resources
D.Sharp Office Talk
“Office Talk is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Dave Sharp from Office D.SHARP, and a great excuse for him to have conversations with architects about their businesses, work and lives.”
76 Small Rooms
37 podcasts to date, mostly interviews with prominent New Zealand architects.
Gazella
An interview series by Justine Hadj and Danielle Savio. They’ve been active since 2015.
Strange Buildings
Tom Bunny’s selection of the world’s more peculiar buildings. The website was turned into a spammy real estate site around 2014, so best access the original via the web archive.
The Infinite City (archive)
Through The Infinite City, we tell stories of people and place, design and belonging, survival and celebration in Belfast & beyond.
ArchiTeam
ArchiTeam Cooperative is a membership association for Australian architects working in small, medium and emerging practices.
New Architects Melbourne
NA M are interested in following and partaking in the journey of people as they embark upon one of the most exhilarating, terrifying, exhausting and rewarding endeavours an architect could ever make – their own practice… NA M’s gatherings feature brief and concise presentations by local practices, talking about their projects, featuring them at various stages from speculative to completion.
Design Is Research
Guest lectures from 2015, and maybe beyond, at Bond University’s Abedian School of Architecture.
Abedian School of Architecture
“The Abedian School of Architecture aims to be a leading design-driven professional school, characterised by an international outlook and motivated by the goal of graduating architects capable of shifting the direction of future practice.”
Architecture Now
An aggregation of selected articles from the AGM stable of New Zealand magazines.
Peter Willie
The State Library of Victoria has amateur architectural photographer Peter Willie’s collection online at low resolution. It’s a valuable set of thousands of photographs taken around Melbourne in the very early 1970s, up until his untimely death in 1971.
Frederick Romberg archive
Michael Spooner and co. have completed a thorough look at through the archives of Frederick Romberg and distilled it into a small series of posters and a video. In April 2013 you can see these in the windows of the RMIT Design Archives, next to the Design Hub on the corner of Swanson and Victoria Streets. It might last a while longer online here.
DADo Film Society
“A society dedicated to the screening of documentaries and films on architecture, design and urbanism.”
Uptown Melbourne
Starting in 2013, Uptown Melbourne is a regular series of walking tours with an architectural bent. Run by Kieran McKernan (architect) and Adam Gardner (set designer).
Butterpaper web
A custom web site consultancy run by Peter Johns (editor of this website).
99% Invisible
2013: A lovely little architectural radio show made at KALW in San Francisco. Shows are about 15 minutes long and concentrate on one unpredictable issue. The episodes are rather well researched and produced, which might have something to do with their support from Kickstarter and AIA San Francisco.
The Lodge on the Lake
The Lodge, 1930s [ National Library commons ]
Design Hub
“Design Hub is a new kind of creative environment. It is a community of design researchers for collaborative, inter-disciplinary interaction and education, housed in a purpose-built 10-storey building by Sean Godsell Architects.”
Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanisation
This U.S. documentary from 2008, freely available on Youtube, sells the virtues of the New Urban town centre to the general video-watching population. Unfortunately it uses scare tactics to do so. The first two-thirds warns of impending doom in the peak oil sense. It is only after about an hour of this that we get to their solution, which involves lots of footage of street-side cafes and light rail. The doco supports multi-residential developments alongside transit stops, but not really as a positive in itself, more because doing so will relieve the pressures on ailing freeway infrastructure without breaking the bank.