PROJECT FOR THE CITY X

POSTED BY:
TARSHA FINNEY
DATE POSTED:
June 10, 2011
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PROJECT FOR THE CITY, UTS are a loose collective of architectural and urban practitioners.
We believe in Architecture’s material and formal agency deployed toward the question of what is the City.

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ADRIAN LAHOUD Post-Traumatic Urbanism SYDNEY, BEIRUT, LONDON

Adrian is an architect, urban designer and researcher. Through design studios, doctoral research and private practice Lahoud explores different types of urban transformation. For Lahoud, the city is a site of conflict that solicits the discipline into action. Existing at the intersection of urbanism and architecture, this work explores the use of technology in the design of cities, particularly the way its forms and infrastructure adapt to crises. In 2010 he guest edited a special issue of Architectural Design [AD] titled Post-traumatic Urbanism. Forthcoming in 2011 is ‘Project for a Mediterranean Union’ exploring transformations in infrastructure networks in North Africa and the Middle East. His doctorate titled ‘The Life of Forms in the City’ sets out an idea of the ‘part’ as a response to the problem posed by scale.

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CRAIG ALLCHIN Six Degrees Architects SYDNEY, NEW YORK, SHANGHAI, MELBOURNE

Craig is an architect and urban designer who has worked on the city across a range of scales. He is the director and owner of Six Degrees Architects. Craig spent the 1990′s working in Melbourne on small to medium architectural and urban renewal projects, living and working in the downtown and part of the bottom up revitalisation of the Melbourne city centre. He was previously the director of Urban Design in the NSW Department of Planning where he worked on the 30 Year Metropolitan Plan for Sydney, whilst continuing to consult in China and the Middle East.

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GERARD REINMUTH Terroir COPENHAGEN, SYDNEY, HOBART

Gerard is acknowledged as one of the key thinkers practising in Australian architecture today. Gerard is a founding Director of TERROIR and Director in charge of the Sydney office. In practice, Gerard’s key area of expertise is in design and the design management of commercial projects, having had senior level experience on large-scale commercial work both prior to commencing TERROIR and since. Key projects in this category include the Hazards Resort, 363 George Street, 86-88 George Street and Maitland City Bowls. Gerard was a Keynote Speaker for the 2nd International Utzon Symposium in Denmark (featuring William JR Curtis, Richard Weston and Rafael Moneo), for the Metropolis Conference in Denmark (also featuring Nan Ellin and Saskia Sassen) and Design Forum Singapore (also featuring Ken Yeang).

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TARSHA FINNEY Reformulating the Ground SYDNEY, ALICE SPRINGS, LONDON, BEIJING

Tarsha Finney is an architect and an urbanist. Her research interests cross several areas: domesticity and the problem of multi-residential housing with specific knowledge of the cities of New York, Beijing and Sydney; architectural typology and notions of disciplinary specificity and autonomy; and the architectural urbanism of innovation in cities. In 2004 Tarsha commenced doctoral studies at the Architectural Association with the Thesis: Repetition and Transformation: The Housing Project and the constitution of the Urban Field. New York 1935-1971. In 2009 Tarsha curated Urban Futures: Ideas of the City at the UTS gallery, an exhibition of the work of Diploma Unit 6 at the Architectural Association, London. She also convened a concurrent symposium Urban Futures: Architectural Type and the Urban Plan held at Customs House in Sydney.

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DAN HILL City of Sound

Dan Hill is a designer, strategist and leader. He’s been working at the forefront of interaction design and innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) since the early ‘90s and is responsible for shaping many innovative, popular and critically acclaimed products and services. Previously, Dan was the Urban Informatics leader for Arup, and  he was Head of Interactive Technology & Design at the BBC in London, where he led design across their award-winning websites as well as conducting significant strategic work. He co-founded the global media product Monocle, and organised the acclaimed architecture and urbanism conference Postopolis in New York and Los Angeles. He also runs City of Sound, generally thought of as one of the leading architecture and urbanism websites.

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ANTHONY BURKE Offshore Studio SYDNEY, ORANGE, LOS ANGELES, SHANGHAI

Anthony specialises in contemporary design and theory related to new media and technology, and its implications for architecture and urbanism. His research conceptualises property rights within urbanism as layers of reflexive, contingent, and distributed networks and systems responsive to both far ranging global and local economic, demographic, and environmental pressures. In October 2004, he co-convened the international symposia “Distributed Form: Network Practice” at UCB, with Therese Tierney and they co-edited the publication “Network practices: New strategies in architecture and design” by Princeton Architectural press released in 2007. Anthony is the Head of School, Architecture, UTS and a director of Offshore Studio. Anthony is also a foundation member of the Ocean design research network.

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