AA 1904–2004 In the early decades of last century the magazines that would become Architecture Australia brought a wide range of material on fine art, …
MORE ON CRITICISMNaomi Stead’s thoughtful piece on architectural criticism generalizes three longstanding complaints about the practice, one of which is that criticism is not sufficiently …
The Opera House with the proposed colonnade which will house openings to the Western Foyer. Looking along the proposed colonnade. The Western Foyer with new …
‘Hugging the earth tightly’, Kerry Hill Architects’ recent Sunshine Coast house presents a rich response to place, while offering an engaging alternative to Queensland traditions.
Carefully framing landscape and views, Inarc’s Studley Park house draws on its context – natural and constructed – while challenging notions of neighbourhood character.
INTERNATIONALBligh Voller Nield’s design for a new stadium in Venice. Buro and Holt’s design for the 14-storey Moonbeam building in Beijing.Denton Corker Marshall have seven …
Part of the enormous stephenson & turner archive is revealed in a recent exhibition at the state library of victoria. Hannah lewi considers the role of the exhibition and the archive.
ANUm3architecture have designed bicycle shelters to sit outside the Australian National University’s Burton and Garran Hall. The proposal promotes cycling by siting the structures at …
Picking up naomi stead’s discussion of criticism, julian raxworthy explores the legacy of reyner banham – one of the twentieth century’s most influential critics – to argue for engaged and ‘interested’ criticism.
DESIGN RESEARCH Peter Downton. RMIT University Press, 2003. $27.50. Is design research? Peter Downton thinks so and in this scholarly and philosophical work he argues …
Matter and making, pleasure and ethics, architecture and the everyday. Maryam Gusheh reviews two recent symposiums which used the work of keynote speaker Marco Frascari to canvas a range of issues.