Tom Kovac
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Tom Kovac (born 1958) received his Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture from RMIT University. Kovac has participated in numerous invited competitions and projects such as the proposal for a New World Trade Centre in New York and the Alessi, Tea and Coffee Towers launched in 2004 .
He has provided creative direction at (CEDD,Centre for Excellence in Digital Design) RMIT University, lab.3000 digital design biennale and since 2003 the Creative Capital Board for the State Government of Victoria. An Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Kovac`s teaching methodology complements a practice related research and experimental design direction, which covers a broad spectrum of design and creative activities within the field of digital architecture and design.
Kovac has participated in numerous prestigious International exhibitions and symposia In Europe United States and Japan, most notably at the Venice Architecture Biennale exhibitions in 2000, 2002 and 2004. At the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale he exhibited in the Singapore exhibition titled 'Singapore Built Unbuilt’. Tom Kovac also took part in the prestigious Non Standard Architecture, Exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 2004 along with other emerging starchitect contenders such as Asymptote, Decoi, Greg Lynn, NOX, ONL and UN Studio. He also exhibited at the 2004 1st Beijing Architecture Biennial and in 2006 at the ZKM Algorithmic Architecture exhibition in Karlsruhe as well as at Artescienza, in Rome. At the 2nd Beijing Architecture Biennial in 2006, he was the curator for the Australian exhibition titled ‘Emerging Talent Emerging Technologies’.
In 1999/2000 Kovac was Visiting Professor at Ljubljana University and visiting critic at Columbia University GSAPP in New York. In 2001 and 2002 he was design critic at the Architectural Association, DRL (Design Research Lab) in London. Most recently in 2005 and 2006, he was visiting critic at ETH Architecture Faculty in Zurich, Switzerland.
Kovac`s work has appeared in numerous professional reviews and architectural journals throughout the world. Kovac`s Monograph, Tom Kovac was published by Wiley Academy. In 2000 Aedes Gallery Berlin published an exhibition publication on the work of the practice.
In 2005 Kovac was profiled in Phaidon Press, 10 x 10_ 2, as one of the worlds top 100 architects, whose distinctive designs have emerged internationally over the past five years. Kovac is currently part of faculty at School of Architecture and Design RMIT University, Melbourne. Australia.
