Paul Minifie

Minifie Nixon was formed in 1999 by Fiona Nixon and Paul Minifie. Having grown from Melbourne’s rich built and experimental design culture, their practice is marked as being of the first architectural generation steeped in a digital design culture. MNA is dedicated to constructing innovative public buildings. Central to the practice is a commitment to research, often carried out in conjunction with the the Architecture school at RMIT, where both principals teach.

Their most significant built work is the Victorian College of Arts Centre for Ideas building, which won an RAIA Victorian Chapter award for institutional architecture in 2004. The practice has exhibited experimental works at Archilab in 2001 and 2003. Minifie Nixon projects often begin by research into design techniques, the repertoire of which has been massively expanded by the availability of new computational tools. Technique is not seen as an end in itself, but as a primary means of establishing relationships within a ’design space’. Such design spaces may relate ideas of, say, functional organisations, urban and historical parameters, material construction and retinal and spatial experiences. A project then is seen not as a unique material proposition, but rather a particular instance of the configurations possible within that space.

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