Architecture Australia, September 2011
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Preview
Onward to sustainability
Brian Zulaikha’s introduction to the September 2011 edition of Architecture Australia.
Reflection
The patricidal impulse
Timothy Moore’s editorial from the September issue of Architecture Australia.
Radar
News and Nuance
News stories from the September 2011 issue of Architecture Australia.
2011 NSW State Awards
A full listing of the winners in this year’s NSW Chapter Awards, with a comment from Murray Brown.
2011 Queensland State Awards
A full listing of the winners in this year’s Queensland Chapter Awards, with a comment from Malcolm Middleton.
God Knows
A rich suite of visual and aural presentations explored the work of Ashton Raggatt McDougall in this exhibition in Melbourne.
Built Environment Meets Parliament
BEMP is held to facilitate conversations between parliament and industry leaders.
BNE: Making Connections
A design competition at Brisbane Airport heralds an urban paradigm beyond the rhetoric of Aerotropolis.
Book reviews
The Architect’s Brain
Harry Francis Mallgrave’s speedy look at the development of architectural theory and how it relates to neuroscience.
Features
Swinburne Advanced Technologies Centre
The street facade created by H2o showcases the specialized research taking place at Swinburne.
Fitzroy Community School creative space
Melbourne’s inner north welcomes a new community facility, designed with restraint by Baracco + Wright and Richard Stampton.
Museum of Old & New Art (MONA)
Three different writers explore the labyrinthine, landmark project by Fender Katsalidis in Hobart.
St Ignatius Primary School
A careful geometry grounds this elegant brick pavilion by Richards & Spence Architects at St Ignatius Primary School.
#WTFlux
Three different responses to the Australia and New Zealand Student Architecture Conference 2011, which focused on crisis.
Practice
Simulation and analysis
Rob Malkin explains how Autodesk Revit MEP 2012 software’s analysis and simulations support MEP engineering design processes.
Letters
Letters to Architecture Australia
These letters were originally published in the September 2011 issue of Architecture Australia.
More articles
A dossier on post-occupancy evaluation
An introduction to a set of articles about post-occupancy evaluation published in September 2011 in Architecture Australia.
Post Post Occupancy
Melinda Dodson overviews the professional shift towards Building Performance Evaluation with two case studies.
The Ambience
Amelia Borg reflects on the possibility of a sentient building that can evaluate itself.
State Library Queensland
Sheona Thomson writes about the transformation of a public institution in relation to a study on post-occupancy.
The 25 Year Award
Philip Goad casts light on an award that honours the past in relation to a study on post-occupancy.
AA Roundtable 05
Retrofitting the city: divergent experiences of urban renewal.