Diego Ramirez-Lovering

Position:

Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Architectural Design, Department of Architecture

Qualifications:

• PhD Candidate Monash University
  
• Master of Architecture RMIT
• Bachelor of Architecture Rhode Island School of Design
• Bachelor of Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design

Personal Statement:

Diego studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States, the Federal Polytechnic (ETH) in Zurich and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he received his Master of Architecture Degree in 2003. He has over ten years of teaching experience at four universities in the United States, Australia and Mexico. Diego has practiced in Australia, Italy and Mexico and is co-founder of MAS, Monash Architecture Studio, a research-led architectural practice. His practice and research both focus on alternative design solutions for the provision of low-cost, sustainable housing, topic that informs his current PhD research. He has also worked with government and the private sector in research and development toward affordable, sustainable housing design solutions. His practice and research work has been published, nationally and internationally, in leading architecture and design journals.

Selected Architecture Projects:                          

• 2008:  Designing Affordable Sustainable Housing, Government grant to research and design best practice models for medium density affordable and sustainable housing in Victoria
  
  
• 2008:  Sustainable Affordable Home Initiative, Joint initiative- VicUrban, The Office of the Government Architect and the Department of Sustainability and the Environment.Won by competition. Co-founder of the Metropolitan Housing Laboratory (with Professor Shane Murray and Graham Crist). Appointed to design 2 housing prototypes that will be licensed to volume builders for construction. Prototype to be constructed in early 2009 by VicUrban 

• 2007:  Ethell Affordable Housing, Multiple Housing, in progress, Geelong West           

• 2001:  AIDS Memorial Monument Project , memorial to AIDS victims won by 2 stage national competition. Perth 2000-2001. (with Rodney Glick and Kieran Wong). Responsibilities include: Design, Documentation, Contract administration.

• 1999:  Rockingham Spire, Won by invited competition. Sculpture for the forecourt of a new justice complex. Perth, 1999 (with Kieran Wong and Rodney Glick). Responsibilities include: Design, Documentation, Contract administration.

Selected  Publications:

   Books:

• re Housing, Publication of selected projects and essays from the UAL International Housing Conference  (With Shane Murray and Simon Whibley), Forthcoming 2008, RMIT University Press
  
  
• Opportunistic Urbanism, Publication of research stemming from University Mobility in Asia Pacific semester exchange in Guadalajara, Mexico. (With Professor Shane Murray and Simon Whibley) Forthcoming 2008, RMIT University Press

   Journal Articles:

• Melbourne's Consolidation Debate: Passion in the Suburbs, StadtBauwelt (refereed) issue 48/50 December 2005
  
  
• A Morphology of Complex Boundaries, Masters thesis in 38 South, RMIT University, Melbourne 2005
  
  
• City Limits: A Morphology of Complex Boundaries, Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne 2004 (refereed)  Published in Conference proceedings.

Selected Conference Convening:

• re Housing- UAL International Housing Conference, Co-convener (With Professor Shane Murray and Simon Whibley). The re Housing Conference has been featured in 3 professional journal articles and the current edition of   “architect magazine” as been devoted to the conference.

Selected Curated Exhibitions:

• 2007:  Opportunistic Urbanism Exhibition , RMIT University, May

• 2006:  re Housing Exhibition, Co-curator, Melbourne Central “Sky Bridge”, October, (With Professor Shane Murray and Simon Whibley)

Selected Lectures / Juries and Exchanges:

• 2007:  RAIA Sustainability Forum, lecture on Sustainable Architecture
  
  
• 2005-08:  Melbourne University, Department of Architecture, guest lecturer, jury
  
  
• 2000-01:  Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, visiting academic 2006 and invited juror. Guadalajara, Mexico
  
  
• 2000-01:  International Cross-institutional Exchange, Instigated and coordinated international cross-institutional exchange program between RMIT University and Escuela Superior de Arquitectura leading to over 10 student exchanges.
  
  
• 2000:  University of Western Australia, Department of Architecture Invited juror
  
  
• 2000:  Instigated and coordinated visiting academic exchange semester for Professor Silvia Acosta from the Rhode Island School of Design to Curtin University, Perth
  
  
• 2000: Curtin University, Department of Architecture, guest lecturer, “Brown Bag Series”