Paul Minifie

Associate Professor Paul Minifie

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Paul Minifie is a senior lecturer for the Architecture program in RMIT's School of Architecture and Design and a Director of Minifie Nixon Architects.

Research and scholarship
Selected Minifie Nixon projects:

- Edithvale and Seaford Wetlands, Melbourne, Masterplan, 2005
- Australian Wildlife Centre, Healesville, Victoria, 2004–2005
- Millennium Hilton, Bangkok, Thailand, Renovation, 2004–2005
- Office Foyer, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Project, 2004
- Plateau Courtyard, Deakin University, 2003–2004
- Coal and Economic College, Yantai, China, Short-listed competition entry, 2003
- Streaming House, Theoretical Project, 2002–2003
- The Hub, RMIT University (renovation), 2002
- Melbourne Docklands, Master planning and Visualisations, 2002
- Corner and Harbour Studies, Theoretical Project, 2001
- Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, 2001–2003
- Marina Line Stations, Singapore. Short-listed Competition entry, 2000

Public lectures:
- 'Australian Architects Working in China' Asian Education Foundation Forum, Canberra, 2005
- 'Digital Techniques and Design Spaces' Keynote Address, RAIA National Conference, Melbourne, 2005
- 'Minifie Nixon Architects Recent Works', Lecture at Sendai University, Japan, 2004
- 'Minifie Nixon Architects Recent Works', Lecture at Tokyo University, Japan, 2004
- 'Streaming House' Archilab, Orleans, France, 2003
- 'Centre for Ideas', RAIA National Conference, Melbourne, 2002
- 'A procedural approach to design', University of Western Australia, 2002

Awards:
- RAIA Awards
- Australian Wildlife Health Centre, Named Award, Category Institutional New, 2006
- Centre for Ideas, Category: Institutional New, 2004
- Backlogue, Category: Specialist Print Media (editor), 1992
- National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 1997–2000
- Storey Hall, RMIT University, 1991–1992

Academic positions

  • Senior Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • School of Architecture and Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2005 – 2008
  • Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • School of Architecture and Design
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2000 – 2005
  • Sessional Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • Architectural Design and Communications, School of Architecture
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1993 – 2000

Supervisor projects

  • Adaptation - a process in making
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Perceptions of Home: Domestic Interventions, Site-Specificity, Psycho-Geography, and Art
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • Reflective Industry Design Practice Research
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Architectural Agonism
  • 23 Aug 2023
  • Degrees of Autonomy: Engaging Matter via Design-Encoded Events
  • 17 Feb 2023
  • Project name: REDI program POLIMI-DC1 Project 2: Housing design for climate change adaptation. Proposed research title: Adaptation on informal territories: governance strategies for informal landowners in NBS projects
  • 16 Nov 2022
  • Drawing the Dialectical Image of the City
  • 4 Jan 2021
  • form follows f(x)
  • 30 Sep 2020
  • Real-time Environments: Aesthetics, Algorithms, and Politics
  • 15 May 2020
  • Its All About Particles
  • 11 May 2020
  • Cross Scale Design Generative Practice Research in Design
  • 27 Nov 2019
  • Generative Practice Research in Design
  • 11 Nov 2019
  • Evolving Legacy An Exploratory Path into Uncovering and Sustaining a Practice's Accumulated Knowledge
  • 6 Feb 2019
  • The Urbansphere. Architecture in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing.
  • 20 Jun 2018
  • Tectonic Accentuations A Transitional Design Framework from Structural Surfaces to Fibrous Morphologies
  • 5 Feb 2018
  • Autobryksformation Towards a New Approach to Brick Expressionism | Methods for Unique Idiosyncrasies Inarchitectural Material Systems | A Practice in the Making
  • 1 Aug 2016
  • Autonomous Tectonics: The work of SPAN, between Autonomous Behaviour and Cultural Agency.
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • Atlas of Sensations _ on Sensibilities in a Computational Design Practice
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • High Resolution Fabric of Architecture 
  • 31 Aug 2014
  • BUILDING +/- A Practice Working at the Boundary of Architecture and Construction
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Drifting in Place: Looking and Moving through Architecture
  • 4 Mar 2013

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Advanced architecture, Urban design, Process architecture and urbanism, Environmentally sustainable architecture
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.