Dr. Michael Spooner
Details
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College: School of AUD
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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michael.spooner@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8326-0283
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Michael Spooner is a Melbourne-based designer, writer, curator, and teacher in the discipline of architecture. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University. Michael has over 15+ years of experience contributing to architectural education in Australia.
He is the co-cordinator of the RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design design studio program (2025-), and the Reflective Practice Portfolio course (2022-). He coordinated the Bachelor first-year design course from 2014-2024. He supervises Bachelor of Architectural Design and Master of Architecture design studios, graduate-thesis ‘Major Projects’, and PhD (by project) candidates.
His research focuses on implementing innovative pedagogical models that employ ficto-critical methodologies and alternative architectural histories to realise speculative textual and non-textual architectural propositions. His published work includes the book A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality, essay 46 Little Latrobe Street: the office of Edmond and Corrigan, and project Frederick Romberg (1913-1992): an architectural survey.
Supervisor projects
- form follows failure
- 12 Oct 2023
- Drawing the Dialectical Image of the City
- 21 Jun 2023
- Other Michaels
- 3 Sep 2021
- Olympism and the Metropolis: The Urban Imaginary of Melbourne’s Western Suburbs
- 15 May 2020
- engaging objects
- 1 Jul 2014
- Anecdotal Evidence
- 1 Jul 2014
- Undisciplined: of Architectural Nomadism and the Rebellious Practice
- 1 Jul 2014
- Black Hole Architecture
- 3 Mar 2014
Research interests
Research by design, design ethics, creative philosophy; transdisciplinary and intertextual modes of research, with a particular emphasis on the role of images and narrative in architectural speculation.
