Leading architects from Australia and around the world will present in Design Speaks’ upcoming Architecture Symposium program, which returns in a new format in late November.
The symposium will comprise four distinct sessions each looking at the future of living through a different lens: alternative housing models, the integration of social agendas, emerging directions in market-based housing and compact housing. Participants can choose to take part in just one, or all or the sessions, which will be accessible online.
The curators of The Architecture Symposium: Housing Futures, Hannah Tribe and Andrew Burns, have selected contemporary architects whose projects respond creatively to the spectrum of housing challenges and opportunities.
“We have, as a profession, an opportunity to step confidently from turbulent times into a future where we take the lead on the transformation of the urban, suburban and regional residential environment,” said Tribe and Burns. “The Architecture Symposium will highlight projects that are already doing so, opening directions for the profession and stimulating new ways of living.”
The first session, on 25 November, will look at new directions in market housing. Speakers including Angelo Candalepas of Candalepas Associates, Philip Thalis of Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Design and Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects will present their respective projects and speculate on how today’s crises – climate, pandemic, recession – will affect the future of market housing.
In the second session on 27 November, presenting architects will discuss alternative housing models. Clare Cousins will discuss her eponymous firm’s role in the Nightingale Village, the ambitious housing project based on a modified version of Germany’s baugruppe model; Adam Haddow of SJB will discuss the Illawarra Road co-housing project; Huw Turner and Penny Collins, of Collins and Turner, will talk about Hablis, specialist long-term accommodation for the homeless mentally ill.
The third session (2 December) looks at housing with a social agenda, and includes international speakers Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL, who will present a social housing project in Mexico, along with Rachel Nolan of Kennedy Nolan and Melissa Bright of Studio Bright.
And the finally, on 4 December, the last session will look at compact housing, with architects discussing typical suburban subdivisions that have been revisited to provide additional housing density. Timothy Hill, of Partners Hill, will discuss his project Mermaid Multihouse, Emma Williamson of The Fulcrum Agency will present Boonooloo Road Housing and Melody Chen of A-CH will show Yandina Sunrise.
Each session will close with a panel discussion lead by Hannah Tribe and Andrew Burns.
To see the full program, head here.
Design Speaks’ The Architecture Symposium is organized by Architecture Media, the publisher of ArchitectureAU.com. It is supported by major partner Planned Cover.
