Recent Research News

Call for papers: UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival Symposium - Animation Histories and Futures
4 Mar, 2010
As part of the 2010 UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival, a symposium will be held to explore animation’s contemporary expansion. To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney on Friday 24 September, entries are now being accepted.

Past Research News

2009

October

So you think architects can dance?
22 Oct, 2009
Dr Sam Spurr of the University of Technology, Sydney’s School of Architecture wonders what would happen if we tried to conceive of the human body as a machine for making space in the next DAB Lab exhibition ‘Diagramming the Body Geometric or So you think you can Dance?’

July

Films For a Career in Architecture and Construction
2 Jul, 2009
The UTS Equity and Diversity Unit has funded a major project designed to encourage women to study and work in fields where they are statistically under-represented, including Architecture and Construction. The result is a suite of six short films, constructed from interviews with a range of prominent, interesting and articulate practitioners working in the Built Environment professions.

February

DAB to host the SEAM Symposium 2009: Spatial Phrases
21 Feb, 2009
To address the key question of "how can the convergence in thinking between the disciplines of dance, architecture and film provoke innovative contemporary practice?", UTS is hosting the SEAM Symposium 2009: Spatial Phrases

2008

November

Charles Rice Elected Chair of OCEAN Design Research Network
10 Nov, 2008
Dr Charles Rice has been elected chair of the OCEAN Design Research Network.

Beijing Architecture Biennale
10 Nov, 2008
Ben Hewett and Anthony Burke and their practice Offshorestudio exhibited in the Beijing Architecture Biennale's, (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture last month.

MDA Investigates the Infomatic City
10 Nov, 2008
Dan Hill from Arup and the well subscribed City of Sound plus Mitchell Whitelaw, Program Director at the University of Canberra's Media/Multimedia Production program and author of the The Teeming Void are running this semester's MDA masterclass.

October

UTS Architecture Lectures North of the Border
29 Oct, 2008
Joanne Jakovich was a guest speaker at the QUT School of Design lecture series, held at the State Library of Queensland on 21 October.

Iron Architect competition has UTS flavour
13 Oct, 2008
Anthony Burke, Ben Hewitt, David Burns and several students laboured on Monday 6 October in the Iron Architect event at Customs house as part of architecture week.

May

UTS Architecture and Construction Succeed in Equity and Diversity Grant Application
27 May, 2008
Naomi Stead recently lead a successful DAB team in applying for a UTS Gender Equity Grant for 2008.

April

School of Design and Architecture Come Together for UTS Research Grant
29 Apr, 2008
Academic staff from both the School of Design and the School of Architecture are set to work together on the UTS Challenge Grant (Blueprints for Sydney) 2008-9.

February

UTS Academics Debate Architecture and Authorship

12 Feb, 2008
School of Architecture academics Dr Naomi Stead and Dr Charles Rice presented papers at a symposium on Architecture and Authorship at the KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm in early February.

Walter Benjamin and Architecture

12 Feb, 2008
Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice have recently edited a special issue of the Journal of Architecture that addresses the importance of German cultural critic Walter Benjamin’s work for the interpretation of modern and contemporary architecture.

OCEAN comes to Sydney

12 Feb, 2008
UTS School of Architecture Academics Dr Charles Rice, Anthony Burke and Adrian Lahoud have been invited to join the international design research network OCEAN.

2007

October

Dual book launch for Architecture academics
29 Oct, 2007
Dr Charles Rice and Anthony Burke both from Architecture will host a dual launch to celebrate the recent publication of their books, "Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity" by Dr Rice and "Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design" an collection of essays co-edited by Anthony Burke.

June

ARC industrly linkage grant win for DAB
12 Jun, 2007
The Head of School of Architecture, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Martin Kornberger, have been successful in their ARC Industry Linkage grant application with collaborating partner Woods Bagot for "The Architecture of Academic Research".

UTS challenge grant research project
12 Jun, 2007
A DAB research team which consists of Professor Spike Boydell, Peter Rickwood, Leena Thomas and Garry Glazebrook is involved in a collaborative research project titled 'Integrating Urban Models for Improved Decision Making'.

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