John Macarthur is professor of architecture and director of the ATCH Research Centre at the University of Queensland. In 2014 he is visiting professor of the Bartlett School of Architecture at the University College London.
John Macarthur's Latest contributions
Is architecture art?
John Macarthur and Susan Holden of Architecture Theory Criticism History (ATCH) use the pavilion as a device to explore the crossover between the disciplines of architecture and the visual arts.
Melting into air: Stonehenge Visitor Centre
Denton Corker Marshall’s Visitor Centre is an ethereal counterpoint to the enduring presence of Stonehenge.
State of origin
Timothy Hill, John Macarthur and Naomi Stead in conversation about the promotion of Queensland architecture.
Millennium arts
Two very different new public facilities now grace Brisbane’s Queensland Cultural Centre – the new Gallery of Modern Art and the redeveloped State Library of Queensland.
‘A simple gesture across a piece of land’
Simplicity, beauty and site are all positioned as complex, unstable things in the house at Lake Connewarre, by Kerstin Thompson Architects.
Form in the suburb
Where do we find the authority for form? Shane Murray’s latest extension is a modest yet ambitious project which invites us to contemplate some of architecture’s big questions.
Federation Square
Melbourne’s most significant set of new public buildings and spaces is now open. Four critics – John Macarthur, Graham Crist, Gevork Hartoonian and Zara Stanhope – approach the project from four directions.
Casuarina Beach House
An elegant house by Lahz Nimmo is the first to be built at the new Casuarina Beach development in northern NSW. John Macarthur reviews the project and considers the issues of display, comfort and “homeliness” that it raises.