BIOGRAPHIES

X-Field designers: Group Biography

Charles Anderson, PhD, Lecturer Landscape Architecture. RMIT University. Stutterheim / Anderson Landscape Architecture.

Richard Black, PhD Senior Lecturer Architecture. RMIT. Partner, Times Two Architects.

Mel Dodd, Associate Professor Architecture, RMIT University.  muf architecture/art, muf _aus

Sand Helsel, PhD Professor of Architecture, RMIT University.

Andrea Mina, PhD Associate Professor Interior Design, RMIT University

SueAnne Ware, PhD, Professor of Landscape Architecture, RMIT University

Selected exhibitions works and curation

2012

Forthcoming “Site Knowledge: in dynamic contexts” solo exhibition at The Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA.

2010

Extra-Ordinary, AIA (Australian Institute of Architects) National Conference, Melbourne: moderator.

2009

Sunburnt: Australian Practices of Landscape Architecture, Gallery of Australian Design, Canberra ACT, Melbourne Dicklands, and travelling internationally.

2008

Tarilta Road House + Studio exhibited in the Australian Pavilion, at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Homo Faber: Modeling, Identity and the Post Digital ARC Discovery Grant; curated group exhibition, Melbourne Museum, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne

2007/8

Words for Water, Integrated Public Art Project, Shire of Melton, Victoria.

2007

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA: Gritty Brits Exhibition. Work by MUF, FAT, Adjaye Associates, Caruso St John, Sergieson Bates Architects. 2007

Architekturforum Oberosterreich (AFO), Linz, Austria: Revisit: Urbanism Made in London: Work by MUF, Public Works Group. Curated by Peter Arlt. 2007

2006/7

House for Hermes 01: The House of My Father, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia.

2005

Helsel, S. Curating TADA, urban installation at TADA (Taiwan Art, Design, Architecture, Center), Taichung, Taiwan, 25 June.

2002

Five Walks, installation in “The Unused” at The Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 15 Oct- 2 Nov.

Awards and Grants

2010/11

Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant Assessing Creativity; Strategies and Tools to Support Teaching and Learning in Architecture and Design

2009

Kazunari Sakamoto House: Poetics in the Ordinary – an exhibition supported by $1,000,000 yen grant from The Japan Foundation

2008

National Award for Design, The Siev X Memorial Project, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)

AILA Victoria, Award of Excellence in Landscape Architecture, Research and Communication.  Central Dandenong Gateways Strategy, in collaboration with Aspect Studios.

Selected publications

2010

Homo Faber: Modelling, Identity and the Post Digital Mina, Andrea, Mark Burry, Peter Downton, and Michael Ostwald, eds.. Sydney:: Archadia Press,

Various projects by Times Two Architects in London G, van Schaik L, and Johnson  A, Contemporary Victorian Architecture, Office of the Victorian Architect, Melbourne, forthcoming 2010

2009

Intimate Immensities; Miniatures, an interior architecture: Journal of Interior Design, September 2009

2008

Opportunistic Architectures in ‘Opportunistic Urbanism’, Diego Ramirez (Ed) RMIT University Press 2008 Melbourne

Helsel, S. “I was a David Greene Student (This Sounds Like a Mantra)”. L.A.W.U.N. Project #19: A Geography of Imperfections (1/20). D. Greene and S. Hardingham. London, Architectural Association: 165-78.

2007

Duty of Care: Foregrounding the User in Urban Design Practice, Refereed Article in ‘Open House International Journal’

2006

Helsel, S. “Beyond Scale”. Performance to Porosity. P. Gillick. Melbourne, Craftsman House, Thames and Hudson Australia: 60-115.

2005

Helsel, S. “Architecture in the Expanded Field”.  Experiments in Architecture. S. Hardingham. London, August Projects: 48-67.

Selected keynote lectures, workshops and conferences

2010

“Chasing the Murray” lecture at the Affirmative Architecture symposium, RMIT, Melbourne.

2009

Intimate Immensity; an interior architecture. Illustrated paper presentation at Interior Design Educators Council 2009 National Conference, St Louis, Missiouri, USA. February 2009

Projects and Competitions

2010

Addition to Californian Bungalow, contract documentation, Glenmorgan Street, Brunswick.

2009-11

City Street and Station North Plaza, with Aspect Studios, Williams Boag Architects, Electrolight, and Arup, City of Greater Dandenong / VicUrban, Melbourne.

2009

Polytactics Winner of the Inaugural DRI Fire Design Challenge in collaboration with N Bertram, D Mainwaring, V Smith,  L Harper, and J Beneyto-Ferre

2004

National Emergency Services Memorial, Canberra, with Aspect Studios and DCG Design