Dr Alex Selenitsch
BArch (Melb) DipArch (GIT) MArch (RMIT)
FRAIA NAVA Craft Victoria
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Email: asele@unimelb.edu.au
Web: www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/asele/
Since graduating as an architect in 1969, Dr Alex Selenitsch has taught architectural design, theory and history at Deakin University, RMIT and The University of Melbourne. He currently teaches architectural design. His PhD on narrative descriptions of architecture is in progress. He writes essays and criticism on architectural design, sculpture, painting and literature. His essay 'The Bell Mandala' appears in The Life Work of Guilford Bell, Architect 1912–92. He was the guest editor for the June 1999 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Print Council of Australia, on the theme of artists' books. He also makes and exhibits sculpture and furniture, sometimes in collaboration with Hamish Hill. He is a member of the Public Art Committee of the Melbourne City Council.
Current Teaching Responsibilities
702503 Architectural Design 5A
Research Interests
- physical patterns such as types, archetypes and metaphor
- the action of intuitive processes in creativity
- the social implications of craft and manufacture
Recent Publications
Book chapters
Selenitsch A. 2001. The Simultaneous Through and Through and Through and. In T Leeser & K Holt-Damant (eds), The Architecture of Navigation. Melbourne, Australia: RMIT University Press, pp. 56-62.
Selenitsch A. 2002. Sing Sign. In RK Tipping (ed), Richard Kelly Tipping: Published Works. New South Wales, Australia: thorny devil press, pp. 8-10.
Selenitsch A. 2004. ABC: A Burns Commentary. In K Morgan & Z Stanhope (eds), A Hand Passing Through Art and Architecture: Peter Burns. Bulleen, Victoria, Australia: Heide Museum of Modern Art, pp. 149-159.
Selenitsch A. 2004. The 'Bon a Tirer' Waltz. In R Butler & A Virgo (eds), Place Made: Australian Print Workshop. Canberra, Australia: National Gallery of Australia, pp. 149-159.
Refereed journal articles
Selenitsch A. 2001. Close to Home. Monument. 44:100-104.
Selenitsch A. 2001. Equilibrium. Architectural Review Australia. 76:66-71.
Selenitsch A. 2001. Flowers Flocks Fields. Object. 3:40-42.
Selenitsch A. 2001. Norman Lindsay: These Boots are Made for Walkin'. Like Art Magazine. 14:16-18.
Refereed conference papers
Missingham GK & Selenitsch A. 2002. Translplants, transferences, translations: exchanges of strategies and design ideas, gardens and cross-cultural considerations. In J MacArthur & A Moulis (eds), Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 1-12. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Selenitsch A. 2002. Temples plus: looking at Palladio's villas, again. In J MacArthur & A Moulis (eds), Additions to Architectural History: XIXth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. 1-11. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Selenitsch A. 2003. What if architecture is art? In CL Newton, SL Kaji-O'Grady & SH Wollan (eds), Design + research: project based research in architecture. Second international conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia Melbourne 28-30 September 2003. 1-10. Melbourne, Australia: Association of Architectural Schools of Australasia.
Selenitsch A. 2004. HI TO LO: the Liminal Zone of Transformation. In H Edquist & H Frichot (eds), LIMITS: Proceedings from the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. 425-429. Perth, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Exhibitions
Selenitsch A. 2001. /l/a/d/d/e/r. RMIT Gallery; .
Selenitsch A. 2001. Bathroom Tower. Craft Victoria.
Selenitsch A. 2001. Bits in Pieces: the Half Life of Data. CSIRO Discovery.
Selenitsch A. 2004. Dr Alex Selenitsch, Models and Drawings. Melbourne.
Selenitsch A. 2004. Heresy: the Secret Language of Materials. Melbourne.
Selenitsch A. 2004. Shreds, Cuts and Tears, Brushmarks. Brisbane.