This Philip Mark Law film for the Australian Film Commission in 1970 could be a KOYAANISQATSI for the Australian city. A slow beginning pans through tumbledown Victorian buildings. Steadily the modern world is juxtaposed, with jarring musical shifts to suit. After a race through a car park building and a look at what residential architects were up to at the time, the film ends in the new frontier, with a couple emerging from their wedding into an empty treeless subdivision. Sci-fi soundtrack by Leslie Dempsey.
As part of the Sydney Architecture Festival, Expanded Architecture 2011 invites proposals for collaborative, site-specific moving image projections and filmic installations. Selected participants will be part of an exciting one night only exhibition in the inspirational foyer space of CarriageWorks, Sydney on Wednesday October 26th 2011.
An iPhone and iPad app guide for 10 of Melbourne’s larger buildings.
“The Plan is a new design talk show on Radio Adelaide 101.5fm. The show will discuss all things architecture, environment and affect and open a dialogue on integrated design issues and practices in and around Adelaide. Weekly features will profile local designers, practices and thinkers from all corners of the built environment.”
Australian and International architects have taken action, creating an exhibition highlighting the need for emergency shelters in disaster zones and bringing awareness to the public about the role of the design and construction industry in the aftermath of natural disasters.
The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has transcribed NZ Design Review, from 1948 to 1954. Most worth a look, with essays and article by Ernst Plischke, Maurice Patience, and special editions focused on housing and the like.
We invite you to propose design ideas for relocatable classrooms of the future.
“The Architectural Association is one of the world’s foremost schools of architecture. It has a reputation for being on the cutting edge of technology and spatial thinking. It’s also on the other side of the world, and very difficult to get into.
The Victorian State Governments “Good Design Case Studies” web resource contains a variety of infill houses and multi-residential projects that they think hit the mark.
Apply to be part of the 2nd Milano International Architectural Workshop of the Politecnico di Milano’s School of ‘Architettura e Società’ programmes.
“Polis is a collaborative blog about cities, with a global scope. It is a space for regular contributors and readers to share ideas and information about anything and everything urban, from multiple lenses. Our contributors come from a range of perspectives – from planning to art to architecture to social science. We have lived in cities as far-flung as Barcelona, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, London, Moscow, Mumbai, and New York. We have worked in places like Bogota, Dhaka and San Salvador. We have walked the streets of Bangkok, Istanbul, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tehran.”
Thom Mayne.
“A new architecture competition is inviting Australian architects to design an exhibition space for Australian art, to be used for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 in Japan.
“AUSTRALIAN MODERN MAGAZINE ARTICLES: SUBMISSION CRITERIA & EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
“A new independent publication exploring mid 20th Century design, art, architecture and furniture in Brisbane.”
Australian Computational Design in Architecture. Regular events.
We have a simple belief – to create buildings that engage, interiors to enjoy and environments that excite. These spaces should be rewarding, efficient, adaptable and contemporary.
Your architecture job in sydney? DRAW Sydney have a temp opening & need Vectorworks & design skills to fill it. Please send your CV via the website.