Architecture Australia, May 2019
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AA May/June 2019 preview
Sacred spaces: An introduction to the May/June issue of Architecture Australia.
Projects
Exuberant allegory: Emanuel Synagogue
Lippman Partnership’s exuberant addition to a synagogue campus in Sydney responds to two significant twentieth-century architectural works in a dialogue that reflects the plurality of the Jewish faith.
Dossier
A story of migration, refuge and reconstruction: Elwood Talmud Torah
Viennese émigré Kurt Popper was a remarkable and prolific architect who helped introduce European modernism to the design of Australia’s places of worship.
Divine inspiration: Holy Family Catholic Church, Indooroopilly
Deserving of more care and attention, this Indooroopilly Church is an expressive and memorable example of Australian modernist ecclesiastic architecture.
Constructing faith: Postwar religious buildings in Australia
This guest-edited Dossier examines how new ideas in ecclesiastical architecture helped to establish culture and community in Australia’s fledgling suburbs.
The ambition of Pier Luigi Nervi’s unbuilt country cathedral
An ambitious yet ultimately unrealized design for a cathedral in a monastic town in Western Australia by influential engineer-architect Pier Luigi Nervi reveals the growing modernist vocabulary for church buildings during the postwar period.
A church that projected progressivist ideals in Tasmanian suburbia
Now painted white and carpeted in blue, this church in Tasmania is a rare example of brutalism allied to postwar liturgical reform.
A ‘grand collective effort’ in a regional Victorian church
Muir and Shepherd’s church for a small community at Katamatite in northern Victoria represents a remarkable period of architectural experimentation.
Revisited
Revisited: The Wayside Chapel
An ambitious scheme for a new home for the Wayside, designed by Environa Studio and completed in 2012, led to the salvation of this vital community organization.
Revisited: Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
In North East Arnhem Land, the realization of a cultural centre – led by the Yolngu people – sets an important precedent for the creation of sacred Indigenous architecture.
More articles
Designing Australia’s sacred spaces and religious buildings: past, present and future
For people of faith, religious buildings are tangible places in which to contemplate a transcendent being. Ursula de Jong examines how universal ideas of divinity, togetherness and worship are expressed in historic and contemporary architecture.
A ‘modern architectural masterpiece’: Punchbowl Mosque
In the south-west Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, the ritualistic and formal traditions of the Islamic faith find contemporary expression in a monumental ode to prayer.
‘Delicate and beguiling’: Cadogan Song School
A small but reverential addition to the Cathedral Precinct in Perth reinvigorates its heritage context and reintroduces site to citizen.
Radical and poetic: Australian Islamic Centre of Newport
In the western suburbs of Melbourne, a landmark mosque designed by Glenn Murcutt and Elevli Plus assumes a contemporary architectural language that abstracts the conventional symbols of Islamic places of worship.
For love of whimsy: Kooroomba Chapel
Through inventive tectonics, Wilson Architects has overlaid a picturesque landscape experience with allusions to an earlier settler culture.