Kerstin Thompson

Kerstin Thompson is an Australian architect, born in Melbourne in 1965. She is the principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), a Melbourne-based architecture, landscape and urban design practice with projects in Australia and New Zealand. She is also Professor of Design at the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and Monash University.

Career

Kerstin Thompson’s career as an architect commenced with studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) where she earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989. During her undergraduate studies she worked in the Milan-based studio of Matteo Thun[1] (1987) and the Melbourne-based practice of Robinson Chen (1988–89). In 1990 she worked for Perrott Lyon Mathieson Pty Ltd as an Assistant Site Architect for the Telecom Corporate Tower project. From 1990 to 1994 she was a lecturer in architectural design at RMIT. In 1998, Kerstin completed a Masters in Architecture at RMIT.

Just 6 years into establishment of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Australia’s leading architectural academics including Leon Van Schaik and Philip Goad focused further attention on the practice through their writing and teaching, ‘Box of Joys’, Architecture Australia,[2] ‘Kerstin Thompson’, in Design City Melbourne’,[3] ‘Poetics in Architecture’ Architectural Design [4] and ‘The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture’.[5]

In the decade from 2000 to 2010, Kerstin’s portfolio of projects broadened to include civic projects. The first of many emergency /community services buildings received recognition including local, national, and international shortlisting’s. During this decade, Kerstin’s design thinking was the subject of exhibitions, and a significant body of critique, ‘New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific’,[6]‘Living in the Modern: Australian Architecture’.[7] The National Portrait Gallery’s inclusion of KTA in “Thinking about Architecture and Portraiture” by Dr Christopher Chapman, in 2009.[8]

In 2005, Kerstin was appointed as the Creative Director for the RAIA National Conference [9] and one of the Creative Directors for Australia's 2008 Venice Biennale exhibition, Abundant Australia.[10] Her contribution to education was recognised by her appointment as an Adjunct Professor in Architecture at RMIT in 2009. Thompson was appointed as a member of the Federal Government's BEIIC Advisory Committee in 2008.

In years from 2010 to 2020, Kerstin’s academic contribution was recognised by appointments to Monash University as an Adjunct Professor in Architecture (2012-) and to Victoria University Wellington as Professor of Design in Architecture (2010–18). Her contribution to the profession was recognised by appointment as a Life Fellow by the Australian Institute of Architects (2017-) Kerstin’s design leadership was also recognised by her appointment as a panel member of the Victorian Design Review Panel (VDRP) with the Office of the Victorian Government Architect (2012-). Kerstin has also curated multiple exhibitions, including ’Architectural Urbanism: Melbourne/Seoul’,[11] “Diverse Practice” Exhibition and Symposium at Victoria University of Wellington [12] and ‘Repair: Australian Pavilion’ at the Venice Biennale 2018.[13]

As part of her ongoing engagement in the industry, Kerstin continues to write and deliberate on ethics and design, Assemble Papers ‘Beach house vernacular & Boyd: Kerstin Thompson’ [14] and more recently; Spatial Continuums: Linear, Radial, and Clustered Architectures in Practice’ [15] ‘The Burden of Landscape’, Architect Victoria, ‘Feeling Climate’ Architecture Australia and ‘Museum as Place-maker’.[16] Her commitment also extends to various speaking opportunities including Keynote Speaker, Heritage Address Open House Melbourne,[17] Symposium Contributor, RMIT ‘Edmond and Corrigan + Peter Corrigan: INFLUENCE’ [18] and Robin Boyd Foundation: Ethics of Architecture.[19]

Notable projects
  • 2001 - Napier Street Housing, Fitzroy, Australia
  • 2003 - House at Lake Connewarre, Leopold, Australia
  • 2005 - Upside-Down House, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2007 - Visitors Centre at Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Australia
  • 2008 - Ivanhoe House, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2010 - Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2011 - House at Big Hill, Victoria, Australia
  • 2011 - Carrum Downs 24 Hour Police Station, Victoria, Australia
  • 2012 - Marysville 16 Hour Police Station, Victoria, Australia
  • 2013 - House at Hanging Rock, Victoria, Australia
  • 2014 - Aesop Emporium, Melbourne Victoria, Australia
  • 2017 - Tarrawarra Cellar Door, Victoria, Australia
  • 2018 - Private Melbourne Women’s Club, Victoria, Australia
  • 2018 - Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent Foundation, Victoria, Australia
  • 2018 - Northcote High School Performing Arts & VCE Centre, Victoria, Australia
  • 2018 - The Stables, VCA Redevelopment, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 2018 - East Street, Albury House, NSW Australia
  • 2019 - Jock Comini Reserve Amenities, Ravenswood, Victoria, Australia
  • 2019 - Broadmeadows Town Hall, Victoria, Australia
  • 2021 – Bundanon Art Museum & Bridge, Illaroo, NSW, Australia
  • 2021 – Queen & Collins, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 2022 – Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia

Selected Awards

The breadth of Kerstin’s design work has developed significantly across multiple sectors, indicative of the commitment to excellence in design, Kerstin’s design focus on every project from the smallest to the largest is the peer recognition of named awards such as The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture at the 2019 AIA National Architecture Awards for Jock Comini Reserve Amenities,[20] through to the Victorian Architecture Medal at the 2020 AIA Victorian Chapter Awards for Broadmeadows Town Hall,[21] which also received The George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture at the 2020 AIA Victorian Chapter Awards

  • 2020 AIA National Awards, Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Named Award The Robin Boyd Award for East Street
  • 2020 AIA Victorian Chapter Awards, Victorian Architecture Medal for Broadmeadows Town Hall
  • 2020 AIA Victorian Chapter Awards, George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture for Broadmeadows Town Hall
  • 2019 AIA National Architecture Awards, Commercial Architecture for Private Melbourne Women’s Club
  • 2019 AIA National Architecture Awards, Small Project Architecture Named Award The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Jock Comini Reserve Amenities
  • 2019 Victorian School Design Awards, Best School Project – under $5 million for Northcote High School Performing Arts & VCE Centre
  • 2019 WAF World Architecture Festival Completed Buildings – School Shortlist for Northcote High School Performing Arts & VCE Centre
  • 2019 AIA Victorian Chapter Heritage Architecture Named Award The John George Knight Award for Sacred Heart Building, Abbotsford Convent Foundation
  • 2019 AIA Victorian Chapter Commercial Architecture Named Award The Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Private Melbourne Women’s Club
  • 2018 AIA Victorian Chapter Heritage & Educational Architecture Award and Interior Architecture Commendation for The Stables, VCA Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, The University of Melbourne
  • 2018 WAF World Architecture Festival Shortlist Old & New Buildings for The Stables, VCA Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, The University of Melbourne
  • 2017 AIA Commercial Architecture Award, Victorian Chapter for TarraWarra Cellar Door
  • 2017 AIA Residential Architecture Award – New, Victorian Chapter for Seaberg
  • 2014 AIA National Architecture Awards, Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture - Houses (New) for House at Hanging Rock
  • 2014 AIA Harold Desbrowe Annear Award for House at Hanging Rock
  • 2014 AIA Heritage Award for Wertheim Factory Conversion - Studio 9
  • 2014 AIA Public Alterations & Additions for Birralee Primary School
  • 2013 AIA Regional Prize - Victorian Chapter for Marysville 16 Hour Police Station
  • 2013 World Architecture Festival, Shortlisted for Civic & Community Category for Marysville 16 Hour Police Station
  • 2011 AIA Marion Mahoney Award, Victorian Chapter for MUMA
  • 2011 AIA Public Architecture Award, Victorian Chapter for Carrum Downs 24hr Police Station
  • 2009 AIA Residential New Award, Victorian Chapter, for Ivanhoe House
  • 2003 RAIA Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for House at Lake Connewarre, Victoria
  • 2002 RAIA Architecture Award for Multiple Residential for Napier Street Housing
  • 2002 Grand Prix Dulux Color Awards for Ah Mu Restaurant Melbourne
  • 2000 Seppelt Contemporary Art Award for an outstanding body of work. This work was exhibited at the MCA Sydney from Nov.1999 - March 1999
  • 1999 RAIA Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for West Coast House

Publications
  • Architecture and Angels: Shifting Grounds’, Exedra – Architecture, Art & Design, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994.
  • ‘Architecture and Angels’, Kerb Journal, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1996.
  • ‘Detail in the Work of Guilford Bell: A Problem of Evidence’, in L van Schaik (ed.), Bell: The Life and Work of Guilford Bell, Architect 1912–1992, Bookman Press, Melbourne, 1999.
  • ‘Interstitial Practices’, in L van Schaik (ed.), Interstitial Modernism, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, 2000.
  • ‘Gradient Architectures’, Architecture Australia, vol. 90, no. 3, May/June 2001.‘House-street-relationship-house-street-district-city (smithsons)’, in G London & S Anderson (eds), Take 7: Housing Australia: How Architects Can Make a Difference, The Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Canberra, 2008.
  • ‘Affinities’, in R Boyd, Living in Australia, revised edition, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2013.
  • ‘More Than’, Architectural Review Asia Pacific, Issue 131, 2013.
  • ‘10 Lessons’, Parlour, 14 March 2014, <archiparlour.org/10-lessons/2014>.
  • ‘Beyoncé or Barak: Is It a Real Choice?’ ArchitectureAU, 1 September 2015,<architectureau.com/articles/beyonce-or- barak-is-it-a-real-choice>.
  • ‘Design Negotiations’, in D Bates, V Mitsogianni & D Ramírez-Lovering (eds), Studio Futures: Changing Trajectories in Architectural Education, Uro Publications, Melbourne, 2015.
  • ‘Single House – No Future?’ Architecture Australia, vol. 105, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2016.
  • ‘The Burden of Landscape’, Architect Victoria, Summer 2017.
  • ‘Spatial Continuums: Linear, Radial, and Clustered Architectures in Practice’, in P Sparke, P Brown, P Lara-Betancourt, G Lee & M Taylor (eds), Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2018.
  • ‘Dignity with a Modesty of Means’, in V Mitsogianni & P Macasaet (eds), Influence: Edmond & Corrigan + Peter Corrigan, Uro Publications, Melbourne, 2019.
  • ‘Feeling Climate’, Architect Victoria, Autumn 2020. ‘Museum as Place-maker’, in G Lindsay (ed.), Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design: Theory and Practice of Place, Routledge, New York, 2020.
  • ‘Small Public: Relativities’, Architecture Australia, vol. 109, no. 4, Jul/Aug 2020.

References
  1. Matteo Thun
  2. Architecture AU: "Box of Joys" ARCHIVE | Leon van Schaik 1 Sep 1999 Issue Architecture Australia, September 1999
  3. Kerstin Thompson’, in Design City Melbourne, Wiley Academy, Chichester, 2006.
  4. van Schaik, L (ed.), ‘Poetics in Architecture’, Architectural Design, vol. 72, no. 2, Mar 2002.
  5. Goad, P & J Willis (eds), The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011.
  6. New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Lille, Cork, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Melbourne. 2004-2005.
  7. Living in the Modern: Australian Architecture, Berlin Germany, DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum), featuring 25 Australian Architects. 2007
  8. Thinking about Architecture and Portraiture
  9. Creative Director of ‘Exchange’, 2005 AIA National Conference. Melbourne.
  10. "RAIA - Abundant Australia, Venice Biennale". The Loop: Frost Group. Retrieved 6 November 2014
  11. Architectural Urbanism: Melbourne/Seoul, curated by Melanie Dodd. 2012/2013.
  12. “Diverse Practice” Exhibition and Symposium at Victoria University of Wellington.
  13. Repair: Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018
  14. https://assemblepapers.com.au/2014/02/27/beach-vernacular-boyd-kerstin-thompson/
  15. Spatial Continuums: Linear, Radial, and Clustered
  16. ‘Museum as Place-maker’, in G Lindsay (ed.), Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design: Theory and Practice of Place, Routledge, New York, 2020.
  17. 2019 Keynote Speaker, Heritage Address Open House Melbourne
  18. 2017Symposium Contributor, RMIT Edmond and Corrigan + Peter Corrigan: INFLUENCE
  19. 2016 Keynote Speaker, Robin Boyd Foundation: Ethics of Architecture
  20. Jock Comini Reserve Amenities
  21. Broadmeadows Town Hall
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