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Christine Phillips is an Australian architect, academic, writer and broadcaster based in Melbourne, Australia.

Biography

Since graduating from RMIT University in 2000, Christine Phillips has been an active part of Australia’s architecture culture through her practice, which includes lecturing, writing, broadcasting, curating and exhibiting.

Christine Phillips is a director of the award-winning practice OpenHAUS Architecture and is a lecturer in Architecture at RMIT University teaching Design, Australian Architecture, 20th Century Architecture and Major Project (thesis). As a co-host of the RRR radio program The Architects from 2005 - 2014 Christine Phillips engaged a broader public audience with architecture on a weekly basis. In 2012 The Architects were show-cased as part of the Australian exhibition, Formations: New Practices in Australian Architecture, at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, Common Ground, directed by David Chipperfield.

Christine Phillips completed her PhD at Melbourne University. Her research focuses on leisure and play in architecture through an examination of modern waterside public swimming pools. Christine Phillips writes for a variety of magazines including Architecture Australia, Architectural Review, Artichoke, Architect Victoria and Steel Profile. In addition she is the secretary of the Australian chapter of DOCOMOMO.

Awards

2010 Australian Institute of Architecture’s Bates Smart Media Award: Advertisements for Architecture 2009 Exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne Australia.

Exhibition curation

Advertisements for Architecture, 2009, Federation Square, Melbourne.

Advertisements for Architecture, 2010, Surrey Hills Library, Sydney.