Vivian Mitsogianni

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni

Dean, School of Architecture & Urban Design

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Professor Vivian Mitsogianni is Dean of the School of Architecture & Urban Design and Professor of Architecture at RMIT University. Prof Mitsogianni is a registered architect and a director of M@ STUDIO architects, a multi-AIA award-winning collaborative focused on architectural design research. Prof Mitsogianni was previously Associate Dean and Head of RMIT Architecture (2013–2023). She undertakes practice-based design research with a focus on experimental design processes and supervises design-practice PhD candidates in Australia and Europe through RMIT's practice-based PhD program (PRS). In 2019, Prof Mitsogianni was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Neville Quarry Medal for Architectural Education, a national prize for outstanding contribution to architectural education.

Supervisor projects

  • Vibrant Enmeshment: Aesthetics & Strategies for an Ecocentric Architecture
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Building Audiences
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • Degrees of Autonomy: Engaging Matter via Design-Encoded Events
  • 17 Feb 2023
  • Climate Form: the work of Paul Morgan Architects
  • 20 Jul 2022
  • Tracing vittinoAshe
  • 6 Jul 2022
  • Slow Practice - (Re)drawing Time. Balancing Narratives, Ghosts and Tensions
  • 27 May 2022
  • Painterly Formation
  • 1 Mar 2022
  • Urban myths
  • 16 Jul 2021
  • Polyphonic Praxis: Architectural Design in Real‐time and Immersive Gaming Environments
  • 29 May 2020
  • Real-time Environments: Aesthetics, Algorithms, and Politics
  • 15 May 2020
  • Parts that Precede Buildings: Architecture in Large Quantities
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Mixed Reality Fabrication
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Atlas of Sensations _ on Sensibilities in a Computational Design Practice
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • Autonomous Tectonics: The work of SPAN, between Autonomous Behaviour and Cultural Agency.
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • Interloping and its Consequences: Poaching, Opportunism and Making Mischief in the Design of Public Spaces
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Design by Discourse 
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • engaging objects
  • 1 Jul 2014
  • Mutations: Experiments in Process, Typology and the Instrumentality of Recognition
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Field Tactics: Techniques, Types and Effects from a Practice Operating within the Architectural Field.
  • 4 Mar 2013

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Architectural design, architectural design process, process-based architectural design (rule-based, step-by-step, generative design processes), digital design techniques, public and civic architecture and tertiary learning environments. I undertake practice-based design research.
aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

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.