By Design

Winston Churchill famously said that 'we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us', and the question of how buildings help shape parliamentary business, in particular Australian parliamentary business, will be the subject of a roundtable discussion to be held next Friday at Parliament House, Canberra.

Friday is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of parliamentary operations in the new building, and 9 May was the twentieth anniversary of the official opening. To mark the opening, Dr Clem Macintyre of the University of Adelaide delivered a lecture on parliamentary architecture and political culture and he talks to By Design about his ideas.

Guests

Dr Clem Macintyre
Lecture in Politics, Adelaide University

Further Information

Parliamentary Studies website

Dr Macintyre's paper

Producer

Alan Saunders

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