal the human dimensions of
contemporary life. The poetic architectural
potentials of rituals, routines and occupations of
buildings and spaces are at the forefront of the
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the minutes, days, seasons and lifetimes of selected
communities underpins the work of the studio.
The studio promotes sensitivity and humility
in architectural thought and process, but also
seeks opportunities within projects to explore
empowerment and social equality. Context provides
this opportunity and is perceived as something
beyond the physical, where narrative and imagination
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places and characterful locations, creating a
unique, provocative and shared setting for projects.
HACKNEY 23MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 03
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We are not working less; in fact, we are working longer and harder than ever, in spaces that
have left us feeling broken. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation
is profound.
There is a sense we are at the beginning of something, the previous version of the city and
work have been made obsolete. Eternal Holiday is keen to explore alternatives.
Eternal Holiday orientates itself around the topic of work and its role in the city. With a cal-
culated indifference to current forms of work and city making we will be investigating both
through a critical lens in hope of negating the status quo. Defined by a number of refusals
and denials, students will be tasked with defining a new version of the workplace and pro-
posing a new architecture that will restore the city as a creative engine.
Using a site in the city the studio will pair the above provocation with distinctly architec-
tural problems of scale, form and program. Prioritising important questions over resolved
answers, students are expected to develop a conceptual position on work and search for
the appropriate accompanying architecture.
24MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 05
JUSTYNA KARAKIEWICZ
HOPE IN PERTURBANISM
GREAT OCEAN [ROAD?]
This semester we will be looking at the possible futures for the
Great Ocean Road.
Let’s start by making it clear, this it will not be a problem-
solving exercise or a search for solutions. Instead we will try to
understand not what we know but rather what we need to know in
order to change the status-quo.
We will be designing something that will allow something else to
happen; this may be something that we cannot predict but that it
might improve the environment in which we live. And in order
to do this, we will need to abandon our preconception that humans
IF YOU WANT IMAGES are constantly under threat from nature, and we need to fight it
TO PRINT TO THE EDGE back with design (Colombina & Wigley, 2019). We are not the
OF THE PAPER THEY only species worth preserving.
NEED TO EXTEND 3MM
BEYOND THE PAPER We will also have to forget most of urban theories in which
EDGE (EG. INCLUDE deterministic progressions are privileged. In place of these, we will
3MM BLEED) adopt Complex Adaptive System (CAS) theory that
postulates that any healthy system requires periodic
perturbation (disturbance). In science, perturbation is
understood as deviation of a system from its initial state by
internal or external stimuli. The external stimuli in urban form can
PAPER EDGE be achieved through interventions, but we know that the
interventions act on emergent qualities of the system which are
unpredictable, by definition they are not foreseen or planned.
We will postulate an imaginary emergent moment, perhaps even an object. When this moment is be perceived, it will exert an influence, and this
influence will make changes within the context and could lead to another emergence through another perturbation.
Our design will be a part of larger systems and cannot be conceived for the benefit of humans only. As humans we exert great influence on resource
flows, which in turn create pressures on natural systems. Human activities have profound impacts on the environment, and these cannot be mitigated
with superficial strategies such as treating the urban condition as a landscape. There is growing awareness of the mechanisms by which we harm the
natural environment, such as through pollutants and waste, but the greater impact of human settlement is a more extensive yet less examined
outcome.
So why take the Great Ocean Road as a focus? The name itself reflects a culture in which human activity dominates. As the coast is threatened by
erosion and rising sea levels, the role of a road demands reconsideration with a reassessment of our value systems and cultural priorities. This thread
of asphalt is symptomatic of a crisis, not only for its purpose of connection but also for its priorities. The road is a representation of our conundrums.
Extensive evidence calls increasingly for a recognition that urban and natural ecosystems should be considered as continuities, not disjunctures.
From the CAS perspective, urban form can be considered as part of the natural system to contribute to a better quality of life for all species, that is,
turning our focus from ‘people-centric’ to ‘life-centric’ development for all.
If you want to work hard, to experiment, to be brave, to abandon a lot of theories that you previously learn, and do something different and exciting,
then this studio is definitely the one for you.
This studio is also open to Master of Urban Design students.
25MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 06
JIM STEWART, KATIE SKILLINGTON AND ADAM MURRAY
what's next?
a master of architecture c-d-e studio combining
environmental sustainability with high-density hybridity
In what's next, students are asked to reflect on the
challenges facing urban environments as they grow into
the 21st Century. Participants will explore threats to our
natural, social and cultural systems, and consider how
density, intensity and diversity can act as a catalyst for
renewal and regeneration.
Theoretical critiques of sustainability in dense urban
environments will be investigated in parallel with
technological ESD solutions, and design-led responses.
Students will form their own personal philosophy on
‘what’s next’, and apply this to a hypothetical near-future
vision for a mega hybrid building in Melbourne’s CBD.
studio 06 - what's next?
led by adam murray, jim stewart & katie skillington
supported by
26MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIO CDE 07
GUMJI KANG AND JAVIER LÓPEZ-MENCHERO
NOVACANCY
Studio 7
Master of Architecture
Melbourne School of Design
Cities continue to grow and their inhabitants
flow in to fill the gaps of the city. With their
vivid memories of bustling warehouses, clouds
of smoke coming out of workers’ cottages, and
dust settling on the decades of stories buried
behind cold plaster walls, buildings carry on.
But do buildings grow with the cities?
With the explosive growth of population and
expansion of the cities, there is continual need
to reimagine and redesign the existing city
fabrics. The current building can be understood
as a set of layers (or layered elements) that
attribute information - not only about how a
city is operating currently, but about how it
was lived in the past. This studio will cover
negotiating and adding to these layers rather
than replacing them.
This studio will be centred around the
architectural discourses on heritage,
conservation, and contemporary readaptation.
Students will be asked to carefully inspect
and research an industrial precinct near
the Melbourne CBD, at the cusp of change,
producing a series of studies to build on their
chosen site and program within the precinct.
How would you preserve, reimagine and design
the buildings to grow with the city?
This will be one journey intensely urban,
intensely dense, and intensely interventionist.
This is NoVacancy.
// Gumji Kang
// Javier López-Menchero
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