Chris Abel is a graduate of the Architectural Association in London. He is an internationally known writer and lecturer and is the author of over one hundred publications of architectural theory and criticism. His books include two collections of his essays, Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change, 2000 (2nd ed), and Architecture, Technology and Process, 2004, both by Architectural Press. Other publications include numerous contributions to a new series of monographs on the complete works of Norman Foster, by Prestel, and introductions to two volumes on the residential architecture of Harry Seidler, by Images. In 2003 he was co-curator with Lord Foster for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Sky High: Vertical Architecture and is the author of the book of the same title, published by the RA in conjunction with the exhibition. He currently teaches and researches at the University of Sydney.
Geoff Bailey commenced setting up the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust in August 1999 and is the Executive Director. The Trust has the task of planning, conserving, managing and opening to the public eight unique sites around Sydney Harbour which embody a range of complex issues, in particular sensitive heritage sites and high levels of contamination. Prior to working for the Trust, Geoff was an Associate Director of Allen Jack and Cottier, Architects. Before that he worked for 9 years in the Rocks in Sydney and was responsible for all heritage 265conservation and planning matters. Geoff has also worked as a heritage architect on Albert Namitjira’s cottage and other heritage buildings in Central Australia and has worked for the NSW Heritage Council and the NSW Planning Department. He was a Board member of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) from 1998 to 2004. Geoff Bailey holds a degree in Architecture from the University of New South Wales and has worked for over 20 years in a variety of roles in planning and architecture, dealing with sensitive heritage sites. He is a Trustee of the Point Nepean Community Trust.
Dr. Kirsty Beilharz is an interaction designer, composer and researcher. Her orchestral and electronic compositions have been performed by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Canada), Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg), in the Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris), and by the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Western Australian Symphony Orchestras. She is a recipient of the Sir Charles Mackerras British Council Music Scholarship and a Churchill Fellowship and was awarded the Jury and Public prize of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Forum. She was a Young Australian of the Year Award finalist and Australian representative to the Paris Rostrum and the Gaudeamus World Music Festival. In 2005 she attended the IRCAM Summer Course for electronic sound and music in Paris. Beilharz is a Senior Lecturer and Digital Media Graduate Program Coordinator at the University of Sydney. Her interests integrate artificial intelligence, generative algorithmic processes, real time gestural interaction, hyper-instruments and information sonification to develop informative, responsive and aesthetic social spaces.266
Liz Bowra graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours in 2004. While in her final year at University she was a Design Mentor for third year students. Her Honours Study, which is a continuing interest for her, investigates the relationship between the architectural surface and the mask, where the mask institutionalises perception and spatial relationships. She won the Board of Architects of NSW Prize for her final year and was nominated by the University of Sydney to enter the RIBA President’s Medals Students Awards in 2005. She is currently working in Sydney.
Matias Echanove graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University. He is currently pursuing a project-orientated PhD at the University of Tokyo and is a Japan Ministry for Education Scholarship holder. His main research interests are urban development and the role of urban information systems for participatory planning, urban networks, and informal settlement. Current case study cities are New York, Tokyo, Bogotá, and Mumbai.
Professor Tom Heneghan graduated from the Architectural Association, where he taught as Unit Master from 1976 until 1990 when at the invitation of Arata Isozaki he established his practice, The Architecture Factory, in Tokyo. In 1991 the government of Toyama Prefecture appointed Heneghan ‘Master Architect’ for the ‘Machi no Kao’ (‘Face of the Town’) programme, which included buildings by Enric Miralles, Daniel Liebeskind, Torres and Lapena and Ron Herron. For 267his first built work in Japan, Heneghan was awarded the 1994 Gakkai Shoh, the most prestigious award of the Architectural Institute of Japan. In 2002 he received the Kokyo Kenchiku Shoh – the Japanese Government’s principal award for public architecture. Since 1976, Heneghan has won twenty-seven architectural awards in Europe and Japan, and his works have been published and exhibited internationally, including in the Japanese pavilion at the 1996 Milan Triennale. He is Chair of Architecture at the University of Sydney.
Jin Hidaka is an architect and principal of ‘Slowmedia’. He also teaches at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo. In addition to his architectural and academic work, he is a key member of the award winning new media art group Responsive Environment who have exhibited throughout Asia and Europe. Responsive Environment describes itself as a collective engaged in spatial expression through collaboration, crossing over diverse boundaries drawn between architecture, image, music, dance and design. Jin Hidaka and Satoru Yamashiro are founders of the Urban Dynamics Laboratory, which focuses on the new possibilities of urban design using new media technology. www.slowmedia.net, www.responsiveenvironment.com, www.urban-dynamics.com
Olivia Hyde was educated in Sydney and London and is a graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London and the National Art School, Sydney. She is an associate at the Sydney office of Bligh Voller Nield Architecture and teaches final year design at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Olivia has worked in Hong Kong and London with Sir Norman Foster and Partners, and in Spain, Malaysia and the US where she was awarded a teaching fellowship by the University of Michigan. Her design studios 268focus on the architectural potential of art practice, with a particular interest in full scale and installation based explorations. She is a founding member of Altogether Elsewhere and co-coordinator of the Urban Islands program.
Lisa Iwamoto is a principal of Iwamoto Scott Architecture based in San Francisco. She received her Masters degree with Distinction from Harvard University and is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic research focuses on digital fabrication and materials research for architecture. IwamotoScott describe their work as an attempt to “balance exploration in digital processes and media modelling of prototypes and hands-on material research with investigations into perceptual and experimental phenomena.” Recent projects include a theoretical proposal, Jellyfish House, for the Vitra Design Museum and Art Center College of Design, which uses ambient technology in the design if an infrastructural skin for water filtering on Treasure Island, a de-commissioned naval base and island in the San Francisco bay. www.iwamotoscott.com
Joanne Jakovich is an experimental architect and researcher. Her work builds a thesis of engagement in which human and synthetic (computational) participation shape the development of sustainable systems for inhabitation (urban, architectural, online). Creative outcomes include interactive soundspaces, online urban planning simulations, and urban development frameworks. She has exhibited in Japan, Australia and the Netherlands and produced international projects integrating urbanism, architecture and interactive art. She graduated from the University of Tokyo on a Japan Ministry for Education Scholarship and 269is pursuing a PhD in Architecture at the University of Sydney. She holds a CRC (Co-operative Research Centre) for Construction Innovation Scholarship and University of Sydney Postgraduate Award. www.jakovich.net
Martin Kornberger received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He is currently senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Business and Faculty of Design and lecturer in marketing at St Andrew’s School of Management in Scotland. He has taught in the areas of strategic management, branding, design and consulting on three continents. Kornberger co-authored the best selling management textbook Managing and Organizations that is used to teach the principles of management around the world including at the Harvard Business School. His current research focus is on issues of managing creativity. In order to perform periodic reality checks, he co-founded PLAY, a consultancy which works with a range of different clients on branding, marketing and management projects. Amongst many projects, PLAY is the producer of Sydney Esquisse.
Ingo Kumic is a strategist with 16 years experience in urban strategy, policy, communications and governance. He has worked with the European Commission, the International Energy Agency, the Greater London Authority, the London Development Agency, and the French Ministry for Housing and Infrastructure. He was formerly Director of Special Projects, NSW Department of Planning and CRP Manager of Partnerships and Policy for the London South Central region. He has taught and been a guest critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London and the Architectural Association School of Architecture London. He is currently a member of the NSW Policy Committee 270of the Planning Institute of Australia and formerly the co-chair of its NSW Urban Design Chapter. He holds Degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and is currently undertaking a PhD in Architecture examining the spatial political economy of urban brands and their role in making competitive cities.
Henri Praeger is an architect and principal of Prarchitekten, based in Berlin. He received his postgraduate master degree from the Staedelschule (University of Fine Arts), Frankfurt. He is currently assistant professor of architecture at the University of Cottbus. His academic research focuses on the creation of form through programmatic explorations. This more inclusive definition of architectural program encompasses ecological concerns, cross diciplinarity, new technologies, variations of the temporal and seasonal, and any number of combinations, juxtapositions, manipulations and reinventions. He is one of the founders of Saft, an architectural paper emphasizing the interdependence of technology, art, theory, and history. Praeger also edited Architects Talk, in which the joy of thinking and exploring new intellectual territory is rendered in interviews with well known contemporary architects.
Dagmar Reinhardt is an architect and principal of reinhardt_jung architecture, based in Frankfurt/ Main. Reinhardt is the Studio Leader of the Master of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney. She has lectured and taught internationally, her work covers exhibitions, installations and curatorial work, publications, academic research and architectural projects. Reinhardt received a postgraduate degree of Conceptual Design from the Staedelschule Frankfurt (University of Fine Arts, with Enric Miralles, Mark Wigley and Peter Cook). Her PhD research investigates surface 271organisations in contemporary fashion and focuses on dynamic processes and spatial strategies, with an IPA/IPRS scholarship by the University of Sydney. www.reinhardt-jung.de
Thomas Rivard is an architect, artist, educator and performer, and director of Lean Productions, a multi-disciplinary practice making buildings, objects and fables, and dedicated to bringing together all manner of collaborators in the common (and uncommon) pursuit of the fantastic, the impossible and the improbable. He received a Bachelors Degree in Art History and Design from Dartmouth College and a masters of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught architecture and design at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, as well as co-coordinating the Urban Islands program. He is a founding member of Altogether Elsewhere, a collective of artists and producers dedicated to re-imagining the potential links between provocative cultural acts and the urban environments in which they thrive. As such, he is currently working to bring a calendar of events, performances and installations to Cockatoo Island. He divides his time. www.leanproductions.com.au
Jaime Rouillon is one of Latin America’s most significant emerging architects. Born in Peru, and now based in Costa Rica, he received his Masters in Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, forming Jaime Rouillon Arquitectura in 1994. His firm’s work includes urban, rural and coastal residences, offices, office buildings and hotels, all expressed via an architecture of celebration, of both the region and the rational. JRA’s work derives its conceptual strength from site and climate, a persistent personal search for expressionist freedom and a rigorous 272pursuit of craftsmanship in the built works. He received the 1st prize at the 1996, 2002 and 2006 Costa Rican Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and the III Triennal Panama, 2005. He has taught at Universidad Veritas and Universidad del Diseño in San Jose, and is also a permanent collaborator at Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica.
Dr. Marc Aurel Schnabel is lecturer in digital architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney. He teaches and researches in the field of virtual architectural design. Educated in Germany and Australia, Marc Aurel worked at international architectural practices in Berlin winning several competitions and awards. He researched in Hong Kong for over ten years in the fields of digital architectural design, virtual environments, design thinking and generative architecture. Marc Aurel is engaged in design and architecture within the Data Modelling Research Network and publishes extensively in international journals. He is a passionate educator who encourages emerging architects to communicate three-dimensional space using unconventional methods of design creation.
Craig Scott is a principal of Iwamoto Scott Architecture (IS.Ar) based in San Francisco. He received his Masters of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University and is currently an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA). In addition to studio teaching at all levels, he teaches a course in design tactics. IS.Ar describe their work as an attempt to “balance exploration in digital processes and media modelling of prototypes and hands-on material research with investigations into perceptual and experimental 273phenomena.” Recent projects include a theoretical proposal, Jellyfish House, for the Vitra Design Museum and Art Center College of Design, which uses ambient technology in the design if an infrastructural skin for water filtering on Treasure Island, a de-commissioned naval base and island in the San Francisco bay. www.iwamotoscott.com
Sam Tran is a senior student of the Bachelor of Architecture program at the University of Sydney. He was a member of the Responsive Environment group in the Urban Islands Studio, and has since found a new fascination and motivation for all kinds of things architectural. Sam enjoys skydiving and chocolate, and has excellent computing skills, which he has generously employed in the design of this volume. His favourite architect is Tadao Ando and he hopes to work in Japan in the future.
Chris Walsh graduated with first class honours in Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales. Fascinated with representation, he drifted toward graphics and design communication through various media. Chris has been instrumental in organising and running several international conferences and urban design competitions. After working on the Millennium Parklands project with HASSEL he joined the RAIA as Competitions and Exhibitions Manager working on competition programs and exhibitions both in Sydney and London. Since 1997 he has been teaching design and communication subjects at UNSW. In 2001 he managed and designed the content for the Parramatta 274Road urban design competition and the Pattern Book case studies. In 2000 he set up Movement, a graphic design and special projects unit – through which he recently completed the Australian War Memorial in London with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Janet Laurence. He is also responsible for the design and management of a web site for the same project.
Satoru Yamashiro is an architect and principal of the designers’ network ‘building landscape’. He also teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. In addition to his architectural and academic work, he is a key member of the award winning new media art group Responsive Environment (RE) which has exhibited throughout Asia and Europe. RE describes itself as a collective engaged in spatial expression through collaboration, crossing over diverse boundaries between architecture, image, music, dance and design. Since its formation in 1993, RE has undertaken a wide range of performances, installations and projects. The work attempts to bring together many factors to trigger settings (‘responsive environments’) that undergo continuous transfiguration. www.buildinglandscape.com, www.responsiveenvironment.com