Architecture Australia, July 2001
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
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Letters and Fixes
NMA, AIATSIS and Consultation In the March/April issue of AA I discovered your article on the National Museum of Australia. What interests me is the …
Foreword
It is now unprecedented how “signature” architects have become synonymous with museums and galleries, as institutions fight amongst themselves for cultural supremacy, funding and publicity. …
Features
Campus Integration
Sensible but stylish. Doug Evans looks at the Australian Catholic University’s new city campus by Woods Bagot.
Spacey Pastoralism
Stephen Cairns explores VUT’s Werribee campus, and its most recent addition – Morgan McKenna’s new lecture theatre.
Decoration and Artifice
Sandra Kaji-O’Grady explores the incessant referencing of elaborated suburban surfaces in two Lyons projects.
Formal Geometries
MGT Architects’ elegant insertion at Sydney University sets the stage for campus life, but does not steal the show. Review by Naomi Stead.
The Colourful University
RMIT has a strong reputation for architectural innovation and patronage. Leon van Schaik outlines the university’s vision. Peter Bickle reviews the work to date.
Plastic Extrusions
Cox Sanderson Ness explore the potential of plastic in the Polymer Engineering Centre.
Brand New Forms
Internal streets and curvilinear forms signal “progressive” in two institutions on Perth’s outer edges. Review by Kate Hislop.
Campus Projects
A range of projects underway or recently completed across Australia’s tertiary institutions
Flexible Learning
Paul Morgan addresses the confluence of new technologies, education and design through three recent flexible learning centres.
Playing Ribbon
Lahz Nimmo’s floating insertion into Sydney University’s Seymour Centre negotiates the new with the old. Maryam Gusheh interprets.
Quiet Monumentality
New work at Adelaide University, by MGT Architects and Hardy-Milazzo, develops Kahnian ideals of monumentality and the institution to re-orchestrate the public realm. Review by Steve Loo.
Urban Arts
The complex interior of the Roma Mitchell Performing Arts Centre by Hassell provides students with a metonymic city. Review by Scott Drake.
Patronage, branding and campus architecture
Introduction
The Rise and Rise of UNSW
The built environment at UNSW has undergone remarkable changes over the last decade. Andrew Nimmo outlines the process and effects.
Landscape (+) Architecture at UWA
Christopher Vernon outlines the intricate relationship between landscape and architecture at the University of Western Australia, the country’s most beautiful traditional campus.
Radar
Interior
Rigorous abstraction. Naomi Stead explores the play of colour, shape and form in a diminutive addition by Sam Marshall.
Headlines
Scanning the nation for architectural news and nuances.
Delight
Sheona Thomson delights in the allusive qualities of Planet Design’s Rare Books Room at the Queensland Supreme Court.
Books
Noting new books at Architext
Exhibition
Visions of a Republic presents Lucien Henry’s 19th century exploration of the artistic possibilites of an independant South Pacific nation. Charles Rice reports.
Competition
MCA in mid-air. James Weirick outlines the complex and controversial foundations of the latest MCA competition, assesses the entries and speculates on possible futures.