The Fivex Art Prize is Australia’s first digital billboard art award. Following the recent announcement of the Know My Name initiative, it is another project launched to showcase the works of Australian artists via the medium of screens and digital billboards. The difference is that for this Melbourne CBD-based event, the focus is on emerging […]
This brief Glenn Murcutt retrospective looks at some of his most significant projects from 1974 right up to the present. Australia’s most acclaimed living architect has cemented his reputation by focusing on work domestically and (with some notable exceptions) in the residential typology. Marie Short House, Kempsey (1974-75) Sitting on stilts, about a metre off […]
The tools of architectural design are evolving constantly, and the possibilities of computational design are only just being discovered. Nothing will ever replace sketching with a pad and pencil, says Jeremy Graham, but as the next iteration after CAD (computer aided design) and three-dimensional modelling, computational design is another tool in the architect’s kit. The […]
Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s most lauded and internationally renowned architect – he remains the only Pritzker prize-winner the country has produced to date (2002). Among his many other awards and honours are the Order of Australia in 1996 and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 2009. At the age of 83, […]
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