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| | ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION PRIZE Rory Spence, University of Tasmania
Photograph Bill Brennan
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The Education Prize emphasizes contributions
made over a period of time and recognizes an
outstanding career within academia. The jury
felt that there could be no more fitting
recipient for the 2004 prize than Rory Spence,
who died in May this year.
Rory’s contribution can be measured on
two fronts: by his contribution to debate
and writing on architecture in journals across
the globe, and by his inspirational teachings
to a generation of students at the University
of Tasmania, based on his profound belief in
the social role of architecture and the
productive role of architectural history in
the design studio.
The full list of Rory’s published works
includes some 125 articles for a range of
journals around the world including The
Architectural Review (England), Architecture
d’aujourd’hui, Transition and Architecture
Australia. An indication of the high
international regard for Rory’s talents to
encourage critical thought and discourse in
architecture may be gained from his invitation
to be guest editor for the internationally
renowned The Architectural Review when they
devoted an issue to Australian architecture in
October 1988. Rory was also the author of an
as-yet-unpublished book on the work of
Richard Leplastrier.
While he was a prolific author and
commentator, most of Rory’s career was
devoted to his passion for teaching. Rory’s
inclusive, generous, modest and personal way
of teaching allowed students to share in his
enthusiasm for the profession in a very direct
way. Rory gave students the ability to discuss,
articulate and explore issues related to the
built environment on a global scale in a clear
and informed manner well beyond the scale
of their local area.
He imparted to each of his students
a foundation in the history of modern
architecture and its consequences for
contemporary design. This knowledge has
become an invaluable tool and allowed many
to achieve far beyond their expectations. Rory
encouraged students to believe and showed
them how architecture could be employed for
the greater good. For Rory history was not
dead, but lived in every design decision, every
pen mark and as a test for every new proposal.
Rory taught design as passionately and with as
much devotion as he brought to history. He
was equally respected by students and peers in
both the design studio and the lecture theatre.
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David Morris and Nick Opie, University of South Australia
JURY CITATION
The jury agreed that David Morris and the late
Nick Opie should be recognized for their
teaching programmes involving the design and
construction of actual built projects, and for
a range of other teaching initiatives.
Their approach to teaching through the
design and construction of real projects was
innovative in a number of ways, including the
opportunity to learn through actual testing
of designs, the practical application of
professional practice and the exemplary use
of cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary
teaching programmes.
David Morris and Nick Opie initiated this
teaching programme in 1993, and over the last
eleven years the students of the Louis
Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and
Design have designed and built a succession
of community buildings, with demonstrable
benefits to the students involved.
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