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Procuring Innovative Architecture:

Using recognised exemplars to inform a government wide model for building a sustainable community of innovative practice
ARC Large Linkage Grant, 2006-8
Chief Investigators:
Leon van Schaik, RMIT Innovation Prof of Architecture
Geoff London, WA State Government Architect
Partners:
Department of Housing and Works WA | Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM)

Embedded Research within Architectural Practice

Technology Transfer through Embedded Research within Architectural Practice - the creation of an Australian practice-based architectural research and development network
Large ARC Linkage Grant, 2005-2007
Chief Investigators:
Mark Burry - Innovation Professor of Spatial Information Architecture, SIAL
Andrew Maher - Research Fellow, SIAL
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory
Partners:
Arup Melbourne | Black Koslof Knott | McGauran Giannini Soon | Terroir

Spatial Knowledge and the Built Environment

The Design Implications of Making, Processing and Digitally Prototyping Architectural Models
ARC Discovery Project, 2005-2007
Chief Investigators:
Mark Burry - Innovation Professor of Spatial Information Architecture (SIAL)
Peter Downton - Professor of Architectural Theory, School Research Director Andrea Mina - Assoc Professor of Interior Design
Michael Ostwald - Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Head, University of Newcastle
RMIT School of Architecture and Design

Ageing of Aquarius

Retirement Housing for Baby Boomers
ARC Linkage Grant, 2003-2005
Chief Investigators:
Urban Architecture Laboratory (UAL)
Shane Murray - Assoc Professor of Urban and Architectural Design, UAL
Peter Downton - Professor of Architectural Theory, School Research Director
Mike Berry - Professor of Urban Planning
Partners:
Mirvac Group (Mirvac HPA) | Cash Research

University Mobility Asia Pacific (UMAP) travel grants

Opportunistic Urbanism - An Architecture in the Margins
UAL Mexico Urban Seminar, Study Tour and Exchange
UMAP Funded
Tour Leader: Diego Ramirez, RMIT Architecture
Guadalajara, Mexico City, Mayan Ruins, Chiapas State
Mexico, Semester 2, 2006
Exchange partners:
Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Mexico
Related interview:Opportunistic Urbanism - Diego Ramirez on RMIT Architecture design research in Mexico
Interviewed by Stuart Harrison (RMIT Architecture Lecturer), Simon Knott, Rory Hyde
The Architects RRR Radio Show. 29 March 2007

Taiwan Mobility Studio

UMAP grant funded travelling upperpool studio
hosted by Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2001
Studio Leader:
Sand Helsel - RMIT Architecture Expanded Feild Group
Partners:
Tamkang University, Taipei
Related lecture:Sand Helsel, "Taipei Operations," (mp3 podcast), RAIA NSW Chapter, Tusculum, 3 Manning Street Potts Point, Sydney, May 09, 2006
Related publications:Sand Helsel, Taipei Operations, Taipei: Human Environment Group, November 2004.
Sand Helsel, "Action (Verb) Taipei" in AD: Urban Flashes Asia, ed Nicholas Boyarsky and Peter Lang, London: John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

By-Product Tokyo Seminar

UMAP grant funded travelling upperpool studio and urban research seminar hosted by Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 1999
Staff:
Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny
Partners:
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto - Tsukamoto Lab (TITech); Practice: Atelier Bow Wow
Kazunari Sakamoto - (TITech)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
Related book:Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Marika Neustupny, By Product Tokyo, Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2003
Related project:Rapt! Laboratory for Social Space Melbourne, 2006

Publication Grants

Allpress, Brent and Ostwald, Michael, founding editors, Architectural Design Research: project-based design research and discourse on design, vol 1, no. 1, 2005. This is the first international refereed journal to primarily publish project-based architectural design research. It is supported by the AASA with an ongoing annual grant of $30,000.

Architectural Design Research website (Opens new win