Reading on Vocation with Ramona Koval: Architects

Being a reader isn’t about sitting in an ivory tower, turning your back on the world. The relationship between life and the page is more fluid. We’re shaped by what we read; at home, in our world views and in our careers.

In this monthly series The Wheeler Centre and Radio National’s The Book Show aim to uncover those links between work and words. Presented and chaired by acclaimed broadcaster Ramona Koval, the discussions will feature high-profile professionals – doctors and physicists, musicians and comedians – talking about the books that have been important to them and have influenced their profession.

Presenters

Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval has made long interviews with significant writers her signature. She is familiar to ABC Radio audiences through her long and varied career on air.

Peter Davidson

Peter Davidson is a director at LAB Architecture Studio which designed Melbourne’s Federation Square.

Melanie Dodd

Melanie Dodd is Associate Professor and Program Director in Architecture at RMIT University

Peter Slifirski

Peter Slifirski is a director at Architectus Melbourne. His significant projects include Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne and he won a 2009 National Architecture Award for the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy.