"The reality of the architectural workforce is that by the time you get to be a creative, it could be ten or fifteen years later," says AJCD director Ara Casella, who speaks to Simon Paul about overcoming the challenges facing architecture graduates.
Sean Godsell's buildings work hard to manipulate enclosure and views, experiences of verticality and horizontality, control of temperature and air movement, light and shadow. Here is Godsell's essay, ‘Thinking, Making’, which offers insight into a way of working and a way of making architecture.
Having just debuted a full size installation with KE-ZU at last week's Sydney Indesign, Other Architects director David Neustein and Grace Mortlock of affiliated design organisation otherothers give an insight into their practice and collaborative works, which explore the scope and culture of conventional architecture.
‘Design thinking’ is catching on as a new term and framework for addressing business challenges. In many ways it is a logical extension of the call to innovate.
Nothing accrues a beautiful patina in the way a timber surface can. While the warmth, durability and availability that has made timber such a popular construction material persist, advances in materials technology have seen some savvy suppliers exploring new ways of using timber in contemporary interiors.
AR guest editor Joe Rollo looks at the seven-storey ASB North Wharf office block on Auckland’s waterfront, which consists of two buildings linked by a glazed multi-level walkway over a central public laneway.
Nic Owen Architects is behind project Big Little House in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North, proving that big things really do come in small packages.
Ellivo Architects set out to transform what was once one of two attached old houses, later a rundown corner store, into a cosy boutique café – and did just that.
Pro bono work in the building profession has largely been defined by its effects, however the side effects of pro bono project procurement on architecture are rarely discussed. Amelyn Ng investigates.
Dispelling the connotations of bland standardisation that prefab conjures, La Sagrada Família is a potent symbol that even the most intricately detailed and iconic architecture can be produced offsite.
Amit Wolf talks with Satoru Sugihara about system and form between Agent and Deep Learning computation.
The footprint and its relation to architecture can be described in three ways: the physical piece of ground we occupy, the square metres of built space per person, or our carbon or ecological footprint.
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