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Architecture & Design talks / events
we don't list everything, we list what
we reckon sounds interesting... |
27/03/2008
Pecha Kucha Sydney Volume #9
Time: 18.30
Location: Arts on Bourke
Price: Free |
10/04/2008 to 12/04/2008
RAIA National Architecture Conference
Critical Visions: Form, Representation and the Culture of Globalisation
The Critical Visions conference will offer a moment to pause and reflect on the nature of this intense period of extreme architectural production, the globalised exportation of architectural culture and the generation of form and meaningful social representations.
The conference will explore a related series of architectural dialectics; criticism and ideology; form generation and civic representation, materiality and abstraction, and the sensory and the simulated, within our contemporary context of cultural globalisation, climate change and the domination of capital.
Australian and International architects and academics will explore these dialectics through a series of presentations, panel discussions and jury critiques of projects, ideas and propositions.
Location: Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
Price: $200 to $800 depending on status |
20/05/2008
Sydney 2030: A proposition for change
This talk looks at the generation of medium to long term proposition for the future of Sydney, with Rod Simpson.
Time: 6:30pm
Location: 3 Manning Street Potts Point
Price: Members: FREE Student Members: FREE Non-Members: $10.00 Students: $5.00 |
06/09/2008 to 02/11/2008
Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition
This annual award-based exhibition showcases the ten best contemporary functional designs produced in Australia over the past year. Also the exhibition ‘Project Space | Designing Our City’
Time: 10.00 - 5pm
Location: Object Gallery, St Margarets 417 Bourke Street, Surry Hills
Price: Free |
02/11/2008
Sydney Open 08
Open access to historic and contemporary buildings throughout the Sydney including new apartments and industrial and heritage sites.
Time: 9.30am – 5pm
Location: Throughout the city
Price: to be announced |
| Travel by ferry
with a guide to Cockatoo Island
- formerly an industrial island in Sydney harbour. The Harbour
Trust is one of Sydney's great stories. Defence sites on the
North side of the harbour we're given back to the state a few
years ago and are to be turned over to the public's greater good.
No dodgy apartments whatsoever! | Saturdays 10.30 + 13.30, Sundays
10.00 + 14.00 | $25/$15 conc. $75 family (includes ferry fare)
| To book phone (02) 8969 2199 Tues + Wed 9am-5pm
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Architecture & Design
exhibitions |
| Object Gallery is a lovely gallery near the city centre in Darlinghurst. They search out Australia's edgiest + most interesting designers. Cool building by Melbourne's SJB too! | 417 Bourke Street, Surry Hills (near Oxford Street)| phone 9361 4555 | web |
| The Powerhouse
Museum, a huge museum full of fantastic things | 500 Harris
Street Ultimo, Sydney (the other side of Darling Harbour from the
city) | open 10am - 5pm daily | Information telephone 02 9217 0444
| Powerhouse
Museum |
| The Historic Houses Trust organises many
events, tours, food tastings and chances to visit some of Sydney's
classic modern and historic properties | our pick is Harry Seidler's
modernist classic, the Rose Seidler House | HHT |
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Best Archi day-trip |
| Glenn
Murcutt's biggest, concretiest & finest building to date is the Arthur
and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre at
Riversdale. It is three hour's drive from Sydney and is only open
occasionally. Open days are held on the last Sunday of every season.
Designed by Pritzker award winner Glenn Murcutt with Wendy Lewin
& Reg Lark. Be warned - it will make you want to go out to
Mosman and high–five the big fella in person. Email sonya@bundanon.com.au
or phone 02 4423 0433 | Directions here
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Architecture & Design Bookshops |
| Published
Art
Boutique art, architecture + design
bookshop in a lovely space | Shop 2, 23-33 Mary Street, Surry
Hills [in the Silk Knit building] | Monday-Fridayri 10-6, Saturday
10-5 | phone 02 9280 2839
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Ariel
Art, architecture & design bookshop
| open every day, 9-midnight | 103 George St, The Rocks & 42
Oxford Street, Paddington | phone 9241 5622, 9332 4582 |
| The
Building Bookshop
Specialist architecture, design + building
bookshop. They also have their own talks program here
| 9:30-5pm seven days | phone 02 8303 0550 |
Museum
Bookshop
Specialist Architecture, art + design bookshop at the Museum of
Sydney | open every day, 9:30-5 | cnr Phillip and Bridge Streets,
Sydney | phone 02 9251 4678 |
| Architext
Specialist architecture + design bookshop at the Institute of
Architects | open Mon-Fri, 9-5:30, sat 10-4 | 3 Manning Street,
Potts Point | phone 02 9356 2022 |
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| Slidenight | An independent, chilled–out series of presentations by architects, artists and designers. Arty and designery types turn up, so grab a glass and a chair, sit back + enjoy | Email slidenight@bigpond.com to join their email list or get more information |
Sydney Talks | A wonderful site that lists – perhaps not all – but definately all of Sydney's interesting talks! Very well organised site. Click
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D Factory | A free monthly series of talks at The Powerhouse Museum complete with dj's, bar and all the things one might expect | 6-8.30pm occasional Thursday's| Powerhouse Museum Courtyard, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo | Free
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The Cool Hunter | Great collection of inspiring ideas. |
| Supercolossal
| Check this site out. Switched on, very clever and very funny
Syndey based archi-commentary. Long live dissent (is that how
you spell it?). Marcus does some awesome architecture too... |
| RAIA
| The Royal Australian institute of Architects |
| Archizine
| all the architecture-related event details for NSW |
| Butterpaper
| Lively and up to the minute discussion, news etc |
| Super
Future City |
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Australian Architects is a Stuttgart based site strangely enough and a terrific portal for would be workers, and general research. |
| Urban
Boheme is a travel & lifestyle directory specifically
aimed at women that reveals more than a secret or two about the
cultural life of Sydney.
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| Cave
Clan |
| Sleepy
City | urban photography |
| 3RRR
| Talk about buildings, places and stuff… |
| Architects
for Peace |
| Grid
Skipper |
| Sydney
Bars |
| Walk
Sydney's Streets | 90+ year-old Alan walks every sydney
street |
| Sydney
Travel Info |
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Research |
In
the Mind of the Architect
Web site and transcript of a three–part ABC series on Australian
Architecture. Full of gems + a great taste of current Australian
architectural spirit themes and attitudes. |
| Wolanski Foundation - incredibly thorough list of all type of resources. |
Utzon
Interview
On the 25th Anniversary of the completion of the soh, ABC journalist
Maxine McKew spoke to Renzo Piano, Glenn Murcutt and Ken Maher about
Jørn Utzon and the buildings legacy | Text and voice downloads |
Richard Weston
Richard Weston of Cardif has just released the book on Utzon [it
weighs 4 kilograms!] and this summary of one of his lectures offers
a few insights into the personality and idiosyncracies of the man |
| other urban walks |
Insider
Tours
Edgy and off insider tours around Berlin - one of the original inspirations
for SAW [and - they are really great tours] |
Chicago
Architecture Foundation
The CAF were the other inspiration for SAW |
Architecture
Link
This site lists and gives contact details for a surprisingly large
number of European architectural and architectural-tour organisations.
Brilliant for those as obsessed with checking out archi-sites as
we are. |
