Architecture Australia, May 2007
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Comment
Foreword
Dreaming about affordable housing?
Reflection
Home, house, housing
Housing
How can the profession become more involved in the provision of general housing? Shane Murray outlines the context and the issues, suggesting that the housing industry, architecture and government all need to rethink their roles and procedures if we are to move forward.
Practice
Project management software or why filing is for losers
Features
Community housing
Two projects for the City of Port Phillip – Excelsior Hall by Michael McKenna and Woodstock Rooming House by McGauran Giannini Soon – point to the difference that architectural skill can make to modest situations.
Tjuntjuntjara housing
Iredale Pedersen Hook – housing as community infrastructure.
Edo
Individual expression within the communal – Stanisic Associates’ latest allows one of the pleasures of suburban living within a compact urban environment.
Suburban curiosity
Supple Design’s Sales and Information Suites for Stockland give house buyers a chance to experience alternative spatial and material possibilities in an accessible and easy context.
The ageing of aquarius
Retiring baby boomers see the house as an asset, rather than a symbol of identity. And they are about to exert considerable influence on housing. Shane Murray outlines research that addresses this phenomenon by drawing out the embodied knowledge in architectural design.
Radar
Unbuilt
HACKNEY MODERNConcept plan for Hackney North redevelopment area, from the early 1970s, by the South Australian State Planning Authority.Aerial photograph of the redevelopment area.An apparently …
Government
Demonstrating good housing design
Competition
Kingston foreshore
Dignifying suburbia
Dianne Peacock considers a recent exhibition and book on Howard Arkley, to look anew at the place where most Australians live
Headlines
News and nuance
Homes in the Sky
Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Charles Pickett outline the neglected history of apartment living in Australia.
Opinion
Why architecture matters