Leanne Zilka

Leanne Zilka is an Architecture Lecturer at RMIT's School of Architecture and Design. Her research spans the multi-disciplinary areas of fashion, textile design, aerospace engineering, material science, business and government research bodies to broaden the advances in material technologies to architectural problems.
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Dr Leanne Zilka directs the RMIT Architecture, Fashion and Textiles Floppy Lab with Dr Jenny Underwood. Leanne is a registered
practicing architect who's research is an extension of her practice which focuses on cross pollinating architectural form making with techniques from fashion and textile design. This is done to create a closer relationship between design and construction where materials limitations are better able to conform to complex form through a fabrication approach that is developed in parallel with the design concept.
In 2005 founded ZILKA Studio, an architecture practice that focuses on materiality and geometry, deploying techniques developed in her research to realise architectural projects.

Leanne has collaborated with world leading architects from Australia, Spain and Thailand and is internationally renown for her exhibition work, public pavilions, installations and publications. She received a PhD from RMIT and a Master in Architecture from Harvard University. Her work has been displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria, toured Australian regional galleries, been published in textile and architecture journals and presented at conferences focused on fabrication.

Dr Leanne Zilka and Dr Jenny Underwood are leaders of the Floppy Lab  - a collabotive research lab that sits across architecture, fashion and textile design. Situtated between Brunswick and City campuses in Melbourne, Australia. For more information contact Leanne or Jenny