A bit off-topic from the themes this blog normally deals with, but hey, I’m still an architect, so let’s talk buildings for one time. It’s the end of the year so it’s (clearly I didn’t make it) list-making-time, and because it’s also the end of the first decade of the 21st century we have an [...]

The next day after I did my lecture on expanding architectural practice, new business models and unsolicited architecture there was a panel discussion with various practitioners, which in various ways fit into the ‘expanded’ or ‘unsolicited’ models of architectural practice promoted in this lecture. In this discussion some interesting guide lines or lessons were shared [...]

A brief roundup of ‘extra/ordinary’, the Australian Institute of Architects national conference, Sydney, April 2010 Although delivered simply as an amusing anecdote, when taken out of context, this crude piece of wisdom from the elder statesman Peter Corrigan seemed to capture the essence of ‘extra/ordinary’. This was a conference about engaged practitioners; engaged in the [...]

Albena Yaneva took up Banham’s challenge as formulate 20 years ago in his Black Box essay; to venture into what architects actually ‘do’.