Monash University’s school of architecture and design has announced a handful of new staff appointments to help shape the future direction of the school. Appointments include professors, industry fellows and lecturers who have been onboarded to help strengthen the department’s identity for practice-based research and real-world impact.
Head of department professor Mel Dodd said the latest appointments represent an “inspiring new set of voices with a diverse range of professional experiences” to assist in the common goal of using architecture to interrogate the social and environmental challenges of the world today.
“A shared expertise in experimental practice-based research means these practitioners are all prototyping new models for how we live together in real-time,” said Dodd. “This aligns with our mission at Monash to demonstrate impact across wider scales and systems through direct action transdisciplinary enquiry across science, technology and health which addresses both built and natural environments, the human and the non-human.”
The following appointments have been made:
Dr Louise Wright, founder and director at Baracco and Wright Architects, has been made architecture practice professor. Wright is interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that supports all life.
Hae-Won Shin has been appointed senior lecturer in professional practice. A Korean architect, she founded Lokal Design in Seoul in 2005 and received the Young Architect Award from the Korean Architects Institute in 2013.
Danielle Peck (left) and co-director Samuel Hunter.
Image: Architecture Associates
Danielle Peck, educator and founding director of Architecture Associates, has been made industry fellow. Peck is interested in ideas embedded in the socio-political issues of contemporary cities and cultural phenomena.
James Bowman Fletcher is an architectural and social researcher and practising architect. Fletcher has also been made industry fellow. His work explores the intersections and distances between architecture and the social sciences, with a specific interest in architecture’s relationship to institutions.
Dr Victor Bunster has been appointed lecturer in architecture, technology, construction and fabrication. Originating from Chile, Bunsten’s work as a project architect has covered the social housing construction industry, and his research focuses on the intersection of industrialised construction, environmental performance assessment, ICTs and design computing.
Jean-Paul Rollo has been made senior lecturer in architecture and professional practice. Roll is a registered architect, with extensive experience as an academic, and is actively engaged in the profession through a research-based design practice and is an examiner for the Architects Registration Board of Victoria.
