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Ivan Rijavec (born 1951) is an Australian architect.
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Ivan Rijavec (born 1951) is an Australian architect.
Rijavec was born in Trnovo, PR Slovenia, at the time part of Yugoslavia, in 1951. When he was one year old, his family emigrated to Australia, settling in a coastal town of Albany, Western Australia.[ citation needed ]
Rijavec attributes his earliest architectural influence to the Italian structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi’s innovative work in concrete.[ citation needed ] He cites the spatial quality of Palazzo Dello Sport’s dome as having ignited his architectural interests when in 1968 he stumbled on a faded small black and white photograph of it in an engineering volume extolling the virtues of pre-cast concrete.[ citation needed ]
In 1969, Rijavec enrolled in architecture at Curtin University, Western Australia. [1] Whilst completing the first tier of the course, he won a bursary postponing his degree to undertake a study tour of Europe tracing the development of Western Civilisation through Greece, central and Western Europe. He remained in Europe for six years travelling, studying and working predominantly in London and Umeå, Sweden.[ citation needed ]
In 1977, Rijavec returned to Australia completing his bachelors and master's degrees at RMIT in 1979 and 1992.[ citation needed ] After a period working at Bates Smart, he was appointed associate director in 1985 and subsequent to his design role on the Coronial Services Centre was headhunted as a design leader at the Victorian Public Works Department. There he worked on a government initiative to raise Victorian design standards in the Justice and Tafe Groups before devoting himself exclusively to his own practice in 1988.[ citation needed ]
From the late 1980s till present, Rijavec Architects have had a prodigious output, receiving 10 professional awards and numerous other commendations for outstanding architecture. [2] Over the same period Rijavec taught at the RMIT University of Technology Department of Architecture and served on numerous professional advisory panels, competition and design juries. His architecture employs unique curvilinear geometries in the creation of forms and spaces that have been described as sculptural, intensely intimate and poetic. As the scale and breadth of his projects increased, his focus broadened to include Australian urbanism. Rijavec was included in Melbourne Masters Architecture exhibition held in November 2004 TarraWarra Museum of Art | Exhibitions that exhibited the works of some of Melbourne’s most celebrated architects.
In 2003, Rijavec assumed the role of architect-developer on a major inner urban development comprising an urban block in Melbourne’s oldest suburb, Fitzroy. The project, NKYA, (an acronym for Napier, Kerr, Young and Argyle Streets that border the site), comprised a mixed use development including cafes, offices and a predominance of apartments. It was the largest conceived in Fitzroy’s history prompting mass public protests.[ citation needed ]
The popular press dubbed it "the cheese grater" [3] (alluding to the distinctive conical forms of one of its corner elements). The complex was designed to provide 136 apartments in structures ranging between five and eight stories in height in three separate buildings of different architectural characters. Despite strong opposition by residents action groups and the Yarra City council, the project won approval at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).[ citation needed ] This was largely as a result of Rijavec establishing the project’s contextual relevance in an unprecedented appraisal of Fitzroy’s urban character that reinterpreted it as Urban Jazz.
"NOW+WHEN Australian Urbanism", inspired by Rijavec’s interest in Australian urbanism was selected as Australia’s 12th Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition for 2010. The exhibition co-directed by photographer John Gollings refocusses the Australian identity from the "outback", to its coastal urban centres where 93% of its population now lives. The exhibition comprises a survey of Australian Urbanism NOW and allegorical speculations on Australia’s Urban future, WHEN, set from 2050 into the distant future. The exhibition has been conceived as a time capsule of Australian Urbanism taken in 2010 that includes speculations on its urban future. [4]
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