AA Prize for Unbuilt Work (2011)
“And finally, in the current trend of architectural practice, rather than negating reality as paper architecture has often…
Housing Tactics | Diego Ramirez-Lovering | Thursday 8 March 2012
Housing Tactics Diego Ramirez-Lovering Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of Department, Department of Architecture. Monash University Thursday 8 March 7.00pm…
Manfredo Tafuri, “Architecture and Utopia” (1976)
“First among the intellectual illusions to be done away with is that which, by means of the image…
Max-Neef, “Human Scale Development” (1991)
“Every discipline, in becoming increasingly reductionist and technocratic, has given way to a process of dehumanization. To humanize…
Dalai Lama, “Beyond Religion” (2011)
“Of course, all the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can…
Words@building50 will be back in March 2012
thomas kilpper learning from the maghreb. museo marino marini florence. 2011 The Words@building50 team would like to thank…
Laverton Community Centre and Neighbourhood House – one year on
A year after the project was completed at the Laverton Community Centre and Neighbourhood House we visited the…
Michael Benedikt, “The Ghost of Gresham: Economics, Architecture and the Progressive Loss of Designed Value” (2007)
“To revive architecture’s value, we, as architects, need to identify publicly and quite specifically which irreducible human needs…
Resilience in Infrastructure & Urban Form | Thurs. 10 Nov. 7pm | by Che Biggs
Thursday 10 November7.00pm Building 50 Orr Street Carlton Che’s talk will focus on system design principles for transformation…
Landscape Food Paradigm | Thursday 13 October 2011 at 7pm | Public talk by Michael Howard
Words@Bldg50 October Edition: Landscape food paradigms, with Michael Howard Much of the current conversation around new food paradigms…
