Craig McCormack

Biography

Craig McCormack is a lecturer in digital architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. With a background in performance music (NVQ Level 4, London Music School) he holds a Bachelor of Art from Curtin University of Technology, a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Masters of Architecture from The University of Western Australia (UWA). He was the Head of Architecture at UWA (2019-2022) and has taught across architectural design, animation, and architectural technology, receiving an award for teaching excellence in 2020. With diverse experience as a designer at several studios including Syrinx Environmental (2007-2012), Craig was a director of the multidisciplinary design studio felix. Laboratories (2011-2022).

Craig was a recipient of a 2017 Fulbright Western Australian Postgraduate Scholarship that he used to conduct research at the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. Currently, finalizing his PhD, his research concerns the theoretical limits of architecture in the context of microgravity environments. His research has taken both creative and traditional forms, most recently expressed in a collaboratively written book chapter with Dr Miranda Nieboer entitled "D(o)omed Interiors" in the award-winning Antarctic Resolution (Lars Muller, 2021). Craig was a co-creative director of the 2014 Biennale di Venezia Australian team, felix._Giles_Anderson+Goad and an invited speaker at TEDxFulbright Perth (2018).