Monash partners with Australian Architecture Conference
Monash Art, Design and Architecture is a program partner of the 2024 Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Australian Architecture Conference, running from 8 to 11 May in venues across Melbourne.
As part of the partnership, Monash Architecture will host Monash Adjunct Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she is also Director of cityLAB, an award-winning design research centre focused on spatial justice that initiates experimental projects to explore metropolitan possibilities. Monash Architecture will also host Kevin Daly FAIA, founder of Kevin Daly Architects, an internationally recognised architectural practice focused on craft, construction and material systems, and high-performance buildings.
About Dana Cuff
Image: Dana Cuff
Dana Cuff is a Monash Adjunct Professor and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Urban Planning and Director of cityLAB at UCLA. Since receiving her PhD in Architecture from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about design and inclusion, the architectural profession, and affordable housing. She is a prolific writer, including books such as The Provisional City about postwar housing in Los Angeles, a co-authored text called Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City, and most recently, Architectures of Spatial Justice (2023). Cuff has had greater public impact than most academics through the co-authoring of successful state housing legislation grounded in cityLAB’s research (AB 2299, 2016; AB2295, 2022). For over a decade, Dr Cuff has led the Mellon-funded Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA, one of the most innovative social justice curricula in the country. The significance of Cuff’s work is reflected in recent prestigious awards: Women in Architecture Activist of the Year (2019), Researcher of the Year (2020), Educator of the Year (2020), and Public Impact Research Award (2022).
Monash Art, Design and Architecture at the Australian Architects Conference
A host of Monash Architecture staff will be participating in the Australian Architects Conference, including:
- Associate Professor Maryam Gusheh, Associate Professor Kathy Waghorn, Dr Alex Brown and Charity Edwards will be speaking at The Wellbeing of Architects [education + practice –] symposium on Thursday 9 May
- Monash Adjunct Professor Dana Cuff will be delivering a conference keynote on Friday 10 May on how designing housing from a spatial justice perspective leads to abundance rather than scarcity
- Practice Professor of Architecture, Nigel Bertram is delivering a conference keynote on Friday 10 May on the work of NMBW Architecture studio projects including strategies for demolition, retrofit, re-use, temporary works and post-occupancy evaluation
- Acting Head of Architecture and Associate Professor Kathy Waghorn is participating in a ‘Here and There’ conference session on Saturday 11 May
- Practice Professor of Architecture, Louise Wright with Mauro Baraco | Baracco+Wright are also participating in ‘Landscapes and Architecture’ conference session on Saturday 11 May
- Kevin Daly will be participating in a conference session ‘Neighbours and Connection’, reflecting on housing precarity and associated density tensions within Los Angeles on Saturday 11 May