Richard Black

Associate Professor Richard Black

Associate Professor

Details

  • College: School of Architecture & Urban Design
  • Department: School of AUD
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • richard.black@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Investigating Biophilic and Ecological Design for Regenerative Architectural Practice
  • 11 Apr 2025
  • Alteration Practices and Ornamental Operations in Contemporary Architecture
  • 19 Mar 2025
  • Practising Immediacy: attuning, orientating, accumulating
  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Land(scape) is Alive: Embodied Being and Practising Aliveness
  • 16 Apr 2024
  • The Architect as Editor 2.0
  • 12 Feb 2024
  • Digital twins and augmenting realities for material reuse and it's relationship to Country
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • ancestors of the mind
  • 7 Oct 2021
  • Between Grief and Play: Towards the Creation of a Living Cemetery
  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Terrestrialism. A Framework for a Migratory and Poly-Disciplinary Practice
  • 21 Nov 2020
  • Living Together: Exploring the Economy of Shared Resources in Melbourne’s Collective Housing
  • 12 Oct 2020
  • Drawing with the World Drawing Itself
  • 14 Dec 2018
  • Joy, delight, simultaneity: Stepping, side stepping and between stepping with architecture
  • 27 Sep 2018
  • PARALLEL WORKS: Learning from Hong Kong and Asia as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice
  • 21 Jun 2018
  • Gratis
  • 7 Aug 2017
  • Shaping Macau's Un-purposed Space - Design in Context
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Surface and the Spaces Between: An Exploration of Surface - Space Relationships in Architecture through the Work of AO: The Architecture Office
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • The Site Re-presented: Everyday Civic Landscapes 
  • 21 Aug 2013
  • Adapt, Defer, Delight: Designing Landscape with Resilience
  • 16 Jul 2012

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
• Site knowledge and its impact upon the design process
• Designing the site as a strategic part of the design process
• Interaction of built environments and ecological systems
• Architecture landscape and infrastructure

Research interests

• 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
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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.

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