di Marco Biraghi – “Se c’è qualcosa che ha la capacità di dimostrare plasticamente l’esito del rapporto dell’Ocse (aka OECD) non è tanto l’erroneità dei dati su cui esso si basa, quanto piuttosto l’abissale distanza che questi rivelano dall’esperienza, dalla realtà. […]”
australia
Despite the eternal criticisms to the organization of Biennale di Venezia and the numerous doubts towards its real utility as an international event in the internet era, the Italian istitution is reveling to still be able to keep its cultural appealing. […] by Silvia Micheli
A critical aspect of the building’s form is its re-creation of domestic style space within public space. In a country such as Australia where domestic architecture is predominant in cultural terms, the “domestication” of public institutions is a way […]
by Antony Moulis
the Gold Coast study case
It could be argued that the mythology of (lone white male) authorship is particularly strong in Australian architecture, where it is amplified – from the outside, at least – by a kind of frontier exoticism, and a ‘regionalist’ fetishisation of site, climate, and place. A key illustration of this is the award of the 2002 Pritzker Prize to Murcutt […]
by Naomi Stead
by John MacArthur and Mathew Aitchinson – This Volume presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902 – 83), one of the most prolific and influential architectural historians of the twentieth century […]