Author: Online Editor
The Abstract is an ambitious interior architecture exhibition project exploring unorthodox spatial realms of reading rooms, designed by Monash University Interior graduates in collaboration with Matthew Bird of Studiobird. The exhibition reinvents the tradition of a reading room environment within a gallery context to promote prestigious academic journals with the aim to engage early career academics to the realties and benefits of publishing.
Fashion and architectural worlds will collide this Saturday as Monash University students present 11 remarkable outfits inspired by the city’s interiors at MPavilion.
The winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane last week, with ARM and emerging architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielson and Jesse Bennett Architect among the exemplary practices awarded.
As the first studies for Seascape were for “a bed and a fire and a cave to fit them in”, New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson must surely have contemplated Henry David Thoreau’s maxim: “Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.”
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