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Sydney Architecture Walks

Eoghan established the Sydney Architecture Walks in September 2000 giving the staff at supple (him) an excuse to get out of the office and talk about real architecture.

traspassing across fields urban, political & cultural each walk explores ideas through architecture offering an interface between in-depth architectural knowledge and the wider design-conscious community.
driven by certain themes and threads Each route attempts to decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Sydney.

The walks are casual, low-key, inclusive meditations on the city that don't assume one knows anything about architecture.
They are the kind of walks we would like to do if we were travelling through Sydney.
Gritty, urban storytelling with a serious design aganda behind them.

We look at architecture as an expression of a set of inner ideas or inner tendencies, in the same way one might look at nature as a very rational expression of a set of inner ideas.
Works of Architecture, and not only the good ones, signify something else, and it is this something else that the conversations are about.
architecture as cultural, social and political signifier, and the vibrant network of ideas and concepts that generate our urban environments.
So the walks are about the city, Sydney and the attitudes and ideas that push at her like her tides.

We at Supple have launched a fifth tour - on bicycles!
Anyone brave enough to cycle Sydney's roads is welcome.
Check it out here

DownlOAD SAW program (900KB)

Sun Herald Article (450KB)

The Australian article (125KB)

Slidenight

Taking the baton of local heroes Sam Marshall & Richard Goodwin and stumbling along with it, Eoghan and the irrepressible Simeon King re-established Slidenight in 2003 as a low-key alternative to the kind of elitist archi-guff offered by the Institutions (which, incidentally, we love).

Slidenight is a casual forum where students and people from diverse creative backgrounds can come together, (that sounds nice doesn't it) get pissed (that sounds fun doesn't it) and share ideas & sangria.
'Slidenight' makes us feel popular and nostalgic for uni days (waking up in a pool of slobber to the smell of melting slides) and nights (big ideas fueled by cheap wine!)

Slidenight site here
Architecture Australia (July 2006) review here