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JAMES MESLOM
CURICULUM VITAE
PORTRAIT
PUBLICATIONS
11.2015
JAMES MELSOM
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT BSLA
COORDINATOR LVML ETHZ
Date of birth
Nationality
Residence
Hometown
Marital Status
7.2.1978
Australian, Swiss
Basel, Switzerland
Fremantle, Western Australia
Married, 2 Children (*2007/2010)
CONTACT
ACADEMIC
HIL H 55.3, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich Switzerland
T +41 44 633 37 94
F +41 44 633 12 08
melsom@arch.ethz.ch
girot.arch.ethz.ch
PRACTICE
Hochstrasse 70, CH-4053 Basel Switzerland
T +41 76543 88 99
mail@jmla.eu
landskip.eu
jmla.eu
RESIDENCE
Sevogelstrasse 107, CH-4052 Basel Switzerland
T +41 61 311 72 77
CURRENT POSITIONS
2007–present
ETH Zurich, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Girot, Zurich, Switzerland
Coordinator Landscape Visualisation and Modeling Lab (LVML) + DesignLab
Masters Thesis Supervision (Landscape Architecture)
Research Associate
2007–present
James Melsom Landschaftsarchitekt BSLA, Basel, Switzerland
2014–present
LANDSKIP - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Landschaftsentwicklung
Partner Firma: Ilmar Hurkxkens, Architekt
EDUCATION
2004-2005
ETH Zurich, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Girot, Switzerland
MAS Landscape Architecture
1996-2001
University of Western Australia
B. Architecture (Hons) - (5 academic years, pre-dates M.Arch program)
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Rhinoceros / Grasshopper
GIS for Landscape Architecture
Territorial Analysis, Remote Sensing
Digital Fabrication
Terrestrial Laser Scanning
UAV Based Photogrammetry
Arduino / Sensors
McNeel EU - Registered Authorised Trainer
ETHZ 2007
ETHZ 2014-15
RapLab, ETHZ 2007
RIEGL Geosystems 2010
ETHZ/Sensefly AG 2010
ETHZ/IAAC 2012
SOFTWARE - SHORT LIST
AutoCAD / Civil3D / Revit
Vectorworks / LAND
Rhinoceros / Grasshopper
ArcGIS / Q-GIS
Adobe Suite + I/O Scripting
3D Studio MAX
VRay + Octane Render + Cycles
Cinema 4D
3D Coat (Sculpting)
Processing
Python (RhinoPython)
C# (RhinoElements)
LANGUAGES
SPOKEN
English - Native (AUS)
Swiss German
German
COMPREHENSION
Dutch - UvA - University of Amsterdam 2006
French - Alliance Française Australia
(AURAL / READING)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2007-present
James Melsom Landschaftsarchitekt BSLA
Basel, Switzerland
jmla.eu
Consulting Landscape Architect
2014-present
LANDSKIP ARGE
Basel, Switzerland
landskip.eu
Research Lab Co-founded with Ilmar Hurkxkens
2005-2007
DS Landschapsarchitecten
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
dsla.nl
Project Landscape Architect
2003-2004
Karres en Brands Landschapsarchitecten
Hilversum, the Netherlands
karresenbrands.nl
Project Landscape Architect
2000-2003
Tierra, Landscape Architects
Perth, Australia and Singapore
tierradesign.com
Project Landscape Architect
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2009-present
Swiss Institute of Landscape Architects (BSLA)
Registered Landscape Architect, North-west Switzerland Chapter
PROFESIONAL AWARDS
2014
Kleefeld School, with Werknetz Architekten, Zurich
5th Prize - City of Bern, Switzerland
Invited Competition, Landscape Architecture
2012
KVA Warmbächliweg, with BHSF Architekten, Zurich
1st Prize - City of Bern, Switzerland
Invited Competition, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture
2010
Aarau Brücke, with Bachelard Wagner Architekten, Basel
3rd Prize - City of Aarau, Switzerland
Open Competition, Bridge Design and Landscape Architecture
2008
Stockäcker Süd with Bachelard Wagner Architekten, Basel
4th Prize - City of Bern, Switzerland
Open Competition, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture
2001-07
Various project-related awards in the role of Project Landscape Architect at
firms in Australia and the Netherlands (see details of firms in professional
experience)
PROFESSIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2014
Architektur 0.14 Ausstellung - KVA Warmbächliweg, Bern - with BHSF
Architekten - MAAG Halle Zurich
2014
Kleefeld School Competition Exhibition - Prize awarded
Exhibition Bern, Switzerland
2012
ORDOS 100 - Film - Directed by Ai Weiwei
61‘ international Rotterdam Film Festival
2012
Warmbächliweg KVA Competition Exhibition - Prize awarded
Exhibition Bern, Switzerland
2011
ORDOS 100 - Art & Architecture - Ai Weiwei - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2010
Aarau Brücke Competition Exhibition - Prize awarded
Exhibition Aarau, Switzerland
2009
Ordos 100 - with Ai Wei Wei
Art Basel Exhibition, Basel
2008
IBA Stadtumbau Dessau, Invited Professional Workshop
Exhibition Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
2007
Stockacker Süd Competition Exhibition - Prize awarded
Exhibition Bern, Switzerland
2006
QUAP Invited Professional Workshop, project sites Valdobiadene and Oderzo
Exhibition Treviso, Italy
2001-07
Various Exhibitions for projects of previous Firms
including the Topos Award 2004 - Karres en Brands Landschapsarchitecten NL
PUBLISHED LANDSCAPE PROJECTS
2013
TEC21: Energiezentrale Bern - Warmbächliweg KVA Project - 13-14/2013
2008/10/12/14
Various Competition Proceedings (Award related),
Various at the Stadt Bern / Stadt Aarau
2007
Building Design weekly, United Kingdom, Olympic Park Overpass Project
with PLUS office Architects (BE), London, UK
2006
QUAP Workshop Proceedings, Valdobiadene, 1st Prize, Municipality of
Treviso, Italy
2004
Topos Magazine, Various works with Karres en Brands
Landschapsarchitecten, Issue 49
INVITED PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
2008
IBA Stadtumbau Dessau, Invited Professional Workshop
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
2006
QUAP Invited Professional Workshop, project sites
Valdobiadene and Oderzo, Treviso, Italy
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2007–present
ETH Zurich, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Girot
Zurich, Switzerland
girot.arch.ethz.ch
Research Associate, Coordination LVML + DesignLab
ACADEMIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2012-present
Diplom Master Thesis Coordinator , Prof. Girot, ETH Zurich
Coordination and Organization
2012-present
DesignLab Leader, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich
Coordination and Organization
2009-present
Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab (LVML), ETH Zurich
Coordination and co-founder with Christophe Girot
2007-present
MAS LA Teaching Staff, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich
Coordination of visualization, analysis and modeling modules (since 2010)
2007-present
Landscape Design Studio, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich
Studio Critiques and Visualization Workshop Leader
INVITED ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS
2015
UAV automation landscape scanning workshop with Ilmar Hurkxkens, at
Valldaura, IaaC, Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalunya, Barcelona,
April 2015
2013
Smartgeometry 2013 Conference, Workshop Co-leader, Cluster
(A)Synchronous Streams, with Luis Fraguada, Felipe Pacigueiro, Alex Dubor,
London, UK 15-20 April 2013
2012
Design Workshop, From Suburb to City, International Summer Academy ILA
ONA, Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland 22 July 05 - August 2012
2012
MLA Jakarta Studio, Prof. Rekittke, Design+Visualization Workshop
Future Cities Laboratory, NUS, Singapore March 2012
2008
IBA Stadtumbau Dessau, Invited Professional Workshop
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany 2008
2006
QUAP Invited Professional Workshop, project sites
Valdobiadene and Oderzo, Treviso, Italy 2006
INVITED CRITIQUES
2013
M.Arch Studio, Profs. Secchi+Mascino, Design Critique, Milano Politechnico,
Milan, Italy May 2013
2012
M.Arch Zernez Studio, Prof. Kees Christiaanse, Design Critique, May 2012
2007
MLA Course, KU Leuven, Prof. Kelly Shannon, Design Critique, March 2007
2007-2014
Various Invited Design Critiques, D.Arch, ETH Zurich
INVITED LECTURES
2015
Invited Lecture on Methods of Territorial Landscape Design
Department of Urbanism, GSAPP, Prof. Orff, Columbia University, New York, USA
26th Nov 2015
2015
Invited Lecture with Ilmar Hurkxkens on Professional & Academic work at ILA
IaaC - Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
April 2015
2014
Invited Lecture
Department of Landscape Architecture, Curtin University, Western Australia
Dec 2014
2013
Invited Lecture on the Design of Dynamic Riverine Landscapes
Department of Landscape Architecture, Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok Thailand Aug 2013
2013
Invited Lecture on Landscape Design Workflows
Department of Architecture and Planning, Profs. Secchi+Mascino, Milano
Politechnico, Milan, Italy, 24 May 2013
2012
Invited Lecture on Methods of Territorial Landscape Design
Department of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Kondolf, Berkley UC, USA
22nd Oct 2012
2012/13
Lecture: Landscape Architecture II, Seminar Lectures on the History and
Theory of Landscape Architecture
Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich April 2012
2012
Invited Lecture on Future Scenarios for the City of Zurich
World Intelligent Cities Summit 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 14 Sept 2012
2007-14
Various Lectures, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, 2007-14
PEER REVIEW INVITATIONS
2013
Journal of Urbanism, specialist paper review, Routledge Publishers, 2013
2013
Smart Geometry conference, candidate review and selection, London, 2013
ACADEMIC EXHIBITIONS
2014
Gotthard Landscape - Landscape Animations + Projections - Venice Biennale,
Collateral Exhibition, Salon Suisse
2014
Jakarta, FCL and Sigorino Project Presentations
IABR 2014 - International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam - Urban by
Nature Exhibition
2013
Asynchronous Streams. April 15 – 20 2013.
Exhibition and Smartgeometry 2013. The Bartlett, UCL, London.
2012
Workshop Exhibition, From Suburb to City, International Summer Academy
ILA, ONA, Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland 22 July 05 - August 2012
2005
Decompression, MAS LA 2005, Zurich Bellevue
PORTRAIT
Conducting MAS LA field workshop, Zurich 2014
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2015
Girot, C., Hurkxkens, I., Melsom, J. (2015): Directed Deposition: Exploring the Roles
of Simulation and Design in Erosion and Landslide Processes. In: Peer-Reviewed
Proceedings ACADIA 2015: Designing the Anthropocene, Cincinnati, OH
2014
Fraguada, L., Melsom, J. (2014): Urban Pulse: The Application of Moving Sensor
Networks in the Urban Environment: Strategies for Implementation and Implications for
Landscape Design. In: Peer-reviewed Proceedings Digital Landscape Architecture 2014,
ETH Zurich. Wichmann Verlag, Offenbach
2013
Fraguada, L., Girot, C., Melsom, J. (2013): Ambient Terrain: The Generation of Largescale Landscape Site Data for Design Applications. In: Proceedings eCAADe 2013:
Computation and Performance. Delft, NL
Dubor, A., Fraguada, L., Melsom, J. (2013): Asynchronous Streams (workshop cluster
leader). In: SmartGeometry 2013 Conference, smartgeometry.org (online only) Bartlett,
UCL, London
2012
Fraguada, L., Girot, C., Melsom, J. (2012): Synchronous Horizons: Redefining spatial
design in landscape architecture through ambient data collection and volumetric
manipulation. In: Peer-Reviewed Proceedings ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies,
San Francisco
Klein, T., Wissen Hayek, U., Neuenschwander, N., Melsom J., Grêt-Regamey, A. (2012):
A Concept for Operationalizing Qualitative Factors Combining Sophisticated
Visualization Workflows. In: Peer-reviewed Proceedings RealCorp 2012,
17th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the
Information Society GeoMultimedia 2012
Fricker, P., Melsom, J., Werner P. (2012): From reality to virtuality and back again:
Teaching experience within a postgraduate study program in Landscape Architecture.
In: Peer-reviewed Proceedings Digital Landscape Architecture 2012, Anhalt University of
Applied Sciences. Wichmann Verlag, Offenbach
2011
Fricker, P., Girot, C., Kapellos, A., Melsom, J. (2011): Landscape Architecture Design
Simulation: Using CNC Tools as Hands-On Tools. In: Buhmann/Pietsch/Kretzler
(Eds.): Peer-reviewed Proceedings Digital Landscape Architecture 2011, Anhalt
University of Applied Sciences. Wichmann Verlag, Offenbach
Wissen Hayek, U., Melsom, J., Neuenschwander, N., Girot, C., Grêt-Regamey, A. (2011):
Interdisciplinary studio for teaching 3D landscape visualization: lessons from the LVML.
In: Buhmann/Pietsch/Kretzler (Eds.): Peer-reviewed Proceedings Digital Landscape
Architecture 2011, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Wichmann Verlag, Offenbach
2010
Girot, C., Bernhard, M., Ebnöther, Y., Fricker, P., Kapellos A., Melsom, J. (2010): Towards
a meaningful Usage of Digital CNC Tools: Within the Field of large-scale Landscape
Architecture. Peer-reviewed Proceedings of FUTURE CITIES 28th eCAADe Conference,
ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Prize: Ivan Petrovic Award (2010), Presented by Pia Fricker
Fricker, P., Girot, Hurkxkens, I., C., Kapellos, A.,Melsom, J. Werner, P., (2010) From Points
to Project, New land surveying techniques and it’s impact on topological landscape
design and visualization (Poster). Peer-reviewed Proceedings Digital Landscape
Architecture conference, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, DE (Awarded Second
Prize Posters)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2015
Melsom, J. (2015): The Apparatus of the Invisible Landscape: Sensing Beyond Sight.
In: Girot, C., Hurkxkens, I., Melsom, J., Konzett, J. et.al. ILA ETH Zürich (Ed.): Field
Instruments of Design, Pamphlet 18. GTA Verlag, Zurich
Melsom, J. (2015) Chapter: Mapping and Refining the Site. In: Landscape Visualisation:
Digital. Nadia Amoroso Ed. Routledge, London.
Girot, C., Melsom, J. (2015) Chapter: Case Study - Recasting Jakarta: Processing the
Plastic River. In: Landscape Visualisation: Digital. Nadia Amoroso Ed. Routledge,
London.
2014
Girot, C., Melsom, J. (2014) The Return of the Aviators. In: Topos Magazine, Issue 86,
p.102-107
Koolhaas, R. (Ed.) et al. (2014) Gotthard Collatral Exhibition. In: Fundamentals Catalogue of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2012
Girot, C., Hoekstra, J., Melsom, J., Rossano, F., Shannon, K., et al. ILA ETH Zürich (Ed.)
(2012): Rising Waters, Shifting Lands. Pamphlet 16. GTA Verlag, Zurich
2011
Girot, C., Rossano, F., Duner, I., ILA ETH Zürich (Ed.) (2011): Sion-sur-Rhône – Un
nouveau paysage pour la vallée du Rhône à Sion | Eine neue Landschaft für das
Rhonetal in Sion, GTA Verlag, Zurich (Content acknowledgements to LVML: Melsom J.,
Kapellos A.)
Girot, C., Hurxkxens, I., Kapellos, A., Melsom, J. (2011): Scales of Topology: New
Landscape Perception in Advanced Visualization and Modeling Techniques. In: New
Geographies, 4: Scales of the Earth, El Hadi Jazairy (Ed.), Harvard Graduate School of
Design. p.156-163
2010
Girot, C., Melsom, J., Kapellos, A. (2010): Iterative Landscapes. In: The Design of
Material, Organism, and Minds: Different Understandings of Design, S. Konsorski-Lang
and M. Hampe (Ed.) Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p.109-115
2008
Girot, C., Fricker P., Marot, S., Melsom J., Oswald F., Parish, J., Ponte, A., ILA ETH
Zürich (Ed.) (2008): Upper Rhine Delta, MAS LA ETH, GTA Verlag, Zurich. (Articles: Girot,
C., Melsom J.: Process, Methodology. p. 8-11. Melsom. J: International Workshop. p. 3233)
PUBLISHED LANDSCAPE PROJECTS
2013
Warmbächliweg KVA Project, TEC21: Energiezentrale Bern, 13-14/2013
2008/10/12/14
Various Competition Proceedings (Award related),
Various at the Stadt Bern / Stadt Aarau
2007
Olympic Park Overpass Project, Building Design weekly, United Kingdom
with PLUS office Architects (BE), London, UK
2006
Valdobiadene, 1st Prize, QUAP Workshop Proceedings,
Municipality of Treviso, Italy
2004
Various works with Karres en Brands, Topos Magazine
Landschapsarchitecten, Issue 49, 2004
CONTACT
James Melsom
Landscape Architect MAS ETH BSLA
Sevogelstrasse 107
CH-4052 Basel
www.jmla.eu
mail@jmla.eu
M +41 76543 88 99