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 a perspective drawing from La Città Nuova, 1914. It was part of a series of design drawings for a futurist Città Nuova ("New City") that was conceived as symbolic of a new age by influential Italian architect Antonio Sant'Elia. His vision was for a highly industrialised and mechanized city of the future, which he saw not as a mass of individual buildings but a vast, multi-level, interconnected and integrated urban conurbation designed around the "life" of the city. His extremely influential designs featured vast monolithic skyscraper buildings with terraces, bridges and aerial walkways that embodied the sheer excitement of modern architecture and technology.

Date: Tuesday 12 to Thursday 21 February

The Melbourne School of Design in conjunction with the Victorian Department of Transport will be running a studio led by notable English architect Professor Sir Peter Cook.

This subject will be open to all Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture students who have completed at least ONE Masters level studio subject.

To be considered for this subject, please enrol via your study plan by Friday 1 February. Selection will be based on academic merit.

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Dr Peter Raisbeck has been appointed the new Co-ordinator for the Master of Architecture programme. Peter will be actively working with Donald Bates, Philip Goad and the New MSD director Alan Pert to actively build the design culture of the architecture program.

Peter is a registered architect who, after graduating from RMIT Architecture in 1986, ran his own small practice. In 1998 he departed from practice to complete an MBA in finance. Following a spell in IT working for a series of dot.coms and research centres, Peter drifted back to architecture and completed a PhD in architectural history on utopian cities of the 1960s. With a core background in architecture, a PhD and a MBA in finance, Peter’s current research interests are varied. In recent years he has published research on procurement and PPPs and conducted a number of research consultancies in this area.

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Date:  Thursday 21 February
Time: 6 .00 - 7.00 pm

Professor Sir Peter Cook RA, founder of Archigram, former Director at the Institute for Contemporary Art and Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London, has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century.

Professor Cook will commence our Dean's Lecture Series for 2013.

More information to be published

Date: Application due 30 April

Cinecity presents an architectural film competition, screened at Federation Square, during the 2013 National Architecture Conference. In the Competition we invite artists, architects and film-makers to explore the theme of the 2013 AIA National Architecture Conference, "Material" by examining relationships and differences between the material and conceptual, the physical and immaterial, between the ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’, between a building and an idea of a building.

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Date: Monday 21 January 2013

The Environments and Design Student Centre (EDSC) is developing a brand new website for graduate students in courses run by the Melbourne School of Design as well as current Bachelor of Environments students.

This new EDSC website aims to provide you with all the information you need to successfully manage your studies and make the most of your time at University. You will find sample course plans, information about exchange and study abroad, summer subjects, overloading, extensions, special consideration and much more.

The EDSC website will continue to be developed leading up to the launch date of 21 January 2013. The website will be fully functional by 31 March 2013. We welcome students and staff to preview the site by clicking on the info button below.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome and can be directed to Daniel Dorall by clicking on the email button below.

Date: Applications close Friday 26 April

The 2013 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has launched and is inviting applications from schools of architecture around the world. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student by a panel of judges which includes Lord Foster and the President of the RIBA.

Students from all RIBA or CAA validated degree programmes from Schools of Architecture worldwide are invited to apply for this £6,000 scholarship, which funds international research on topics and in locations of the student's choosing.

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Date: survey closes Friday 8 March

Attention New Students, we want your feedback!

Go in the draw to win a 15” MACBOOK Pro or a 16GB iPad with Retina display or one of five $100 Co-op bookshop vouchers when you complete the 2013 Commencing Student Survey. It will take around 15 minutes to complete and will help the University of Melbourne plan for a range of activities.

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Dates: December 2012 - April 2013

The Architecture and Old Commerce Buildings are being demolished over the next few months to make way for ABP's new building, designed by John Wardle Architects and NADAAA.

Demolition Program

Demolition works to both buildings (BN133 and BN 132) commenced on 14 December 2012 and will continue through to April 2013.  The contractors will break between 22 and 26 December and return on 27 December on working 7am to 5pm Monday to Saturdays.   The heaviest works will occur from late January 2013 to the end of March 2013.

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