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omg. is there anyone who can help unimelb now? rmit had multiple shows this week and they were good BUT up the road.....how can the profession sit by and let this happen? the work was terrible. i heard they now dont do 'design' until 3rd year. can someone/anyone confirm?
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Can someone from Uni Melb please explain.
www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au/about/fields-of-study/architecture.html
many people who think they are/might be/could be are not anyway - just cogs/operators of the corporate graphic machinery.
i ain't taking the seasons line here - but I'd be waiting a few years for MU verdict.
american model works well in america - it can work here.
maybe the problem isn't how many studios you do - or how many years you do them -
but who is running them and how its set up?
Aus might end up with schools with very distinct specialities - some a little more scientific than others -
but you'd hope all very good at what they do. Which isn't the case now.
time will tell.
"The Review document recognises that significant growth in student numbers accompanied by falling numbers of teaching staff has led to alarming student-staff ratios in universities, from 12.9 in 1990 to 20.3 in 2005 (Section 2.6, p. 13). The lack of resources in the higher education sector has led to problems of deferred maintenance, estimated in the Review document to be as high as $2 billion (Section 2.6). This pressure on accommodation has distorted the teaching of the traditional architecture design studio, with many universities pressured to abandon this design practice, considered by many architects to be at the heart of an architectural education."
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"There is compelling evidence that the quality of student architectural work diminishes where studios are abandoned, and where students become ‘commuters’ to classes, rather than being actively involved in the breadth of a studio design experience."
LINK TO PDF
Worth a read.
Except that it hasn't abandoned the design studio - design has abandoned the studio
An unusual example of the ship deserting the rats?
Maybe explains the popularity of the Ric LepLastrier/Stutchbury/Johnson et al masterclasses/finishing schools ...
More of the same pencil/picturesque worshipping work
That is not to say its bad work - just genuinely uninteresting - despite obvious talent
Brit Andr's final year projects almost had something
It insisted on the students reinstating a creek in West End
Purpose not clear - but relied again on a building to look at it
More picturesque ... (yawn)
Overall, seems to be a clear absence of studios promoting ideas or positions at UQ
Maybe the proposed incoming adjunct professors might bring something - BowWow practice ...and ... wait for it ... Kerstin Thompson (of Venice Beinnale fame)
Time to go overseas
unscripted she is a mess.
Where is the good building under the belt - she's had enough time.
adjunct professorship at UQ says a lot about the school.
McArthur has a healthy fascination with melbourne? -or is it the W out of NMBW?
speaking of NMBW
- I have it from a credible source that the Venturi doco preview in melbourne was crashed by prof. B
- student doorpersons can't say no?
The screening was the private initiative of a very private guy from the profession to raise money to send back to Venturi's son (to help finish the doco).
who would be so cheap to not throw their ten bucks in the ring.
hairdresser says money talks - bullshit walks.
those cop shops are pretty drab efforts
UQ deserves her? But as a tutor.
back to the topic.
info could have it right. design might have abandoned the studios.
- its possible that it abandoned practice too on the evidence.
would comment to the AASA submission peter has put up - money would seem to have nothing to do with either problem - plenty of money has washed around in both spheres for a decade +.
Presumably, the lack of work will pressure academics and practitioners alike into a competition of ideas
It would follow that some blood letting will occur across the board - a proper clean-out
Design should make a comeback by 2010 - without the group herd approach to hide shite ideas behind
And while im on the AIA maybe they should have run their new office design as an open competition rather than just giving the job to the usual suspects creating the same boring developments. The architecture education and profession is selling out, what a joke its become!
http://www.architecture.com.au/emailnews/enews/2008-11/raiaenews_competitions%26opportunities.html
a disappointment.
was hoping it was SA/QLD or something.
- few open comps wouldn't go astray.
be nice to see if some newbie could knock the john miralles, Ben Van McBrides, and Carey McDougals off their poles down there. be a good focus for the whole profession. probably why its an EOI. mf's.
check this - http://www.nmbw.com.au/main/02_members/members.htm
Only picks up Neutupny, McLean and Bertram .... no W
Maybe it means workshop?
mr. W has also expanded into the granny flat business - he had a trade stand at venice.
finesse - the old aussie get out of jail card.
nmb = cargo cultists. no different to Godless - just a different trading bloc?
Mr. W - crude yes - import business no.
his granny flat enterprise is not contributing to the national intellectual deficit.
Wilson is now back at UQ (from QUT) - which explains the BowWOw + Kerstin Thompson adjunct professorships
we could go down a line of 'the usefulness of adjunct professors to department of architectures'?
Worth a new discussion - please kick it off ...
its gonna paint a picture.
alright so looks like sydney uni has guirgola, chris johnson, cox (surely murcutt and stutchbury), paul pheleros,
unsw has richard johnson (surely francis jones)
uts has gerad renmuth from terrior, peter davidson from lab, and also it seems chris johnson??
newcastle ? ostwald (hes everything else so it only follows....?)
uq has peter tonkin, rex addison, rewi thompson
qut hard to tell but certainly jane burry (mrs mark burry rmit), janis birkeland???, noel robinson
uni melb difficult to determine
rmit has a list as long as your arm including peter elliott, kerstin thompson, arm, carey lyon and of course norman day.
deakin nothing to report
unisa wardle surely but nothing to report
adelaide ?
uwa difficult to pin down
curtin geoff warn, adrian iredale, david jones?
dr gary stevens we need your help!!
on the -
1 tax dodger
1 enviro fraudster.
3 boot designers.
1 professional delegator
1 leak designer.
1 dog breeder.
neutral
1 slightly mad lab technician.
1 krusty kahn draughtsman.
on the +
1 indigenous world class (NZ) architect.
1 QLD krusty with cred.
1 solid SGA.
http://www.gpa.uq.edu.au/staff/adjuncts.asp
List is: Brian Donovan, Timothy Hill, Michael Raynor, Shane Thompson, Peter Tonkin, Rex Addison, Gerard Murtagh - [@HD- no Rewi Thompson]
proposed: Kerstin Thompson, BowWow, Elizabeth Watson Brown
QUT link to adjunct here:
http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/about/schools/design/staff/architecture/
List is: Jane Burry [couldn't see anyone else]
Proposed: no news -
what happened to him - reclusive?
the dogs would be W's nomination - be some jap kick back involved to his benefit.