Dimity Reed is a retired architect and writer who now runs two film production companies, Madwoman Productions and Lees Reed Films. She is a director of Launch Housing and is closely involved in finding (buying, renting and building) permanent accommodation for homeless people. She is also currently completing Need, Greed and Indifference: Making the Australian Suburb.
Dimity Reed's Latest contributions
Parliament of Victoria, Members’ Annexe Building
A companion building delicately grafted into the garden setting of Victoria’s Parliament House realizes the long-anticipated extension to one of Melbourne’s most prominent civic landmarks.
ARM Architecture: Resilience is the name of the game
Dimity Reed discusses how a ‘cultivated resilience’ has enabled 2016 Gold Medallists, the directors of ARM Architecture, to create bold and ambitious work embedded with historical, fabled and emotional references.
Ex-servicewomen’s memorial garden and cairn
This memorial designed by Katherine Rekaris Landscape Architecture is dedicated to 70,000 Australian ex-servicewomen.
Zoetrope Bridge and terrain generator
A bridge and a fabricated concrete creek edge by studio SMLWRLD reveal the benefits of collaborative work.
Melbourne’s City Square
The City Square is finding its place after years of additions and alterations and not living up to expectations.
Royal Park
The demons and dramas besetting Melbourne’s Royal Park – not to mention the drought.
Competition
Shot gun marriages produce new Ideas for the City. Dimity Reed reports.