UTS Architecture

Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007.

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10.08.11  Pavlos Philippou – Cultural Building’s Genealogy of Originality: The Individual, the Unique and the Singular.

This lecture will investigate the continuities but also the dynamism and differentiation that architecture brings to the urban field.

24.08.11 Sam Jacoby – Typology Redux

Why does typology still matter today? The concept of type and typology is unavoidable to the discipline of architecture, but latest since the 1980s reduced to easily consumable iconographies.

07.09.11 Ben Hewett – The South Australian Government Architect, the Integrated Design Commission and 5000+

Ben discusses the Integrated Design Commission, a model unique in Australia, and his role as Government Architect and Executive Director leading the Commission.

date tbc  Open Agenda Winners – 2011

Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental architecture. In this lecture, 2011 winners present their entries.

13.10.11 AA Roundtable*

AA Roundtable 06 – It’s A Risk: Strategic Architectural Thinking. Held at 50 Kensington St, Chippendale.

Date tbc Adrian Lahoud – reworked Croatia presentation

10.11.11 The City Debate*

Discussion co-chaired by Tom Barker and Anthony Burke, featuring a panel of speakers including: Spike Boydell, Steve Driscoll, Warren Gardiner, Gerard Reinmuth, John Tsoukas, Lawrence Wallen

09.03.11 Gerard Reinmuth – Practice Transformations

This lecture will provide an overview of Gerard’s work over the past decade at TERROIR and how it will inform his new role at UTS as Professor of Practice, Architecture.

15.03.11 Craig Webb – UTS Faculty of Business & other Projects

Craig Webb, of GEHRY PARTNERS, will present the new developments of the UTS Dr Chau Chak Wing Building and its progression since the release of the design in in late 2010.

23.03.11 Paul Stoller – The Future of Sustainable Design: What’s Next?

Paul Stoller, principal of ATELIER TEN, will reflect on where the industry stands and will discuss emerging trends that will drive the next generation of Green design and development.

06.04.11 Teresa Stoppani – Islands and Paradigms: on unorthodox ways to read the city

Drawing from Teresa’s recent book Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice, this talk argues that the city and its processes are intellectually understood not only by reference to the urban cultural context but also by drawing categories from other disciplines.

11.05.11 Richard Toop – Frozen Music? Music and architecture in (mainly) the 20th century

Many composers have been inspired by architecture in some form, and especially in the 20th century. Sometimes this inspiration has come from actual buildings,  sometimes from architectural theory, but also from visual artworks that proposed ‘impossible’ architectures.

18.05.11 Ezio Blasetti – Non-linear Computational Design Strategies

This body of work is computational craft that creates consistency and precision within formal explorations. There is a conscious redefining of material constrains through pattern and code, which incubates a search for progressive manufacturing methods.

23.05.11 Mark Lee – Generic Specificity

An architecture of approximation provides a methodology which assimilates local typologies, geographies, construction methods, symbols, traditions, and language as means to approximate global form.

07.06.11 Ted Krueger – Anamnesis and Amnesia; first remember and then forget.

In design its not how much you know thats important its how much you’ve unknown. This talk considers how the frameworks that we bring to our design efforts circumscribe what we can accomplish.

15.06.11 Ben Duckworth – Transforming Tate Modern

The Tate Modern project is the extension & expansion of the world’s most visited museum of modern art, Tate Modern. The project aims to add a new piece to the existing that clearly is different, but still connected and integral to the whole. A piece that completes Tate Modern.