Out from under - Exhibition
Out From Under is an exhibition of 16 contemporary Australian Architecture practices curated by Anthony Burke. The show first opened in San Francisco with the intent of showing international audiences that Australian architecture is about more than corrugated iron references and bush mythology. Australian Architecture is being produced and developed principally as an urban practice that is little known or recognized in the international architecture and design scene.
After a successful first show at the American Institute of Architects SF Chapter headquarters, the show has moved on to Seattle and now Hong Kong with the support of the RAIA international committee. Plans are to move the show next to Beijing, Macau and KL in 2008.
Curators Statement
out from under: Australian architecture now
The sixteen practices presented here reflect what might be considered a more relevant view of contemporary architectural practice in Australia than the tropes of bush and beach. Remaining intimately aware of the environment and working with an evolved and constructive sympathy for its potentials, the landscape through which these leading designers position their work is definitively urban and exploratory.
Out from under not only references the geographical journey this exhibition makes from “down under”, but more significantly perhaps signals a release from the grip of that mystic bush ethos that has dominated Australian practice for several generations, recognizing and celebrating the reality of a developed urban consciousness. Moving beyond nostalgia and metaphor, the view these practices take incorporates both spatial and material research through an engaged sense of process and a tradition of high quality building.
Shared by these practices is a commitment to a critical and exploratory edge that is active on the building site and in the design studio. In recent years this commitment has evolved to distinguish a new breed of Australian practice concerned with an ongoing and public design engagement with an experimental mandate. Not attempting to smooth the space between the practices, out from under celebrates the lively conversation amongst the varied processes and scales of each practice that constitute Australian architecture now.
Exhibitors
- DALE JONES-EVANS ARCHITECTURE _ NSW
- MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN _ VIC
- NEESON MURCUTT ARCHITECTS_ NSW
- CHENCHOW LITTLE _ NSW
- SEAN GODSELL ARCHITECTS _ VIC
- JOHN WARDLE ARCHITECTS _ VIC
- KERSTIN THOMPSON ARCHITECTS_ VIC
- CHRIS BOSSE OF PTW ARCHITECTS, SYDNEY_ NSW
- GARY MARINKO ARCHITECTS _ WA
- STAUGHTON ARCHITECTS _ VIC
- M3ARCHITECTURE _ QLD
- OFFSHORESTUDIO _ NSW
- ANDREW BURGES ARCHITECTS _ NSW
- MINIFIE NIXON ARCHITECTS_ VIC
- TONY OWEN NDM _ NSW
- TERROIR _ NSW / TAS
Dates
Out from Under ran from Feb 7 to April 31st 2007, at the San Francisco chapter headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. Since then, the exhibition has shown at the Seattle Headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in December 2007 to January 2008, and recently through the Royal Australian Institute of Architects International Committee in Hong Kong between 17th April to 30th April, 2008. Currently plans are underway to take the exhibition further around Asia to Beijing and Macau later in 2008.
Press
For a review of the San Francisco exhibition in AA by San Francisco local Nicholas DeMonceaux go here.
