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 Peter R. Diprose, Robert D. Hotten Road Stop 2030 Department of Landscape Architecture, Unitec Auckland, New Zealand 2000, 9’10” The city of the future is identified here as an infinite accumulation of suburban sprawl, low-density development all the way to the coast. The remote sea-shore being the last nostalgic haven from development punctuated by gas-stations. The design brief called for the serial redevelopment of petrol station forecourts into distinctive works of land-art and/or urban landscape (for re-creation), to be experienced from a moving vehicle. Students undertook a road trip to shoot video footage appropriate for each of their landscape designs. An element of futurism was added to the brief, requiring students to address the potential demise or re-invention of the city and the petrol station in the year 2030. Peter R. Diprose completed a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Architecture, both at the University of Auckland, before commencing postgraduate studies in 1990. Dr Diprose’s PhD thesis interrogates the difficult concept of sustainability from a number of perspectives, in order to establish its possible influence on the form-making process that lies at the heart of architectural design. He is currently Chairperson of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Auckland Branch Environment Committee. In 1992 he received the Fowlds Memorial Prize as the most distinguished student in the Faculty of Architecture, Property and Planing, and in the same year he was awarded first prize in the Passive Low Energy Architecture International Student Competition. In 1994 he was awarded the Carter Holt Harvey National Environmental design Award. He has taught at the University of Auckland School of Architecture in a number of areas. He currently holds a fractional teaching position at the UNITEC Institute of Technology. Robert D. Hotten is a part time Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland. With a Joint Program in Urban Design dual Masters from the University of California, Berkeley he has practiced and taught architecture, landscape, urban design, and film as a Registered Architect. He presented a paper `From Dreamtime to Quicktime: Panoramas` at the ACADIA conference in Washington, October 2000. Hotten is currently a guest “Professor Associé” in Paris and will continue to develop a `virtual professor` status. |
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