Public Lectures at UTS
Anthony has been invited to give two public lectures at UTS this semester.
The first is on the 11th September as part of the School of Architecture lecture series, Anthony will be discussing his research on Intelligent design systems with a lecture titled, “Critical Systems”. The lecture starts at 7pm and is in the Architecture Building room 322. Go here for more details.
The second lecture is part of the UTS speaks public lecture series, where Anthony along with colleagues Bert Bongers from the Interactivation lab and Kees Dorst of Design will give a public talk on the Future of participatory design. The UTS speaks lecture series is “an annual free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.”The lecture is on the 23rd of September, go to http://www.uts.edu.au/new/speaks/ for more details.
UTS Students at Venice Biennale
Pyrmont redevelopment, Thesis model, Ashley Dennis, 2007
We saw this recently and thought it was worth supporting our students who’s models have made it to the Venice Biennale. See this article post from InDesignLive.com .
We have also seen a think Brick e-movie going around at the moment that features our humble model, as well as friend and colleague David Burns contribution from SO-AD. See http://www.australbrick.com.au/abundantaustralia/ and see if you can stomach the 2min 34sec intro before you get to the models. We’ll post some of our model images soon.
OCEAN Research Network in AR
This edition of AR features an article on the OCEAN Research Network’s Sydney node including Dr Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud of Asabiyah and Anthony Burke of Offshore. Text by John de Manincor pages 48-50, and images by our own Ben Hewett. The photo is featured is thankfully at an appropriately small scale and not reproduced here for obvious reasons.
There is a good selection of points of view on the current academy/practice debates “rampaging” through the
National Conference Review
The July / August edition of Architecture Australia includes a review of the National Conference by Ben. To quote, “Those most able to meet the ambition of the conference dealt with complex scenarios and scales. Significantly, research was an integral factor in the work of speakers who came closest to that of a critical vision.” (p43)
Richard Francis Jones, deservedly received all round prasie for setting a very ambitious topic at a scale Australian architecture generally refuses to deal with. This leaves us looking forward to Terroirs curation next year!
Beijing Biennale 2008
Offshore has been invited to exhibit at the 2008 Beijing Architetcure Biennale. The Biennale this year is curated by Neil Leach and titled “(Im)material Processes: New Digtital Techniques for Architecture”. Neil Leach intends “to offer a showcase of some of the most progressive emerging architects in the world, focusing on the
First Australian GC User Forum at UTS
On Friday June 13, UTS hosted what we think is the first GC user forum in the southern hemisphere. Ben Doherty from RMIT was instrumental in getting together a crew including professionals, (BVN, ARUP, Woods Bagot) Academics and students from UTS, RMIT, QUT and UNSW. It was a great day with lots of interesting work of all levels shown, and some great discussion. Check the posts at MDA-Docs for more. The first image above is by Ravi Kumar from the MDA showing facade studies for tall buildings generated using GC. The second is from Ben Coorey from the MDA showing structural fibre studies using GC.
Critical Vision 2008 review in AR
The Vector Guerrillas contribution to the Critical Visions debate was well received in a recent review of the exhibition in AR. Perfect children of Corb and Lebbeus Woods to paraphrase a section… I’ll include a scan of the review here soon.
Whitehouse Institute of Design Lecture
27.05.08 > Anthony presents a lecture to Interior Architecture at the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Sydney. Thanks Adele!
Pecha Kucha Volume 10
Ben and Anthony presented as part of Pecha Kucha Volume 10
on June 5th 2008, at the Commercial Travellers Association
MLC Centre, Martin Place
Featuring:
+ more!
for more see:
Pecha-Kucha.org
Facebook group and event page.
Word is David Burns of SO-AD presented as well!!
Public Lecture at UTS
22nd May as part of the UTS public lecture series, Joanne Jakovich and Anthony Burke presented “States of convergence” along with Marcus Foth a senior researcher at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, and Eric Paulos of the Intel Urban Atmospheres research group. Eric and Marcus were in town as part of the Pervasive 2008 Conference happening in Sydney and presented the results of their workshop, as well