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Ms. Rachel Hurst (Senior Lecturer)

Rachel Hurst is a senior lecturer in architecture and Design Studio co-ordinator for the Architecture discipline. She has a background of architectural practice, and for ten years was a partner in a design firm specialising in small scale and residential projects.
Predominantly teaching design studio at first and final year level, her research and teaching interests include collaborative design pedagogy, alliances between architecture and food and contemporary Australian modernism. She is currently researching the work of Adelaide architectural practice, Dickson & Platten. A frequent contributor to national design journals such as Architecture Australia, Monument, Artichoke and Houses, she is active in extra-curricular design culture, curating the Adelaide Festival of Arts Architecture Symposium, the Frascari Symposium on the Drawing and organising the Architecture program’s series of masterclasses.

Her recent publications include:

• Rachel Hurst & Jane Lawrence, “Diffuse Patterns of the Quotidian: A recipe of Familial, Social and Mundane Events” in Eating Architecture, Jamie Horwitz & Paulette Singley (eds.), (MIT Press,2004).
• Rachel Hurst & Jane Lawrence, “Use both sides of the paper: patterns from a research and teaching practice” for DESIGN + RESEARCH: Project Based Research in Architecture 2nd Association of Architectural Schools of Australia (AASA) Conference, Clare Newton, Sandra Kaji-O’Grady & Simon Wollan (eds.) (Melbourne, September 2003) web site: www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/events/conferences/aasa/papers
• Rachel Hurst & Jane Lawrence, “(Re)placing, Remembering, Revealing: Understanding through Memory and Making” in Memory in Architecture, Eleni Bastea, (ed.) (University of New Mexico, 2004) [forthcoming].
• Rachel Hurst ‘An unselfconscious architecture: the work of Robert Dickson’ in Additions: 2002 Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (Brisbane, October 2002): pp 1- 17 (CD-Rom available)
• Rachel Hurst ‘Mapping the Mackintoshes: an examination of the personal and professional partnership’ in On What Ground(s) 13th Annual Conference of SAHANZ, Adelaide, 1997.pp 82-88.

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