Dear staff,

Fabricate is the official student newsletter at the Melbourne School of Design. You are receiving this email as a current student or staff member of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. The cover image is of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, designed by Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei in 1973. Pei, who is arguably the greatest living member of the modernist generation of architects, is a long-time proponent for modernist design often using hard geometric forms and clean lines in his buildings. He rebelled as an architecture student against the beaux arts education he received at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1930s and went on to develop his style through following the work of then up and coming architect Le Corbusier. This museum building ‘was conceived as having one continuous, flowing surface of board-formed concrete, wrapping from outside to inside without distinction between the two’. The planning of the spaces is based on a modular system or framework of 4 feet 6 inches, which also contributed to the building's spectacular geometry and proportion.

Date: Application due Monday 9 September
Prizes: $1000, $500 and $200 to be won

The 20-minute City suggests a compact local city based upon our work, recreation and social lives played out only 20 minutes from home. Wha does this mean for the provision of the systems on which we rely - energy, ecology, economy and culture?

Teams of 3 - 5 students are invited to devise a script and produce a five minute film for the ideal 20-minute City. You can record using a smart phone or camcorder.

Acclaim: The top five videos, as judged by an expert panel, will be exhibited as part of the University of Melbourne's Festival of Ideas.

Use all your skills in planning, design and digital technologies to make a mini-documentary for the future 20-minute City as utopia, dystopia or simply the new everyday.

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Date: Applications close 5pm Monday 9 September
Location: Stuttgart, Germany

The University of Stuttgart in Germany is offering a six-week Architecture Design Studio workshop. The workshop will run from the 13 January to 21 February 2014.

Eligibility: You must be enrolled in the 200-point Master of Architecture or enrolled in the final 100 points of the  300-point Master of Architecture as at January 2014.

The main focus of this workshop is the development of innovative and integrative architectural and technical concepts. Emphasis will be given to sustainable construction and to the intelligent application of renewable energy in architecture. Lectures related to the workshop topic and excursions to interesting architectural sights will accompany the workshop program.

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Dates: Applications open Monday 9 September
Locations: 'Walsh Street', South Yarra & McCaughey Court, Ormond College

In November this year the Melbourne School of Design will again be hosting the Robin Boyd Studio in collaboration with the Robin Boyd Foundation. This master class is a one-week intensive studio subject held over six days and involves an intensive design studio culminating in design presentations by participants with critique by the studio tutors, invited guests and project stakeholders.

The subject ABPL90354 will be worth 12.5 points and students will be able to take it as a multidisciplinary elective or as architecture elective. All applicants are encouraged to have completed at least one Master of Architecture Studio - C, D or E.

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Date: Tuesday 3 September
Time: 1.15 - 2.00 pm
Venue: Harold White Theatre, Level 2, 757 Swanston St

The AND Speaker Series aims to connect students with the architectural and design community that surrounds them to foster networking and links with industry.

Talks are held each Tuesday at the faculty. The next session will feature Alfred de Bruyne from SJB.

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Date: Expressions of interest due Friday 27 September

The Faculty of Architecture and Planning and the Melbourne School of Design is looking for a student current admitted into an MSD graduate program to sit on the ABP Library Sub Committee.

The committee meets 4 times a year and is a great opportunity for current MSD students to be involved in the discussions about the ABP library collections and matters, especially leading up to the opening of the new ABP Library in the new building in 2015. The committee will next meet in early November.

To be considered, please prepare a 300-500 word statement on why you would like to sit on the committee and email to Fleur Hickman at the student centre before the due date listed above.

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Date: Tuesday 17 September
Time: 1.00 - 3.00 pm
Venue: Room 309, Alice Hoy Building

Academic Skills presents a free workshop for MUP students currently enrolled in ABPL90217 MSD Minor Thesis (Part 1) in September. The workshop will cover the writing demands of the key parts thesis,such as the Literature Review and the Results sections of the work and will alsoexplore coherence, cohesion and achieving an appropriate academic tone.

This session is open to all Masters of Urban Planning thesis writer students. No booking required - just turn up on the day.

Click on the button below to email Steven Thurlow for more information

Dates: Monday 2 & Monday 9 September
Time:1.15 - 2.15 pm
Venue: various

The MSD introduces this inaugural seminar series exclusively for our Master of Architecture 3 year students entitled Career Insights. We have invited three influential guest speakers who will give an overview of their career and their influences. What is currently inspiring them, what keeps them interested and what are the challenges. All staff welcome to attend.

SiBLiNG
Monday 2 September
Harold White Theatre

Professor Donald Bates
Monday 9 September
Baldwin Spencer Lecture Theatre

Click on the button below or email Fleur Hickman for more information

Date: Tuesday 24 September
Time: 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Venue: Baldwin Spencer Theatre, Baldwin Spencer Building

Do you have an academic average of 65% or more? Thinking of going on exchange/study abroad for Semester 2, 2014? Looking for some guidance with your overseas study plan?

The Environments and Design Student Centre will be holding an information session to assist students currently preparing their exchange or study abroad application. Students will have the opportunity to ask staff questions after the session.

Students attending this event must have already attended a myWorld First Step session.

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Date: Thursday 12 September - Friday 4 October
Time: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Venue: Wunderlich@757, 757 Swanston Street

SiBLiNG will present ON/OFF, a dynamic exhibition as part of the ABP Alumni Survey Series this September in the Wunderlich @757. ON/OFF will explore the spatial implications of connectivity - an issue the eight directors of this young practice consider vital to the future of society.

"Connection is a popular motif in architecture: all types of infrastructure - bridges, pathways, transportation, service systems and applications - wish to tie into the urban fabric to make things productive. Architecture also has a preoccupation with attempting to engender social and / or political connectivity; in the agora, the communal housing project, the public library."

The Wunderlich @757 will become a space of disconnection where no forces can penetrate, as these emerging architect develop a structure through which to explore the range of socio-spatial opportunities between the state of "on" and "off".

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Date: Saturday 31 August
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square
Co-curated: Louise MacKenzie

As part of Cinecity Architectural Film Project, there will be a screening of The Pudding Thieves which stars Georges Tibbits, who taught architecture at The University of Melbourne for almost 30 years. The film also includes architecture students (at the time, 1967) Sue Ingelton (The Pram Factory) and Rob Lovett (The Loved Ones).

Heavily influenced by the then new French New Wave, the Carlton-based filmmaker Brian Davies crafted a film which sparked a wave of renewed 16mm filmmaking activity. The story of two photographers who scrape together a living dabbling in pornography referenced many of their American and French filmmaking contemporaries.

Screens with two 1968 shorts, Hey Al, Baby by David Minter and Peter Elliot's The Girlfriends starring Jack Hibberd and Graeme Blundell. ACMI will be providing give aways (x5) for ABP students.

Click on the button below for more information and email Louise Mackenzie about details on the giveaways, by clicking on the email button below.

Date: Tuesday 10 September & Tuesday 19 November
Venue: Main Hall, Burnley Campus
Cost: $150

The University of Melboune's Burnley Campus is celebrating the 150th year of its historic gardens. To celebrate, we are holding four one-day symposia exploring contemporary issues in urban landscapes. There are two symposia left in the series so don't miss out.

• Contemporary Planting Design | Tuesday 10 September
• Garden Landscapes: Finding a New Way | Tuesday 19 November

A special discount concession rate of $150 applies for students.

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Dates: Thursday 12 September & Thursday19 September
Times: various
Venue: Theatre A, Old Arts Building

Workshops for Graduate Coursework students writing minor theses in the Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and related fields including the disciplines within the Melbourne School of Design are being organised by Academic Skills in August and September.

Topics covered will include:

• getting started
• reviewing the literature
• writing introductions, conclusions and discussion sections
• editing the final draft

For full details and enrolments, visit the Academic Skills workshop calendar

Date: Applications close Friday 27 September
Prize: $8000

The COLORBOND® steel Student Biennale is Australia’s longest running prize for student architecture. The competition represents the profession’s recognition of quality in design by students of architecture. It acknowledges outstanding design work and communicates this quality to both students and the profession.

Entry into the 2014 Colorbond Steel Student Biennale is open to the following

• Students who completed an Institute recognised Australian architecture course in the year ending 12 months before the year of the Prize;
• Undergraduate or Masters students enrolled in an Institute recognised Australian architecture course during the year prior to the year of the Prize.
• Entries previously submitted for the Glenn Murcutt Student Prize are ineligible.

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Dates: Monday 30 September – Sunday 6 October
Location: Parkville campus
Coordinator: Dr Hao Wu & Mr Keith Mckinnell

If you're interested in learning more about real estate in Asia, you might want to consider enrolling into the intensive subject ABPL90318 Asian Real Estate Case Studies. The subject will create a multidisciplinary environment in which students are encouraged to review solutions to a whole range of planning, development, project delivery, and investment problems and to generate alternative options in the context of Asia’s key cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.

Prerequisites: Admission into one of the MSD courses, plus completion of ABPL90026 Property Development or permission from the subject coordinator

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