Are design tools and technologies at the behest of the graduate or are they its downfall? Will architecture practices further succumb to the need for speed? Annabel Koeck responds to Joanne Taylor's article on 'Design Tools and the Urgency of Architecture'.
Hortus is an exciting new development at Melbourne's Docklands – a temporary pavilion housing an installation, cafe and community space.
Robin Gibson was Queensland’s most influential modern architect and that influence was exerted by his design for the riverside Cultural Precinct at the heart of modern Brisbane. But do the buildings perform to Gibson’s intentions? The author asked three expert users for their judgement of the buildings and their public reception, thirty years later.
While its creative green project will feature in the ‘Alpitecture meets Biennale – Topographic Structures’ exhibition at the Palazzo Bollani, its award‐winning solution for revitalising old buildings will feature in ‘Augmented Australia’ exhibition at the Australian Pavilion.
The deregulation and subsequent increase in university course fees delivers a profound challenge to the architecture profession. Will future architectural students be able to absorb the increased cost of education, or will many decide that the return on investment is financially unaffordable?
The Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) surveyed architects to find out what does the budget mean for practices and the profession? The results reveal a strong concern about the future.
Architects from all over the world have just one week left to submit their entries for one of the world’s biggest architectural award programmes, ahead of the submission deadline on 30 May.
German-born and Australian-based architect, curator and critic Dr. Claudia Perren has been chosen as the new director and chief executive officer of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
Born in the midst of the global financial crisis, VAV Architects is made up of three practitioners, Daria Leikina, Darragh Breathnach and Pablo Bolinches Vidal, based respectively in Australia, Ireland and Portugal. Their mutual love of architecture and passion for follies and interventions is what drives the practice forward.
Bringing Australia’s architecture and design community into focus since 2009.