Event and Ticketing Details
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Tuesday 23 March
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Across March we’ll be Reading the City; shining a light on the many ways we understand and talk about Melbourne itself. From the city as an abstract concept to the physical landscape in all its permutations, we’ll be hearing from visual artists and architects, policy makers and designers, novelists and historians. The City of Literature becomes the focus, and you’ll never read it the same way again.
Bricks and Mortar
Imaginative cities be damned – what about the skyline?
It can’t be true that Melbourne has no landmarks but what are they? Top architectural thinkers Justine Clark, Peter Corrigan and Geoffrey London present their favourite – and least favourite – Melbourne buildings.
Chaired by Stuart Harrison.
Featuring
Justine Clark
Justine Clark has been editor of Architecture Australia, the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, since 2003 and has been involved with the magazine since 2000.
In 2009 she received the National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media.
Experienced as an architectural researcher, writer and historian, she has designed and curated a number of architectural exhibitions.
She has taught architectural design, history and theory in New Zealand and Australia and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at a range of Australian universities.
In 2000 she co-authored, with Dr Paul Walker, * Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern *and she has presented and published a range of scholarly papers.
Geoffrey London
Geoffrey London is the Victorian Government Architect and Professor of Architecture at The University of Western Australia
For nearly five years he was the inaugural Government Architect in Western Australia and has been the Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne.
He is a past Dean and Head of School at UWA, a past President of the Western Australian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, and a Life Fellow of the Institute.
He has acted as a consultant on numerous architectural and urban design projects and has served on and acted as chair of many architectural design award and competition juries.
Peter Corrigan
Peter Corrigan is the winner of the 2003 Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal and in 2008 received a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to architecture as an academic, educator and practitioner and to the arts, particularly through theatre production design.
He has been Guest Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the University of Turin in Italy and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Boston, as well as Professor of Architecture at RMIT since 1992.
He is a Director of the architectural practice Edmond and Corrigan, which has won 35 Australian Institute of Architects state and national architecture awards.
Corrigan has also designed sets and costumes for numerous productions of ballet, drama and opera throughout Australia.
He designed the Grand Macabre for Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper House Berlin in 2005.
Stuart Harrison
Stuart Harrison is a practicing architect, lecturer, broadcaster and architectural advocate.
He founded and co-hosts The Architects on Melbourne radio RRR, the weekly radio programme dedicated to the promotion of architecture in the community.
Harrison formed Harrison and White (HAW ) with Marcus White in 2005. The work of HAW has received awards and been exhibited at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and in Australia in 2009 at the State of Design Festival as part of the Advertisements for Architecture exhibition.
HAW is one of several firms been exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
Harrison is also a lecturer at RMIT University, teaching in architectural design, technology, history and communications.
His projects have been featured in local and national media.
He studied at both UWA and RMIT, and won student graduate prizes at both.