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It is not often that one hears a post-occupancy client comment that a building is “perfect… there’s nothing that could have been better”. It is even more rare (and refreshing) to hear a work of serious, erudite architecture described as “a ripper”. These are the words of Dr David Middleton, senior vet at Melbourne’s Healesville [...]
Over the past four hundred years or so, the interface between sculpture and architecture has been the subject of much discussion. There has been some amusement, as well: Marcel Duchamp famously quipped that the difference is that ‘one has plumbing’. More recently, Rafael Vignoly is reputed to have joked that the difference lies ‘in the [...]
It’s one thing to have buildings you like, that you find interesting, that you have been influenced by; even to have a favourite building is commonplace enough. But it is another thing to actually love a work of architecture. Given that buildings can be rather unyielding and even unlovable things, it is rare to feel [...]
‘Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable.’ EB White, The Elements of Style Many architects would surely make the a similar supposition to that noted by E.B. White in his classic text on writerly ‘voice’ and tone – [...]
This is an edited transcript of an interview with the American architectural academic and theorist Beatriz Colomina. The interview took place in Sydney in 2004, and was published in Architecture Australia, vol 93 no 5, Sept/Oct 2004, p.102-03. Words by Naomi Stead. Naomi Stead: The principal purpose for your visit is as a keynote speaker [...]
In enquiring into the state, role, and purpose of architectural criticism in Australia, the reader swiftly notes a wide-spread belief that it is in a state of crisis. Local commentators commonly complain that Australian architectural criticism is “not critical enough”, and that it is characterised by mild, politely descriptive, aesthetic or formalist approaches. Springing from [...]
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