138 items tagged “art”

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TIME FOR DRAWING - Time for coming to our senses, time for experiencing architecture.

  • May 15, 2012
  • 6:30 p.m.
  • Tusculum, 3 Manning Street, Potts Point
  • Members Free | Non members $10 | Student non members $5

A talk by Rena Czaplinska"I believe that to build a life sustaining society we need to use our minds and we need to use our creative intuition. Fundamental to this approach is to work from direct experience allowing time and ...

Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship

Spatial experience, Narrative and Architecture’

A project that explores the relationship between the disciplines of Film, Art and Architecture, the various ways they intersect, and the various practitioners who work in this discipline of the in-between.

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PhotoGraff exhibition by Jason Wing & Garry Trinh

  • May 8, 2012 - May 26, 2012
  • 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Art Atrium 181 Old South Head Road Bondi Junction
  • Free

PhotoGraff brings together the work of Sydney-based artists Garry Trinh and Jason Wing, collaborating as active observers of the brilliance of our physical surroundings.

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Time for Drawing

  • Aug. 3, 2012 - Aug. 5, 2012
  • Riversdale Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon, NSW
  • $600 ($520 students) Early bird rate $650 ($570 students) After earlybird • Earlybird 8th June 2012

Residential drawing workshop with Rena Czaplinska at Riversdale Boyd Education Centre in Bundanon. This workshop will attract 5 formal CPD points for architects.

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Wollombi Drawing Weekend

  • yesterday - tomorrow
  • Wollombi, Hunter Valley
  • $350 includes 2 night accommodation in Barnstay, tuition, materials and model fees

Residential drawing workshop with Rena Czaplinska in Wollombi, Hunter Valley 18-20th May 2012. This workshop will attract 5 Formal CPD credit points for architects.

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2012 Redlands Westpac Art Prize

  • May 3, 2012 - Aug. 2, 2012
  • 9:34 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
  • National Art School, Forbes St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
  • Free

The exhibition will feature works by 47 of Australia & New Zealand's most exciting contemporary artists, spanning a diverse range of mediums: painting, photography, installation, sculpture & new media works.

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Kaldor Public Art Project 25: Thomas Demand's 'The Dailies'

  • March 23, 2012 - April 21, 2012
  • noon
  • The Commercial Travellers Association, MLC Centre, Martin Place, Sydney
  • Free

For the 25th Kaldor Public Art Project, Thomas Demand presents a new series of images, The Dailies, within the unique environment of the MLC Centre designed by Harry Seidler in the mid 1970s.

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Huihai Xie - Dialogue

  • April 10, 2012 - May 5, 2012
  • 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • 181 Old South Head Road, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
  • Free

An exhibition at Art Atrium by the 2006 & 2003 Archibald Prize Finalist Huihai Xie. The exhibition will be officially launched by Professor Philip Cox AO on Saturday 14 April 2.30–4.30pm.

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Geometries of the gaze by Michael Tawa

  • April 17, 2012
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  • Tusculum, 3 Manning Street Potts Point
  • Free

This talk will speculate on: How does architecture offer itself to view? What does it show? How does it frame particular kinds of looking and to what ends?

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Horses for Courses: A Sure Bet

  • April 19, 2012
  • 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
  • Green Square Library and Customer Service Centre, Tote Building, 100 Joynton Ave, Zetland, 2017
  • Free, bookings essential

In 1908 Zetland’s Victoria Park racecourse was opened with the most modern, best facilities. In 1944, Victoria Park racecourse was closed and redeveloped for car manufacturing. The end of an era…

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Architects in Conversation at Art Atrium - Richard Goodwin & David Holm

  • April 1, 2012
  • 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
  • 181 Old South Head Road, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
  • Free

Join Goodwin & Holm as they discuss the inspiration behind their works & the different ways they utilize drawings & sketches at work & at play.

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Trace: Christina Waterson

  • March 15, 2012 - May 12, 2012
  • 6 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Pin-up Project Space, The Compound Interest, 15-25 Keele St, Collingwood 3066
  • Free

'Trace' exhibition maps and connects the underlying conceptual ideas that thread through the practice of Brisbane-based architect and artist Christina Waterson. On now at Pin-up Project Space in Melbourne until May 12!

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Ashley Frost 'Urban Patinas' exhibition

  • April 24, 2012 - today
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Stella Downer Fine Art, 2 Danks St, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
  • Free

To ASHLEY FROST cities are curious and vibrant places, sites of modernity and the cradle of contemporary life. Fascinated by intersections, where the city's periphery converges with the inner suburbs and the moment where day ends and night begins, he ...

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UTSpeaks: Shapeshifters - the new creatives

  • March 7, 2012
  • 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • The Great Hall, level 5, UTS Tower

Can a holistic, trans-disciplinary approach to creativity improve our ability to solve problems, collaborate and share knowledge? How should we translate creative thinking into doing?

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Drawn by Design - The Art of Architecture

  • March 13, 2012 - April 7, 2012
  • 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • 181 Old South Head Road, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
  • FREE

Art Atrium will host the exhibition ‘Drawn by Design – The Art of Architecture’ focusing on drawings and sketches by Australian architects as part of the Art Month program in March 2012.

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Constable Residence

Suters Architects

The design of this residence in the Hunter Valley by Suters Architects, has effectively delivered a dual purpose building for private and invited public use, within an operating vineyard.

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Russian Treasure House

  • April 12, 2012 - May 17, 2012
  • 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • 160 Missenden Road, Newtown NSW 2042
  • $209.00

Since the 19th century, in every area of art – painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music – Russia was in the forefront, bringing to the world dramatically new concepts of beauty.

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University Preparation: Art History and Film Studies

  • Feb. 29, 2012 - Sept. 19, 2012
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  • 160 Missenden Road, Newtown NSW 2042
  • $900.00

Classical Antiquity through to the 21st Century. There is a strong focus on the interpretation of individual art works, including painting, sculpture, photography, film and architecture.

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The Middle of East. Old + New

  • Feb. 21, 2012 - March 30, 2012
  • 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 3 Manning Street, Potts Point
  • Non Member $10, Student Non Member $5, Institute Member Free

An exhibition of over 50 photographs by Marc Stringa in the atrium at Tusculum, presenting a glimpse into the extraordinary changes occurring in the Middle East region.

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Finding the line between Art & Design

  • March 7, 2012
  • 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  • Object Gallery, 417 Bourke Street, Surry Hills
  • FREE

During Art Month, Object is hosting a forum to discuss with some of Australia's best design guru's where the fine line between art and design starts and finishes. Or does it even really exist at all?. Come along and listen ...

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Ann Veronica Janssens

  • June 27, 2012 - Feb. 16, 2012
  • 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • 245 Wilson St Eveleigh (cnr. Codrington St)
  • Admission Free

Carriageworks and the 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations (2012) presentAnn Veronica Janssens. In association with the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks will present a major installation work from the renowned Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens. Janssens creates 'propositions' ...

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A Return to the Trees, Strings Attached

  • May 17, 2012 - today
  • 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
  • 245 Wilson St Eveleigh (cnr. Codrington St)
  • Adult: $30, Concession: $20

Carriageworks presents: A Return to the Trees, Strings AttachedA highly stylised, apocalyptic vision of the future of the city from Sydney based emerging physical theatre company, Strings Attached. A Return to the Trees leaps from a scaffold of dance tradition ...

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Jon Tarry: Arrival and Departure

  • Feb. 16, 2012 - March 17, 2012
  • noon - 6 p.m.
  • Pin-up Project Space, The Compound Interest, 15-25 Keele St, Collingwood 3066
  • Free

Exhibition previews by appointment from 9 February Opening night Thursday 16 February, 6 - 9 pm, all welcome A selection of the artworks are available for purchase (POA) On arrival in Melbourne and encountering the emptiness of the waiting gallery ...

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The Mad Square: Modernity in German art, 1910–37

  • Nov. 25, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
  • Adults: $18 / Concession: $12 / NGV-members: $9

This major international travelling exhibition of the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents three decades of German modernism, leading up to and following the turbulent Weimar Republic. From 25th Nov 2011 to 4 Mar 2012 it also stops over ...

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Drawing Paris

  • Feb. 7, 2012
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  • Alliance Francaise, L13, 257 Clarence St. Sydney
  • Free

"drawing paris: the visions of paris...and their resonance to a haping of sydney" David Holm, ArchitectCox Richardson

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Stories in Form

  • Jan. 27, 2012 - March 25, 2012
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 417 Bourke St SURRY HILLS NSW 2010
  • Free

Stories in Form looks at the dynamic process that involves designers, products and owners in the storytelling process. From the initial ideas that inspire the product, to changes in the object resulting from use, every product has a unique story. ...

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EVERGREEN

  • Jan. 27, 2012 - March 25, 2012
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 417 Bourke St SURRY HILLS 2010
  • FREE

EVERGREEN: fresh sustainable fashion presents a new generation of designers who are changing the look and feel of eco-fashion with innovative and beautiful designs. While sustainability is a lifestyle choice on the lips of many Australians, it is yet to ...

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Sydney Festival exhibition - Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion - films and public talks

  • Jan. 14, 2012 - Jan. 28, 2012
  • 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • The University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Public talks and rare films about modernist art and architecture to celebrate the exhibition Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion.

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Ma: Space between here and there

  • Jan. 20, 2012 - Feb. 16, 2012
  • 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • 2 Chifley Square, Sydney
  • Free

In this exhibition, Yuria Okamura, explores the relationship between interior and exterior spaces, the ideas of perception and illusion, and the physical and abstract world.

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Sydney Festival exhibition - Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion

  • Jan. 7, 2012 - March 31, 2012
  • 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  • The University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Art face-to-face with architecture, celebrating the University of Sydney’s significant – though often overlooked – modernist architecture.

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Streetworks: Reimagining underutilised urban spaces

In Trends this week we look at how cities around the world are moving toward installing little interventions that reclaim underutilised spaces, transforming them into places that invite public participation ...

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competitions and awards

The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship

  • Nov. 23, 2011 - Jan. 27, 2012
  • 3:53 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Level 15, 20 Bond Street, Sydney NSW 2000

A program which awards funding to talented Australians so they can explore and develop their artistic gifts either abroad and/or interstate. Scholarships are each worth $20,000!!

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EmAGN* Sydney Photographic Competition

  • Dec. 10, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • FraserStudios Studio 10, 10-14 Kensington Street, Chippendale NSW 2008
  • FREE for RAIA member, $10 for non-members

Emerging architects see the city a bit differently... This is your opportunity to go out, photograph what you see, and present your images and thoughts over some drinks - all in one day.

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Architecture, Photography, Landscape, Image

  • Dec. 1, 2011
  • 7:30 p.m.
  • Barbican Gallery, London

As part of the exhibition OMA / Progress, Elias Redstone hosts a conversation with Dutch photographer Bas Princen about how architecture is communicated. Princen is known for capturing contemporary transformations of the urban landscape, using photography to research, document and ...

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Sydney Architecture Walks – SAW 1 - The City, Sydney - Dec 14

  • Dec. 14, 2011
  • 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Meet at the Museum of Sydney. cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney
  • Adult: $35; Children: $25; Senior: $25

Join us as we seek out the architecture and public art that materialises contemporary conditions and attitudes.

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Sydney Architecture Walks – SAW 1 - The City, Sydney - Nov 30

  • Nov. 30, 2011
  • 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Meet at the Museum of Sydney. cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney
  • Adult: $35; Children: $25; Senior: $25

Joyfully trespassing across disciplines and genres as we seek out the architecture and public art that materialises contemporary conditions and attitudes, "The City, Sydney" conjures a heady urban narrative revealing the historic, political and topographic forces lapping at Sydney like ...

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Curating Cities: Exhibition

  • Nov. 17, 2011 - Dec. 18, 2011
  • Ground floor, Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney
  • Free

The exhibition launches a 5-year research project, founded in the idea of deploying art and design to curate (literally ‘care for’) the city. It focuses on the use of creative strategies to meet the challenges of creating eco-sustainable urban environments.

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2011 Lloyd Rees Memorial Lecture: Antimonuments and Subsculptures

  • Dec. 5, 2011
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • The Studio, Sydney Opera House
  • $15/$10 MCA Members & Concessions

Hear Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer speak about his recent interactive installations in public spaces.

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Broached Colonial Commissions

  • Nov. 11, 2011 - Nov. 20, 2011
  • noon - 6 p.m.
  • The Former Paramount Pictures Building, 80 Commonwealth St., Surry Hills

Broached Commissions initiates bespoke made and limited edition design collections, each collection based on a different event in Australian history. By fusing the depth of history with cutting-edge design, the company creates new work that embodies a story of Australian ...

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After Images: Imprints of Japan by Australian Architects Auction

  • Oct. 28, 2011
  • 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  • Boutwell Draper Gallery, 82-84 George Street, Redfern
  • Free, no bookings

After Images is an exhibition and auction of sketches to support Japan's recovery from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March. It includes works by Richard Leplastrier, John Wardle, Sean Godsell, Tadao Ando, Philip Cox, Alex Popov, Tom Heneghan, Peter ...

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Ann Lewis Contemporary Art Address - Julia Peyton-Jones

  • Oct. 27, 2011
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Studio, Sydney Opera House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
  • Ticketed, booking required, Adults $15; Concessions $10

Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of London's Serpentine Gallery, gives the MCA's annual contemporary art address entitled The Next Renaissance? in honour of the late Ann Lewis AO. Julia Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London, and worked as ...

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Kids' Design Workshop - Happy House Project

  • Oct. 23, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
  • Sandringham Gardens, Hyde Park North
  • Free, booking required

Inspired by the inventive building skills of Pacific Island communities, the Happy House building workshop will engage children in being resourceful. During the workshop, led by architect Sam Marshall, kids will learn how to weave materials into a simple structure ...

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STREET WORKS Talks and Tours

  • Oct. 22, 2011
  • noon - 3:50 p.m.
  • Customs House Sydney, 31 Alfred St, Sydney
  • Free, no bookings

STREET WORKS is a series of temporary installations that transform under-utilised public spaces into vibrant places. Cities around the world are moving toward installing little interventions that reclaim under-utilised spaces and build creative and engaging places that invite public participation ...

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Missing Queen; Where the Grass is Greener & Framing Gravity Exhibitions

  • Oct. 22, 2011 - Oct. 30, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Sydney College of the Arts Rozelle, Balmain Road, Rozelle
  • Free, no bookings

The Sydney College of the Arts will host a number of exhibitions during the Sydney Architecture Festival. As well as WHEN2050 and the Emergency Shelter Exhibition, take the opportunity to visit Missing Queen; Where the Grass is Greener and Framing ...

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Australian Institute of Landscape Architects STREET WORKS

  • Oct. 21, 2011 - Jan. 31, 2012
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Sydney
  • Free, no bookings

An initiative of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA NSW), this is a competition to create temporary installations that transform under-utilised public spaces into vibrant places.

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New Century Garden: Talking About Public Art in Chinatown

  • Oct. 21, 2011
  • noon - 5 p.m.
  • 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181-187 Hay Street, Sydney NSW 2000
  • FREE. Bookings essential.

A forum that explores ideas, approaches and concerns around public space and public art within the social and historical context of Sydney’s Chinatown.

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Pin-up launches Summer Residency Program

  • Dec. 1, 2011 - Feb. 29, 2012
  • Pin-up Gallery, Centre for The Applied Arts - 15-25 Keele Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066
  • Free

An exciting opportunity for Melbourne-based architects who wish to work in-situ within the gallery over the summer period to produce a body of work in consultation with the Pin-up creative team.

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Boyd's Error: Planning's Curse - Presented by Rijavec Architects

  • Nov. 3, 2011 - Nov. 26, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Pin-up Gallery, Centre for The Applied Arts - 15-25 Keele Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066
  • Free

Presented by Rijavec Architects, this is an ambitious exhibition that aspires to change the way in which we perceive Australian urbanism.

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Graphic Architecture - Curated by Warren Taylor from The Narrows

  • Sept. 22, 2011 - Oct. 15, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Pin-up Gallery, Centre for The Applied Arts - 15-25 Keele Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066
  • Free

Pin-up welcomes Warren Taylor of The Narrows as curator for Graphic Architecture. The exhibition features local and international contributions of resonant printed material connected to the field of architecture. Curated as a series of 'clusters', the collection reveals key moments ...

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120 Gala Dinner & Showcase

  • Nov. 9, 2011
  • 6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
  • Sydney Town Hall
  • from $35.00 plus booking fee

A spectacular evening of entertainment to celebrate the 120th anniversary of TAFE NSW —Sydney Institute and the extraordinary talent that is shaping Australia's creative industries. Amazing multimedia, floristry, fashion design, theatre and costume parades, photography and live music. Plus, guest ...

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Multimedia Exhibition

  • Oct. 4, 2011 - Oct. 16, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Ultimo TAFE
  • Free

Your chance to view the top 45 entries from over 120 applicants to the Multimedia Competition which is a celebration of Sydney Institute's 120 year anniversary.

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Nuha Saad - The Necessity of Ornament

  • Sept. 6, 2011 - Oct. 2, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • James Dorahy Project Space, Suite 4, L1, 111 Macleay St, Potts Point 2011
  • Free

Saad’s artistic project questions whether decoration is supplementary or integral to design. Saad singles out the elements that are often overlooked, absorbed into the architecture and rarely distinguished by colour.

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Community + Space = Innovation

  • Oct. 12, 2011
  • 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
  • Newtown Library, 8-10 Brown Street, Newtown, 2042
  • Free. Bookings essential.

What if…empty spaces were given to the community to transform into positive public space? This talk unpacks this idea, takes it out of the art world and into the real world.

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Collaboration, Public Art and Creative Cities - Dr Catherine de Lorenzo & Dr Nancy Marshall

  • Oct. 28, 2011
  • 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  • UNSW City Campus, Level 6, 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney
  • Free, booking required

This talk draws on research investigating models of collaboration in the making of public art that go well beyond familiar binaries such as artist-architect, artist-community, artist-cultural planner, artist-curator. It will identify and analyse a much richer network of relationships within ...

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Copper Ships - Sue Pedley

  • Aug. 19, 2011 - Sept. 3, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Tin Sheds Gallery, 148 City Road, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney NSW 2006

Sue transforms the Tin Sheds Gallery exhibition space into a confluence of sound, sites, cultures, memories and layered histories, using architectural forms and videos.

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'Albers & Seidler' - Exhibition at Dominik Mersch Gallery

  • Aug. 10, 2011 - Aug. 20, 2011
  • noon
  • 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW, 2017

Joseph Albers was a German born, American artist, influential teacher, writer, painter, color theorist and pioneer of twentieth-century modernism.

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Sydney Architecture Walks – SAW 1 - The City, Sydney - Oct 26

  • Oct. 26, 2011
  • 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Meet at the Museum of Sydney. cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney
  • Adults $35, Concession $25. Ticket includes free entry in the Museum of Sydney

This walking tour trespasses joyfully across disciplines and genres, seeking out the architecture and public art that materialises contemporary conditions and attitudes; projects that respond to the culture, history and environment of Sydney and not just imported formulaic codes. As ...

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Freshlatino at The Instituto Cervantes, Sydney

  • Oct. 25, 2011
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Cervantes Institute, 22-24 City Road, Chippendale
  • Free, booking required

A new approach to the complexities of the contemporary city through interventions in public spaces.

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The Future of Penrith/Penrith of the Future - A symposium spectacular

  • Oct. 22, 2011
  • 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Macquarie St, Sydney
  • Free, booking required

Penrith City Council, in partnership with Landcom, Penrith Panthers and C3West partners Penrith Performing & Visual Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art have commissioned internationally renowned French art and urban design collective Campement Urbain to engage Penrith City communities ...

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UNSW Built Environment Interdisciplinary STREETWORKS Competition Student Project - Installation

  • Oct. 19, 2011 - Nov. 2, 2011
  • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Barrack Street, Sydney
  • Free, no bookings

"STREET WORKS is a competition to explore the possibilities of free and creative uses of public space. An initiative of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) NSW, STREET WORKS invites you to re-imagine underutilised spaces in the City of ...

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Sydney Architecture Festival at Sydney College of the Arts

  • Oct. 22, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sydney College of the Arts, Balmain Road, Rozelle
  • Free, booking required

A day of tours, workshops, public talks, demonstrations, exhibitions and much more.

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Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, UNSW & City of Sydney Streetworks Exhibition

  • Oct. 22, 2011
  • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Barrack Street, Sydney
  • Free, no bookings

"STREET WORKS is a competition to explore the possibilities of free and creative uses of public space. An initiative of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) NSW, STREET WORKS invites you to re-imagine underutilised spaces in the City of ...

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A Preview of Campement Urbain - The Future of Penrith/Penrith of the Future - a C3West Project

  • Oct. 20, 2011
  • 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  • Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, 86 River Road, Emu Plains
  • By Invitation Only

A preview of Campement Urbain The Future of Penrith/Penrith of the Future will be held at Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest. Visit the 2011 Sydney Architecture Festival website for more events.

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UNSW Built Environment Interdisciplinary STREETWORKS Competition Student Project - Exhibition

  • Oct. 19, 2011 - Oct. 30, 2011
  • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • UNSW Built Environment Red Centre Gallery, Gate 9, High Street, Kensington NSW
  • Free, no bookings

See all the creative ideas to form places for people, as well as promote dialogue as to the city we wish to inhabit.

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The Gamut

  • Aug. 1, 2011 - Aug. 15, 2011
  • noon - 5 p.m.
  • 60 Hutchinson St Sydney
  • FREE

ARTcycle Inc. ATVP and INDEX. are currently seeking proposals for artworks to be included in a one week exhibition in October at INDEX. Art Space. 'The Gamut', is an art project that will involve drawing upon the face of the ...

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Plant a Pinwheel!

  • Aug. 8, 2011 - Aug. 13, 2011
  • 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
  • Sam Crawford Architects, Level 5, 68 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
  • $10 per session or $30 for 5 sessions. Free for asylum seekers and refugees.

Please join us at Sam Crawford Architects during Sydney Design (August 8-13), to Plant a Pinwheel in Taylor Square! Plant a Pinwheel uses a simple craft technique to engage and connect with an otherwise disconnected community in our city. The ...

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talks

Bauhaus to Our House, Sydney College of the Arts

  • Aug. 4, 2011
  • 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  • Auditorium, Building 21, Sydney College of the Arts, Balmain Road Rozelle (enter opposite Cecily Street)
  • FREE

A panel discussion exploring the relevance of the Bauhaus principals (1919 to 1933), to art, architecture and design in contemporary life.

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Fraser Studios Open Day + Exhibition

  • July 31, 2011
  • 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Fraser Studios, 10 Kensington St Chippendale
  • FREE

Come along to see Sarah Breen Lovett's latest work. 'Between Here and There'. A multi-channel projection installation over three floors of a redundant warehouse lift. Sarah will be discussing the piece on the first floor at 3pm. The event is ...

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festivals

The Sydney Children's Festival 2011 Presents Zilla Villa

  • Sept. 26, 2011 - Oct. 8, 2011
  • 6 a.m. - noon
  • 245 wilson Street, Everleigh, NSW
  • FREE

Children will get the chance to be the creators of their very own city at The Sydney Children's Festival 2011.

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Street Works

  • July 22, 2011 - Aug. 26, 2011
  • Sydney
  • FREE

STREET WORKS is a competition to create temporary installations that transform under-utilised public spaces into vibrant places. An initiative of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) NSW, STREET WORKS invites you to re-imagine spaces in the City of Sydney ...

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Reworking the Paste-up, an event as part of Sydney Design 2011

  • July 28, 2011 - Aug. 10, 2011
  • 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • 70 Mary St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
  • Free

Hamish Ta-mé, co-founder of notorious paste-up ARI, International Noise, presents a solo activation on the streets of Surry Hills. Visitors to the exhibition will see a progression of artworks building over the time of the exhibition nightly from 6pm to ...

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conferences

Experimental Arts Double Conference

  • Aug. 17, 2011 - Aug. 20, 2011
  • 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • John Niland Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052
  • $160/$95 Standard; $100/$65 Student (Main Conference); $80/$45 (Postgraduate Conference)

What is experimentation? What makes art 'experimental'? What are the results of aesthetic experiments and why do we need them? Could artists invent new modes of experimentation with/for science? What are the differences between experiments and inventions; experiments and failures; ...

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Japanese Design Today 100

  • July 29, 2011 - Sept. 16, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Level 1, Chifley Plaza, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney
  • FREE, bookings essential for talk

See the evolution of Japanese design through everyday products, shedding light on the inner workings of Japanese urban culture. The Japan Foundation Sydney presents its latest exhibition, Japanese Design Today 100, introducing a wide selection of familiar items produced during ...

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WEITwinkel Photography Exhibition

  • July 6, 2011 - July 30, 2011
  • 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Yuga Cafe Gallery, 172 St. Johns Road, Glebe NSW 2037
  • FREE

Weitwinkel means "wide-angle" - Hartmut's favourite lens for landscape-photography, but WEITwinkel also describes the variety in Hartmut's work. After moving from Hamburg to Sydney in early 2010, the German photographer started to capture the beauty of well-known as well as ...

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The Rocks Pop Up Project

  • July 4, 2011 - Nov. 18, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
  • The Rocks

Four buildings / six months / limitless thinking Feel the pulse of a new level of artistic energy in The Rocks as an ever-changing mix of creative minds take up residence in four vacant heritage buildings. Where: 47 George Street, ...

competitions and awards

Expanded Architecture 2011 - Call for Proposals

  • July 4, 2011 - Aug. 19, 2011
  • 245 Wilson St, Eveligh, Sydney NSW
  • FREE

As part of the Sydney Architecture Festival, Expanded Architecture 2011 invites proposals for collaborative, site-specific moving image projections and filmic installations.

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festivals

Sydney Design 2011

  • July 30, 2011 - Aug. 14, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 500 Harris St, Ultimo
  • Visit website for details

An annual event produced by the Powerhouse Museum in association with more than 60 cultural institutions, organisations and individuals. The program includes exhibitions, workshops, master classes, talks, installations and tours...

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Sydney Diaries: Urban Constructs Photographic Exhibition

  • July 1, 2011 - July 18, 2011
  • 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Pine Street Creative Arts Centre Gallery, 64 Pine Street, Chippendale NSW 2008
  • FREE

Three Sydney based artists each interpret the urban landscape of the city they call home. The images depict the city environment as seen through three distinct photographic styles.

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Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Fundraiser Sale

  • June 30, 2011
  • 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Tin Sheds Gallery 148 City rd Darlington
  • FREE

The Tin Sheds Gallery, at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture Design and Planning has been in its current location since 1988. In addition to the exhibition space, the Tin Sheds Gallery runs an extensive program of art workshops, ...

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Urban Realities

  • July 26, 2011 - July 30, 2011
  • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Harbour Esplanade, Docklands VIC 3008
  • Free

URBAN REALITIES: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge More than 100 architecture and design practitioners, craftspeople and artists will race the clock between July 27 and July 30 in reality architecture and design competition taking place in Melbourne's Docklands. The ...

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Parramatta Rd Project (No 1) 2011

  • June 21, 2011 - June 27, 2011
  • 5 p.m. - 9 a.m.
  • 497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, Sydney
  • FREE

Site specific video installation and performance, shot within a 200 metres of the video projection on Parramatta Road, Sydney. Part of a series of works that includes 'Road Movie (part 1)' and 'Walking the Parramatta Road'. The work is viewed ...

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talks

Tom Bass Memorial Address by Deborah Beck

  • June 7, 2011
  • 6:30 p.m.
  • Cell Block Theatre, National Art School
  • Free, RSVP essential

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is the oldest and largest independent Sculpture School in Australia. Founded by Tom Bass in 1974, the sculpture school continues to provide high quality teaching to students with a range of backgrounds and interests in ...

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Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School Open Day

  • June 5, 2011
  • noon - 4 p.m.
  • Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School, 1a Clara St, Erskineville
  • FREE

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is the oldest and largest independent Sculpture School in Australia. Founded by Tom Bass in 1974, the sculpture school continues to provide high quality teaching to students with a range of backgrounds and interests in ...

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continuing professional development

Time For Drawing

  • June 10, 2011 - June 12, 2011
  • 5 p.m.
  • Arthur Boyd Education Centre at Riversdale Bundanoon

This drawing weekend is an opportunity to live and draw in the dramatic landscape of Riversdale while supported by the calmness of Glenn Murcutt’s architecture. This workshop will attract 5 formal CPD points for architects.

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Art + Architecture 11

  • Feb. 10, 2011 - Feb. 26, 2011
  • 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 82-84 George Street Redfern, Sydney 2016
  • FREE

Art + Architecture 11 Home - Real And Ideal 19 Artists From Boutwell Draper Gallery + 19 Sydney Architects

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CITYTALKS2011 Fostering a green cultural precinct at Walsh Bay

  • March 8, 2011
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Centennial Hall, Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
  • FREE & ESSENTIAL

CITYTALKS2011 invites Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Co-Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company, to share their ideas on fostering a green and vibrant cultural precinct at Walsh Bay.

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Richard Goodwin: Between a Slum and a Hard Place

  • Nov. 30, 2010 - Dec. 18, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • 15 Roylston Street Paddington NSW 2021
  • free

Exhibition on now at Australian Galleries - Roylston Street: Richard Goodwin - Between a Slum and a Hard Place

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The Art of Participatory Design

  • Nov. 30, 2010 - Dec. 10, 2010
  • 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
  • Free

PDC 2010 poses the challenge of participation; it asks us to consider how we conceptualise, critque and work with participation, and how we engage meaningfully with people, places and situations.

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DUOSCOPE

  • Nov. 18, 2010 - Nov. 30, 2010
  • 6 p.m.
  • 281 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
  • FREE

Duoscope is an installation created by photographic works and an Expanded Architecture installation accompanied by a soundscape composed especially for the installation by L.A sound artist Greg Reeves.

Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship

Arch-exhibit

‘Arch-exhibit’ is a local and internationally focused blog that explores the relationship between the two disciplines of film and architecture, the various ways they intersect, and the various practitioners who work in this discipline of the in-between.

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For Art’s Sake

  • Oct. 26, 2010 - Nov. 5, 2010
  • 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • SCA Gallery, Sydney Colllege of the Arts, Balmain Road, Rozelle
  • FREE

For Art’s Sake is an anonymous fundraising exhibition of over 400 works by people with a disability, emerging and established artists, friends,family and community groups. Everyone has a story to tell and that no story, standing or social experience is more or less deserving of our recognition.

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continuing professional development

Drawing Breath

  • Nov. 5, 2010 - Nov. 7, 2010
  • 5 p.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Wollombi, NSW
  • : $250 tuition, materials + accommodation $110 (Students discounted)

We often draw with a fixed idea of what we want, we try to be accurate but we miss what is really there—the rhythms, the tones, the harmonies, the very life of a thing. In this workshop, we will explore how to see passed what the mind thinks it knows.

exhibitions

Advertisements for Architecture 2010

  • Oct. 18, 2010 - Nov. 7, 2010
  • 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
  • FREE

When architects, design professionals and students were invited to create Advertisements for Architecture the results included an array of tongue-in-cheek ads. OpenHAUS and DARCH invites the public to the exhibition of "Advertisements for Architecture 2010". The most outstanding of these ...

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Advertisements for Architecture 2010 - OPENING NIGHT

  • Oct. 21, 2010
  • 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  • 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
  • FREE

OpenHAUS and DARCH invite you to the Opening Night of Advertisements for Architecture 2010.Highlights of the night:* FREE Entry* Refreshment will be provided* Imperial Beer as the exclusive beer sponsor* Casual slidenights by some Advertisement entrants showcasing their visions* Vote ...

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TNL: Zwischenraume/In-Between Spaces

  • Oct. 14, 2010
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, 148 City Road, Darlington, The University of Sydney
  • Free

Robococo: Petra Gemeinboeck, UNSW and Rob Saunders, FADPIntroduction: Andy Dong, FADPAbout the talkThe installation Zwischenräume embeds a group of autonomous robots into the walls of a gallery. They punch holes through the walls to inspect what's outside, signal each other, ...

podcasts

On a shoot with architectural photographer Jon Linkins

By Design visits the prize-winning Donovan Hill-designed Z House in Brisbane with photographer Jon Linkins. We wanted to see how a professional architectural photographer interprets and interacts with a house. ...

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festivals

SAF 2010 - Architecture Film Day at the State Library

  • Oct. 20, 2010 - Nov. 3, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney
  • FREE

From the extensive collection of documentaries held by the State Library of New South Wales, enjoy a day of Architecture Films featuring: Taringa 4068 ... traces the shape of a life and death in an Australian suburb through several generations ...

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SAF 2010 - Expanded Architecture - An International Architecture Film Night

  • Nov. 6, 2010
  • 6 p.m.
  • Performance Space at CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
  • FREE

Expanded Architecture is an International Architecture Film night featuring over 20 short films showcasing installations and film art related to architecture. The film screenings will be followed by an open audience discussion led by a panel of respected academics and ...

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SAF 2010 - Boomburbs: Andrew Merry

  • Oct. 16, 2010 - Feb. 13, 2011
  • 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Museum of Sydney, Cnr Bridge & Philip Streets, Sydney
  • Adult $10 Child/Concession $5 | Family $20 | Members free

One of the biggest challenges facing Sydney is housing its growing population, predicted to rise from 4.5 million to 6 million by 2036. The dream of home ownership is strongly desired, if increasingly unobtainable for many. Over 200,000 new homes ...

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SAF 2010 - Painting The Rocks

  • Aug. 7, 2010 - Nov. 28, 2010
  • 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Museum of Sydney, Cnr Bridge & Philip Streets, Sydney
  • Adult $10 Child/Concession $5 | Family $20 | Members free

Against the backdrop of slum clearances, wharf rebuilding and debates about working-class living conditions, a group of artists set out to capture 'Old Sydney' before it disappeared in the city's transition to a modern metropolis. The first decades of the ...

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SAF 2010 - Sydney Architecture Walks - SAW 1

  • Oct. 20, 2010 - Oct. 27, 2010
  • 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Museum of Sydney, cnr Bridge & Phillip Streets, Sydney
  • Adults $35, Concession $25 (includes free entry to Museum of Sydney)

This walking tour trespasses joyfully across disciplines and genres, seeking out the architecture and public art that materialises contemporary conditions and attitudes; projects that respond to the culture, history and environment of Sydney and not just imported formulaic codes. As ...

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SAF 2010 - Reincarnating McMansions

  • Oct. 24, 2010
  • 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
  • Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo
  • Free with Museum entry ($10 adult/$6 concession/Powerhouse members free)

Australian cities are notable for an unsustainable combination of cheap energy, suburban sprawl and big houses. The Reincarnated McMansion project seeks to act as a catalyst for a new, greener and more sustainable approach to suburban redevelopment that goes beyond ...

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SAF 2010 - Faces in the Street

  • Oct. 22, 2010
  • 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Barnet Long Room, Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney

What are the stories behind the carved faces on Sydney's sandstone buildings? Who are they and what do they represent? NSW Government Architect Peter Mould will present an illustrated talk focusing on the sculptures that adorn many of the city's ...

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TNL: Fieldwork/Chernobyl

  • Oct. 7, 2010 - Oct. 7, 2010
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • 148 City Road, Darlington, The University of Sydney
  • Free

Speaker: Merilyn Fairskye, Syndney College of the ArtsIntroduction: Colin Rhodes, Dean SCA About the talkMerilyn Fairskye's interest in the 1986 accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant lies in the resonances of its after-life within and outside of post-Soviet Ukraine. There ...

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University of Sydney Architecture Student Revue

  • Sept. 2, 2010 - Sept. 4, 2010
  • 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
  • Cnr Cleveland Street, City Road, Darlington, NSW, 2006
  • Adult $15/Conc $15/Access Card holder $10

The 2010 Architecture Revue is set to launch for strictly limited season at the Seymour Centre. Carrying a proud tradition of irreverent humour, topical stories and outstanding set design, this year's show is titled "Ceci n'est pas une revue d'architecture"! ...

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Trying to nail jelly to the wall: where in the brain is creatvity?

  • Sept. 9, 2010
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • 148 City Road, Darlington, The University of Sydney
  • Free

Creativity is the fountainhead of human civilizations. All progress and innovation depend on our ability to change existing thinking patterns, break with the present, and build something new. Progress, however, in any field of science, depends on a clear conception ...

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conferences

Creative Innovation 2010

  • Sept. 8, 2010 - Sept. 10, 2010
  • 8:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • From $30.00

Creative Innovation 2010 is the place to learn from world changing innovators, futurists, inspired thinkers and curious souls gathered together in an interactive community. It's a place to learn techniques and strategies, unlock and share ideas and gain empowering experiences. ...

tours

Audio Design Museum

  • July 30, 2010 - Oct. 10, 2010
  • Sydney
  • FREE

Goodbye gallery, hello city! No gallery space could ever be big enough to capture the creativity of an entire city. That's why Object is doing away with the concept of a conventional design museum. We'll let the city be the ...

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PARK(ing) Day

  • Sept. 17, 2010
  • Australia
  • FREE

PARK(ing) Day is an annual global event aimed at raising awareness of how urban public space is allocated and used by exploring its potential. Originally created by Rebar, a San Francisco art and design collective, PARK(ing) Day began in 2005 ...

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competitions and awards

Advertisements for Architecture 2010: Call For Entries

  • Sept. 20, 2010
  • 5 p.m.
  • Surry Hills Library and Community Centre
  • Professional Registration: $50, Student Registration: $25

Call for Entries: On an international stage the global financial crisis and the current economic instability in Europe is shaping the built environment for future generations. While here in Australia, housing affordability, environmental sustainability and the development of regional and ...

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SRD Change10 Graduate Sustainable Design Exhibition

  • Aug. 2, 2010 - Aug. 15, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 197 young street waterloo, NSW 2017
  • free

FRESH IDEAS and solutions to creating our sustainable future...SRD Change 10 : Graduate Sustainable Design Exhibition "The SRD Change exhibition, now in its 7th year, is growing to a whole new level… presenting an impressive 'snap shot' of the future, ...

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Pencil Frenzy

  • Oct. 2, 2010 - Oct. 10, 2010
  • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Object Gallery, 417 Bourke St, Surry Hills
  • Free.

Claire McCaughan & Felicity Gartelmann of Sam Crawford Architects are installing Much Lead at Object Gallery in October and they need your pencils! Much Lead is inspired by the old school pencil and they are looking for designers, artists, makers, ...

blogs

Japan Architecture Tours Blog

Architect Robert Day conducts guided architecture tours of Japan. Visit the Japan Architecture Tours blog to find out that latest about his next tour in October 2010 and to view ...

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Metamorphoses Exhibition

  • Aug. 5, 2010 - Aug. 28, 2010
  • 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • 148 City Road, Darlington, 2006
  • This is a free event

Metamorphoses adopts Ovid's classic mythic tales of transformation as a vehicle for creative architectural speculation. Ovid's original epic narrative traces provocative events of metamorphosis, whether from human to animal such as The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider, or into ...

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New Ideas

  • July 28, 2010 - Aug. 8, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Government House, Macquarie Street, Sydney
  • Exhibition: FREE Design Forum: General $35, Concession and HHT members $30, Students $20

New Ideas is an exhibition of new media works exploring the history of Government House, Sydney and the themes of heritage conservation and historic interiors. Artists from School of Media Arts, UNSW and d/Lux/ MediaArts have created site specific artworks ...

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The Future of Penrith / Penrith of the Future

  • July 15, 2010
  • 10:30 a.m.
  • Panthers World of Entertainment, Mulgoa Rd, Penrith

Official launch of the C3 West project in Penrith: International art collective Campement Urbain has been commissioned to develop the second stage of their proposal The Future of Penrith / Penrith of the Future, in collaboration with Penrith City Council, ...

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Concert Hall Acoustics by Dr Leo Beranek

  • Aug. 19, 2010
  • 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Cnr Bridge and Macquarie Streets
  • Free, RSVP essential

About the lecture: Dr Beranek will briefly cover the history of Western music and concert halls, the background to the physical determination of the behaviour of sound in rooms, the principal acoustical attributes of concert halls as well as look ...

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Architecture without Paper

  • June 8, 2010 - July 15, 2010
  • 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
  • 22-24 City Road, Chippendale NSW 2008 / Sydney
  • FREE

Architecture without Paper is an extraordinary selection of works in audiovisual format, shown at the 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition. The exhibition, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, representes 15 architecture ...

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conferences

HotHouse: Cultural Ecology and Sustainable Urban Environments

  • July 27, 2010 - July 28, 2010
  • 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  • Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000
  • Full $185 / Concession $130 for 2 days

HotHouse brings together designers, artists, curators, creative thinkers, academics, philosophers, urban planners, architects and users of city space in a quest to develop inspiring models for sustainable urban transformation. The objective of HotHouse is to cultivate a new cultural ecology ...

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continuing professional development

The Freedom of the Line

  • July 24, 2010 - July 24, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Kingscliff NSW
  • $100/person based on 15 participants

This retreat, designed for architects, is recognized by the RAIA and will accrue Formal CPD points. Recognizing that freedom in the work field is sometimes other than your own we want you to rediscover your line and the freedom that ...

Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship

Un-extruding the Tower

David Ostinga 2006 Recipient - Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship Architect Category. In the course of the 20th century the tower quickly became focused on a narrow band of innovation, that ...

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walks

AAA Sydney City Architecture Walk

  • Nov. 19, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - noon
  • Customs House, Circular Quay
  • Adults $30, Students $15, AAA Members Free

A 2-hour walk showcasing more than 10 representative pieces of architecture in the Sydney Central Business District. Sydney's CBD from Martin Place down to Circular Quay changed dramatically after World War II. We examine many of the buildings in the ...

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AAA Sydney City Architecture Walk

  • Nov. 26, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - noon
  • Customs House, Circular Quay
  • Adults $30, Students $15, AAA Members Free

A 2-hour walk showcasing more than 10 representative pieces of architecture in the Sydney Central Business District. Sydney's CBD from Martin Place down to Circular Quay changed dramatically after World War II. We examine many of the buildings in the ...

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AAA Sydney City Architecture Walk

  • Dec. 3, 2011
  • 10 a.m. - noon
  • Customs House, Circular Quay
  • Adults $30, Students $15, AAA Members Free

A 2-hour walk showcasing more than 10 representative pieces of architecture in the Sydney Central Business District. Sydney's CBD from Martin Place down to Circular Quay changed dramatically after World War II. We examine many of the buildings in the ...

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AAA Sydney City Bar Tour

  • May 3, 2010
  • 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • customs house sydney
  • Adults $30, Students $15, AAA Members Free

A 2-hour exploration of the contemporary interior architecture of Sydney's bars. Come and see some of our current best designed, and most atmospheric clubs and bars, and hear more about how, and where, and what, the Sydney Bar Scene will ...

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Time For Drawing

  • April 16, 2010 - April 18, 2010
  • 5 p.m. - 3 p.m.
  • Arthur Boyd Education Centre at Riversdale Bundanoon
  • $550; Students $460

This drawing weekend is an opportunity to live and draw in the dramatic landscape of Riversdale while supported by the calmness of Glenn Murcutt's architecture. The building and the way it embodies the principles of sustainable design will become our ...

continuing professional development

Three memorials - Peter Tonkin

  • Aug. 30, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010
  • Sydney
  • $59.95

This is an online event: Recorded live in the offices of Tonkin Zulaika Greer, Peter Tonkin describes the intricate process of the design of meaningful commemorative artworks. He presents three well-known memorials, designed by his firm, TZG. All three commissions ...

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tours

ITALY BY DESIGN

  • Sept. 27, 2010 - Oct. 10, 2010
  • noon - 10 a.m.
  • Milan
  • POA

In September/October 2010 Kate St James, FDIA is again escorting a tour for architects, interior designers and design industry professionals to Italy and you are invited as one of a select group to join us. The style capital of the ...

public spaces

The Watercube - National Aquatics Centre, Beijing

CSCEC + PTW + CCDI and ARUP

CSCEC + PTW + CCDI and ARUP won the International Design Competition for the Beijing 2008 Games Aquatic Centre. The scheme meets international standards for competition and maximises social and economic benefits. In addition to being an aquatic competition venue ...

talks

AAA Black Talk - Elias Torres

  • Aug. 30, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010
  • Sydney
  • $159.95

This is an online event: Elias Torres has made his mark in Spain, particularly in public works, for thirty years. In this Australian Architectural Association Black Talk 4 he exhibits an array of his works, from a series of private ...

continuing professional development

2010 eClassroom Compliance Package

  • Aug. 30, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010
  • Sydney
  • $479.00

This is an online event. This package of seven courses (10 Hours) provides the opportunity for full compliance for your Formal CPD requirements for the 2010 registration year. It provides a mix of CPD addressing the current issues, spread across ...

websites

Museum of Contemporary Art MCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art is Australia's only museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world. With a continually changing program of ...

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festivals

Sydney Design 2010

  • July 31, 2010 - Aug. 15, 2010
  • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo
  • Sydney Design pass $20

SYDNEY DESIGN 2010 tell us a story Sydney Design 2010 (SD10) will host one if its most dynamic programs in 14 years with a city-wide program of more than 70 events and activities supported by an engaging theme 'tell us ...

blogs

super colossal

An architecture office located in Sydney. http://supercolossal.ch/

international blogs

interactive architecture

Interactive architecture covers emerging architectural and artistic practices where digital technologies & virtual spaces merge with tangible and physical spatial experiences. An active architecture, sensing, observing, feeling, listening, thinking, reacting, ...

international websites

MoMA

MoMA's archiectural collection The world's first curatorial department devoted to architecture and design was established in 1932 at The Museum of Modern Art. From its inception, the collection has been ...

international websites

Victoria & Albert Museum

The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary ...

international websites

Vitra Design Museum

The Vitra Design Museum is internationally active as a cultural institution that has made a major contribution to the research and popular dissemination of design. The Museum presents a broad ...