Reviews

In her review of the 2019 Housing Futures conference in Melbourne, Alysia Bennett finds a forum that “provides a concrete and acute understanding of the implications of possibilities and barriers to delivery and scalability of best practice housing.”

Attending the 2019 National Architecture Conference, Sam Spurr was struck by the way the question of collective agency in architecture was grounded in an urgent conversation about how the practice relates to Indigenous knowledge.

Nicola Cortese, a recent graduate, reflects on the 2019 National Architecture Conference and its exhortation to be “less afraid of risk and more exhilarated by the potential offered by experimentation.”

Urban Hallucinations, the 2019 Gold Medallists’ Koning Eizenberg’s recent publication breaks the mould of traditional monographs and captures a distinct sense of the present and of testing methodologies.

The Australian Institute of Architects 2019 Gold Medallists Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg combine a compelling ethical position with wit, curiosity, ambition and empathy, explains Justine Clark.

The late Enrico Taglietti’s practice had a long commitment to domestic architecture. Here we revisit three notable examples.

Investigating Japan’s residential architecture across three categories, this exhibition looks beyond the stereotypical to reveal sincere Japanese domesticity.

In this contemporary dance performance, Liminal Studio and Dancenorth invite audience members to consider how architecture can be exclusive or inclusive, how it can set people apart or bring them together.

Ted Quinton reviews the inaugural Architecture Symposium, Hobart, a “weekend of learning in the Tasmanian landscape” that included a day filled with international and local speakers and a tour of John Wardle’s projects on Bruny Island.

From Centre Georges Pompidou to The Shard tower, the designs of Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect and engineer Renzo Piano are famous around the world.

Rachael Bernstone reviews A House for All at the V&A in London, which looks at six experimental public housing projects from the 20th Century.

Home: A Suburban Obsession celebrates “the allure of home and the stories found within.”

Scott Petherick reviews The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane, which took place at the State Library of Queensland on 15 March.

Responding to the theme of the 2019 International Women’s Day “Balance for Better,” ArchitectureAU has asked a number of women architects about their collaborations with other women.

An event in Melbourne, held in anticipation of International Women’s Day, sought to dissect the possibilities of flexibility.

ArchitectureAU looks at a range of future projects poised to have a regenerative and transformative effect on the regions.

To mark the centenary of Boyd’s birth, ArchitectureAU looks back at his most enduring legacy, residential architecture, through four of his houses.

From modernist masterpieces to contemporary compact living, ArchitectureAU rounds up five award-winning and exemplary homes for the holidays.

ArchitectureAU looks back at the people, projects and moments that shaped the architectural discourse in Australia in 2018.

ArchitectureAU journalist Josh Harris rounds up some of the more enjoyable books on architecture from 2018.

ArchitectureAU journalist Patrick Hunn rounds up three architecture-inspired movies for an indoor television holiday away from the studio.

Reflecting on an exhibitionthat celebrated the centenary of Jørn Utzon’s birth, Philip Drew explores how the ruined pyramids of the Maya and the invention of the Super 8 film camera shaped the architect’s work.

Tarrawarra Museum of Art is now playing host to an exhibition of works by Australian artists Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester.

At the Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, a purpose-built pavilion showcased the largest-ever presentation international presentation of Victorian design.

Phillip Schemnitz, who has designed some of Melbourne’s most-treasured restaurants, bars and nightclubs, reflects on his career and the people who have defined it.

The National Gallery of Victoria engaged Oki Sato of Tokyo design studio Nendo to enter a dialogue with Dutch artist Escher and his world of impossible objects, endless stairs and radical visual transformation.

In London, Colin Martin explores an exhibition by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude and the latest Serpentine Pavilion.

Philip Vivian, design director of Bates Smart, reviews The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s 2018 conference in Dublin.

Haley Hooper reports on the evolution of Spanish architecture and a talk from Pritzker Prize-winner Eduardo Souto de Moura.

At The Architecture Symposium Sydney, an event billed as giving voice to Australia’s world-class architects, Mark Raggatt found the day full of questioning and hope.

At the 2018 Health Care / Health Design conference, Casey Bryant found opportunities and challenges emerging as the home and the hospital become increasingly intertwined.

Bringing together influential architects, designers and educators to discuss the future of education design, 2018’s Old School / New School was held at the Sofitel in Melbourne on 26 September.

Pia Ednie-Brown reviews the first Annual Design Research conference at the University of Sydney and finds it “a tantalizing whiff of the the future.”

Work Place / Work Life, the annual workplace design forum that is part of the Design Speaks program, threw diverse perspectives and knowledge backgrounds into the turbulent discourse of workplace strategy and design.

Luke Tipene and Campbell Drake, lecturers at the University of Technology Sydney, in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, reflect on Joshua Smith’s Urban Decay Exhibition.

Justin Mallia reviews Australia’s exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and finds it “an elegant and visually striking composition” that is “eloquently composed and engagingly experiential.”

‘Repair’, the Australian exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale calls us to reflect upon environment, habitat and the cultural history within which we work as designers.

In this three-channel video installation, Lim plays a stylized, alien figure, “the Ambassador,” who navigates some of Australia’s most iconic architectural works.

Heidi Dokulil reviews the 2018 Housing Futures forum, which explored what makes a residential development work and how to regulate quality at a time when a short-term, calculator-driven model is at its peak.

Through the lens of an “overriding preoccupation with the city,” Philip Goad examines the architectural oeuvre of 2018 Gold Medallist Alec Tzannes, who has “helped to build and shape the difficult metropolis that is Sydney.”

In his latest work, artist Ian Strange presents an ambiguous portrait of the suburban home, oscillating from place of refuge to one of entrapment perilously wedded to political, financial and environmental (mis)fortunes.