Kristin Green is the director of the Australian architecture practice Kristin Green Associates architecture (KGA architecture) based in Melbourne, Australia.

Early life and education

Green was born in Melbourne, and studied architecture at RMIT University, graduating in 2004. Her thesis was published in the 2001 RMIT Architecture Design Thesis Major Projects catalogue of student work, The Bold and the Beautiful.[1]

Career

Having worked for a variety of Melbourne architectural practices, such as Hassell, BKK Architects, Peter Mills, Boschler and Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), in 2009 Green established KGA Architecture. At TCL, Green was part of the project team on the multi-award winning Craigieburn Bypass project.[2]

In 2014, her project La Plage du Pacifique was included in the Sustainable Empires[3] exhibition at the Palace Albrizzi as part of the collateral events for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Fundamentals, directed by Rem Koolhaas. In 2015, she is an invited speaker at Risk, the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference.[4]

Green teaches design regularly at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. She is active in Australian architecture culture as a member of the Australian Institute of Architects and sat on the Interior Architecture Awards Jury in 2014.[5]

Her project, La Plage du Pacifique, features on the cover of RMIT's Innovation Professor of Architecture Leon Van Schaik’s 2015 book Practical Poetics in Architecture.[6]

Notable works

La Plage du Pacifique, Vanuatu.[7]

Spring Street Grocer, Melbourne Australia.[8]

Awards

  • 2013: KGA was awarded Best Retail Design at the 2013 Eat-Drink Design Awards for the Spring Street Grocer in Melbourne.[9]
  • 2015: Joint award winner of the Inaugural Tapestry Design Prize for Architects with Michelle Hamer for their work Long Term Parking, along with John Wardle Architects for Perspectives on a Flat Surface.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "RMIT University Architecture Projects". RMIT University. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Craigieburn Bypass Project Credits". Architecture Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Sustainable Empires". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Australian Institute of Architects National Conference Speakers, 2015". Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "2014 Victorian Architecture Award Winners Announced". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ van Schaik, Leon (17 April 2015). Practical Poetics in Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 1118828895.
  7. ↑ van Schaik, Leon. "La Plage du Pacifique". Architecture AU. Architecture Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Harrison, Stuart. "Spring Street Grocer". ArchitectureAU. Architecture Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "2013 Eat Drink Design Awards". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "John Wardle Architects, Kristin Green and Michelle Hamer take top honours at inaugural Tapestry Design Prize for Architects". 1 July 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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