STUDIO 8
By Scott Woods & Kim Vo
With Pippo Ciorra
Final Review
EUROPEAN SESSION
7:00 - 10:00 PM AEDT Monday 9 November 2020.
Presenting Students:
Lachlan Welsh
Yi Wang
Hongchang (Andy) Duan
Oskar Rosa
Sharleen Wonorahardjo
Jacob Kormazynski
Invited Panelists:
Prof Pippo Ciorra (MAXXI)
Prof Thordis Arhennius (KTH School of Architecture Stockholm)
Dr Chiara Velicogna (IUAV)
Prof Alan Pert (Melbourne School of Design)
Prof Corbett Lyon (Lyons Architecture)
Belinda Yang (Melbourne School of Design)
Zoom Link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/86242738393
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AMERICAN SESSION
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM AEDT Thursday 12 November 2020.
Presenting Students:
Manning McBride
Nang Hang Zhang
Yichen Cao
Jessica Liu
Erin Campbell
Christopher Filippidis
Invited Panelists:
Prof Pippo Ciorra (MAXXI)
Dr Chiara Velicogna (IUAV)
Prof Diane Ghirardo (USC School of Architecture)
Prof Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale School of Architecture)
Giovanna Borasi (Canadian Centre for Architecture)
Prof Paul Walker (Melbourne School of Design)
Richen Jin (Melbourne School of Design)
Zoom Link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/82852141305
Password: studio8
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Studio Description
In association with MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI, Rome), and anticipating the major retrospective Aldo Rossi. The Architect And The Cities, at the Zaha Hadid designed, National Museum of 21st Century Art (MAXXI) opening in December 2020
The architecture exhibition lies at the confounded intersection of the representation and generation of architecture and its discourses. The institutional setting of the museum functions as the place for the display of architecture, but paradoxically, suspends any evidence of architecture actually ‘being’ there. This architecture in absentia resists the museum’s institutional codes, practices and perceptual histories – something that art cannot do, but something that architecture seems to do naturally. Architectures unease in the museum buttresses Aldo Rossi’s claim of the disciplinary autonomy of architecture.
Studio Outcome
Students will engage with digitised drawings and other documents of Multi-Residential Housing Projects held by the MAXXI Architecture Archive. These projects have been influenced by Aldo Rossi’s popular ideas of the 60s, 70s, and 80s that supported the rejection of Modernism and the reconsideration of historical time within the architecture of the city. Projects from the Archive become canvases for students to investigate:
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The idea of the Monument within architecture culture
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The idea of Display within the museum
Through an initial research and development phase students will move in to a ‘major project’ with the aim to corroborate suspicions that the museum is a place for the displacement of architecture. Consequently, students should make a case for how Architectures displacement within their projects are equivalent to the coming into being of new architectural modalities, co-dependent, or independent of the museum.
Students will work with the interior of the Zaha Hadid designed MAXXI museum, via supplied drawings, as the ‘context’ for their multi-residential project.
Studio Leaders
Scott Woods is an Academic Fellow in Architecture at MSD, and coordinator of the foundation studio in the Bachelor of Design. Scott investigates the museum, its curatorial conditions and representations by leading design studios at MSD and at ECA in Venice. His work in the design studio provides a context for the incubation and negotiation of interdisciplinary concerns governing museum futures.
Kim Võ is an architecture graduate from the University of Melbourne, where he was a recipient of the Dean’s Honour Award in 2018 and 2019. Kim has worked in architectural practice both in Vietnam and Australia. He is the current Senior Studio Tutor in Foundation of Design: Representation at the University of Melbourne.