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Monte John Latham URBAN LAND ROOM IDENTITY COAST A R C H I T E C T PARTICIPANT IN ARCHITECTURE S CONCEPTS DETAIL HERITAGE INTERIOR SITES REPORTS BRIEFS CHARACTER-OF-PLACE URBANPLANNING WORKSHOPS PREPLANNING MASTERPLANNING Sorell, Tasmania, Australia 7172 0447 651 420 debox@bigblue.net.au EXPERIENCE REFER ALSO AIA Debox Portfolo: http://www.architect.net.au/debox Debox SCRAPBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.173149369410453.78638.173147642743959&type=3 or scrapbook album via https://www.facebook.com/DeboxLathamArchitects Debox GOOGLE: https://plus.google.com/+DeboxDegridArchitecturesMidwayPoint/posts BOOK by MJ Latham: https://www.facebook.com/HouseFandango RECENT Debox_Geographic Architectures - MJ Latham Architect(Tas), Accredited Practitioner(Tas,Vic) Sullivans Cove Railyards Proposal Sorell Council Chambers submission, ( Previous years : Devonport urban proposals, Bellerive urban proposals, State of the Environment Committee - Settlements, Tasmania Together Workshops, Rottnest Urban Design conference, Adelaide Urban Design Conference, Melbourne Urban Design Conference, State Heritage Planning Proposal, Sullivans Cover Urban Design Competition, Hollybank Forest submissions) Australian Institute of Architects Heritage Committee, Sustainability Committee, City Hall Heritage evaluation, Building Control Board classifications submission workshop, CPD seminars, BCA seminars. 3 Visitor Accommodation Units: Huonville House Proposal: Moola Dr, Sandford Legalisation of farm shed & dwelling & conversion to visitor accommodation: Huonville House Proposal: 42 Malachi Dr, Kingston Rear dwelling proposal: 307 Nelson Road 24 dwelling unit site proposal Montagu St, Mt Stuart

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Page 1: About latham

Monte John Latham URBAN LAND ROOM IDENTITY COAST

A R C H I T E C T P A R T I C I P A N T I N A R C H I T E C T U R E S

C O N C E P T S D E T A I L H E R I T A G E I N T E R I O R S I T E S R E P O R T S B R I E F S C H A R A C T E R - O F - P L A C E U R B A N P L A N N I N G

W O R K S H O P S P R E P L A N N I N G M A S T E R P L A N N I N G

Sorell, Tasmania, Australia 7172 0447 651 420 [email protected]

EXPERIENCE

REFER ALSO

AIA Debox Portfolo: http://www.architect.net.au/debox

Debox SCRAPBOOK:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.173149369410453.78638.173147642743959&type=3

or scrapbook album via https://www.facebook.com/DeboxLathamArchitects

Debox GOOGLE:

https://plus.google.com/+DeboxDegridArchitecturesMidwayPoint/posts

BOOK by MJ Latham: https://www.facebook.com/HouseFandango

RECENT

Debox_Geographic Architectures - MJ Latham Architect(Tas), Accredited Practitioner(Tas,Vic)

Sullivans Cove Railyards Proposal

Sorell Council Chambers submission,

( Previous years: Devonport urban proposals, Bellerive urban proposals, State of the

Environment Committee - Settlements, Tasmania Together Workshops, Rottnest

Urban Design conference, Adelaide Urban Design Conference, Melbourne Urban

Design Conference, State Heritage Planning Proposal, Sullivans Cover Urban Design

Competition, Hollybank Forest submissions)

Australian Institute of Architects

Heritage Committee, Sustainability Committee, City Hall Heritage evaluation,

Building Control Board classifications submission workshop, CPD seminars,

BCA seminars.

3 Visitor Accommodation Units: Huonville

House Proposal: Moola Dr, Sandford

Legalisation of farm shed & dwelling & conversion to visitor accommodation:

Huonville

House Proposal: 42 Malachi Dr, Kingston

Rear dwelling proposal: 307 Nelson Road

24 dwelling unit site proposal Montagu St, Mt Stuart

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Conversion of Chapel to Dwelling: Dover

House Extension: Venetat Pt, Bruny

Visitor Accommodation & legalisation; Jetty Rd, Cygnet

Warehouse conversion to sport training: Farley St

Dental Practice relocation: Clarence

Shops, Signage & Arcade Floor: Huon Arcade, Huonville

Shop & 3 town houses site proposal Stowell&Hampden, Battery Pt.

Picnic Island Tourist Project, Coles Bay – camp huts, bird watching,

boardwalks, jetties, heritage.

Crossover steps: 24 Willowdene

Steep site drive access, garage, garden: 125a Forest Rd

Rear Unit: 2 Campbell St, Kingston

Peter Mackay Garage: Kingston

Deck: 343 Cambridge Rd

House BA: 22 Beach Rd, Middleton

Shop Building Designer confirmations: 2 Cooper St, Glenorchy

Shop fitout Building Designer confirmations: Eastlands

Proposed Halfway House, Caretaker Unit & Site (Part 5 conservation &

bushfire compromise): Baskerville

Griffiths House: Eaglehawk Neck

Tan House & Outbuilding: Eaglehawk Neck

House legalisation & auxillary dwelling DA BA: Risby Rd, Middleton

Visitor Accommodation legalisation: Orford

3 Shops, building design confirmation: Main Street, Huonville

Renovation & Deck: Bananya st, Mornington

Conversion to warehousing tenancies: Farley St

Industrial workshops tiltup aesthetic design: Runway Rd, Cambridge

Rear dwellings proposal: 207 209 Campbell St, Hobart

Margate Marina Development Construction Drawings

To 2011

Debox_Degrid Architectures - MJ Latham Architect(Tas), Accredited Practitioner(Tas,Vic)

Free Spirit Animal Sanctuary DA with Town&Country Planning

St Helens 3 shops prelim scheme, Myuana Rd underhouse renovation BA,

Bundalla Rd Warehouse use conversion BA, Richmond Pharmacy BA,

207/209 Campbell St DA, 42 New Town Rd Surgery addition BA, Richardson

Avenue 3 flats BA.

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TOOL workshop addition & renovation -Mornington, Chapel front addition,

Orford units DA, Davenport house, warehouse tilt slab rendition proposal,

New Town surgery expansion, appeal management for two units Campbell

Street (withdrawn), Waterfront house/property Dennes Pt DA, contracts for

Dellas & Town & Country Planning.

Out-of-hours – not enough of them

Via Town & Country Planning - Chemist expansion sketch Richmond;

residential schematics, renovation & additions; Woodbridge health centre DA;

warehouse strata; appeal witness; 20 unit subdivisions; Huonville arcade

redevelopment; Redwood Drive village centre proposal; change of use

applications; scoping plan Kingston Surf Club; Melbourne:- shoptop

redevelopment proposal; heritage house rooftop additions BA, units.

Out-of-hours – not enough of them

Residential schematics, renovation & additions, St Georges grounds Sorell

Rose Garden masterplan, Blue Lagoon camp toilet conversion.

Marketing self-authored 350p paperback - Hows the House

Currently available in bookshops in Hobart & Wellington (Get your copy today!)

Entrant - Hobart Waterfront International Design Competition.

Who’s Planning Tasmania Anyway – conference attendance.

2006

Crown Lands Office

One-year contract with Shack-sites Project (Title rationalisation from

shack-licensees to freehold or unencumbered Crown incl Aboriginal &

European heritage, wastewater and bushfire management, access, political

protocol, public/shackowner meetings, dispute resolution – shackies, local

councils, bureaucracy, government, ombudsman, wastewater and road

engineer, aboriginal heritage consultant, heritage council).

Out-of-hours – family. NZ, surfing, painting,

lobbying state planning.

2001 - 2005

Debox_Degrid Architecture - MJ Latham Architect, registered Architect and

Accredited Building Practitioner – Tasmania

Small scale work (primarily low end residential).

Autocad.

Submissions:-

East Devonport Urban Framework for local Community and Council (short-listed);

Wedgetail’s Eden, Forestry Tasmania Hollybank Tourism Proposal (short-listed);

DPIWE, State of the Environment Settlements Committee sittings,

Devonport Plaza Submission,

Voluntary Proposal, Settlement Museum (Hobart Town Hall),

State Housing Competition,

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Sorell Townscape Committee,

Devonport Heritage Study Submission.

Now accredited.

Ongoing professional development attendance to sustain solo practice.

Out-of-hours –

family. NZ, surfing,

‘How’s the House’ embellishment and publisher search,

Mont Paints international marketing and local shows,

research and sketch Hobart cbd and Cove precolonial landscapes series,

Tasmanian Souvenir enterprise begun and abandoned, lobbying state planning.

1999 - 2000

M.J.Latham - Architect

Tasmania Together Future Search Workshops, participant.

Promotion of voluntary proposal, A Special State’s Special Towns -

speculation for urban masterplanning.

Bellerive Village Townscape competition – winner.

DPIWE, State of the Environment Settlements Committee sittings

Book manuscript.

Miscellaneous.

Out-of-hours –

family, web sites,

design & laying sandstone paving,

painting, crafted desk top, renovation.

1999

Development Services Division, City of Hobart

South Hobart Main Road Streetscape Plan – initial site documentation, in-

principle brief.

City of Hobart Streetworks Masterplan - initiation and detail brief.

1994 – 98

Tecton Consulting, City of Hobart

Municipal architecture, townscape projects, community cultural development,

public art coordination, streetscape design - all including: -

CBD Revitalisation –research and schematics, some initial mall studies; mall

roof initial schematics and location; some design committee involvement.

New Selfs Point Wastewater Laboratory Building – location review, design

and contract observation.

Argyle Street multistorey Carpark revamp and Wellington Court

Redevelopment – basic spatial designs (landform, removal of vehicular

ramp, pedestrian movement), cladding and colour discussions.

National urban design conferences.

Development control consultation.

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North Hobart Grandstand rooms refit designs.

Civic Square Site design discussions and schemes.

Wapping, Lower Collins Street, art wall and defunct entrance sculpture

dispute discussions, artist selection committee and liaison.

Bicheno Townscape Manual, St Helens Township Plan; project coordinator,

team management, community workshops, committee liaisons, urban

architecture, site assessment, report manager.

Context friendly pump houses at Long Beach, Queenborough and Selfs Point

Town Hall Site Development, initial design brief – incl original cove landform

interpretation, use options, multiple building accommodation connections,

integration with Franklin square.

Lord Mayors Secretarial Office – gut 1970’s refit and reinstate heritage

quality.

Out-of-hours –

daughter born, cottage building.

1988 - 94

Planning and Development Division, City of Hobart

Urban architecture and planning, varied, interesting work in the midst of

professionals and workers of many disciplines - including coordinations, briefs,

schematics, detail, documentation, contract administration, reports, committees,

multidisciplined specialists, aldermanic consultation, public relations and ‘crows

nest’ view of many development applications.

Statutory Urban Design and heritage development appraisals - planning

appeals, Council reports, letter writing.

Public Art Policy – self initiated proposal to Council.

Town Hall and Council buildings renovation, interiors, kitchen and work on

Town Hall Conservation Plan, heritage interiors and stone restoration detail.

North Hobart Oval - various schematics

North Hobart Oval Spectator Roof .

Salamanca Public Toilets – location proposals, design, detail, contract

management.

Urban detail - signs and interpretation panels, bus shelters and street

furniture, public spaces, small pool shade, monument design, Dutch Fountain

location and negotiation, St Davids Park Lion Sculpture placement.

North Hobart Townscape Project (award) – community-based multi-discipline

placemaking project, project brief and coordination, video direction,

community committee work, Community Art Pavement.

St Marys Townscape Project – role as HCC coordinator.

Cove Tramway Committee member.

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M J Latham - Architect

St Marys Townscape Project - Urban Architect and Manager for St Marys

Association for Community Development.

House designs.

Forestry Tasmania Hollybank Forest Centre competition - entrant.

Registration - Architect.

1985 - 88

University of Tasmania

Semesters 1-6 Architecture, graduation, thesis - Value Architecture; incl

Sorell Regional Library Plans.

1987

Blythe, Yeung and Menzies - Architects, Hobart

Government Executive Building - Interior layout, fitout and furniture.

Housing Department of Tasmania

Design, drafting, unit planning.

Out-of-hours – 4thson, studies, country life.

1986 - 87

Jeremy Olphert and Associates, Wellington, New Zealand

Corporate office interiors and small building design - flat out documentation.

Out-of-hours – studies, seaside life, NZ trains, Maoris

1985

Department of Construction, Architecture Unit, Tasmania

Ulverstone Hospital - presentation sketch, renovation plans, bedside service

details, site assessment.

School renovation drafting.

Gymnasium signs and logo piece.

Out-of-hours –entrant Roma Railway Expo Urban Renewal Competition, studies

1980 - 84

Tasmanian State Institute of Technology

Final semester and graduation Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design,

Major Study - Dream House; the Complete Romance and Handbook.

Self employment

House designs, handyman; agencies and labour.

Tasmanian Art Outlet, local art hire - establishment and running own

business.

Out-of-hours 2nd

and 3rd

sons,

studies, country life, camping, cottage building,

local newspaper editor, two art exhibitions.

1976 - 79

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Itinerant

Contract drafting, small building and renovation design, exploration of

painting and graphic design, handyman, café, market garden, farm hand.

Out-of-hours – , marriage, 1st son, country life, killing sheep, camping, contemplation,

surfing, writing, painting NZ, Qld, NSW.

1972 -76

Lawrence H Howroyd and Associates - Architects and Town Planners

Cadet architect working in Hobart and Perth on job winning presentations

and designs for transportable buildings and town planning for Rosebery

mining village, Shay Gap and Laverton remote mining villages, minor

buildings and renovations, squash courts, school gymnasium, tavern,

caravan park ablution modules and kit houses, Port Arthur Model Prison

Chapel heritage interior reconstruction, surgery - involving drafting, model-

making, various, sketch design and presentation.

L Howroyd wins Duke of Edinborough Award

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

Semesters4 – 5 Environmental Design

Out-of-hours – studies, painting, surfing, writing.

IN THE BEGINNINGS

Tasmanian College of Advanced Education

Semesters3-4 Environmental Design

School of Architecture, Hobart Technical College

On scholarship

Semesters1-2 Architecture.

Jobs and in between

Retail Storeman, Bank Clerk

Pursuit of ongoing artist expressionism through painting and writing.

Out-of-hours – studies, painting, surfing, writing..

Hobart Matriculation College

Out-of-hours – casual pursuits in art, writing and surfing.

Born in Hobart, Tasmania; second eldest of five children, son of a successful

electrical contractor and builder of boats and several unique houses - probably the

first Seidleresque house in Tasmania.

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/ Monte John Latham URBAN LAND ROOM IDENTITY COAST

P A R T I C I P A N T I N A R C H I T E C T U R E S

HEARTBEAT

Architecture, townscape, land-use and community-cultural

development, as they exist in reality amid the mixed results of our

sullied human nature, are my link to true actualisation and the ideal of

‘paradise’. In this real world I work gregariously to extend the

culturally supportive environment in order to enhance our individual

and collective delight.

People living in a paradise will actualise and construct … to joyfully

fulfil themselves, their family and fellows. Any threat to that paradise

will modify that actualisation by the development of solemn purpose.

My own individual impulse in a paradise would be to actualise both

ethereally and functionally in art and in building - focused on identity,

home, cultural communication in daily life and the natural untouched

beauty and potentials of locale. This would address any aesthetical

intervention in the environment and the politics of it. This focus would

be in finishing works and events that support appeal to the spectrum of

delights. In this way land-use planning is an architecture capable of

fostering delight. Functional constructions carry delight.

One of the collective delights is achievement by others of appropriate

individual expression in the environment as part of the cultural

accumulation – a celebration of individuality. This delight can arise

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from the ethereal thumbprint on a jewellery piece, a manner of speech,

unique placement of an industrial item, an inspiring land-use program

or simply an aesthetic aspect of an otherwise pragmatic building. All

interface in physicality and culture.

Another collective delight is the home locale. This is under severe

threat in today’s world. It is invaluable to remind people of the fullness

of their individual address, their original landscape, their rights and

potentials in the public realm and their shared ownership of

development. It is invaluable to refresh the delicately sensitive links to

the paradise portion of our world - and consequently to foster individual

actualisation and delight …… unique development, industry and

enjoyment.

Art is real. It is the difference between building and architecture … and

planning and cultural landscape. Architecture is art. Art may be

economic or otherwise. Packaging may be pragmatic or communicative.

A building is much more than an artful package.

Excellence more often than not is low in profile.

Thankyou

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