Associate Professor Richard Black

Research areas

• The relationship of architecture to large scale landscape systems

• The interface between land and water

• Designing for uncertainty, ephemeral architecture

• Site knowledge and its impact upon the design process

• Site and siting as strategic phases of the design process.

Awards and achievements

2002   Special Commendation: awarded for new residential building design. Awarded by the Town of Vincent, Western Australia for the Mt Hawthorn House.

1997   CHASA refereed design award – “Marking the Earth” Lower Pool design Studio RMIT .

1996   AA prize for unbuilt work – winning entry. Architectural concepts category – project: Pied-á-terre.

1996   AA prize for unbuilt work - jury mention. Building design category – project: Yokohama Port Terminal.

Exhibitions

2011   Tidal Garden and Murray River research, solo exhibition, curator Bill Fox, Centre for Art and the Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, USA.

2011   Tidal Garden and Murray River research to be exhibited in “Water: Curse or Blessing!?”, curator: Ulla Giesler, Aedes Gallery East, Berlin, Germany.

2011   Various projects in X_Field Beijing: Jumping City, curator: Che Fei, CU Space, Beijing, China.

2011   Various projects in group X_Field Seoul, “Neighboring Effect”, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea.

2010   Various projects exhibited in the X_Field exhibition, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, Victoria.

2009   Tidal Garden exhibited at Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne. 2008 Vaughan House + Studio exhibited in the Australian Pavilion, at the Venice Architecture

Biennale. 2005 Tidal Garden exhibited in the Mare Nostrum exhibit, 2nd International Architecture

Biennale, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 2004 “Outback” tent installation, Guildford Plateau, Victoria. Installation by Seifert + Stoeckmann, Frankfurt, with Richard Black RMIT Senior Lecturer and RMIT

Architecture Upper pool Design students. 2002 “Watertheatre” in the Unused, Visual Arts Program, Melbourne Festival.

Lectures

2011   Presenter at the Art + Environment conference, Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.

2011   “Exposed Ground” key note lecture, RMIT Graduate Research Conference, Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium.

2011   “Exposed Ground” key note lecture, bau(sch) & bogen lecture series, Department Architektur, Universität Siegen, Germany.

2010   “Chasing the Murray” lecture presentation at the Affirmative Architecture Conference, RMIT University.

2009   “Transitory Architecture”, annual WH Robertson Memorial Lecture, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA.

2005   2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, presentation of Australian exhibit at City Hall, Rotterdam; panel member at the Mare Nostrum Conference, on “Economy and Environment”, Netherlands Architecture Institute, chaired by Prof. Bart Lootsma and Christine de Baan.