Past Programs
Visual Art - 2008
Aussie Beach Shack inspires New York
22/10/2008
Australian architect Jeremy Edmiston lives in New York, and has for nearly two decades. With US architect Douglas Gaultier he created the BURST House, which is on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This house was chosen from over 400 world-wide to be one of five houses at the show Home Delivery: Fabricating The Modern Dwelling, curated by Barry Bergdoll, curator of architecture at MOMA.
The orginal BURST house was built for its client, an Anglican minister and his family, in North Haven on the mid-north coast of NSW, near Port Macquarie. In 2006 it won the NSW Wilkinson Prize for Residential Architecture.
Le Corbusier
23/08/2008
Le Corbusier Le Grand is a book so heavy that it's like a concrete block. But perhaps that was the idea, because it's about one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century, who really did use concrete in new and creative ways.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was not only the creator of some of the most impressive buildings of the last century, he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force today, and his elegant manner, typified by his iconic round, black eyeglasses, is still the signature look for architects around the world.
This morning, we talk to one of the book's authors, Jean Louis Cohen, who divides his time between Paris and New York, where he's Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Skin Deep: Facades
19/07/2008
In the architecture business a new specialisation has emerged - one that just deals with facades. Making a significant mark worldwide in this area is Front Inc, based in New York. Since Front began in 2002 the firm has worked with all the world's pre-eminent architects - Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Tadao Ando. In the design world they are the façade consultant of choice. They have worked with OMA (Rem Koolhaas's firm) on the CCTV building, opening soon in Beijing.
Trends and Products: Design Island:Tasmania
03/05/2008
Design Island gets under way in Tasmania this week—the annual design festival that features some pretty important discussion about design in Australia. Guests this year include Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, senior curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. Currently he is preparing retrospectives on Rudolf Steiner and Humberto & Fernando Campana. Mathias Schwartz-Clauss is a consultant to the summer academy of Boisbuchet in France, writes for various design journals and lectures internationally.
Trends: Movie Posters
26/04/2008
Today, movie poster aren't quite as important as they once were as a marketing tool for flim distributors. Nevertheless, the way a poster is designed still has a lot power to influence our choice at the cinema.
The Sydney writer and critic Christine Cremen, takes a look at a few posters currently on display in your local multiplex for 'Sweeney Todd', 'The Eye' and 'The Other Boleyn Girl'
New meets old: reinvention at University of Sydney
29/03/2008
John Wardle is a Melbourne-based architect with a national and international list of projects under his belt. He is well known in Victoria for his commitment to domestic architecture, but increasingly he is finding himself designing large commercial and public projects.
In Sydney he is about to embark on the new Westfield Centerpoint Tower retail renovation in the CBD, but he is currently in the final months of completing the new extensive USyd Central for the University of Sydney, which will be the heartbeat for the university's retail outlets and the student union activities. It also includes the new Scitech Library and bridge over City Road, linking the old university Wilkinson buildings with Wardle's new centre. And all this coinciding with a Thames and Hudson publication of all of John Wardle Architects' buildings.
Who is Hedi Slimane? What's he got to do with me?
15/03/2008
Hedi Slimane worked for Dior and changed the shape of men's suits -- and fashion. Blame skinny jeans on him. David Meagher has interviewed some of the world's top designers as a way of understanding what makes fashion tick. Many of these designers are the reason some of the top fashion companies make as much money as many of the world's top resource companies. In other words fashion is a very serious business.
Urban art in Newcastle
09/02/2008
Back to the City is a series of temporary urban art interventions taking place in Newcastle during February 2008 and it has the city talking.
Sixteen collaborative teams of artists, architects and landscape architects will produce a series of site-specific installations in the city centre. The aim of the project is to investigate contemporary and relevant crossovers between the disciplines, as well as testing and experimenting with new forms of collaboration, bringing into focus the revitalisation process of Newcastle's city centre.
