Past Events
Public Lecture - Dr Peter Wouters
Date: 13 May 2013
Time: 5.30 pm
In association with BRANZ and the Centre for Building Performance Research, Dr Peter Wouters of the International Network for Information on Ventilation and Energy Performance gives a presentation on the European experience of high performance buildings. This includes a description of the European experience of advanced ventilation systems in very air-tight houses, public energy and CO2 performance certificates—the proposed benefits and reality.
Dr Peter Wouters, 5.30PM, LT1, Te Aro Campus, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington
Public Lecture - Anthony Hoete: WHAT_architecture (London)
Date: 10 May 2013
Time: 6.00 pm
Anthony Hoete, a founding partner of WHAT_architecture (London) will give a public lecture as a part of the School of Architecture Master's Design Thesis May Review. Anthony will abandon the conventions of the 'archilecture' and instead use the public space as a creative consultation opportunity with the audience.
More information on the Lecture and the Master's Review is available here.
Parametric Modelling Workshop - Rhinoceros / Grasshopper Level One / Two
Date: 6–7 April 2013
Time: 9.15 am
A 2-Day intensive practical introduction to algorithmic computational design with Grasshopper for Rhinoceros.
Available for second-year and above architecture and design students, architects, landscape designers, interior designers, urban designers and building scientists.
No prior knowledge of Grasshopper and Rhinoceros is required, but the workshop format is flexible enough that those with experience in visual programming will still find it rewarding.
Instructor: Anastasia Globa, PhD Candidate (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), M.Arch (DIA Dessau, Germany 2010), Architect (MGTU, Russia, 2007)
Those interested can view the below documents for further information and visit http://parametric-modelling.tumblr.com/
To register contact: globalnaya@gmail.com
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International Architecture Students' Welcome
Date: 20 March 2013
Time: 5.00 pm
The Head of School, Jules Moloney, would like to officially welcome International Students to the School of Architecture in 2013.
We will be holding a welcome celebration in the Atrium at 5pm, Wednesday 20th March.
School of Architecture Orientation 2013
Date: 27 February 2013
Time: 10.00 am
View detailed information about First-year Architecture Orientation on the Faculty of Architecture and Design website.
End of Year Exhibition
Date: 14–23 November 2012
Time: 9.00 am
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
It is a long-standing tradition for the Faculty of Architecture and Design to host an End of Year exhibition.
The exhibition will showcase student work from undergraduate to postgraduate level, Architecture and Design degrees.
End of Year Exhibition flyer (PDF, 549 KB)
Real Buildings, Real People, Real Data
Date: 13 November 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Real Building, Real People, Real Data is a lecture about 'naturally heated, naturally ventilated, buildings operating free of fossil fuels by Dr Jeremy Harrall RIBA of SEArch Architects.
This lecture will look at zero fossil fuel new build and retrofit in the UK, what the users think of them and how they perform. It will also show how the results are being used to influence UK policy.
Real Buildings, Real People, Real Data poster (PDF, 8.9 MB)
Philip Coxall - Design as Story
Date: 31 October 2012
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: LT1, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Philip will discuss his own person journey in coming to terms with design and then review some of his firm’s major projects to illustrate how for him, design is very much built around story.
Raised in the Western Suburbs of Sydney Philip completed Horticulture at Ryde before travelling and working overseas for seven years. Philip returned to Australia and studied Landscape Architecture in Canberra. He then worked overseas for ten years in England and Asia and completed a solo bicycle ride from France to Gambia, West Africa. In 2000 Philip joined Adrian McGregor to form McGregor Coxall. McGregor Coxall are Urban Designers and Landscape Architects and are recognized for their innovative, environmentally based design solutions. The firm’s work has been recognized at both a national and international level. In 2009 McGregor Coxall were awarded the German based TOPO’s International Practice of the Year Award, the first non-European practice to receive it. In 2010 Philip was voted, by the Sydney Morning Herald, as one of Sydney’s 100 Most Significant People impacting on Sydney through his professional work.
Design as Story Poster (PDF, 536 KB)
Tom Daniell - Just Looking: the origins of the Street Observation Society
Date: 31 October 2012
Time: 12.00 pm
Venue: LT1, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
The Street Observation Society formed in 1986, out of the encounter between two singularly innovative and charismatic individuals: architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori and avant-garde artist Genpei Akasegawa. Together with a fluctuating group of friends and collaborators, they search the streets of Japan for moments of beauty and interest in everyday places and objects. They look but do not touch, merely photographing and naming their finds while leaving them for the rest of the world to rediscover or inadvertently destroy. This lecture will trace the development of the Street Observation Society, and contextualize it within a longer and broader Japanese lineage of fieldwork on the Japanese city, and associated research on material culture and everyday life.
Tom Daniell is Head of Architecture at the University of St Joseph in Macau, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Visiting Fellow at the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Lab, Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and director of his own architectural practice. His books include FOBA: Buildings (2005), After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan (2008), Houses and Gardens of Kyoto (2010), and Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + Amorphe (2011).
Just Looking: the origins of the Street Observation Society (PDF, 566 KB)
Fleur Palmer - Developing New Strategies for Maori Housing
Date: 30 October 2012
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: LT1, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
This paper considers the historical legacy of colonial and post colonial discrimination and social inequity associated with Muriwhenua tribes. It considers how the loss of resources such as land and forests has impacted on access affordable housing in the Far North. Through maps, I analyse the Treaty settlement for Te Rarawa in the township of Kaitaia. Maps demonstrate how the Treaty offer continues to maintain the status quo, by excluding Māori from the city centre, hindering access not only to affordable housing in the area, but to any equivalent and meaningful engagement in the local economy. In response to the prospect of continued spatial injustice, the paper considers a strategy to recolonise Kaitaia using decommissioned State owned housing stock. It also looks at a strategy to gain access to affordable housing in Kaitaia using relocatable homes.
Fleur Palmer is a senior lecturer of Spatial Design at Auckland University of Technology and president of the Auckland Architectural Association. She has practised in London and New Zealand and also taught at Auckland University School of Architecture. Fleur’s recent research is involved with investigating the implications of the Kainga Whenua programme in the development of sustainable housing for Māori communities. Fleur is of Te Rarawa and European descent.
Developing New Strategies for Māori Housing poster (PDF, 573 KB)
Supporting Visual Interpretations in Design Computing
Date: 30 October 2012
Time: 12.00 pm
Venue: VS220, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Computational systems have become an essential element of modern design processes, but they are limited in the support that they provide designers. There is a fundamental mismatch between the constructive approach to understanding and exploring information that typifies design and the objective requirements of information representation and manipulation that underlies computation. Because of this, computers are often not used as aids in the creative stages of a design process, but instead are used to record and present the outcomes.
This lecture is concerned with one aspect of the mismatch between the requirements of designers and the capabilities of computers, the aspect of visual interpretation of shapes. Visual shape interpretation is fundamental to creative design exploration but is not adequately supported in computational tools.
Iestyn Jowers is a post-doctoral researcher who is interested in understanding and computationally supporting designers’ visual interactions with the images and objects they use in their design processes.
Supporting Visual Interpretations in Design Computing poster (PDF, 56 KB)
Architecture = Sustainable Exhibition and Public Seminars
Date: 23 October – 3 November 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
The Architecture=Sustainable exhibition will give you an insight into top architecture projects in the Paris area, with famous architects conveying their understanding of architecture with the aim of achieving sustainable building.
Using 30 projects, the exhibition presents current and future measures and solutions to be applied at various levels. The 7 analytical criteria used to deconstruct these projects are based on the 80 European examples which are also presented in this exhibition.
Urbanization, material and spatial concepts, implementation, morphology, systems and performance allow visitors to gain an understanding of global environmental issues which places technical plans into an urban context taking the crowded city as its starting point for new projects.
During the exhibition, there will also be a series of seminars held with French and New Zealand architects discussing the vision of sustainable construction and architecture in both countries.
The first seminar, on Thursday 25 October, is on solar energy. It will feature Dr Justin Hodgkiss, Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria and a Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and Lionel Hirsch, from the French National Research Institute.
The second seminar, on Thursday 1 November, is on energy efficient buildings. It will feature Dr Michael Donn, Senior Lecturer in Human and Environmental Design at the Victoria University School of Architecture and Director of the Centre for Building Performance Research within the School, and Dr François Garde, Professor and Director of the Department of Sustainable Construction at the Faculty of Engineering ESIROI, University of Reunion Island.
The seminars begin with drinks at 5.30pm for a 6pm start and are being held at the School of Architecture on Ghuznee Street. Organisers of the exhibition and seminars include Alliance Française and the Embassy of France.
You can find more information here: http://french.co.nz/architecture-sustainable-exhibition-public-seminars/.
Architecture=Sustainable flyer (PDF, 965 KB)
Beth Diamond - Assemblage Urbanism: Teaching Tomorrow's Visionaries
Date: 25 September 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro, LT1
Professor Beth Diamond is on the faculty of Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan and teaches courses on landscape design, theory and history with an emphasis on the alternative narratives of indigenous peoples, minorities, working class populations and women.
Her research focuses on landscape as a visionary medium, the intersection of theory and art in the built environment, strategies for multicultural expression as a catalyst for urban infrastructure and the role of public space in democratic societies.
Download Beth Diamond's poster (PDF, 622 KB)
The past is another country - Jason Whiteley
Date: 6 September 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: LT1, 139 Vivan Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Jason Whiteley is a New Zealand architect who worked for five years with Priztker-prize winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, before establishing his own studio in London in 2011.
Jason's lecture will present some of his recent works and projects in the light of buildings from the past which continue to exert an influence on his practice.
The past is another country flyer (PDF, 3MB)
Study at Vic Open Day
Date: 31 August 2012
Time: 9.30 am
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Study at Vic Open Day for the Faculty of Architecture and Design starts at 9:30am at Te Aro Campus. Presentations will be given by academic staff about the study options the Faculty has to offer at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Please visit the Study at Vic Open Day website for more information.
Variation valuations and extensions of time under NZS3910:2003
Date: 19 July 2012
Time: 5.15 pm
Venue: LT1, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington
The Wellington Branch of the NZIQS in conjunction with the Victoria University School of Architecture and Design presents: “Variation valuations and extensions of time under NZS3910:2003, key issues and drivers for change”
Time/Schedule:
- 5.15pm Attendees to commence arrival, registration, networking opportunity with drinks and nibbles provided.
- 6pm Peter Degerholm, Director of Calderglen Associates Ltd and member on the NZS:3910 review committee, opens the evening and will discuss the driver for change in a few key areas and advise on committee objectives and outcomes.
- 6.20pm approx. Willy Vance CEO of NZIHT (New Zealand Institute of Highway Technology) and presenter on the popular course "Understanding NZS3910:2003 Conditions of Contract", talks about key issues with the standard and a host of other "hot" topics.
- 8pm approx Question and Answer session begins.
- 8.30pm Presentation ends
Admission/Cost: NZIQS Members and School of Architecture students Free of charge, All other attendees $5 Entry charge payable by Cash on arrival (No EFTPOS facility sorry).
For more information please visit the NZIQS website.
"Intertwined Landscapes" Agence Radar Paysagistes, Sabrina Hiridjee
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Faculty of Architecture and Design, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro , Wellington
“Intertwined Landscapes” will develop ideas about the similarities which exist between scales and the processes by which different scales can be brought together.
A single "logical order" can be observed at different scales, from the unlimited scale of the imagination to the molecular movement of the biological world. The landscape architect has to fit his thoughts and design into this “logical order”. Scales are intricately interlinked by this universality. By understanding this concept, we understand that it is possible to respond to a context at any scale. It is an unfolding process. This is what will be developed through examples of Agence Radar Projects.
Faculty of Architecture and Design Pre-Graduation Function
Date: 15 May 2012
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Faculty of Architecture and Design, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro , Wellington
The Faculty of Architecture and Design invite their graduands and three guests to join us for our pre-graduation function celebrating the achievements for our 2011 Graduating Class.
It will commence at 4.00pm in the Atrium of the Faculty of Architecture and Design, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington on Tuesday the 15th of May 2012.
This celebration will conclude by 5.00pm in time for the graduands, their families, friends and university staff to make their way to the Michael Fowler Centre to prepare for the graduation ceremony which commences at 6.00pm.
For catering purposes please RSVP to Amanda Chu at amanda.chu@vuw.ac.nz or (04) 463 6288 by Monday, 7th of May 2012.
For more information on graduation please visit the graduation website.
Inaugural lecture—Professor Diane Brand
Date: 17 April 2012
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Hunter Council Chamber, Level 2, Hunter Building
At The Bay—New Zealand’s Coastal Urban Places
More development on the waterfronts of New Zealand‘s coastal towns could boost our economic growth and provide valuable public spaces for recreation, says Victoria University researcher Professor Diane Brand.
Professor Brand, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design, will explore New Zealand‘s relationship with the coast and urban development potential in the land-sea edge at her inaugural professorial lecture at Victoria University on Tuesday 17 April.
"All New Zealanders live within 130km of our 18,000km coastline; the majority of our historically significant cities are ports; and we have an extensive exclusive economic zone. We have an opportunity to extend our development in terms of aquaculture or capturing tidal energy in our urban places too."
To demonstrate the opportunities where land and sea meet, or in the 'bluespace‘, as Professor Brand refers to the concept, she will create analogies between land and sea.
"We often think of the land and sea as divided and separate. Using places we‘re all familiar with, I‘ll explore opportunities for crossover by demonstrating how a space could look and has looked in the past. Wellington settler John Plimmer, for example, created the innovative Plimmer‘s Ark in the late 1800s—he turned a beached boat into a building that connected to Lambton Quay."
"There are many examples nationally and internationally that exemplify comfortable development in urban zones in a way that balances environmental considerations. My inaugural lecture will showcase how we can extend and develop these bluespace resources."
Professor Diane Brand is an architect and academic specialising in urban design, urban history and edge cities. She joined Victoria University in 2008 as Deputy Head of the School of Architecture, which she now leads as Dean.
RSVP by Friday 13 April by phoning (04) 463 1000 or email rsvp@vuw.ac.nz with ‘Brand’ in the subject line.
Prof. David Alexander - What can we do about earthquakes?
Date: 16 April 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro (LT2)
Taking a systematic approach to seismic risk mitigation
David Alexander is the Chief Senior Scientist at the Global Risk Forum in Davos, Switzerland.David Alexander is the Chief Senior Scientist at the Global Risk Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
David will discuss the possible means of achieving risk reduction and resilience against earthquake disasters. He will outline the evolving nature of the resilience concept, which has at its root the concepts of participatory governance and livelihood protection. It then discusses the potential for saving human lives by greater utilisation of the evidence base derived from studies of earthquake epidemiology. He will follow with a discussion of the particular seismic vulnerability of critical infrastructure, hospitals and schools, and the means of reducing it by planning and well-calculated intervention. Seismic risk management needs to be comprehensive and often neglects some important factors. Next he will discuss: the plight of minorities, the protection of cultural heritage, and the management of veterinary emergencies. David will also discuss the requirements for viable recovery from earthquake disasters.
David Alexander Lecture Flyer (PDF, 262 KB)
Harry Seidler: The Art of Collaboration - Vladimir Belogolovsky
Date: Date: 29th March 2012, Time: 5:30pm
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: LT1, School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Harry Seidler: The Art of Collaboration illustrated lecture traces the life and work of Sydney architect Harry Seidler (1923-2006), his key role in bringing Modernism and Bauhaus principles to Australia, identifies his distinctive architectural style, and reveals longlasting collaborations with leading creative figures of the 20th century.
Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project, organizes, curates, and designs architectural exhibitions worldwide.
Valdimir Belogolovsky Poster (PDF, 205 KB)
Professor Sue Anne Ware - Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia
Date: 21 March 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: LT1, School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Professor Sue Anne Ware
RMIT University
In Australia over 80% of the population clings to coastal urban areas, however many of Australia’s iconic landscapes remain outside of where we live and practice landscape architecture. The tyranny of distance both between major settlements within Australia, and between our continent and other continents, plays a major role in the collective Australian spatial psyche.
Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia, is a collection of 18 contemporary Australian landscape architectural design projects from the last ten years. It began as a touring exhibition and evolved into a book publication. It highlights the profession and what it has been doing in the public realm over the past 10 years and in doing so how landscape architecture in Australia has evolved. The discrepancy between ideas about and the reality of Australia are played out through the selected landscape design projects.
These projects are setting the standards for future works and help to define trajectories for contemporary practice. The selected projects demonstrate a willingness to consider what is specific and unique to both their immediate site and the larger contemporary Australian landscape. In many cases they reflect upon socio-cultural identities and characterisations of Australianness.
Jason Whiteley on Herzog & de Meuron
Date: 14 March 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: LT1, School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Jason Whiteley is a New Zealand architect who worked for five years in Switzerland and New York City with renown Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
Jason’s lecture will describe his experience designing and coordinating complex, high-profile buildings in New York, Sao Paulo, London and Doha.
Jason Whitely on Herzog & de Meuron (PDF, 1.1 MB)
First-year Architecture and Building Science Orientation
Date: 29 February 2012
Time: 10.00 am
Venue: 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro Campus, Wellington
View detailed information about First-year Architecture and Building Science Orientation on the Faculty of Architecture and Design website.
Copenhagen: A metropolis for people
Date: 8–9 February 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: LT1, School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro
Copenhagen is internationally recognised as one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Vida Christeller is an architectural graduate from VUW based in Copenhagen. Vida is currently in Wellington and will present behind the scenes look at the process behind Copenhagen's urban design and architecture, how the city wants to develop in the future as well as some interesting projects and buildings.
5:30pm Drinks and 6:00pm Lecture
View the event flyer (PDF, 1043KB).