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07/09/2026

RECAP - "IN CONVERSATION" STUDENT-LED MAJOR PROJECT PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND Q&A
RMIT Master of Architecture Major Project Students Cheyenne D’Costa, Lachlan Hartnett, Mandisa Sarker and Nadia Po**en reflected on the influences and processes of their major project after completing their Week 5 Reviews. The night concluded with a Q&A session open to all students and visitors, moderated by Major Project student Nadia Po**en.
RMIT Architecture Alumnus and Industry Staff Member Chris Buchhorn () also presented his insights by reflecting upon his previous Major Project. Chris was the recipient of the 2021 Anne Butler Memorial Medal for his project titled 'See You in the In-Between', supervised by Emma Jackson ().
READ the Major Project Week 0 and Week 6 project positioning statements, which can be viewed along the Level 7 Longroom wall and Level 3 Lecture Theatre corridor at the RMIT Design Hub. The A4 Posters define the evolving individual positioning statements by the Major Project students.
Image Credit: Amy Muir and Shirin Kilinc
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07/09/2026

PRS Asia Launching Friday 17th September! If you are in Vietnam – join RMIT Architecture staff at the PRS Asia.
PhD candidates from the Schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Design and Media and Communication at RMIT University will present their research to panels of academic researchers and expert critics across Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th September 2026.
These presentations will take place in person at the RMIT Vietnam Saigon South Campus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Image 1: Shintaro Tsuruoka: Making Architecture Available: Enabling Autonomous Practice PhD Examination - Supervisors: Prof. Nicholas Boyarsky, Assoc. Prof. Graham Crist & Assoc. Prof. Anna Johnson
EXAMINATION DATE: Thursday 17th September 2026
TIME: 7.00pm – 9.00pm ICT
WHERE: Nina Next Space, 180/1 Nguyen Tat Thanh, Xom Chieu Ward, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City
LINK: https://bit.ly/4hM5JIn
Image 2: Daliana Suryawinata: Microlibraries in Indonesia: Reflecting on SHAU’s Architectural Agency
PhD Examination - Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Graham Crist & Assoc. Prof. John Doyle
EXAMINATION DATE: Friday 18th September 2026
TIME: 2.00pm – 4.00pm ICT
WHERE: Nina Next Space, 180/1 Nguyen Tat Thanh, Xom Chieu Ward, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City
LINK: https://bit.ly/4gvfU1I
Image 3: RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design Milestone and Work In Progress Presentation Schedule.
Full details of the event, including information on all milestone and work in progress presentations can be found at the Practice Research Portal:
https://practice-research.com/symposia/prs-asia-september-2026

07/09/2026

If you are in Vietnam – join PRS ASIA for the Opening Event & Keynote Address by PRS Asia Co-Chairs, Dr Michelle Aung Thin & Dr Andrew Stiff at our design-practice PhD event - PRS ASIA
Join us from 5.30pm for drinks and finger food to celebrate the opening of PRS Asia September 2026!
Chair: Welcome by PRS Asia Co-Chairs, Dr Michelle Aung Thin, RMIT School of Media & Communication, RMIT Australia, & Dr Andrew Stiff, School of Communication & Design, RMIT Vietnam.
Keynote Speakers: Followed by a Keynote panel discussion ‘Nothing Stands, Everything Flows’, with local architect, Vu Tien An, principal architect of Tad.atelier. This will be followed by a Q&A session led by Dr Phoebe Whitman from the School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University.
DATE: Friday 18th September
TIME: 5.30pm – 8.00pm ICT
LOCATION: Nina Next Space, 180/1 Nguyen Tat Thanh, Xom Chieu Ward, Ho Chi Minh City Register via RMIT Events: https://events.rmit.edu.au/YxRYKD
Full details of the event, including information on all milestone and work in progress presentations can be found at the Practice Research Portal:
https://practice-research.com/symposia/prs-asia-september-2026

04/09/2026

GENERATIVE MATERIAL: VENTUROUS Discourse 02
DATE: Thursday 10 September
TIME: 5:30PM – 6:30PM
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Gallery
FREE & ALL WELCOME
The impact of generative design within architecture is not through novel form, but through the creation of a new space of architectural possibility negotiated between material behaviour, structural performance, formal expression and ornamental or tectonic detail. It is this negotiation of underlying design logics and intention, not the simulation of appearance, that makes generative design a powerful method of design speculation.
That capacity for negotiation has been steadily eroded by the proliferation of the dominant modes of generative AI — machine learning and diffusion models. These systems generate images by interpolating within the latent space of precedent; there is no material model, no structural model and no understanding of the underlying processes of formation.
This panel discussion brings together leaders in algorithmic design, robotic fabrication and generative AI to discuss the shifting paradigms of generative design and their relationship to material production. The discussion will explore questions relating to the capacity of agentic AI to enable bottom-up generative design, and the role of material production within a discipline increasingly inundated with generated images.
With thanks to our Major Sponsor the Naarm Architecture Foundation.
POSTER: https://bit.ly/4xzYS9M

03/09/2026

MID SEMESTER CRITS for RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design - Design Studios.
Best Wishes to all our students! Looking forward to seeing your projects and propositions!
The Architecture mid-semester crits are a formal review of work in progress. Students are encouraged to attend a range of mid-semester crits in order to develop a familiarity with the different projects undertaken in the design stream and to encourage discussion around the ideas and propositions presented. Please see links for schedule of times and locations for the mid-semester crits.
Please note that although an open-door policy operates for studio crits, we remind you that these sessions are formal presentations & ask that all students and guests behave accordingly.
For all crits being held off site, please make sure you confirm with the studio leaders before attending.
Link below for the Mid-Semester poster:
B.ARCH - https://bit.ly/4wXEgHv

03/09/2026

MID SEMESTER CRITS for RMIT Master of Architecture - Design Studios
Best Wishes to all our students! Looking forward to seeing your projects and propositions!
The Architecture mid-semester crits are a formal review of work in progress. Students are encouraged to attend a range of mid-semester crits in order to develop a familiarity with the different projects undertaken in the design stream and to encourage discussion around the ideas and propositions presented. Please see links for schedule of times and locations for the mid-semester crits.
Please note that although an open-door policy operates for studio crits, we remind you that these sessions are formal presentations & ask that all students and guests behave accordingly.
For all crits being held off site, please make sure you confirm with the studio leaders before attending.
Link below for the Mid-Semester poster:
M.ARCH - https://bit.ly/4i5hBW0

01/09/2026

IDEAS IN PRACTICE: VENTUROUS Discourse 01

DATE: Monday 7 September
TIME: 5:30PM – 6:30PM
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Gallery
FREE & ALL WELCOME
VENTUROUS Discourse: Ideas in Practice, brings together architects, landscape architects and urban designers from ideas-led practices to discuss their research through design and demonstrate and debate how ideas are developed and delivered in practice.

RMIT Professor Peter Corrigan described the Edmond and Corrigan designed RMIT Building 8 as “an attempt to think with architecture and to write those thoughts in architecture”. Architectural design as a specific activity involves the development of design techniques and processes. Delivering a built project requires engagement with clients, stakeholders, briefs, budgets, while coordinating multiple consultants and responding to codes, regulations, site constraints, and countless other considerations. Projects must continue to develop despite incomplete information and constantly changing parameters. This is architectural design and it is neither a clear nor linear process.

The dynamic complexity of architectural design can create enduring tension within academic contexts where academic research values clarity, accuracy and well-defined questions.

The session will draw on the VENTUROUS exhibits and RMIT design practice research PhD dissertations of Carey Lyon (Design by Discourse), Michael Lavery (Engaging Objects), Michael Banney (Anecdotal Evidence), Mark Jacques (Interloping and its Consequences), and Leanne Zilka (Floppy Logic).
With thanks to our Major Sponsor the Naarm Architecture Foundation.
POSTER: https://bit.ly/4gIS56u

26/08/2026

RMIT Architecture invites you to a public lecture by ANTARCTICA: ARCHITECTS GRAHAM CRIST AND NICOLA GARROD - WHAT TO DO WITH LITTLE
DATE: Thursday 3 September 2026
TIME: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Level 3, Ground Level Lecture Theatre, 150 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3000
POSTER: https://bit.ly/4zAlSXK
WHAT TO DO WITH LITTLE
Graham Crist and Nicola Garrod discuss the work of their practice Antarctica, in the field of peripheral and meagre public buildings; their contingencies, their contributions and their context in the culture of Melbourne architecture.
The practice of making small and meagre public buildings (in which we operate) foregrounds questions of the contingencies and the commodity of building when making architecture. While the architectural process is frequently described by the frictionless translation of Ideas, or as fulfilling a set of prescribed desires, it is as much a messy amalgam of interests competing hopefully, toward a believable public artefact. This fact is always present for architects but is especially dominant when the visible presence of architectural ideas is not guaranteed. Our projects, often on the metropolitan periphery or well outside of it, grapple with these questions. We will try to discuss the practice not through mastery, but through contingency and the modest efforts to bring a larger idea to a smaller context. Collectively, we are the beneficiaries of an ongoing Melbourne project of widening the scope for architectural ideas, and we will acknowledge that shared project.
Image 1: credit: Drysdale Library, Antarctica Architects, Photography by Peter Bennetts
Image 2: Graham Crist, Director of Antarctica Architects & RMIT Architecture Associate Professor
Image 3: Nicola Garrod, Director of Antarctica Architects

26/08/2026

PUBLIC DISSCUSSION AND Q&A – STILL BECOMING - STUDENT-LED MAJOR PROJECT IN CONVERSATION
Join us for a student-led conversation this Thursday at the Design Hub. Current Major Project students will discuss and reflect upon the culture of the course, what they are looking at and what informs the generation of ideas.
DATE: 27th August 2026
TIME: 5.00 PM – 6.30 PM Please arrive at 4.45pm
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Level 7, 150 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3000
“Find your position, find your voice, find your story to tell,” Ian McDougall
Major Project is not simply the process of answering an architectural problem, but of working out where we stand in relation to it. What do we choose to question, to value, to say through architecture?
The Major Project, an individual endeavor, is informed and influenced by a cultural lineage. This student-led “In Conversation” brings together current Major Project students and staff to reflect and discuss the processes employed to navigate Major Project.
Each presenter will share several slides that speak to their work. This conversation will reveal the procedures, influences, and decisions shaping their projects so far.
The session will also include a presentation from RMIT Architecture alumnus and industry staff member Chris Buchhorn, recipient of the 2021 Anne Butler Memorial Medal. This will be followed by an audience Q&A and discussion aimed at situating current work within the broader culture of RMIT’s Major Project. RMIT Master of Architecture student Nadia Po**en will moderate the session.
SPEAKERS:
Presentations by RMIT Master of Architecture Major Project Students:
Cheyenne D’Costa, Lachlan Hartnett, Mandisa Sarkey, Nadia Po**en
RMIT Architecture Alumnus and Industry Staff Member:
Chris Buchhorn
Moderated by: Nadia Po**en
Image Credit: Semester 2 2026, Week 0 Major Project Posters

24/08/2026

RMIT Architecture invites you to a public lecture by SALVADOR GILABERT - FROM THE IDEA TO THE REAL, AN OPEN PROCESS
DATE: Tuesday 8 September 2026
TIME: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Level 3, Ground Level Lecture Theatre, 150 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3000
POSTER: https://bit.ly/4wDNIk7
FROM THE IDEA TO THE REAL, AN OPEN PROCESS
The transition from conceptualization to materialization is fundamentally rooted in operational workflows that synthesize Situationist drift methodologies and processes of additives. This framework is strictly governed by low-impact environmental parameters to achieve a conscious, ecologically responsive architecture. By systematically auditing the site, this approach decrypts the socio-contextual variables that bind spatial interventions to their cultural and community matrices. Consequently, it enables the iterative integration of performance parameters designed to minimize ecological footprints, optimize resource efficiency, and accelerate the transition toward a circular economy that addresses localized needs.
Furthermore, this paradigm explores the agency of architectural design in catalyzing sustainable transitions. By leveraging systemic thinking, it addresses the highly dynamic, multi-scalar, and transdisciplinary challenges embedded within socio-ecological and socio-technical transformations. Grounded in the foundational principles of Transition Design, this methodology actively acknowledges and integrates ecological, human, and computational intelligence. Ultimately, by embracing these systemic approaches, the framework underscores the imperative of long-term foresight and pluralistic perspectives in contemporary architectural discourse.
Image 2 credit: Portrait of Salvador Gilabert.
Image 1 & 3 credit: Tibetan Cultural Center in Adeje, Tenerife. Photography by ©Fassoli, Paolo Fassoli, .fassoli.fotografia.

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