Homo Faber: Modelling Architecture Exhibition. June 1, 2006

AN EXHIBITION LOOKING AT THE ROLE OF MODELS IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS

Designers use a wide range of tools to conceptualise and visualise 3-dimensional forms. Historically the drawing or sketch has been venerated as the primary creative tool and has been the subject of many exhibitions. However, behind the scenes another equally important device has been largely ignored: the 'working' model. While 'presentation' models have often been displayed as a simulation of the finished building, the rough model is rarely celebrated for its critical role in shaping design. Homo Faber is an exhibition of working models that have been produced by more than twenty leading Australasian architectural and interior design firms. Alongside these physical and digital models are a series of works which explore different dimensions of the spatial model. Homo Faber has been curated and presented as part of a major ARC funded national research project into architectural design by a team of our senior academics drawn from RMIT University and the University of Newcastle.

EXHIBITION

1ST JUNE - 2ND JULY 2006

Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton.

- Professor Mark Burry - Director: Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University.
- Professor Peter Downton - Research Director, School of Architecture + Design, RMIT University.
- Andrea Mina - Associate Professor Interior Design, School Architecture & Design, RMIT University
- Professor Michael Ostwald - Head of School, Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle.

Also Featuring 22 of Australia's leading architectural firms:

- Allan Powell
- Architecture Workshop
- ARM
- Blacket Smith
- BKK
- Dale Jones Evans
- Denton Corker Marshall
- Fender Katsalidis
- Gregory Burgess
- Iredale Pedersen Hook
- John Wardle
- Kerstin Thompson
- Lab Architecture Studio
- Lyons
- McGauran Giannini Soon
- Nick Karralis with Woods Baggot
- Peter Elliott
- Steffen Lehmann
- Stephen Varady
- Tandem
- Terroir

OPENING NIGHT
31ST MAY 2006, 6PM - 8PM

Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton.

SYMPOSIUM
1ST JUNE 2006

Morning Session 10.30-1.30pm - Capitol Theatre.
Afternoon Session 3.30-5.30pm - Capitol Theatre.
Evening Session 6.30-8.30pm - Venue TBA.

Jordi Bonet - Architect Director and Coordinator, Sagrada Família Church, Barcelona.
Tom Daniell - Architect, Critic, Academic, Japan.
Ranulph Glanville - Academic and Critic.
Julieanna Preston - Building Art Practice and Senior Lecturer College of Creative Arts, Massey University.
Bob Sheil - Architect and Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL.
Kerstin Thompson - Melbourne Architect and Critic.

Registration for all sessions is compulsory, free entry to limited places. Register at www.homo-faber.net

For more information please visting www.homo-faber.net or contact the Homo Faber project coordinator Alison Fairley at [email protected]. If you would like to send someone to cover the events please contact Alison to obtain a press kit and be placed on the guest list .

Official Website: http://www.homo-faber.net