Beatriz Colomina - Inflection 06 - Originals

Inflection Journal

Volume 06 - Originals

November 2019

Cover image:

Anna Petrou, Brittany

Weidemann & Harrison Brooks

Inside cover:

Appropriated image of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. Original image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Inflection is published annually by the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne and AADR: Art Architecture Design Research.

Editors:

Anna Petrou, Brittany Weidemann and Harrison Brooks

Editorial Advisor and Sub-editor:

Amelia Willis

Academic Advisor:

Dr. AnnMarie Brennan

Academic Advisory Board:

Dr. AnnMarie Brennan

Prof. Alan Pert

Acknowledgements:

The editors would like to thank all those involved in the production of this journal for their generous assistance and support.

For all enquiries please contact: editorial@inflectionjournal.com

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ISSN 2199-8094

ISBN 978-3-88778-569-7

eISBN 978-3-88778-912-1

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CONTRIBUTORS

Alison Brooks

Alison Brooks, principal and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed an international reputation for a multi-award winning body of work since founding the practice in 1996. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1962, she moved to London in 1988 after graduating with a Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.

Anna Kilpatrick

Anna Kilpatrick is a recent graduate of the Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, having previously completed a Bachelor of Arts at the same university. Following her studies, Kilpatrick has continued to pursue her interests in the intersection between architecture and other disciplines and is working as an exhibition designer in Melbourne.

Adam Peacock

Adam Peacock is a post-disciplinary artist, designer and consultant. Founder of The Validation Junky, an experimental lens on how technology is changing who people aspire to become though brands and products. Peacock is an Associate Lecturer of Design Strategy and Future Related Design at London College of Fashion, Master of Fashion Futures. In collaboration with Isun Kazerani, Peacock tutored Studio 13, Architecture-Fashion Lab for the Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 2019.

Betsabea Bussi

Betsabea Bussi graduated from the Politecnico di Torino with a Master of Architecture Construction and City (hons) in 2017. She took part in the excellence programme at the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) where she was awarded a double degree in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research continues at the Politecnico di Torino as a PhD student, which focuses on 18th-and 19th-century urban history and the development of seasonal cities through early tourist phenomena.

Beatriz Colomina

Professor Beatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Professor Colomina writes on questions of design, art, sexuality and media. She has curated a number of exhibitions including ‘Clip/Stamp/Fold’ (2006), ‘Playboy Architecture’ (2012) and ‘Radical Pedagogies’ (2014). In 2016 she was co-curator of the third Istanbul Design Biennial. Her latest book released in 2019, X-Ray Architecture, explores the connection between illness and architecture.

Ben Waters

Ben Waters is founder of Siii Projects and principal at OSK Architects. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from RMIT University and studied at Parsons School of Design, New York. In 2014, Waters was awarded a residency position at Berlin’s Centre for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U).

Brittany Weidemann

Brittany Weidemann is a current editor of Inflection. She is a Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Melbourne and holds a Bachelor of Environments in Architecture. In 2018, Weidemann received a Deans Honour Award for her studies. She has gained experience in practice while working at the architectural firm Rothelowman in Melbourne.

Deniz Balik Lokce

Deniz Balik Lokce works for the Dokuz Eylul University Department of Architecture as an Associate Professor. She holds an Master of Science from the Istanbul Technical University and a PhD from Dokuz Eyll University in architectural design. She is published internationally, including The Journal of Architecture, Architectural Research Quarterly, METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, and The Journal of Modern Craft. In 2015, she published her first book, Deciphering Ornament: Discourses and Thresholds in Architectural History.

Dominic On

Dominic On completed a Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 2016. He has served as an editor for Inflection vol. 4, taught high school English, and assisted in teaching architectural theory at his alma mater . Dominic is currently an architectural graduate at Kneeler Design Architects, where he continues to mould minds by designing learning environments in Victoria. He is also an illustrator and occasional animator, with interest in the role architecture plays in shaping personal and collective memory.

Francesca Zanotto

Francesca Zanotto is an architect. In 2018 she was awarded a PhD from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano where she also teaches. Her research focuses on the implications of changing consumption, economical and political patterns for architecture and design culture. She was a visiting PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology, studying the application of the paradigm of circular economies and the design of the built environment.

Hannah Wood

Hannah Wood is an architect and writer currently based in Tanzania, East Africa. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sheffield in the UK and Master of Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Wood’s ongoing ‘Futures’ column for online publication Archinect is widely followed within the industry, the column explores technological developments set to shape the architectural profession in the coming decades.

James Boden

James Boden is a current student of the Master of Architecture programme at the University of Melbourne. Boden holds a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Sydney. In the past, he has worked for Candalepas Associates. Boden is interested in modest design approaches to housing and affordability and in channelling appropriate materiality that is both sustainable and endemic to its location.