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CV CLARE LILLIAN JOHNSTONEDUCATION2009 to 2012 Master of Architecture,University of Technology Sydney2010 to 2011 Master of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin 2009 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, University of Technology Sydney 2005 Bachelor of Visual Arts (first year), Sydney College of the Arts

PROFESSONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 Junior Designer, Leong Leong Architecture | New York (Current)2012 to 2013 Graduate Architect, Johnson Pilton Walker Architects | Sydney (12 months) 2011 Research Assistant, UBERBAU Urban Design & Architecture | Berlin (3 months) 2010 Architectural Assistant, International Design Group | Sydney (3 months)2009 to 2010 Architectural Assistant, SJB Architects | Sydney (18 months)2007 to 2008 Architectural Assistant WHP Architects | Sydney (18 months)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012 Design Studio Teaching Assistant, supervised by William Feureman | Masters of Architecture University of Technology Sydney 2012 Second Year Architectural History & Theory Tutor, supervised by Tarsha Finney | Bachelor of Architecture University of Technology Sydney MASTERS STUDIOS 2011 Urban Projections, lectured by Adrian Lahoud | University of Technology Sydney 2011 Typological Micro-cities, lectured by Sam Jacoby (AA) & Adrian Lahoud | University of Technology Sydney 2010 Raum Ohne Eigenschaften?, lectured by Regine Leibinger | Technische Universität Berlin 2009 Social Transformations, lectured by Sam Spurr, Adrian Lahoud | University of Technology Sydney 2009 Urban Islands 2009, lectured by Mark Smout (UCL) | University of Technology Sydney 2009 Disciplinary Transformations, lectured by David Burns | University of Technology Sydney

STUDY TOURS 2011 Urban Projections Studio site investigation | Venice 2011 Technische Universität Berlin Studio field trip | Los Angeles & New York 2010 – 2011 Exchange Student | Technische Universität Berlin 2009 Social Transformations Studio site investigation | Berlin & Beirut

PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION 2010 ‘Post Traumatic Urbanism’ (accompanying images) AD (Wiley), Volume 80, Issue 5, September/October 2010 2010 ‘The Diversity Machine, Pecha Kucha Sydney, Volume 15 2009 ‘The Ambiguous Politics of Infrastructure’ (accompanying images) Architectural Review Australia 113

EXHIBITION 2012 ‘The Report of my Death’ | Kensington Street Warehouse, Sydney 2011 Index 2011 End of Year Show | University of Technology Sydney 2010 NTUT Wall Competition Finalist | National Taipei University of Technology 2009 Index 2009 End of Year Show | University of Technology Sydney 2009 Urban Islands 2009 | Cockatoo Island, Sydney 2009 (Re)shaping the Library of the Future | University of Technology Sydney 2008 Even Better Than The Real Thing, 2008 End of Year Show | University of Technology Sydney 2005 Art Express | NSW Department of Education

REFEREESWilliam Feureman, former employer | Principal, Office Feureman, Sydney & New York Undergraduate Course Director & Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney e | wfeuerman@officefeuerman.com t | +61 408 647 547

Peter Blome, former employer | Associate, Johnson Pilton Walker Architects, Sydney e | peter.blome@jpw.com.au t | +61 2 92595900

CONTACT//+1 (917) 242-6204

clare.l.johnston@gmail.com108 N 6th St Brooklyn, NY 11249

D.O.B: 01-14-1987J1 visa holder

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INSTALLATIONSCONTEXT// Two projection and object based installations for International Museum of Photography events EMPLOYER// Leong LeongCLIENT// The International Museum of Photography zBUDGET// $20,000 (US)CONTRIBUTION// Provided assistance from schematic design to documentation for fabrication, as we as installationCOLLABORATORS// Nuit Blanche New York, E Roon Kang

The Infinity Room is an immersive installation designed by Leong Leong Architecture for the Infinity Gala Cocktail Reception. A mysterious silvery box in the center of the space blurs the reflection of the guests and captures the glow of the setting sun. Guest will be invited to enter the installation to experience a world of images curated from ICP Alumni.

MACQUARIE BANK, 48 MARTIN PLACE SYDNEYCONTEXT// The redeveopment of a nationally significant bank building in the heart of Sydneys CBD.EMPLOYER// Johnson Pilton Walker Architects, Sydney.CLIENT// Macquarie BankBUDGET// $82.8 million (AUD)CONTRIBUTION// Design development documentation & services co-ordinationVISUALIZATION// Doug & Wolf

This project involved significant alterations and additions to this nationally important heritage building of recognised architectural excellence and prime civic location in Martin Place, Sydney.The redevelopment delivers a range of public and commercial outcomes;- It celebrates the original buildings’s grandeur and opulence;- Creates a new prestige Ground Floor lobby with premium security, accessibility and amenity;- Upgrades existing office floors to provide contemporary premium grade workspaces with 6 Star Green Star compliance, high ceilings, dual atrium, chilled beams and raised access floors; and- Creates new rooftop spaces integrating heritage elements and terraces overlooking one of Sydney’s great civic spaces.

STREET LIFECONTEXT// A research project which examines and seeks to reinvent hybrid infrustructures in the Netherlands EMPLOYER// Uberbau Architecture & Urbanism, Berlin.CLIENT// Stimulieringsfonds voor Architectuur (The Netherlands Architecture Fund)GRANT// 22,400 Euros CONTRIBUTION// Research Assistant

The Netherlands is the country with the 3rd densest roads network in the world as well as a motorway density of 57.5 km per 1’000 km², the most dense motorway network in the European Union. Considering this massive amount of road infrastructure within populated areas and urban settings it surprises that little of it relates to its immediate context. Homogenous boulevards, isolated highways and wide thoroughfares with excessive offsets cut through the city with little relation to neighbourhoods, landscapes, city centres, industrial areas and suburbs, separating and isolating them from each other.

In a current political context of deregulation, the redirection of the concept of the welfare state in Europe and the emergence of new concepts of mobility, we believe that there is a potential in existing roads to be transformed into hybrid, open spaces and activate various strata of society to participate in, collaborate on and profit from the development of their immediate urban environments. Taking the Netherlands as an example it is the aim of this research to develop a scenario for this social, economic and cultural re-engagement with the city, to speculate on possible instruments and to paint a vision of roads as hybrid infrastructures.

THE FORTIFIED GREEN BELTCONTEXT// A tri-scale strategy for a Venetian city limit.SUPERVISION// Prof. Adrian Lahoud, Prof. Sam Jacoby EXHIBITION// Index, 2011 End of Year Show , University of Technology Sydney - School of Architecture

The definition of an urban limit around The Municipality of Venice will provide a platform on which to form a socially, and economically resilient peripheral network. The development will provide a viable alternative to the rapidly de-industrialised waterfront and over exploited Venetian Islands, encouraging a gradual withdrawal from it, then infill back, inverting conventional city growth. Five existing programmatically different Napoleonic fortifications become the starting points for this limit, and the new centres of an autonomous archipelago like belt condition to both limit and structure the expansion of the city.

THE DIVERSITY MACHINE AND THE RESILIENT SYSTEMCONTEXT// A mega scale proposition for the redevelopment of the Beirut Central District.COLLABORATORS// Martin Abbott, Georgia Herbert, Joshua Lynch, and Zana WrightSUPERVISION// Adrian Lahoud, and Dr Samantha SpurPUBLICATION// - ‘Post Traumatic Urbanism’ (accompanying images), Architectural Design, Vol. 80, 2010 - ‘The Ambiguous Politics of Infrastructure’ (accompanying images), Architectural Review Australia 113PRESENTATION// ‘The Diversity Machine’, Pecha Kucha Sydney, Volume 15, 2010 EXHIBITION// Index, 2009 End of Year Show , University of Technology Sydney - School of Architecture

A proposal for The Beirut Central District incorporating an idea outlined by French President Nicolas Sarkozy which would join all the littoral nations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea into The Mediterranean Union. At the crux of this proposition is the creation of a High Speed Rail Line, which would trace the full loop of the sea. This comes with a series of social & political implications; our project focuses on its effect on the city of Beirut.

Focusing on the emancipatory potential of the speculated High Speed Rail network linking countries in the Mediterranean Union – We ask the question, what are the transformational effects of this infrastructure on the city of Beirut? A resilient, heterogenous city poised at the cusp of new development.

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RE INTERPRETING BERLIN BLOCK TYPOLOGYCONTEXT// Finding an appropriate mass for a mixed use development on Friederichstraße, Berlin.COLLABORATORS// Martin AbbottSUPERVISION// Prof. Regine Leibinger, Martin Schmitt

The Berlin Block is identified as a point of departure for our investigation, an interest based on the research and practice of Gustav Assmann, and James Hobrecht. The Typology was surveyed and adapted to inform new geometries, which will form the platform for generous, comfortable and adaptive spaces capable of accommodating program variations and cushion changing tenancyrequirements over time. The site fronts Friederichstraße and abuts the rear of the infamous Kunsthaus Tacheles on Oranienburgerstraße in Mitte.

Our formal process commenced by extruding the site to its maximum height of twenty-five meters. A solid to void ratio of 75% solid to 25% void, was derived from the block study and was then carved from this mass. Established by the surrounding context, a defined set of parameters wereacknowledged to create a regulating logic when removing mass from the site. These considered pedestrian access, site geometry, and provision of light and an idea of individual apartment amenity.

We strove to create a system of structural flexibility, of a universal logic that will be applied across the site. We foresee a system that will respond to the needs of different program than those originally planned for. A spatial condition that might allow a system to effortlessly respond to changing spatial needs of its inhabitants and the city.

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MEMORIAL TO PRIVACYCONTEXT// A Facility for the storage and reflection of the non-tangible, Multipule locations, Sydney.SUPERVISION// David Burns, Adam Jasper

The memorial to privacy satisfies both our need to consume space and fulfill our privacy requirements. It is not just physical items and documents that we feel we need to maintain selective disclosure of, but also that of electronic nature. This multi-locational memorial is temporal in that it houses these items until an economic recovery once again changes the nature of our metropolis, or the memorial undergoes electronic obsolescence, in which case only the architecture with its many cells of unused space will remain. In this way the memorial is nostalgic of the hidden draw, or safe, the many places and secret codes used to extract objects from their hidden places.

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THE LIBRARY AS SOCIAL CONDENSERCONTEXT// An Undergraduate proposal for the new library of the University of Technology, SydneySUPERVISION// Prof. Frank Minnaert, Joanne Paterson KinniburghEXHIBITION// - (Re)shaping the Library of the Future, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009 - Even Better Than The Real Thing, 2008 End of Year Show, University of Technology Sydney, 2008

Traditionally the University is a place for communication and circulation of thought, through transfer between academics and students, yet increasingly students at UTS are moving towards more individual methods of study. By implementing aspects of the Team Ten concept – the social condenser – this proposal aims to promote interaction between the users of the space as well as a more active use of the University’s facilities and services.

BALLISTIC INSTRUMENTSCONTEXT// A multi-scalar, experimental installation deployed on Cockatoo Island Sydney.COLLABORATORS// Adam Carabott, Franz Cruz, Alex Dircks, Benjamin Donohoo, Leisa Eldridge, Jo Ann Kok, Gerrie Lykourezos, Samantha Piatek, Courtney Ryan, LilyTandeani, Jessica Tankard, Philip Wong, Anna Wowchuk, Arthur Yip, Dinah ZhangSUPERVISION// Mark Smout, Johan HybschmanEXHIBITION// Urban Islands 2009, Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Four multi-scalar installations were designed, constructed, and deployed across the industrial ruins of Cockatoo Island, Sydney. Each installation was given prescribed methods of surveillance and measure, in order to interact with and draw information from the island. Captured through photographs, drawings and film over a series of events, the scope and diversity of the components’ investigatory potential was revealed.

‘LIVING LACE’ | Clare JohnstonExpression of Interest | Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award © Clare Lillian Johnston 2010

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LIVING LACE| Revealing the hidden lacework of the exhibition

2011 ‘Love Lace’ ExhibitionPowerhouse Museum, Sydney

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‘LIVING LACE’ | Clare JohnstonExpression of Interest | Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award © Clare Lillian Johnston 2010

LIVING LACE| Revealing the hidden lacework of the exhibitionProcess diagram

LIVING LACE| Revealing the hidden lacework of the exhibition

‘LIVING LACE’ | Clare JohnstonExpression of Interest | Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award © Clare Lillian Johnston 2010

Plan of exhibition space, on which the lace of the exhibition is woven Movement patterns of visitors, weaving through the exhibition space.

Slow shutter speed Sydney traffic, weaving through the city.Photo courtesy of Flickr User ‘iidesne’

Section of bobbin lace United States, c.1900

The grain of Sydney streets, on which the lace of the city is woven.Photo courtesy of Flickr user ‘Craig Jewell’

LIVING LACE PERFORMED AT THE SCALE OF THE CITY

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LIVING LACE: REVEALING THE HIDDEN LACEWORK OF THE EXHIBITIONCONTEXT// Competition entry for the Powerhouse Museum’s Living Lace AwardRESULT// Finalist

Lace is a system of patterns, where the presence of weaving is as important as its absence. The two work in synergy with each other revealing its construction. Through an interrogation of lace making techniques it can be noted that lace has a primary net structure, and a secondary structure of ornamentation which plugs into the net. There is absolute integration between the two. If we look to the built environment as the primary structure of the city of which the inhabitants ornament, we see the performance of a living lace of the city. At the scale of the Powerhouse we can map this performance to expose and better understand the way that people interact with the exhibition space. This data can then be used to speculate on new, more human scaled ways to design for exhibition, where registering the spaces that people inhabit is as important as those spaces where they do not, recognising the interplay between both presence and absence.

Living lace will map exhibitions spaces by providing visitors with a GPS tracking badge to trace their path through the space. Visitors are given their badge with their ticket to the lace exhibition, they are mapped and the results are projected on screens in real time within the space for all patrons to view.This intallation is accessible, and interactive allowing all patrons regardless of age to enjoy contributing to a live intervention within the museum, as they see nodes representing an individual register. The narrative of people visiting the exhibition will be visually played out as people walk, run, pause, wander, through the exhibition.

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