Awards and Achievements


British Council Design Researcher Award
University of Sydney Post Graduate Study Award 2006
2nd Place National Emergency Services Memorial Competition 2003
Winner NSW Police Memorial Competition 1997
Finalist Illawarra Coal Mining Memorial Competition 1995
Winner RAIA Housing Ideas Competition 1992
3rd Circular Quay Urban Ideas Competition 1992
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Selected Research Grants


Contested Urban Landscapes: Exploring Public Space, Trauma and Collective Memory in Sydney’s Urban Fabric
FBE Early Career Research Grants - Value $18, 082 The aims of the research are to examine how trauma and collective memory are inscribed in the Sydney’s urban fabric and show how these spaces operate as contested landscapes, negotiating between reflection and recreation. The project will be the first significant empirically based study of the everyday use of these spaces of trauma, exploring the contested use of these spaces and the design characteristics that allow them to negotiate conflicting user motivations. The research project is of national benefit, adding to the academic debate on public space and public memorialization and lead to the submission of articles in high quality refereed journals such as the Journal of Urban Design and Memory Studies and the development of an ARC Discovery grant proposal.
The Development of New Brutalist Public Architecture in NSW 1970-80
FBE Research Link Scholarship Program - Value $1,000 The historical significance of 20th century architecture is often not fully understood or appreciated by either the public or the design professions. Many of 1970s New Brutalist public buildings produced by the NSW Government Architect’s Office have been subject to internal and external reconfiguration and unsympathetic alterations. Others, such as the 1978 Sulman Award-winning Kuringai College of Advanced Education have been threatened with demolition. The research seeks to investigate the key social, organisational and design influences behind these works and situate them in existing local architectural and cultural discourse. The principal methodology for the research is textual analysis of journal articles.
Research Through Design " Scoping a Practice Based Design PhD
FBE Research Link Scholarship Program - Value $1,000 The research seeks to document and review existing best practice approaches to research by design at PhD level with the objective of scoping a range of models that would differentiate FBE from other local institutions. Key issues include program structure, format, outputs, critique and examination methodologies and relationship with undergraduate studio teaching.
Critical Studios: A model for undergraduate cross-disciplinary teaching in research-through-design
FBE Learning & Teaching Action Research Pilot Projects - Value $2,000 The research focuses on documenting existing forms of horizontal teaching in FBE design studios and proposes a non-elective model for horizontal teaching, allowing programs to operate with existing course outlines but related to each other through the application of an overarching thematic overlay.


Lecturer
PhD (Syd), M.Urb Des (Syd), B.Arch Hons Class1 (Syd)
Program Director: Interior Architecture
Home \\ Staff \\ Russell Rodrigo
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russell.rodrigo@unsw.edu.au
Russell Rodrigo has a wide range of experience in architecture, urban design and development management gained over 15 years with the NSW Government Architect’s Office. Russell has taught design at the University of Sydney since 2000 and in 2007 was appointed as a Lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW.

Professional affiliation and membership


  • Member, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

Teaching


Russell Rodrigo leads the Design Studio and Communications courses in the first year of the Bachelor of Interior Architecture program, teaches design in second and third year and supervises dissertation students in the final year of the course. In 2009 Russell was appointed as the Program Director for the Interior Architecture program.

Research


Russell Rodrigo’s research interests focus on how public and private memory is represented in the built environment. Russell has recently been awarded a research-through design PhD which seeks to question the basis of the way we, as scholars and designers think, if at all, about how memory is spatialized in the design of public memorial spaces and how spaces of memory can be designed as ongoing, meaningful places of engagement in late modernity.

Recent Publications


Papers & Book Chapters

Rodrigo, R., 2009, "Spatializing Memory: Bodily Performance and Minimalist Aesthetics in Memorial Space", Proceedings of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, Brisbane, 2009

Rodrigo, R., 2009, "Cultural Trauma and Urban Performance: Ground Zero, ‘Tribute in Light’ and the Spectacle of Memory", International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.127-138.

Rodrigo, R., 2008, 'The spectacle of Memory: Remembrance and the aestheticization of loss in contemporary Memorial design', in Proceedings of Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, 25th International Conference, "History in Practice", eds D. Beynon and U. de Jong, Geelong, Victoria, Geelong, Victoria, pp. 1 - 19

Rodrigo, R., 2006,“Constructing the Past: the Museum of Sydney & the Aesthetics of Memory”, Proceedings of the XXIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Freemantle, Australia, 29 September-2 October 2006. 465-471



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