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Dean's Message
Welcome to UNSW Built Environment Alumni Newsletter series. With 2015 underway, I take this opportunity to congratulate all our alumni and students who have received awards in recognition of their outstanding work and contributions to the built environment professions.
In addition to my prior announcement about the Seidler Chair in The Practice of Architecture, I am delighted to also announce the creation of the endowed UNSW Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture and an accompanying lecture to be delivered annually, so generously enabled by philanthropist Judith Neilson. UNSW Built Environment is honoured to be entrusted by Judith Neilson as the custodian of her vision to improve the lives of people through new knowledge in architecture and the education of future generations of architects.
The 2015 Utzon Lecture Series is already underway and the program of this year’s esteemed speakers is available online. In September LuminoCity will be held and alumni will be showcasing their work alongside that of current students. An alumni reunion for our graduates is planned as part of the LuminoCity celebrations and I look forward to seeing many of you at these and many other events throughout the year.
A special thanks to those alumni who got in touch when we put the call out in our last edition to assist current students by offering career advice, mentoring opportunities and internships. We are still in the early stages of getting a program underway and will keep you updated on its progress throughout the year.
I invite you to stay in touch and network with fellow alumni and built environment professionals by joining our Linkedin group UNSW Built Environment. To keep up to date with UNSW Built Environment news, visit www.be.unsw.edu.au/news
Best regards,
Professor Alec Tzannes AM
Dean, UNSW Built Environment
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UNSW News
UNSW welcomes new President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs
UNSW Australia’s newly appointed President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs outlines his aspirations for the next chapter in the development of the university and explains how he intends to engage and consult with staff about future directions.
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Unique in Australia
$10 million gift for Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture at UNSW
UNSW Built Environment has received a $10 million endowment from philanthropist Judith Neilson to help transform the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture is a full academic appointment focused on the delivery of better architecture and places of habitat for people of lower socio-economic means or for communities ravaged by geo-political events or natural disasters.
In addition, the faculty also announces the fully endowed Judith Neilson Lecture to be delivered annually. Read the full story
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This is Australia’s first fully endowed chair in Architecture. The scoping study for the appointment of the inaugural recipient has been completed and reviewed with a plan to commence the search formally within the next 4 weeks. We look forward to letting you know the news of the first appointee.
Dean Professor Alec Tzannes, AM with Judith Neilson
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Alumni Innovation
Hot headgear to hit the slopes
Tech-loving snowboarders and skiers will get a head start with the world’s first intelligent snow sports helmet, created by three UNSW graduates.
Packed into the high performance headgear is every tech device you can imagine, including a full HD camera, GPS, stereo speakers, a noise-cancelling microphone to communicate with friends via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, impact sensors, a microcomputer and an emergency beacon.
UNSW Industrial Design graduates Alfred Boyadgis and Julian Chow (BIndDes ’13) and Engineering graduate Georges Constantinos (BSci Comp Sci ’12) came up with the idea after a trip to the snow left them fumbling with frozen hands to operate their phones and cameras. Read the full story
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Awards
Recent Student & Alumni award recipients
We congratulate award recipients on their outstanding work and look forward to seeing what the rest of 2015 brings.
Alumnus Terry Spinolo (BSc Arch ’74, BArch ’77) and the Inarc Design Hong Kong team awarded Best Leisure Interior for The Library Restaurant and Best Retail Interior Award for The Levade in Beijing at 2014-2015 World’s Best International Property Awards
Alumnus Jin Chen Lee (BArch ’12) awarded the 2015 BlueScope Glenn Murcutt student prize for his project ‘Between Heaven and Earth: Avalon Surf Life Saving Club’ and Alumnus Barnaby Hartford-Davis (BArch ‘12) awarded the 2015 Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture as part of the 2015 AAA Awards
Interior Architecture Graduands Natarsha Tezcan, Olivia Green and Beatrice Tung named 2015 NSW finalists in the GOTYA Design Institute of Australia (DIA) Awards
Interior Architecture Graduand Natarsha Tezcan awarded 2015 Artichoke Magazine Prize for Design and Communication for her graduation work ‘Storyspace’. This prize is awarded to a final year student for excellence in the visual and written presentation of an interior design proposition
Landscape Architecture Graduand Hassan Naddi awarded the 2014 Landscape Architecture Australia Student Prize offered by Landscape Architecture Australia and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture
First year Master of Architecture Students Hugo Chan, Rina Yuen Ming Chan, Luen Ria Tumbali Samonte and Ramin Shojaie awarded First Prize in 2014 National Affordable Housing Consortium (NAHC) Design Competition, ‘Whole of Life, Whole of Use’
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Avalon Surf Lifesaving/Community Club by Jin Chen Lee
Blurring the boundary between social, economic and ecological systems of a landscape by Hassan Naddi
Prof George Earl, Chairman of the Board of the National Affordable Housing Consortium (NAHC) with students Hugo Chan, Luen Samonte and Hong-Thanh Nguyen
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Research News
Defining action to secure institutionally finance affordable housing
Efforts to engage institutional investment in rental housing provision were badly damaged by the 2014 termination of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS); yet lessons can be learned from the NRAS initiative and these should inform a successor program.
Building on our major 2013 study, a newly-published City Futures report reviews the NRAS experience and other emerging developments around the institutional financing of rental housing. Read the full story
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Milestones
MUDD Celebrates 20 Years
The Master of Urban Development and Design (MUDD) celebrated 20 years this month with two exhibitions in the Red Centre Gallery, showcasing both student and alumni works.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, the Master of Urban Development and Design Program launched the 2015 Utzon Lecture Series with the Paul Reid Lecture in Urban Design, entitled ‘Transforming Sydney: where it’s at, where it’s headed’ presented by Adjunct Professor Graham Jahn AM, Director of City Planning, Development & Transport, Sydney. Read the full story
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Professor James Weirick with Ye Chen (MUDD '08)
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- 26 August – 2 October: LuminoCity - save the date
- 60 Year Architecture Anniversary - dates to be announced
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Alumni Prize Winner
Congratulations to Ms. Yat-Chen Leong (BArch '06) who updated her contact details and won our December 2014 Leisure Space: The Transformation of Sydney 1945-1970 book competition.
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