RMIT Architecture & Urban Design

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE - MAJOR PROJECT FESTIVAL
FINAL REVIEW WEEK 15

DATE: Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th June 2026
TIME: refer to canvas Schedule
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub, refer to canvas Schedule for room locations.

RMIT Students refer to CANVAS announcement for schedule.

RMIT Architecture would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Major Project Festival - Work in Progress Reviews. Students undertaking their Major Project (Master of Architecture) will present their projects and propositions in progress for critique and discussion with a panel of supervisors.

All RMIT Architecture students and staff are welcome to attend. We particularly encourage students undertaking Masters Design Studios to attend as it will assist them in preparing for Major Project in the future semesters.

At RMIT Architecture students undertake an independent graduating project under the supervision of their nominated supervisor and within a group context. Major Project is the capstone course at RMIT Architecture where students are expected to undertake design-practice research and develop and articulate and well-argued architectural position through the ex*****on of an architectural design project. It is an opportunity to demonstrate new kinds of knowledge and ideas through architecture.


Background Image: ‘Enough is Never Enough' - Amanda Zhuoran Chen, recipient of the Anne Butler Memorial Medal Semester 2, 2025

Supervisor: Anna Johnson

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RMIT Architecture END OF SEMESTER EXHIBITION – OPENING NIGHT – Friday 26th June Semester 1 2026 - ALL WELCOME!

The students and staff of RMIT Architecture and the Master of Urban Design would like to invite you to the opening of our END OF SEMESTER EXHIBITION featuring work from all RMIT Architecture and Master of Urban Design students (Masters Major Project, Bachelor and Masters Design Studios, Bachelors Foundation Semester and Architecture Design Electives).

OPENING: FRIDAY 26th June 2026 - 6.00PM - 9.00PM
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Corner Victoria and Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Design Hub Gallery, Level 3 & Level 7

Please join us at 6:30pm in the Design Hub Gallery for the OPENING SPEECHES and awarding of Design Studio and Graduating Project AWARDS FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE - and much more!

Exhibition Dates:
Major Project and Bachelor Foundations (level 2): Saturday 27th June to Friday 3rd July
TIME: 12.00PM - 5.00PM

Bachelor and Master Design Studios (level 7): Saturday 27th June to Friday 3rd July
TIME: 12.00PM - 5.00PM

Link for poster: https://bit.ly/4dIfiFM

Background Image: “Enough is Never Enough” by Amanda Zhuoran Chen, Major Project Semester 2 2025, Awarded the Anne Butler Memorial Medal and Leon van Schaik Peer Assessed Award. Supervisor: Anna Johnson

END OF SEMESTER CRITS for RMIT Master of Architecture - Design Studios.
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Best Wishes to all our students! Looking forward to seeing your projects and propositions!

The Architecture end-semester crits are a formal review. Students are encouraged to attend a range of end-semester crits in order to develop a familiarity with the different projects undertaken in the design stream and to encourage discussion around the ideas and propositions presented. Please see links for schedule of times and locations for the end-semester crits.

Please note that although an open-door policy operates for studio crits, we remind you that these sessions are formal presentations & ask that all students and guests behave accordingly.

For all crits being held off site, please make sure you confirm with the studio leaders before attending.

Link below for the End-Semester poster:
M.ARCH - https://bit.ly/4fNIj4a

END OF SEMESTER CRITS for RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design - Design Studios.
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Best Wishes to all our students! Looking forward to seeing your projects and propositions!

The Architecture end-semester crits are a formal review. Students are encouraged to attend a range of end-semester crits in order to develop a familiarity with the different projects undertaken in the design stream and to encourage discussion around the ideas and propositions presented. Please see links for schedule of times and locations for the end-semester crits.

Please note that although an open-door policy operates for studio crits, we remind you that these sessions are formal presentations & ask that all students and guests behave accordingly.

For all crits being held off site, please make sure you confirm with the studio leaders before attending.

Link below for the End-Semester poster:
B.ARCH - https://bit.ly/4dYdF5T

RMIT DESIGN PRACTICE RESEARCH ALUMNA ERIETA ATTALI PRESENTS EXHIBITION ON THE WORK OF KENGO KUMA

Kengo Kuma: The Flow of Lines through the Lens of Erieta Attali


On the occasion of the exhibition opening at the Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing, Kengo Kuma will give a lecture followed by a conversation with Erieta Attali and Sergei Tchoban, moderated by Barry Bergdoll.



With the exhibition Kengo Kuma – The Flow of Lines through the Lens of Erieta Attali, the Museum of Architectural Drawing explores the dialogue between architecture, drawing and photography. The presentation centres on 86 hand-drawn sketches by the internationally renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which are given a new visual dimension through 18 selected art photographs by Erieta Attali.




Erieta Attali is an architecture and fine art landscape photographer with photographic work expanding from Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. Attali has devoted over two decades to exploring the relationship between architecture and the landscape at the edges of the world. Her photography interrogates how extreme conditions and demanding terrains provoke humankind to reorient and center itself through architectural responses.

Read the full bio here:
http://www.erietaattali.com/biography/



Kengo Kuma – The Flow of Lines through the Lens of Erieta Attali

Place: Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Christinenstraße 18a, 10119 Berlin
Exhibition opening: 12.06.2026, 19:00
Exhibition dates: 13.06. – 13.09.2026
Opening hours: Mon–Fri 14:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 13:00–17:00; admission: €6 / concessions €4
For more information please visit: www.tchoban-foundation.de.


Aedes Exhibition Talk – Kengo Kuma Public Lecture & Conversation Erieta Attali

Date: Fri., 12.06.2026, 16:00

Place: Aedes, Christinenstr. 18–19, 10119 Berlin

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/4wubk9ab







Image 1-2: Erieta Attali, Wood/Pile, Kruen, Germany. © Erieta Attali

Image 3: Erieta Attali, ek Magazine, Interview Cover Image, © Erieta Attali

RMIT ARCHITECTURE STAFF AND PHD STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN CAADRIA 2026

RMIT Architecture staff and PhD students recently participated in the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2026), held at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Two research papers from RMIT Architecture were accepted and presented at the conference, which are co-authored by RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer Dr Nic Bao and PhD students Harlan Zhaonan Guo, Jason Zhan, and Yang Yu. The presentations were delivered both in person and online, reflecting the team’s ongoing research across computational design, timber construction, artificial intelligence, and advanced fabrication. Dr Nic Bao also chaired the online session “Additive Manufacturing at Scale” on the second day of the conference.

The team also led the CAADRIA workshop, “Human-Machine Collaborative Assembly Using a Relative Robotic System.” Due to travel issues, the workshop was delivered in a hybrid format. Led by Dr Nic Bao, Prof. Mike Xie, Harlan Guo, Jason Zhan and Yang Yu, the workshop explored new approaches to human-machine collaborative construction. During the workshop, participants assembled two timber structures through a hybrid workflow that combined AR-assisted on-site assembly with a self-developed robotic system operated remotely under the supervision of the instructors.

Dr Nic Bao was re-elected as CAADRIA Secretary for another term, having served in this role over the past two years. He also served on the Awards Committee for the Young CAADRIA Award and Best Paper Award.

Congratulations to the RMIT Architecture team on their active participation and contributions to CAADRIA 2026.


Image credit: Nic Bao

PRS AU JUNE 2026 - RMIT DESIGN PRACTICE PhD PROGRAM - EXAMINATIONS NEXT WEEK! – PROGRAM OUT NOW!

Design-practice PhD candidates from the Schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Design, Art, Fashion & Textiles and Media and Communication will present their research to panels of academic researchers and expert critics and the event will hold a number of examination presentations.

Full details of the event, including information on all milestone and work in progress presentations, can be found at the Practice Research Portal
https://practice-research.com/symposia/prs-australia-june-2026

Image 1: Michael Chapman: The Fictional Architecture of Fictional Architects whose first name is Michael
Supervisors: Dr. Michael Spooner, Assoc. Prof. Anna Johnson
EXAMINATION DATE: Tuesday 2nd June 2026
TIME: 9:30am - 11:30am AEDT
WHERE: RMIT Design Hub Gallery. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start time.
LINK: https://events.rmit.edu.au/event/3fbff884-abce-4078-af99-3e94b66a84ec/register

Image 2: Alan 'Ho Kyeong' Kim: Fibrous Tectonics | Amalgamation
Supervisors: Prof. Roland Snooks, Prof. Stuart Bateman, Dr. Phillip Crothers
EXAMINATION DATE: Thursday 4th June 2026
TIME: 2:00pm - 4:00pm AEDT.
WHERE: RMIT Design Hub Gallery. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start time.
LINK: https://events.rmit.edu.au/event/0e63859e-4624-43ac-bba9-a05c00c79ba9/register





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JOIN US FOR PRS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2026! PRS - RMIT DESIGN PRACTICE PhD PROGRAM - PRS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2026 EXAMINATIONS, MILESTONE AND WORK IN PROGRESS PRESENTATIONS (01 June – 06 June) – PROGRAM OUT NOW!

The School of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Design, School of Fashion & Textiles, School of Media and Communication and the School of Art at RMIT University would like to invite our Practice Research Symposium Australia and broader PRS community to participate in the upcoming candidate milestone and work in progress presentations.

Candidates are practitioners from a range of career stages, many of whom have already developed a substantial and distinctive body of work. The design practice research undertaken by candidates is through reflective or generative modes of practice research, or a hybrid of these. Commencing at RMIT Architecture over 35 years ago it is an enduring and sustained body of research: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice.

RMIT Architecture and Urban Design PhD candidate milestone presentations will take place on June 5 – 6 at the RMIT Design Hub.

Upcoming PRS AU EVENTS:

Sovereignty and Sonic Resistance: Raven Chacon, Hayden Ryan, Kimberley Moulton
DATE: Thursday 4th June 2026
TIME: 12:15pm – 13:15pm AEDT
LOCATION: Lecture Theater, Level 3, Building 100 (Design Hub), RMIT University

Examination Exhibition Opening
DATE: Thursday 4th June 2026
TIME: 17:30pm – 18:30pm AEDT
LOCATION: Design Hub Gallery, Level 2 RMIT Design Hub


Design Practice Research and the Examination Exhibit
DATE: Saturday 6th June 2026
TIME: 12:20pm – 13:20 pm AEDT
LOCATION: Building 100 (Design Hub), Level 10, Pavilion 1


Practice Research Portal and event registrations:
https://practice-research.com/symposia/prs-australia-june-2026

Image 1: An ideogram for Openwork’s bollard seating at RMIT Design Hub. Image: Openwork

RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design invites you to a public lecture led by Brendan MacFarlane co-founder of Jakob+MacFarlane

DATE: Friday 5 June 2026
TIME: 1:00pm- 2:00pm
LOCATION: RMIT Design Hub Building 100, Level 3, Ground Level Lecture Theatre, 150 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3000
POSTER: https://tinyurl.com/4p3phyzh
Register: https://tinyurl.com/yhb9x932 (Link in Bio)

In this lecture presenting the recent work of Jakob+MacFarlane, Brendan MacFarlane explains the Paris-based office’s approach to creating new architecture out of existing environments. “Creating With” is an attitude that rejects demolition in favour of maintaining, adapting, altering, and transforming. To use what’s already there – as a source, a material, a starting point – is a way of working in a world defined by waste and exhaustion of resources.

How can we grow with the existing in mind? How do we adapt to an increasingly challenged world while being as creative and innovative as possible in the face of these challenges?

In their project for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Jakob+MacFarlane proposed adding a temporary scaffolding structure to the historic French pavilion during its renovation, challenging our ideas about protection and shelter in a world more and more exposed. Using this structure as a new exhibition space, they invited architects from around the world to show works responding creatively to climate disturbance, resource scarcity, and conflict. This project is now touring the world as a nomadic structure – seeking to provoke, convince, and ultimately prove that architecture can meet the challenge..


Image Credits:
Renovation of the Renaud-Barrault Library,
Photography by Roland Halbe
Brendan MacFarlane,
Photography by Alexandre Tabaste