Architecture Australia, July 2018
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The discipline and practice of architecture: An introduction to the July/August 2018 issue of Architecture Australia.
Projects
Industrial revolution: Barwon Water
GHDWoodhead’s transformation of the 1970s Geelong headquarters of Victoria’s largest urban water corporation into a striking contemporary office is symbolic of the urban renewal at the regional city’s cultural and civic heart.
Calm delights: Curra Community Hall
Working within tight budgetary constraints, Bark Design Architects’ Curra Community Hall elegantly reinterprets a regional typology to create a flexible and memorable space for a small rural community.
Terracotta trope: The Beehive
The Beehive, designed by Raffaello Rosselli Architect with Luigi Rosselli Architects, is a poetic exploration of the aesthetic and structural potential of recycled materials as applied to the design of this architectural family’s own Surry Hills studio.
Spatial continuity: Rose House 2
Dissolving the distinction between inside and out, architecture and landscape, Rose House 2 in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North builds on Baracco and Wright Architects’ well-established, reparative approach to site, context and ecology.
Dossier
Research in large practice
Naomi Stead and Sandra Kaji O’Grady introduce their guest-edited dossier for Architecture Australia, which looks at the state of research in large architecture practices in Australia.
Research in large Australian practices: A roundtable discussion
A frank and revealing discussion about how and why large Australian practices organize and fund research, and how they disseminate its findings.
A British perspective on practice-based architectural research
Murray Fraser, vice-dean of research at the Bartlett School of Architecture and as chair of the Research and Innovation Group at RIBA, explores practice-based research.
Arrested development
Peter Raisbeck argues that the lack of formalized research and development in Australian architecture practice is stymieing innovation.
Reinier de Graaf on ‘the creative tension between thinking and doing’
Reinier de Graaf, co-founder of OMA’s research arm AMO, discusses its investigations, the profession’s current interest in research and architecture’s cardinal sins.
Searching and searching again: Research in practice
Billie Faircloth, partner at Kieran Timberlake, argues that a conversation on research in architectural practice begins by making the word “research” more approachable.