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8.03.13 Andrew Benjamin – Positioning the Metropolis: Towards a Philosophy of the City

The city is named continually within the history of philosophy. As a name the city brings a sense of place into consideration. Here ‘place’ is not an arbitrary predicate. Indeed, place pertains precisely because of what might be described as the placedness of human being. Hence the being of being human should be understood in terms of an already present condition of being-in-place

13.03.13 Ashley Hall – Translocated making

Translocated making explores how designers and makers can collaborate in experimental projects to liberate differences from diverse geographies using digital and analogue methods. Against a case study background of collaborative craft and design enterprise project across Africa and Asia along with Industrial design projects in Italy, Ashley will describe an emerging understanding of the trans-location of making in advanced design practice.

15.03.13 Craig Allchin – From Metropolis To Megacity  – Sydney at 10 Million

Sydney will have a population of around 7 million by 2050 and 10 million by 2100 if current growth rates continue. But the politics of today make it almost impossible to imagine a scenario where that magnitude of growth could occur in a sustainable and appropriate way, when politicians and designers face a  block-by-block, site-by-site battle to limit change and ‘save’ our suburbs.

20.03.13 Peter Childs – Creativity Engine

Creativity can be defined as the ability to imagine or invent something new of value. In the engineering domain, in common with many workplace and community experiences, creativity is both sought after and resisted. In essence creativity represents a significant risk and yet in the fast moving business climate ‘no creativity’ is even riskier.

22.03.13 Andrew Benjamin – Politics, Governance and Law. How the City became the Metropolis

3.04.13 Peter Macapia: The Unique Phenomena of Distance:  Practicing the Informal in the City of Spectacle

I borrowed this concept from Walter Benjamin who used the term to describe the problem of critical reflection in the contemporary city.  You could say that this theme inspired a series of investigations and projects that are informal practices of space, which I will present for this lecture in the form of videos, installations, and architectural projects.

3.05.13 Andrew Benjamin – The Bilbao Effect

3.05.13 Michael Holt and Marissa Looby

10.05.13 Andrew Benjamin – Burying the Dead. Commemoration and the secrets of the cities survival

17.05.13 Dale Jones-Evans

24.05.13 David Holm and Philip Graus – Sydney – Bigger and Better, not Bigger and Bigger

There needs to be a fundamental shift in thinking about Sydney as it approaches a population of 7 million around 2051. In ‘Sydney Since the Twenties’, in 1978, Peter Spearitt observed that, “we seem to get more excited about expanding rather than improving”. Increasingly Global Cities are competing to attract the best and brightest. How will Sydney compete on this stage? How will we attract Sydneysiders INTO the city rather than the EDGE of it?

31.05.13 Lecture tbc

8.08.12 Gerard Reinmuth and Anthony Burke – the plasticity of practice

Creative Directors of the Australian exhibit at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale, Anthony Burke and Gerard Reinmuth will discuss the opening essay of the exhibition catalogue Formations: the plasticity of practice.

10.09.12 Andrew Benjamin – Architectural Projections

Andrew Benjamin’s essays in Architectural Projections have a specific remit: their concern is the history and theory of architecture. Featuring a panel discussion with Charles Rice and Tarsha Finney.

31.10.12 Stuart Harrison – Media, Research, Building

Stuart Harrison, co-host and founder of The Architects radio show in Melbourne, has recently returned from Venice after the radio show was exhibited as part of the Australian Pavilion show, Formations – New Practices in Australian Architecture. His work is a parallel series of media and architectural projects, which overlap and feed each other.

10.10.12 Philippe Block – Novel Masonry Shells – Learning from the Gothic Master Builders

Philippe Block is Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland with research interests in the fields of novel form-finding methods, masonry construction and sustainable building technology.

17.10.12 Nicholas De Monchaux – Local Code / Real Estates

Local Code uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system.

14.03.12 Francois Roche – Ecosophical Apparatuses and Schizoid Machines

Machines are always pretending to do more than they were programmed to do. It’s their nature. The blur between what they are supposed to do, as perfect alienated and domesticated creatures, and the anthropomorphic psychology we intentionally project on to them, creates a spectrum of potentiality, both interpretative and productive.

21.03.12 Steve Badanes – Architect as Artisan and World Citizen

The lecture will highlight stories and images from 40 years of design/build — with the nomadic Jersey Devil group, and in collaboration with students in in underserved communities around the world.

24.04.12 Philip Beesley – Responsive Architectural Systems

Philip Beesley will present new work from his Hylozoic Series. What are the implications of a responsive architecture that might begin to ‘know’ and ‘care’ about us, that might start, in very primitive ways, to be alive?

18.05.12 Jonathan Solomon – Aformal Architecture

Aformal Architecture explicates a spatial logic for the city of Hong Kong through architectural products that can be explained neither by mainstream understandings of formal or informal processes, and explores the consequences for public space in a dense city.

30.05.12 John Choi – Reframing Architecture

The practice of Choi Ropiha Fighera has evolved through series of design competitions. A significant part of their approach has been to ‘re-frame’ projects to look beyond any given site and brief to bring broader design opportunities and aspirations to its projects.

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.

13.10.11 AA Roundtable*

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

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

11.09.11 Adrian Lahoud – As yet Untitled

The political theorist Carl Schmitt suggests that we have two ways of dealing with conflict: war and institutions. Adrian Lahoud’s lecture will propose an idea of architecture and architectural education as political practice.

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.