Short Biography
Ramin Jahromi is a practicing architect of 19+ years and an Associate at COX. His work at COX includes major Olympic projects, public and commercial buildings and stadia in Australia and overseas. For the past 7 years he has worked closely from concept design to delivery on major rail and infrastructure projects in Australia, these include the Chatswood Transport Interchange, Wynyard Station Plan, Redfern Station Plan, Regional Rail Link in Melbourne and GASP Stations in Victoria. For the past year and half he was the Architectural Section Leader for Sydney Metro Network Stages 1 and 2, where he was working in a project office with a wide multidisciplinary team. His work and passion in infrastructure architecture is directly linked to the studio.
Shaowen Wang is an active tutor at UNSW in Design Studio, History & Theory courses since 2007. Before arriving in Australia, she was undertaking research courses at Columbia University, and the City University of New York. She had worked on medium and small scales projects: synagogues, private schools, mixed use tall buildings, and houses in New York. Her main interest is in architectural history, theory and criticism with the focus on cosmopolitanism since the mid of nineteenth century. Currently, she is guest editing a special issue of World Architecture on train stations. The attempts to reject, assimilate, continue and sometime transform architecture as a discipline by the practitioners in our highly organized urbanized and seemingly destabilized world remain the central locus of her concerns.
Ramin and Shaowen have been teaching together for 4 years now, and this is their third installment of the Re-conception of a Train Station after 2009's Placing Motions and 2010’s Staging the Public. Between the 2 instructors, students are encouraged to expand their research and critical inquiries into the field of both the theory and practice of architecture + urbanism where both tutors contest, negotiate and incorporate their own philosophy, design theory and architectural strategy.
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