Nigel Bertram

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Biography

Nigel Bertram is a Director of NMBW Architecture Studio, Melbourne and Practice Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. Nigel established NMBW Architecture Studio in Melbourne with Marika Neustupny and Lucinda McLean in 1997. Their architectural work continuing since that time has been widely published and awarded across categories including urban design, single and multiple residential design, small public works, adaptive re-use of existing buildings and peripheral urban design strategies. NMBW's work is known for its careful reading of existing conditions, at both an urban scale and the scale of individual inhabitation.

In 2010 Nigel completed his PhD through architectural project at RMIT University, where he taught for 11 years and was co-director of the Urban Architecture Laboratory research unit, within the School of Architecture and Design. From 2007-2010 Bertram was a member of the Sullivans Cove Design Panel, which advised the Tasmanian Government on urban design, planning and architectural matters within the highly sensitive Sullivans Cove precinct of central Hobart. In 2012 he was appointed as a member of the Design Review Panel established by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Nigel's current research with the Monash Architecture Studio is focused around new strategic development and contemporary living environments for Australia's transforming cities.

The book Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure: making and using the urban environment, by Nigel Bertram and NMBW was published by Ashgate Publishing (UK) in 2013 -http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409449270

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Projects

3 Active
13 Finished

Water sensitive outcomes for infill developments Case-study in Norman Creek

Bertram, N.

12/09/19 → 30/04/20

Project: Research

IRP3 Guiding Integrated and Urban Water Planning

Chesterfield, C., Rogers, B., Murphy, C., Malek Pour, S., Bertram, N., Grodach, C. & Tawfik, S.

1/07/18 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

Water sensitive outcomes for infill developments

Kenway, S. J., Bradley, M., London, G., Bertram, N., Newton, P., Renouf, M., Lam, K. L., Beardmore, K., Zaman, S., Corby, N., Ryan, G., Tapper, N., Kerry, P., Yuan, Z., McLean, L., Dotto, C., Temov, N., Stack, M. & Urich, C.

1/10/17 → 31/03/21

Project: Research

CoDev Townhouse Model: Affordable, high quality housing design

Bertram, N., Khor, L. & Sainsbury, O.

9/04/19 → 30/06/19

Project: Research

Redcliffe Connect Design Research - Stage 2

Bertram, N., Khor, L. & London, G.

9/08/17 → 31/12/17

Project: Research

Research Output

33 Design / Architecture
11 Commissioned Report
9 Chapter (Book)
7 Conference Paper
25 More

A Geomorphological and Hybrid Approach

Bertram, N., 2019, In Time With Water: Design Studies of 3 Australian Cities. Bertram, N. & Murphy, C. (eds.). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing, p. 42-77 36 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

An interdisciplinary and catchment approach to enhancing urban flood resilience: A Melbourne case

Rogers, B., Bertram, N., Gersonius, B., Gunn, A., Lowe, R., Murphy, C., Pasman, R., Radhakrishnan, M., Urich, C., Wong, T. & Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Expanded Design Research

Bertram, N., Murray, S. & Ramirez-Lovering, D., 2019, In Time With Water: Design Studies of 3 Australian Cities. Bertram, N. & Murphy, C. (eds.). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing, p. 14-27 14 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Human Detail

Bertram, N. & Neustupny, M., 2019, 11 p. Melbourne, Vic, Australia : Uro.

Research output: Other contribution › Other › peer-review

In Time With Water: Design Studies of 3 Australian Cities

Bertram, N. & Murphy, C., 2019, Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing. 294 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

Prizes

2011 Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award Residential Architecture

Nigel Bertram (Recipient), 2011

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

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2011 IDEA - Institutional - Highly Commended

Nigel Bertram (Recipient), 2011

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

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2012 ACT Architecture Awards: Award for Residential Architecture

Nigel Bertram (Recipient), Marika Neustupny (Recipient), Lucinda McLean (Recipient), Catherine Townsend (Recipient), Laura Harper (Recipient) & Ralf Rehak (Recipient), 2012

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)