ArchitectureAU – Calendar

Seven by Seven

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:50:18 +0000

For the second of three events in 2013 for the Seven by Seven Talk Series, seven Gold Coast designers will each present for seven minutes about their various design disciplines and projects.

Speakers
Jed Cahill, film maker and co-creator of film festival In The Bin
Craig Rochfort, graphic designer, Art Park
Kathryn Edmonds, fashion designer, Indigo Joker
Troy Roberts, clothing designer, Artists Outlook
Amy Degenhart, architect, degenhartSHEDD
Dr Jennifer Loy, convenor 3D Design QCA
Mark Collingwood, retail designer, Design Remedy

Winter School: Peter Malatt & Robert Deutscher

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:15:00 +0000

Peter Mallatt will lead a Winter School (30 June to 5 July 2013) at the Robin Boyd Walsh Street House in South Yarra. The studio will focus on St Paul’s Cathedral Close redevelopment. Mallatt will be supported by studio leader Robert Deutscher.

Every year the Robin Boyd Foundation and Melbourne School of Design (University of Melbourne) hosts summer and winter design studios with a master architect and a practising architect as studio leader. The aim is for students to consider and develop their awareness and skills in: the public aspects of architecture; communicating architecture, and the collaborative nature of creating architecture.

Winter School: Kerstin Thompson & Richard Stampton

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:15:00 +0000

Kerstin Thompson will lead a Winter School (7–12 July 2013) at the Robin Boyd Walsh Street House in South Yarra. The studio will focus on the Queen Victoria Market carpark redevelopment. Thompson will be supported by studio leader Richard Stampton.

Open Agenda 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:18:33 +0000

UTS Open Agenda architectural competition is now open for entries. Open for graduates of professional architectural degrees within their first ten years, the annual competition supports emerging leaders in architecture, offering winners a platform to develop their own speculative research. Previous winners have been graduates of Sydney University, RMIT, Canberra University, UTS and Victoria University in Wellington.

For the 2013 competition, three winning proposals will be awarded seed funding of $2,000 each to be spent on the development of their research proposal towards a publication and a public exhibition. The three teams or individuals will also have the chance to present their work at an event at the Sydney Opera House fortieth anniversary celebrations.

NZ Interior Awards

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:59:42 +0000

New Zealand’s premier awards program celebrating interior design excellence will be held on Thursday, 20 June at Ponsonby Central, Auckland.

Presented by Interiormagazine and AGM Publishing, the 2013 Interior Awards will be a cocktail-style networking event with the special treat of a bespoke presentation by digital artist Chris MacMillan of Mulk.

Liveable Office Award 2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:45:42 +0000

Entries are now open to the Herman Miller Liveable Office Award for projects in the Asia Pacific region. Projects must be entered by a team or company, not an individual, in either the Commercial Business or Small Business category.

Judging for this highly specialized area of design will assess how the design helps people engage, how it brings poeple together, its ability to enable work to happen anywhere, its environmental responsibility and its expression of brand identity.

Fenestration Australia 2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:36:20 +0000

Registrations are now open for the Fenestraton Australia 2013 exhibition and conference being held in Canberra 3–5 October 2013. The three-day program includes workshops, business presentations and social functions, and the expanded AWA Design Awards that now include representation across all sectors under the fenestration banner. Speakers include:

3–5 October
Rydges Lakeside, Canberra
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Cremorne2025

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:16:11 +0000

Cremorne 2025 is an exhibition of student work from the urban design studio at Monash University’s of the Department of Architecture. The exhibition is at Block Projects Gallery on 23 June 2013. Students were asked to collaboratively envision Cremorne in 2025 as a new, lively, mixed-use, dense and sustainable inner suburb of Melbourne. As part of their overall design vision, they pursue the activation and occupation of urban space as a central strategy, which promotes ideas for Cremorne and an understanding of the future of Melbourne in a wider sense.

23 June 2013
6.00 pm
Block Projects Gallery
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Las Vegas Studio

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:12:00 +0000

An exhibition of images from the archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at the Gold Coast City Gallery, 29 June – 11 August.

The city of Las Vegas holds an unrivalled place in the popular imagination as a city of escapist dreams, spectacular night-time illumination and pop culture entertainment on a grand scale. Architecture did not feature in this equation until 1972 when architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown published Learning from Las Vegas, based a research trip they undertook in 1968. Their study of the strip city became one of the most influential and controversial books on twentieth-century architecture.

Learning from Surfers Paradise: A Rephotography Project 1973–2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:11:00 +0000

An exhibition by renowned Australian architectural photographer John Gollings, Learning from Surfers Paradise: A Rephotography Project 1973-2013, is on display at the Gold Coast Arts Centre 22 June – 4 August.

Inspired by Venturi and Scott Brown’s text Learning from Las Vegas, Gollings came to Surfers Paradise in 1973 with the intention to extensively photograph the architecture, signs and symbols of leisure of this holiday town. Recently he returned to the exact sites to rephotograph what he documented forty years ago. The contrasts between then and now are startling, revealing the extraordinary rate of change on the Gold Coast.

The Human Scale

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:19:57 +0000

The Human Scale, a film about Danish architect Jan Gehl’s influence on urban planning around the globe moves on from its Sydney Film Festival screening, to a two-week season in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, the film charts Gehl’s mission to reclaim our public spaces, throwing out car driven urban design and building cities for humans. Gehl formed his ideas about urban space by recording how people use city streets and squares. His methods inspired a re-imagining of New York’s Times Square, Melbourne’s laneways and a game-changing report for the City of Sydney.

Atlas of the Unbuilt World

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:40:25 +0000

The London exhibition, Atlas of the Unbuilt World, offers a snapshot of the new world through architecture by showing models, both process and presentation, of future projects from around the globe. Organized by the British Council for this year’s London Festival of Architecture (23 June – July 2013) three Australian practices are included in the exhibition at the Bartlett School of Architecture in central London.

7–27 June 2013
Bartlett School of Architecture
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Ten Commandments: Transform Your City

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:02:00 +0000

A discussion evening giving insights into how we can all be designers of a new urban future will be held 6 June, as part of Vivid Sydney.

By 2050, 80 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Cities are the places were cultures clash or combine, where innovation is born, or where social divisions can become even starker. It’s up to us, today, to determine just how livable these megacities will be, and to design the foundations for a more sustainable, inclusive and creative world.

Nothing on Earth

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:07:12 +0000

Nothing On Earth a film about Sydney photographer Murray Fredericks’ journey into the Greenland Ice Cap, will be shown as part of the Sydney Film Festival on 9 June.

After several failed excursions on the Greenland Ice Cap, Sydney photographer Murray Fredericks, with an experienced guide and two Inuit dogsledders, finally makes it to a Cold War relic, an abandoned radar station slowly sinking into the ice. Against this breathtaking background, filmmaker Michal Angus captures Fredericks’ determined endeavours to capture time and space in an image.

The Human Scale

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:44:32 +0000

The Human Scale, a film about Danish architect Jan Gehl’s influence on urban planning around the globe will be shown as part of the Sydney Film Festival, before moving to Melbnourne for a two-week screening season.