Past, present and future news about SIAL, listed by date.

9 April 2008
Gaudí Unseen exhibition at Deutsches Werkstatten Hellerau GmbH, Dresen
After a successful exhibition season at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt the Gaudí Unseen exhibition, curated by Professor Mark Burry, is now on display at the Deutsches Werkstatten Hellerau GmbH in Dresden until 31 May 2008. Gaudí Unseen exhibition Mark Burry will deliver a lecture on Gaudí at the exhibition venue on 9 April 2008.

7 April 2008
3D Modelling Symposium Berlin, 7-9 April 2008
Professor Mark Burry will deliver the opening keynote address 'Architects, Engineers and the Model' at the 3D Modelling Symposium at the Universität der Künste in Berlin on 7 April 2008. www.3d-msb.de

24 February 2008
Eureka at MoMA: Eureka is featured in the Design and Elastic Mind Exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, curated by Paola Antonelli. Greg More will attend the opening night, and the exhibition officially opens to the public on the 24 February 2008.
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20 February 2008
Dr Juliette Peers will be giving a talk at the Bendigo Art Gallery as part of 'The Long Weekend: Australian Artists in France 1918-1939' exhibition
THE LONG WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS IN FRANCE 1918 - 1939 8 December 2007 - 10 March 2008 Bendigo Art Gallery 42 View St Bendigo VIC 3550 Art & Tea 10.00 morning tea 10.30am guest speaker Wednesday 20 February Free event Dr Juliette Peers will discuss the role and experiences of foreign women in the Parisian avant garde of the 1920s and 1930s with focus on the Australian women artists included in the current exhibition The Long Weekend: Australian Artists in France 1918 - 1939.

6 February 2008
Mark Burry will chair a 'Conversation with Bill Mitchell' as part of the MIT Architecture lecture series. He will also present a lunchtime lecture on his work on the Temple Sagrada Familia to MIT architecture students.


2 February 2008
Dr Juliette Peers will be presenting "Home and Away: Mackennal and the Influence of New Sculpture in Australia" at the NGVa Ian Potter Centre from 2 - 4pm
Bertram Mackennal The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project National Gallery of Victoria Federation Square 30 November 2007 to 24 February 2008 First Australian born artist with a substantial European reputation - a major sculptor of the period 1890-1930 - now little known outside art professionals. Bertram Mackennal in Context ½ Join us for an afternoon of focus talks on the work and life of Bertram Mackennal. Date Saturday 2 Feb, 2-4pm Program: • 2-2.30pm Circe and Oceana Speaker Geoffrey Edwards, Director, Geelong Gallery • 2.30-3pm Home and Away: Mackennal and the Influence of New Sculpture in Australia Speaker Dr Juliette Peers, RMIT • 3-3.30 Afternoon Tea • 3.30-4pm The Power of Patronage: Commissions from Nellie Melba Speaker Patricia Fullerton, catalogue contributor Cost $25 / $20 NGV Member / $22 Concession (includes afternoon tea) Venue Theatre, NGV Australia at Federation Square Event code P0816

21 January 2008
Tim Schork is involved in an installation at Craft Victoria entitled 'A Notion of Space'. It runs until the 10th of February


3 December 2007
Greg More will present a paper written with Andrew Burrow at Interactive Entertainment 2007, held at Storey Hall, RMIT University, entitled Observing the Learning Curve of Videogames in Architectural Design.


23 November 2007
Mark Burry is giving a lecture in Copenhagen at the Parametrics/CADCAM Symmposium at CITA at the Academy of Fine Arts


21 November 2007
Mark Burry will be giving a lecture at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt as part of the Gaudi Unseen exhibition currently on display there


6 November 2007
Mark Burry will be a speaker at AnimfxNZ, his presentation is entitled "Unfreezing the Music: Animation and Antoni Gaudί"


8 October 2007
Mark Burry will be at the University of East London as an external examiner to the School of Architecture & the Visual Arts Examiners Board. He will also gave a lecture on his Sagrada Família work to the School.


6 October 2007
Andrew Maher presented a paper written with Inger Mewburn at EPIC 2007 in Colorado entitled An Economy of Knowledge: Research, Architectural Practice and Knowledge (in) Translation. Draft proceedings can be found here.


27 September 2007
Embedded Practice stream PhD candidates Jerome Frumar and Dominik Holzer are both presenting papers at AASA 2007 Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation


26 September 2007
Embedded Practice stream PhD candidates Paul Nicholas and Sarah Benton are both presenting papers at eCAADe 2007: Predicting the Future, PhD candidate Hank Haeusler is also presenting at a paper at this conference


26 September 2007
Embedded Practice stream PhD candidate Dominik Holzer is presenting a paper at the 4th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference


26 September 2007
Embedded Practice stream PhD candidate Dominik Holzer is presenting a paper at the 4th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference in Melbourne


15 September 2007
Gaudi Unseen Exhibition opens at the Deutsches Architekturemuseum in Frankfurt today. This exhibition has been curated by Mark Burry with coordination by Matthias Haeusler. Gaudi Unseen runs until the 2nd of December.


11 September 2007
Hank Haeusler is presenting some of his research in the Media Architecture Conference in London


7 September 2007
Some of the work of SIAL PhD candidates Paul Nicholas and Tim Schork will be exhibited as part of SCRIPT/INE in Philadelphia during September. Their work is part of the scriptedbypurpose section of the exhibition.


26 August 2007
Dr Juliette Peers will be speaking at Savage Luxury: Modernist Design in Melbourne 1930-1939at Heide Museum of Modern Art this Sunday


24 August 2007
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mike Hornblow and Adele Varcoe are participating in Housing the Body, Dressing the Environment in Montreal next week


15 August 2007
Inger Mewburn and Andrew Maher present an ethnographic study of embedded researchers at CRIDA: Critical Research in Digital Architecture Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning The University of Melbourne


10 August 2007
Homo Faber: Modelling Ideas will be exhibited at the Melbourne Museum from the 10th of August until the 16th of September


16 July 2007
From today, Professor Jordi Oliveras will be a Visiting Fellow at SIAL. Professor Oliveras is visiting from the Architectural Composition Department of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Barcelona


14 July 2007
PhD Candidate Peta Carlin has been shortlisted for the 2007 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, with images from her Urban Fabric: Greige series. As part of the prize her work will be exhibited at the Monash Gallery of Art from 08 September - 11 November 2007.


13 July 2007
Dominik Holzer, Yamin Tengono and Steven Downing (ARC Delivering Digital Architecture in Australia grant) will present a paper at the CAAD Futures Conference in Sydney


9 July 2007
Mark Burry will be giving the keynote address at the ConnectED 2007 conference to be held at the University of New South Wales from the 9 - 13 July


4 July 2007
PhD candidate Elif Kendir will present a paper entitled "Genealogies of Craft in Architecture - Relevance of the Handmade in the Age of Information" at the Quality Conference at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales, 4 - 6 July


2 July 2007
SIAL Embedded Practice PhD candidates Marcus White (MGS), Rory Hyde (BKK) and Paul Nicholas (Arup) will present their projects and Andrew Burrow will introduce SIAL broadly at Process at Loop Bar, beginning 6:30pm


1 July 2007
Mark Burry will be delivering the keynote address and Greg More will be speaking at CntrlShift07: The Biennial Pacific Students of Architecture Congress to be held at the University of Wellington, New Zealand from the 1 - 6 of July


25 June 2007
Lost + Found Studio on Channel 7 News! Channel 7 News reporting on virtual environments featured student work from the studio and lecturer Greg More.


1 June 2007
The RMIT Autumn Graduate Research Conference begins today


25 May 2007
SIAL PhDstudent Peta Carlin has been awarded the Lomo Australia Award for Most Innovative Use of Photomedia at the 2007 Kodak Salon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Congratulations Peta!


30 April 2007
Some of Mark Burry's work on the Sagrada Familia is on display at The New Dowse Gallery in New Zealand


21 April 2007
Mark Burry will be presenting at the RAIA National Conference today on the theme of the cross-over between academia and practice


19 April 2007
Paul Nicholas and Dominik Holzer will be presenting at CAADRIA 2007 in Nanjing


19 April 2007
Mark Burry will be giving a keynote address entitled "That's Not Research! Architecture and the Academy" at the RAIA Archivision 2007 symposium
Archivision is an initiative of the RAIA Executive and the event is symptomatic of a growing need to re-think the relationship between schools of architecture and the profession, and between teaching, research and practice.

19 April 2007
Tim Schork has been invited to tutor final year architecture students at Victoria University Wellington in Generative Components


18 April 2007
Jane Burry, M. Hank Haeusler and Paul Nicholas have all had papers accepted for eCAADe 2007, to be held in Frankfurt in September


11 April 2007
Andrew Maher and Gregory More are at the Institute for Digital Fabrication at Ball State University to help prepare research strategies for the Graham Foundation sponsored SmartScrap project
SmartScrap is the digital cataloguing of waste products from the building industry -specifically the Indiana limestone industry- and developing computational means to apply the catalogued information to parametric design models in order to effectively reuse the waste.

One of the aims of the research consultation was to inaugurate an exchange which could lead to future collaboration with RMIT University.

While guests of Ball State University Greg and Andrew attended the Manufacturing Material Effects Symposium in Indianapolis, and visited the offices of OMA, SHoP & Grimshaw in New York and Gehry Partners in LA. The trip was taken over Easter and funded by Ball State University augmented with research income and by Greg and Andrew.

3 April 2007
Marcus White will present a paper entitled "The Plan is an inadaquete tool for planning" at the International Conference on Sustainable Urbanism held at Texas A&M University


27 February 2007
RMIT Architecture + Design Students enter Secondlife! Participants of the Lost + Found design studio are designing on RMIT's Ormond Island this semester. Studio directed by Gregory More and Andrew Burrow. more info...


1 February 2007
Gaudi Unseen: Mark Burry is collaborating with the Deutsches Architecture Museum in Frankfurt on an exhibition to coincide with this year's book fair
The exhibition will begin in October this year. The book fair will be focusing on Catalonia for 2007.

1 February 2007
Mark Burry is involved in developing an exhibition of the work of Gehry Technologies at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, to open in the second half of 2007


1 February 2007
SIAL PhD student Elif Kendir is undertaking an arts residency at Habitat at Ypenburg, The Hague, Netherlands, organised by 7x11/Artoteek Den Haag and Qenep design studio
The project, House in Transition/HabitAtYpenburg involves architects and artists from new and future member states of the EU who will participate in month-long projects throughout 2007 to participate in a research on dwelling habits within the new Europe. From their specific backgrounds each team of participants will react to the typical Dutch suburban housing area of Ypenburg, culminating in a public event at the end of each residency. Elif is part of the Turkish project team fol@Ypenburg, working with three architects and a sculptor/restoration expert. The project involves the design and construction of a multipurpose stone structure for the garden of Habitat, based on the Turkish word ‘fol’ which is used to denote an egg-shaped stone put under chickens to incite them to hatch their eggs. The stone object will act as a visual focus and it is hoped it will generate a variety of activities for the future residents of the project. The team palns to involve the immediate neighbourhood into the project process by organising a dry stone construction workshop and nightly projections of the construction process.

1 February 2007
SIAL PhD student Adam Parker worked on the graphical user interface of the BluePoint Pharmaceutical terminal shortlisted for an Australian Design Award recently
A project for which SIAL PhD candidate Adam Parker developed a user interface in early 2006 has recently been shortlisted for an Australian Design Award. In the Bluepoint® Pharmacist Dispensing System (by Express RX), advanced technologies and clear design have been combined to create a world-first product.

The Bluepoint® system comprises a dispensing terminal, linked to a pharmacist via teleconferencing and dispensing software. Using this audiovisual link, the pharmacist can control the terminal’s remote operation and also provide traditional consultation services. Thanks to its advanced mechatronics, each terminal under the pharmacist’s control is capable of selecting and dispensing up to three prescriptions in five minutes, including preparing and printing instructions on the packaging.

Bluepoint® is a major step forward in health care accessibility for both urban and rural communities, as it allows a pharmacist to serve dispensing transactions to one or more remote locations via the secure, verified teleconferencing system. Possible applications include serving remote rural communities and secure 24 hour urban vending, as well as hospital and base services.

Design on the project included industrial design work by Outerspace Design, software development by an inhouse team at Express RX, and graphical user interface design by Adam Parker, SIAL PhD candidate. As the Australian Design Award product description noted concerning the user interface,

“Clear semantics help step through the process required to access the medication in a straight forward manner. Its aesthetics are clean and professional to impart trust and confidence and allow the terminal to fit into community medical spaces”.

Bluepoint® is by far and away the most advanced product of its kind in the world, and is set to provide more flexible pharmaceutical healthcare services both here and overseas in the near future.

For more information, go to: » www.designawards.com.au » www.expressrx.com.au

26 January 2007
Jane Burry is in New York at the Bently Systems SmartGeometry Workshop as a tutor until the 29th of January


17 January 2007
Mark Burry will present a lecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, entitled "Architectural research in the academy and in practice: resolving some shared dilemmas"


14 January 2007
Mark Burry will give a keynote address entitled "Digital Applications and Cultural Heritage: A Dynamic Co-evolution" at the International Conference on Digital Applications in Cultural Heritage (DACH 2007) at the National Centre for Research and Preservation of Cultural Properties, Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan


30 November 2006
Jerome Frumar's work has been accepted at the New Craft - Future Voices conference to be held at the University of Dundee in Scotland in July 2007


8 November 2006
Mark Burry will present a paper at the 10th European PLM Forum in Paris


3 November 2006
Andrew Maher presenting at Transcapes Symposium, UTS Centre for Digital Design


19 October 2006
2007 LIEF Grant Award
SIAL is part of a successful 2007 ARC Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant awarded for: "Advanced Computational Modelling Infrastructure Network in the Built Environment" to architectural research collaborators at the three Victorian Schools of Architecture. The project leaders are: Bharat Dave at CRIDA Melbourne University , Mary Burry at SIAL, RMIT University and Graham Treloar and Sambit Datta Deakin University.

14 October 2006
Mark Burry wins the ACADIA 2006 award for Innovative Research


12 October 2006
Andrew Maher and Gregory More presenting at the synthetic landscapes ACADIA 2006


12 October 2006
Mark Burry will give the Robertson Memorial Lecture at Curtin University of Technology today


10 October 2006
Exhibition opening - Screen Resolution / non standard prototyping / Interior Design at 6.30pm at Euroluce Lighting 20 Russell St Melbourne
Screen Resolution is an exhibition of Interior Design students' work from the Option Explicit elective presented by Tim Schork and Paul Nicholas. This exhibition is part of the State of Design Festival and has received generous support from VISY Specialities and SIAL, RMIT University. at Euroluce Lighting 20 Russell St Melbourne Friday 6 October to Saturday 14 October

10 October 2006
Mark Burry will give a presentation at the RMIT Design + Social Context Alumni event in Kuala Lumpur today


2 October 2006
Steven Swain, a recent graduate, is a recipient of the Premier's Design Awards 2006. The work is from the Re-Engineering Studio supervised by Jane Burry and Andrew Maher


20 September 2006
Embedded Practice Symposium at the RAIA from 5:30pm
RAIA Seminar room Level 3, 41 Exhibition Street

Speakers Professor Mark Burry (SIAL), Peter Bowtell + Paul Nicholas (Arup), SImon Knott + Rory Hyde (BKK), Rob McGauran + Marcus White (MGS), Gerard Reinmuth + Sarah Benton (Terroir), Andrew Maher + Anitra Nelson (SIAL)

Architecture and structural design practices undertake research usually on a per project basis, but are unlikely to sustain dedicated research and development to capture what is known formally as 'tacit' or inexplicit disciplinary knowledge.

Embedded Practice is an ARC supported research project based at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University with four industry partners: Arup, BKK, MGS and Terroir. Together with SIAL, through the direct and continuous involvement of PhD scholars in each office, these practices are exploring how their processes can be mapped onto new digitally-supported and supportive ways of working.

This event marks the halfway point of a three year programme and members of the construction sector professions are invited to view research-in-progress.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

16 September 2006
Mark Burry to deliver a lecture on Antonio Gaudi at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan


29 August 2006
Andrew Maher, Gregory More, Jerome Frumar, mesne and Kokkugia invited to exhibit at the Beijing Biennial 2006 (Emerging Talent Emerging Technologies)


18 August 2006
PUBLIC LECTURE | Prof Tom Barker "Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine"
Ever wondered why the world’s largest cardboard building didn’t burn down, or how the world’s most famous ferris wheel stopped people falling into the river Thames in London? Or perhaps how advanced composite materials from Formula One racing helped to create giant digital surfaces for architecture? Professor Tom Barker takes the audience into a kaleidoscopic world of invention, design insight, and stories from his diverse career in making the impossible happen. Projects are taken from his forthcoming book “Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine” (Black Dog, pub 2007). Projects include: The London Eye, Millennium Dome exhibition zones, plus design solutions with Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Wilkinson Eyre, Shiguru Ban. The lecture is for students and practitioners alike with an interest in cutting edge large scale design solutions and how they can be achieved.

- 6:00pm Friday 18th August

- RMIT Building 10, Swanston Street, Level 13, room 03.

14 August 2006
Steven Swain announced as a joint winner of the RAIA Student Biennale
Steven completed his Major and Pre-Major projects here at SIAL under the direction of Andrew Maher and Jane Burry. Congratulations Steven! There will be a travelling exhibition of all of the finalists work from the RAIA Colourbond Steel Student Biennale, it will open at RMIT on Tuesday 15th August, 6.30 pm Bldg 8, Level 12

18 July 2006
Anitra Nelson presenting at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; University of the Aegean, Greece


17 July 2006
Aegis Hyposurface is currently part of the Future City exhibition at the Barbican in London, showing until September.

Future City
Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006
15 June 2006 - 17 September 2006
Barbican Art Gallery

What would it be like to live in a hairy house, a floating city, or an inflatable pod? Pure fantasy or the shape of things to come?

From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past 50 years.

Featuring a who’s who of architecture, the exhibition includes 70 visionary projects by influential and groundbreaking architects who have challenged convention to radically shape and influence the way we live.

7 July 2006
Mark Burry, Andrew Maher and Anitra Nelson presenting at Research into Practice, University of Hertfordshire
The conference will take place on the 7th and 8th of July, the SIAL team are presenting a paper entitled "Embedding Research within the Context of Architectural Practice". This paper is based on their work with the ARC supported Embedded Practice research project.

:: Research into Practice ::

5 July 2006
Maelstrom
gazes into the digital abyss
Sean Pickersgill, Greg More, John Power

Exhibition opening - wed 5th July, 6-8pm
Kaurna Gallery, cnr Hindley St & Fenn Place
City West Campus, UNISA, Adelaide

Gallery opening
6 - 14th July 2006
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm

enquiries:
sasagallery@unisa.edu.au

24 June 2006
Genome | Code to Craft at 2³ Sherman Galleries in Sydney until 27th July
Jerome Frumar's jewellery work will be exhibited at the Sherman Galleries in Sydney until the 27th of July. More information avaliable on the Code to Craft page.

31 May 2006
Homo Faber | www.homo-faber.net
SIAL has been awarded a large ARC Discovery grant to investigate the use of models in the architectural design process. The outcomes will be displayed at an exhibiton & a symposium on the 31st May and 1st June respectively.

For more info visit the project page or: www.homo-faber.net

16 May 2006
Architecture of concurrent Engineering - Prof. Mark Burry
Sydney Chapter of the RAIA: Tusculum

RMIT Professor Mark Burry & UNSW Professor and ARUP Principal Richard Hough look at "parallel industries" and the developments that contain lessons for the built environment. (Lecture: 6.30pm - 16th May 2006, Tusculum, 3 Manning Street Potts Point). RAIA calender link

12 May 2006
Professor Mark Burry awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship



The Australian Research Council’s Federation Fellowships are highly prestigious awards designed to develop and retain Australian skills. Links for the ARC Press Release and a full list of the 2006 Federation Fellows

More news on Prof Burry's bio page. Press release of the Federation Fellowship is located here.

2 May 2006
Spectrum 02 | spatial sound concerts
Tuesday 2nd May, 5 - 6:30pm - Schools Workshop
Demonstrations and short performances on the SIAL Sound Diffusion System
FREE (reservations essential)

Wednesday 3rd May, 8pm - Concert
Pole | Karlheinz Stockhausen
Symbiosis | Lawrence Harvey
Whence We Came | Michael Hewes
And works by Jeffrey Hannam and Ting Sun
FREE

Thursday 4th May, 8pm - Concert
Electronic Music for Piano | John Cage
Klavierstucke XVI | Karlheinz Stockhausen
across the road | Gregory Hooper
Decoupled | Tim Kreger
And works by Nicholas Murray and Derek Thompson
Michael Fowler - piano and electronics
Tristram Williams - trumpet and electronics
FREE

BMW Edge | Federation Square

See the SIAL Sound Studios website for further information.

1 May 2006
Jerome Frumar @ PROCESS
Jerome Frumar will be presenting his jewellery design at Loop Bar, Meyers Place at 6:30pm as part of the monthly Process event organised by the RAIA

3 April 2006
Spatial Interface: Architecture and Technologyat the University of Westminster UK
SIAL in cooperation with The Polytechnic Group at the School of Architecture of Westminster University and Avatar of The Bartlett School (UCL), are holding an international two-day conference entitled 'Spatial Interface: Architecture and Technology', that will take place at Westminster University in London on the 3-4 April 2006. Andrew Maher will be presenting four video sessions from SIAL.

27 March 2006
Professor Pelle Ehn visiting SIAL
Dr. Pelle Ehn is a Professor of Interaction Design from the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in Sweden (pelle.ehn@k3.mah.se). In 1998 he was one of the founders this "Digital Bauhaus" where he now is director of design. For three decades he has been involved as project director in many research projects on participatory design and on bridging design and information technology. Research include early internationally groundbreaking projects like the Scandinavian UTOPIA project on design of skill based tools for graphic work (1981-85) to a recent affirmatively received EU project ATELIER (2001-04) on design of architecture and technology for inspirational learning. He has published more than 80 books and papers in journals and international conferences including Computers and Democracy (1987), Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts (1988), Scandinavian Design - on skill and participation (1992), Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus (1998), Participatory Design and the Collective Designer (2002), Neither Nerd nor Bauhäusler - educating the interaction designer (2002), From Bauhütten to Disappearing Computers (2003) and Participation in Interaction Design - actors and artefacts in interaction (2006). He is now working on a book on Making Design Take Place. As part of his visit to RMIT, Professor Ehn will be giving a lecture entitled "Design for, by and with users - from participatory design to meta-design and place-making" on Monday the 27th of March from 6pm in the Research Lounge.

8 March 2006
Canadian Masonry Research Institute Distinguished Lecture | Mark Burry
WINNIPEG
WED MAR 8 AT 7.00 PM
University of Manitoba
JRI Auditorium | Room 172 Agriculture Building

CALGARY
THU MAR 9 AT 7.00 PM
University of Calgary
Faculty of Environmental Design
Room PF 2160 | (Professional Faculties Building)

6 March 2006
Welcome Universität für Angewandte Kunst: Greg Lynn's Studio
SIAL also welcomes students from Greg Lynn's Studio at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

15 February 2006
Como S!X: 2006 | L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival - Noble Rot – An Alternate View Of Fashion
SIAL is collaborating with Fashion Design RMIT for the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival : Noble Rot – An Alternate View Of Fashion. SIAL created a rendered animation for the show.

Noble Rot – An Alternate View Of Fashion. An exhibition focusing on the unseen history of fashion, by viewing aspects rarely displayed or considered- such as the imcomplete, the soiled and the falling apart. The exhibition includes an installation by S!X.

7 February 2006
Citysounds 2.0 ADR
Our latest project for the City of Melbourne was officially launched by the Deputy Lord Mayor on Tuesday. sound.sial.rmit.edu.au/ADR/

27 January 2006
Prof. Mark Burry | Lecture is AA, London : Antoni Gaudí and the Status of his Drawings and Models.
Mark will be giving a lecture at the Architectural Association in London, entitled Antoni Gaudí and the Status of his Drawings and Models. During his time at the AA, Mark will also be sitting on the Design Research Laboratory Thesis Jury at the AA. www.aaschool.ac.uk/lectures

11 January 2006
Project wiki on zwiki.sial.rmit.edu.au
The SIAL zwiki server has been rebuilt, upgraded & organised. SIAL project zwiki is now located in : zwiki.sial.rmit.edu.au/project

19 December 2005
RMIT Research Awards 2005 | www.rmit.edu.au/rd/awards2005
The 4th Annual RMIT Research Awards were presented on the 19th of Dec 2005. Vice-Chancellors Award was awarded to joint-recipients - Prof Mark Burry, Director of the SIAL + Prof Paul James, Director of the Globalism Institute. www.rmit.edu.au/rd/awards2005

30 November 2005
Building the Future, article by AECbytes, Lachmi Khemlani
SIAL is featured in AECbytes "Building the Future" Article (November 29, 2005)

Read article online: www.aecbytes.com

30 November 2005
SIAL has received 4 RMIT Research Grant Awards
1. TechnologyTransfer through Embedded Research within Architectural Practice

2. Spatial Knowledge and the Built Environment: The Design Implications of Making, Processing and digitally Prototyping Architectural Models

3. Acts of electronic negotiation: Overcoming communication barriers to transdisciplinary innovation in design

4. Teimu (The Garden of Dreams): aural and aesthetic attributes of Japanese gardens as models for spatial environments

27 October 2005
West Space exhibition
SIAL Masters student Leah Heiss' work is part of a new exhibition at Melbourne's West Space gallery, opening tonight and running until the 12th of November. Leah's section of this show is entitled "Elastic Field".

26 October 2005
Digital Design Showcase
SIAL PhD student Matthias Hank Haeusler will present at tonight's "Ditigal Design Showcase", presented by lab.3000. The title of his presentation is "Form follows content".

14 October 2005
School of Architecture and Design Spring Graduate Research Conference
Spring 2005 will see an influx of visitors from local, national and international locales. This spring we are expecting to conduct 5 Masters examinations, 1 Phd examination, 2 guest lectures, more than a few work-in-progress reviews and the Conference Get Together. This is an information session for all candidates regarding examination procedures, which is designed to be particularly relevant to those attending the GRC (at any stage of their candidature). There will be guest lectures by Li Shiqiao (National University of Singapore) and Thomas Daniell (Thomas Daniell Architects). Other guests include Jan Diehl, Ranulph Glanville, Jeff Malpas, John Macarthur, Sid Newton, Michael Ostwald, Julieanna Preston, Cameron Tonkenwise and Caroline Vains.

12 October 2005
Converge 05
On the 12th of October, Professor Burry will be giving a keynote at Converge 05 in Christchurch.

23 September 2005
ENHSA Keynote
Professor Burry will give a keynote presentation on Friday the 23rd of September at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya for the European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Construction Teachers Workshop Conference. The topic of this keynote is "Homo faber: Ideas into practice, scale 1:1".

16 September 2005
LEAF Keynote
Professor Burry will be giving a keynote address to the Leading European Architects Forum Conference on Friday the 16th in Barcelona on the topic of "Architectural education and research embedded in practice: Post digital opportunities for their creative convergence". On Sunday the 18th Mark will conduct tours of the Sagrada Familia for LEAF participants.

9 September 2005
Delft National Monuments Day lecture
Professor Burry will give a lecture entitled "Embedding architectural research and learning into post digital practice" at TU Delft as part of Delft National Monument Day celebrations.

7 September 2005
Vital Signs 2005
Pia Ednie-Brown and Greg More will both present at the upcoming Vital Signs 2005 Conference in Melbourne, to be held at ACMI.

16 August 2005
The Architects on Triple R FM
Professor Burry will be a guest on The Architects on Melbourne's Triple R FM to discuss his work at that of SIAL. The Architects is on air every Tuesday between 7 - 8pm on Triple R FM, 102.7 in Melbourne.

10 August 2005
Glenn Murcutt Student Prize
Professor Burry is a member of the Victorian Judging Panel for the RAIAs new Glenn Murcutt Student Prize. Winners will be announced later this year.

7 August 2005
New edition of Architectural Design
Professor Burry has been published in the most recent issue of Architectural Design: Design through Making. His article, entitled "Homo Faber", discusses the act of making in architectural practice.

"Professor Mark Burry's extraordinary and devoted work is nothing short of a measure by which standards for architectural research are set. Known for his investigative use of computational techniques to unravel the mysteries of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Church, he here takes a moment to reflect on where computational technologies in architecture are taking us. His experience suggests that before we abandon old tools for new, this is a good moment put the brakes on. Hybrid activity, he remarks, demonstrates unequivocal benefits to the design process, and slow design has proven to be indispensable for success."

Guest editor Bob Sheil on "Homo Faber", in AD: Design Through Making, Wiley Academy, Chichester, 2005, pp. 31

27 July 2005
ACID Research Leaders Group appointment
Professor Burry has recently been appointed the Chair of the newly formed Research Leaders Group at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).

1 January 2005
Embedded Practice stream PhD candidate Dominik Holzer is presenting a paper at the 4th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference in Melbourne


8 February 2004
Residents sound off for quieter life | R. Kleinman
Citysounds 2.0 is featured in The Age. Read more: www.theage.com.au.More details on the City of Melbourne - Noise website: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/noise



14 July 2007

PhD Candidate Peta Carlin has been shortlisted for the 2007 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, for images from her Urban Fabric: Greige series.