Brent Allpress

Mr. Brent Allpress

Senior Lecturer

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About

Brent Allpress is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture.

Industry Experience:
Community involvement-
2003–2005 AASA Treasurer

Events and exhibitions:
2010 Brent Allpress and Gretchen Wilkins, RMIT Curators, in Machinic Processes Exhibition, Architecture Biennale Beijing ABB 15–31 October 2010. ABB Directors: Neil Leach and Xu Wei-Guo.
2010 Brent Allpress, RMIT Curator, Cumulus Green, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Shanghai, China, September 2010.
2009 Brent Allpress, RMIT Curator, RMIT Architecture Installation with Studio Prix, die Angewandte, Vienna, Spot on Schools Exhibition, and Exhibition Forum Invited Speaker, in Visions: Beyond Media International Festival of Architecture and Media, Florence, July 9–17 2009. Curator: Paola Giaconia. Festival Director: Marco Brizzi.
2009 Brent Allpress, RMIT Curator, Built Systems, 2040 City - Design Laboratory, and Public Forum Invited Speaker, BMW Edge, Federation Square in State of Design Festival: Sampling the Future, Melbourne, July 15–25, 2009.
2009 Brent Allpress, Invited Speaker in 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design, Salford Quays, UK, May 7–8, 2009.
2006 Brent Allpress, Invited Forum Speaker, Vice Versa: Hong Kong Venice Biennale Exhibition, International Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2006.
2004 Brent Allpress, Invited Speaker, Utopia Forum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.

Research fields

  • 3303 Design
  • 3301 Architecture

Academic positions

  • RMIT Curators
  • RMIT
  • Machinic Processes Exhibition, Architecture Biennale Beijing ABB
  • , Australia
  • 15 Oct 2010 – 31 Oct 2010
  • RMIT Curator
  • RMIT
  • Cumulus Green, 20th Anniversary Exhibition
  • , China
  • 2010 – Present
  • RMIT Curator
  • RMIT Architecture Installation with Studio Prix
  • , Australia
  • 2009 – Present
  • External Architecture Program Advisor
  • School of Built Environment, University of Salford
  • , UK
  • 2009 – Present
  • External Moderator and Architecture Program Advisor
  • School of Architecture, University of Auckland
  • , New Zealand
  • 2006 – 2011
  • External Examiner
  • Unitec School of Architecture
  • , New Zealand
  • 2004 – 2010

Research interests

Architecture, Education Systems, Specialist Studies in Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy

Research areas:
-Role of ornament in contemporary architecture
-Emerging digital design practices
-Pedagogical frameworks for emerging design practices
-Counter-compositional practices in architecture and music
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.