Mauro Baracco (DARC Project Coordinator, DARC Design Studio Tutor)
Mauro Baracco, PhD, architect, was born and educated in Italy, where he practised and taught at Turin Polytechnic and the European Institute of Design, Milan. Based in Melbourne since 1996, he is Deputy Dean and Head of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University, and a director of Baracco + Wright Architects. His PhD on Robin Boyd's work and approach also relates to his design investigations on states of integration between open and built spaces, and natural and urban environments. Mauro's projects and writings have been widely published, exhibited, awarded, and presented in conferences and symposia, nationally and internationally.
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Graham Crist (DARC Design Studio Tutor)
Graham Crist, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University where he is Program Director of the Masters of Architecture, and director of that school’s practice research symposium in Vietnam. He is a founding director of Melbourne architectural practice Antarctica. The design projects of this practice pursue social and environmental questions in a wide range of contexts. His PhD and subsequent practice based research focuses on the contributions of architectural and spatial design might make to large ecological questions.
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Melanie Dodd (DARC Design Studio Tutor)
Melanie Dodd, PhD, former Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean of Architecture at RMIT, is now Program Director of Spatial Practices at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is a member of the art and architecture collaborative, muf, and founder of muf_aus. Since 1996 muf has established a reputation for innovative public realm projects and have been exhibited internationally at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Van Alen Institute in New York and the Design Museum in London. muf were curators of the British Pavilion in the 2010 Venice Biennale and Mel was the creative director of the 2010 National Architecture Conference in Sydney - 'extra/ordinary'.
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Louise Wright (DARC Support Research Studies Tutor)
Louise Wright, PhD, is an experienced practising architect, architectural researcher, writer and teacher spanning the individual house to the urban scale. She has designed buildings and landscapes, undertaken design-based research, given presentations at conferences, produced publications and participated in exhibitions with Universities, Government bodies, community and business groups, nationally and internationally. Over the past several years with Baracco + Wright Architects she has focused her activity on the impact of architecture on the natural environment and has developed working relationships with bodies such as Greening Australia, Merri Creek Management Committee and Mornington Peninsula Shire to this end.
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