Rory Hyde
20 St Vincent Pl, Albert Park
Vic, 3206
Australia
I‘m now in Europe looking for work,
you can still reach me on the following:
email: rory at roryhyde dot com
mob: +61 411 099 223
skype: roryhyde
Rory Hyde is a graduate architect based in Melbourne and has recently completed his PhD.
He was awarded the RAIA Graduation Prize of 2006, the RMIT Anne Butler Medal for excellence in 2005, the Bates Smart award for architecture in the media, named in SDQ magazine’s ‘Top 10 Forces and Faces in Australian Design’ and Monument magazine’s ‘New Generation’ of top design graduates in Australia.
This site draws together work across practice, design, research, education and media.
Rory’s PhD is titled Expanding Digital Design in Small Practice: Tools, Strategies and Organisational Structures, and was produced as part of the Embedded Practice Research program at RMIT’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL). This research has been presented and published locally and internationally.
As part of this post-graduate research, Rory has been ‘embedded’ in the small Melbourne-based design practice BKK Architects, where he developed innovative design strategies and systems employing emerging digital design and fabrication techniques.
Rory is also currently working on a small number of private commissions, including house extensions in Sydney and Melbourne, a new house southwest Victoria, an interior fit-out, and a pavilion.
Each project is approached as a unique experiment and opportunity to explore ideas developed through research and education.
Rory is a part-time lecturer at RMIT’s School of Architecture and Design and Swinburne University’s Faculty of Design in Melbourne. He runs courses in construction technology, design history, computer programming for design (including scripting and parametric design) and supervises a number of final year thesis students.
Rory was host and producer from 2004 to 2008 of ‘The Architects’, a weekly radio discussion show about "architecture, buildings and stuff" with Stuart Harrison and Simon Knott on Triple R, broadcast in Melbourne. He now regularly contributes news and reviews from phone boxes throughout Europe.
Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture), RMIT University. Expanding Digital Design in Small Practice: Tools, Strategies and Organisational Structures. Results pending. Supervisor: Prof. Mark Burry.
Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), RMIT University. Grad project: Smith Street Redux. Thesis supervisors: Graham Crist, Stuart Harrison and Conrad Hamann.
RMIT University and BKK Architects. Embedded researcher.
Triple R Broadcasters. Producer & host of ‘The Architects’ weekly radio show.
RMIT University School of Architecture and Design Teaching final year thesis studio, communications, programming and construction technology.
Swinburne University Faculty of Design First year design history.
Ashton Raggatt McDougall. Student designer.
Cox Sanderson Ness. Model maker.
Ivan Rijavec Architect. Model maker.
Third place in ‘Living Places’ design competition for low-income housing in Dandenong, Victoria. Community Housing.
Top 10 Forces and Faces in Australian Design. The Architects on Triple R named in Design Quarterly magazine’s annual round up of influential designers.
Winner of Community Broadcasting Industry Awards ‘Best Outside Broadcast’ for The Architects’ Eureka OB.
Second place in Melbourne Design Festival Sustainable Lighting Competition for Slow-Motion Catastrophe Lamp
Anne Butler Medal for Excellence in Design for RMIT final thesis project Smith Street Redux
Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for The Architects radio show
RAIA / SJB Graduate Prize for final thesis project Smith Street Redux
New Generation. Named in Monument magazine’s top 40 design graduates in Australia
Caroma Golden Toilet Award for The Golden Turd project. Runner Up
‘Melbourne Unbuilt’; audio walking tour of unbuilt architecture at the National Design Centre, curated by Kate Rhodes. Contribution of description of Steven Holl’s Bridges of Melbourne competition entry of 1979.
Monash Gallery Addition models exhibited in Homo-Faber: Modelling Ideas, Melbourne Museum. Curated by Mark Burry, Andrea Mina, Michael Ostwald and Peter Downton.
Slow-Motion Catastrophe Lamp, and Local Light featured in ‘LightCycle’ exhibition of sustainable lighting, 2007 Melbourne Design Festival, Fad Gallery, Melbourne.
Seeing 11.5 Billion times 6.6 Trillion Miles included in ‘Pavilions for New Architecture’ exhibition, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield.
"Steven Holl’s Bridges of Melbourne". Artichoke Magazine. Forthcoming.
Postcards from the Edge, interviews with Neville Mars and Bernard Khoury published in Architecture Review Australia, Issue 104
Punching Above Your Weight: Digital Design Methods and Organisational Change, Proceedings of ‘Expanding Bodies’ 2007 ACADIA Conference, Halifax NS, Canada. Edited by Phillip Beesley and Brian Lilley.
Comments on Storey Hall and Ian McDougall published in Architecture Review Australia, Issue 100
The Architecture of Happiness, transcription of interview with Alain de Botton published in The Trip, Triple R Subscriber Magazine, Radiothon edition.
Out of the Box, a selection of young Melbourne architects for The Melbourne Design Guide.
Conference Clips, transcription of interviews with Kees Kaan & Yung Ho Chang published in Architecture Review Australia, Issue 93, Residential ‘05
Six and Out, Subaud Magazine, No.3
Featured in ‘Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent’ edited by Neil Spiller and published by Thames and Hudson.
Smith Street Redux project featured in ‘Terra Volume 3’, RAIA Student Biennale Publication.
Pavilion project used for cover of RMIT Architecture and Design Information Booklet.
Research into small practices discussed in ‘Three Dimensional: BKK Architects in profile’ by Anna Johnson, Houses, Issue 55
Smith Street Redux project featured in Platform: RMIT Architecture Thesis Projects 2004-2005
Pavilion project featured in Pavilions for New Architecture, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Museum of Art Publication
Trampulse project featured in Michael Douglas (ed.), Tramjatra: Imagining Melbourne and Kolkata by Tramways, RMIT University Press, Melbourne.
Pavilion project discussed in ‘The Difference is New’, Diane Peacock, Architecture Review Australia, Issue 95.
Pavilion project discussed in ‘Illusion, Ambiguity, Interaction and Play’, Hannah Lewi, Architecture Australia, Vol 94, No 6.
Pavilion project discussed in ‘Forget ‘what is’: continue searching for ‘what if’’, Norman Day, The Age, 21.09.2005.
Celebrate the Flood project featured in Easily Flooded Architecture, catalogue to the International Architecture Workshop, Sommiers, France.
Pecha Kucha - The classic 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Event page & pdf of my presentation.
Unbuilt Forum - Panel discussion of the National Design Centre’s Melbourne Unbuilt walking tour and unbuilt architecture generally. With Philip Goad, Rob Adams, Jill Garner and Tony Parker, moderated by Kate Rhodes and Justine Clarke.
Saturday in Design Debate - ‘The hand of the designer is lost in this age of technology’, presented by interior design firm Geyer. Moderator Paul McGillick’s review sums up the firey evening well.
Presentation to the Boyd Homes Group on ‘how has the way we live changed in the last half century?’ Basically, houses are getting bigger, lots are getting smaller and the number of people per house is also falling. Hosted in the beautifully modest Brett House designed by Boyd in 1955. A big thanks to Nic Dowse for the invitation.
Paper titled Punching Above Your Weight: Digital Design Methods and Organisational Change presented at ‘Expanding Bodies’ 2007 ACADIA Conference, Halifax NS, Canada.
Participated in Smart Geometry workshop and conference, New York.
Embedded practice research presented at ‘Departure Lounge’ RAIA 2007 National Conference, Sydney.
Open Source Urbanism project supported by RMIT Design Research Institute.
Embedded practice PhD research supported by the Australian Research Council. Lead investigators: Mark Burry and Andrew Maher.
Bianca Hester; BKK Architects; Buro North - Soren Luckins; Christopher L.G Hill; City of Sound - Dan Hill; Craig Bellamy; Eness; Electrolight; Evergreen Terrace - James Deutscher & Liv Barrett; Fitt De Felice; Harrison and White; Josh Petherick; Kerstin Thompson; Lucas Ihlein; Material Systems - Andrew Kudless; March Studio - Rodney Eggleston; McBride Charles Ryan; Mesne - Tim Schork & Paul Nicholas; Minifie Nixon; National Design Centre - Kate Rhodes; Open Object - Scott Mitchell; Ocean - Michael Hensel & Defne Sunguroglu; Ortolan - Kat Macleod; Rowan Opat; Stuart Harrison; Studio Bird - Matt Bird; Super Colossal - Marcus Trimble; Tai Snaith; Third Skin - Chris Barnett; Tom Daniell; Un-Making - Annie Wu; Vector Guerillas - Anthony Burke & Joanne Jakovich;