MAJOR: RMIT Architecture Graduating Projects 2019–2022 documents seven semesters of independent Master of Architecture projects from RMIT, capturing a school that deliberately positions design experimentation against disciplinary orthodoxy and the wicked problems of contemporary practice.
About This Book
This publication assembles a selection of graduating projects from RMIT's Master of Architecture program across seven semesters between 2019 and 2022 — a period that tested architecture's capacity to remain relevant in a world of accelerating complexity. The work collected here is ideas-led: it asks what architecture is, what it might do next, and how architects can exercise genuine agency when the discipline is so often treated as peripheral. Rather than a conventional graduate catalogue, this is a record of transdisciplinary architectural research conducted through design, by designing. Essential reading for anyone invested in architectural education, emerging practice, and the future of the discipline.
Key Features
- 320 pages of student project documentation, critical writing, and editorial commentary
- Edited by Vivian Mitsogianni, Tom Muratore, John Doyle, Amy Muir, Mietta Mullaly, and Liam Oxlade; graphic design by Stuart Geddes and Ziga Testen
- Contributors include Professor Roland Snooks, Professor Alisa Andrasek, Dr Emma Jackson, Dr Peter Brew, Dr Michael Spooner, and over fifty graduating student designers
- Published by Actar, 2022
What You'll Discover
- How RMIT's Master of Architecture program frames student research as a confrontation with disciplinary assumptions — not a consolidation of them
- The range of transdisciplinary approaches emerging designers are applying to architecture's most contested questions, from expanded definitions of the discipline to its role in complex societal challenges
- Projects that refuse to treat architecture as a peripheral contributor, instead asserting design agency across scales and contexts not typically claimed by the profession
- An editorial and pedagogical framework, shaped by a large editorial collective, that treats the graduating project as speculative proposition rather than professional rehearsal
About the Author
Professor Vivian Mitsogianni leads the editorial direction of this volume alongside co-editors Tom Muratore, John Doyle, Amy Muir, Mietta Mullaly, and Liam Oxlade. The editorial collective draws on the faculty and teaching culture of RMIT Architecture, a program committed to ideas-led, venturous design exploration at the intersection of research and practice.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 21 x 28 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781638401285
- Publisher: Actar
- Publication Date: 2022
Perfect For: Architecture educators, students of design research, practitioners interested in emerging Australian architectural thinking, and anyone tracking the evolving discourse around architectural pedagogy and disciplinary futures.