Architecture Australia, September 2008
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
housing
Indigenous Housing: Walking Alongside
Australian Architecture Takes World Stage
Home ownership has become a hot topic in Indigenous housing. Mark Moran explores the issues, arguing that those who aspire to ownership should be supported.
Working with and against Indigenous design paradigms
Angela Pitts outlines the Pemulway Project, by Cracknell and Lonergan with the Aboriginal Housing Company, which seeks to rejuvenate The Block.
Deborah Fisher and Simon Scally reflect on five years of consultation-intensive housing delivery under the federal NAHS scheme.
Andrew Broffman on Tangentyere Design’s thirty years of working with Indigenous housing and communities.
Real partnerships between Indigenous communities, government and the private sector are fundamental to any success in housing. William Tilmouth, Executive Director of Tangentyere Council, addresses the issues, the history and possible futures.
Where to now? Stephanie Smith argues that self-constructed housing offers many clues on how to develop more sustainable housing procurement processes.
Twenty years on. Paul Pholeros draws on the long experience of the Housing for Health program to suggest ways forward.
Greater Western Sydney is home to a large section of the Aboriginal community, and housing and homelessness are significant issues here too. Gillian Barlow looks at one program that aims to make life a little better.
Architect Andrew Lane on the pleasures and perils of working in the Indigenous sector and with remote communities.
Delivering Culturally Appropriate Aboriginal Housing
Reading pleasures
A New Australian Pavilion
Abundant Australia
Abundant Australia opens 11 September at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale – 180 architects have submitted 300 models for inclusion. We present a sneak peek, along with an outline of the historical component by Conrad Hamann.
Australian Institute of Architects State Awards
Queensland, New South Wales
The second instalment of state awards in the lead-up to the National Awards, to be held in South Australia on 30 October.
News and nuance
Sandra Kaji-O’Grady considers the exhibition of shortlisted entries to the Di Stasio Ideas Competition in 2008.