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.

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UTS Students at Venice Biennale

Ashley Dennis Thesis Model, Pyrmont Redevelopment, 2007

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.

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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

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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!

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Beijing Biennale 2008

Offshore tower research project

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

Posted at 05/08/08 1:33 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Events, Info, News

First Australian GC User Forum at UTS

Image of GC generated Facade studies by Ravi Kumar of the MDA

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.

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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.

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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!

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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:

  • Matt Chan
  • Scott Morrison
  • David Gravina
  • Marley Dawson
  • Brett Rolfe
  • Nadia Wagner
  • Ed Warburton
  • Jason McDermott
  • + more!

    for more see:

    Pecha-Kucha.org
    Facebook group and event page.

    Word is David Burns of SO-AD presented as well!!

    Posted at 24/05/08 7:45 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Events, Lectures, News

    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

    Posted at 20/05/08 23:16 | no comments | Filed Under: Events, Lectures, News

    About

    Offshorestudio is an architecture and design practice. We believe in research, experimentation and the role of architecture that questions our built environment and imagines something more. We search out and work within the open ended complexity of information and material systems that are not always obvious.

    Established in San Francisco in 2005 Offshorestudio relocated to Sydney in 2007. Our projects include installations at international institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to projects in South Africa, San Francisco and Sydney. We work strategically encompassing scales from micro to urban. We design for an urbanism that is ubiquitous, free of nostalgia.

    Our research involves the hands on use of computational techniques and technologies to further explore the programmatic and formal possibilities of architecture, which we continually test with our students at the University of Technology Sydney and practice in our studio.

    Our clients understand the value of design. We practice architecture in an expanded field. We enjoy what we do.

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