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 2005...on the Palisade rooftop |
 2004/05...at
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 2003/04...at the Spanish Club |
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2005...on the Palisade rooftop |
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2003/04...at the Spanish Club |
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update 030508 |
| We like to actively engaged with the design-culture of the city. Eoghan founded the Sydney Architecture Walks in 2000, Slidenight in 2003 (with Simeon King) and has been teaching architecture at the Universities of Sydney & NSW since 1997. |
| SAW, the Sydney Architecture Walks |
| Hoping to win Gold! Gold! Gold! for Australia (dodgy Utzon reference), Eoghan established the SAW in September 2000 (Sydney Olympics) giving us an excuse to get out of the office and talk about real architecture whilst traspassing across fields urban, political and cultural. |
| The walks explore ideas through architecture offering an interface between in-depth architectural knowledge and the wider design-conscious community. Each route is driven by certain themes and thread attempting to decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Sydney. |
| The walks are casual and low-key. They are the kind of walks we would like to do if we were in Berlin – if we had any time to go to Berlin that is (or any money for that matter). They are not what you might expect from an 'architectural tour' (...built in the Georgian style in 1836, the architect was a forger and thief. Note the exquisite sandstone detailing.. zzz z z). We won't, for example, talk about 'style', and not, you might think, because we don't have any, but because we reckon there are so many more interesting things to talk about. |
| 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. |
| Buildings signify something else, and it is this something else that the real conversation is about; architecture as cultural, social and political signifier, and the vibrant network of ideas and concepts that generate our urban environments is where we like to dig around. So the walks are about the city and the attitudes and ideas that push at Sydney like its tides. |
| SAW site here download SAW Winter program download SAW routes |
Sun Herald article here
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| Slidenight |
| Taking the baton of local heroes Sam Marshall & Richard Goodwin and stumbling along with it, Eoghan and the irrepressible, irresistable 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 |
