Norman Day

After graduating in the late 1960s, Day worked in the office of Romberg & Boyd, with noted architect and critic Robin Boyd and Professor Frederick Romberg. He then started his own practice in 1971. His practice was initially based in Melbourne, where he came to prominence in the 1980s as part of the new wave of architects who adopted Postmodernism. Later his practice expended to South East Asia, with offices in Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and Dili. His major commissions include Mowbray College (Melton), Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Headquarters (Melbourne), RMIT International University, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and Can Tho University Learning Resource Center (Can Tho City, Vietnam) and the Embassy for East Timor (Canberra). Since 2000, he has been involved with the new nation of East Timor, consulting on the reconstruction of the country with projects including the Xanana Gusmão Reading Room/ Library (Dili), Hotel dom Aleixo (Dili)and schemes for empowerment training. He is a board member of "Architects Without Frontiers". Design submissions have been made for a design proposal for the new Assembly and Ba Dinh Hall (Hanoi), an urban design competition for Thu Thiem district (HCMC), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne), MOMA at Heide (Melbourne), West Kowloon Redevelopment (Hong Kong) and National Trade Union Headquarters (Singapore).

Day is an adjunct professor of architecture at the RMIT University, which also awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Architecture. During the period 1976 to 2002, he was lecturer and design coordinator Theory, History, Communications Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design and Environmental Construction, RMIT University (Melbourne). He has lectured also at the University of Western Australia Perth, School of Art and Design, RMIT at Bundoora, University of New South Wales (Sydney), School of Architecture, University of Melbourne. Department of Architecture (with Professor Susana Torre), Columbia University, New York, Lecturer Council of Adult Education, Monash University (Melbourne), Swinburne Technical College (Melbourne), and Deakin University (Geelong). Day's titles are: Doctor of Architecture (Honoris Causa, RMIT), adjunct professor of architecture (RMIT), M Arch (RMIT), B Arch (Melb), ARB (Vic),

• XXX Exhibition, 30 Years of Architecture – Norman Day, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2001 • Models Inc. Architects + Industry (Curator: Val Austin) A + I Gallery, Melbourne, 1996 • World—Wide—Work: Architecture by Fax CURVE, Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne, 1995 • "Fin de Siecle?: Sydney and twentyfirst century: Architectures of Melbourne", Clapin Burdett Gallery, Sydney, 1993 • "Fin de Siecle? Melbourne — and the twenty-first century" RMIT, Melbourne, 1992 • Australian Mythos Sydney — Reflection on an Unfinished Journey, 1988 • Neo-Classicism? Monash University + Power Institute (Sydney and Melbourne).1986 • TwoxTwo '86: Artists + Architects: George Paton Gallery (Melbourne).1986 (Exhibition partner Julie Brown-Rrap) • Architecture as Idea, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 1984 • Next Wave, Canberra, 1981 • Four Melbourne Architects, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, with Edmond and Corrigan, Gregory Burgess, Peter Crone, 1979

He was first employed as architecture critic for The Age (Melbourne) in 1976, and has supplied critique for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Radio and TV), and previously for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Age (Melbourne). Articles have been published world-wide including National Times (Melbourne), (Editor) Architecture Australia magazine (National), (Editor) Architect Magazine, DOMUS (Italy), Studio International (London), International Architecture (London), Aujourd Hui (Paris), Monument Magazine (Sydney), Transition Magazine (Melbourne), Australian Art Review (Sydney), Express Magazine (New York), Meanjin (Melbourne) and Melbourne University Magazine (Melbourne).