Awards and Achievements


Back to the City - Prize for Best Installation, 2008
Russell's work: Surrogate Trojan, by Richard Goodwin (artist-architect), Adrian McGregor (landscape architect) and Russell Lowe can be seen at: http://www.backtothecity.com.au/surrogate.html
"Irrevocable Irrelevance", 20U40 National Architecture competition. New Zealand. 2006
Russell was awarded second place with a scheme called the "Urban Hoover" made in collaboration with Lee Gibson (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
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Russell Lowe is a Lecturer in Architectural Computing at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He joined the FBE in February 2007. Prior to this appointment he Lectured in Digital Media Design, Architectural Drawing and Interior Architecture, at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Before joining Victoria University in 2000 he studied and taught Architecture at Auckland University, New Zealand.

Teaching


Russell Lowe leads the Architectural Design Studio in the first year of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies and teaches in the final year of the Masters of Architecture. He has delivered guest lectures and presented in conferences in New Zealand, Australia, North America, England and South-East Asia. In 2001 he was awarded Best Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Victoria University by the post graduate students association. In the second half of 2007 he was the acting director of the Masters of Architecture program.

Research


Russell Lowe's research centers around the repurposing of computer gaming technology to engage with uses and concepts outside of the entertainment industry. Russell has developed unique insights into opportunities for collaborative thinking that take advantage of the multiple perspectives that computer game environments afford. His research on architectural space spans from Molecular Biology to Fine Art Films which have been exhibited worldwide in film festivals as well as private and public art galleries.

Recent Publications


Papers

Lowe, R., (2008), Beyond the Boundary Object, CAADRIA, Beyond Computer Aided Design.

Lowe, R., (2007), "Computer Gaming, Biotechnology and Architecture: Embedding the Intersection within and Architectural Curriculum." Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation.

Chapters

Lowe, R., (2005), Electroliquid Aggregation and the Imaginative Disruption of Convention, Ch. 6 in L. Duff and J. Davies (eds.) Drawing - The Process, Intellect, Bristol, UK and Portland, OR, USA.



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