101 architects – Wallpaper* magazine has determined (by some secret* stylish method) just who the most exciting 101 architects on the planet are. Australia nets 4 most exciting architects, New Zealand unfortunately doesn’t even appear on the exciting architect map.
WALLPAPER* 101 (fully flash)
The owners of 666 Riversdale Road (Robin Boyd House 1) has a website explaining their points of view.
Stuart Harrison, Simon Knott, and Christine Phillips brought Melbourne a weekly dose of architecture on the radio from 2004 to 2014, with a few more recent episodes.
Rory Hyde’s flickr photo sets of Melbourne architecture (and beyond). Plenty of McBride Charles Ryan houses and Paul Morgan’s Cape Schanck house. [via super colossal ]
A large visual database of Melbourne’s finest CBD buildings, many demolished. The site also has a lively forum about Melbourne’s architecture.
This much-improved site focusses on 20th Century deco and modern buildings around Sydney. Lots of photos and links and a series of walks.
A busy looking site with lots of events and a newsletter.
Dr Miles Lewis’ text database of old melbourne mansions. A useful resource, but not easy to use. You can make it cough up screeds of historic addresses if you play around with it. TIP: Use the View As Table option on the left to looks at results of a search.
The local offshoot of the Dutch organisation whose mission is to, “draw attention to the plight of some of the pioneering early modern buildings which were decaying for lack of a current use.” Not a lot of action on this site, though there are occasional notifications of talks and conferences.
Site with an interest in buildings of the period, and a well-stocked links page. Unfortunately it is let down by the bombardment of pop-up ads that the webhost has decided to annoy people with.
A big group with a site that includes information on about 30 buildings.
The United Nations site for World Heritage. A trove of information, the site includes the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, and the earthquake damaged Iranian city of Bam.
Dedicated to the conservation of the world’s historic monuments and sites. Link through to the Australian committee.
On the occasion of the V&A’s Modernism exhibition in 2006, Robert Hughes wrote this essay for the Guardian.
‘Soft Modernism’: The World of the Post-Theoretical Designer – Mike Grimshaw locates comfortable ‘wallpaper’ modernism on the ism timeline, with references to whiteness, ornament, Loos, Sullivan and Johnson. “…what is happening is a modernism without theory, without context, that exists as style alone”
New York Times (may require free registration) – “Now that this is a po-pomo world, how is Modernism to be understood? Artistic progress has proved to be an illusion. Manifestoes have become impossible.”
Fionnuala Neville delves into the relationships between gender and divisions within the house. [11/03]
Mon oncle! For that spoilt young brat who has everything: the PMW architects designed doll’s house with optional accessories by the likes of Ron Arad.