Tim Ross’s “Rosso 88” live show
Comedian and ABC TV presenter Tim Ross is hosting a new live show, Rosso 88: a “hilarious romp” through his favourite moments of recent history, reflecting on Australian culture through late-20th century Australiana and iconography, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Ross will be playing Canberra’s Birch Building at ANU on 2 March; in Adelaide at the Samstag Gallery on 3 May; and in Melbourne’s Crigan House by architect Alan Powell from 27–30 April. More here.
Hugh Buhrich House II in Castlecrag
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John Gollings
Perth Design Week
Perth Design Week is a dedicated public festival celebrating and showcasing good design in Perth. This program of exhibitions, talks and tours will take place over one week across different venues around the city.
See an exhibition by John Gollings, Neil Durbach and Stephen Varady showcasing the Hugh Buhrich House II, prepared in the wake of its 50th anniversary. Or hear from Perth’s award winning architects on the topic of sustainable home design. The Perth Unbuilt exhibition will showcase a selection of unrealised designs created by prominent Perth architecture studios. Perth Design Week runs from 23 March to 30 March. More here.
MTalks Future Homes: Melbourne’s Liveable Apartments.
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Illustration by Board Grove Architects
MTalks: Future Homes – Melbourne’s Liveable Apartments
Presented by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect with Andrew Mackenzie (Uro Publications), this talk examines the Victorian government’s Future Homes initiative for family-friendly homes that enable ageing in place. Th initiative incorporates high-quality, liveable, and sustainable design principles into housing models that will be rolled out through pilot councils across Melbourne. Exemplar designs by four architecture firms – appointed through a competition launched in 2020 – are now released for public consideration and available for public purchase now. On Tuesday 28 March. More here.
WPI Older Women’s Housing Project by Studio Bright.
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Rory Gardiner
No House Style at Melbourne Now
See six houses by Austin Maynard, Baracco and Wright, Clare Cousins Architects, Edition Office, Kennedy Nolan, and Studio Bright exhibited alongisde works by 12 furniture, lighting and object designers. The 2023 edition of the National Gallery of Victoria’s large-scale exhibition also includes works by more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms whose practices shape the state’s cultural landscape in the past decade. Melbourene Now will be exhibited across all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 24 March 2023. More here.
Anthony Burke, professor of architecture at the University of Technology Sydney.
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Vanessa Low
Learning Curve: Encountering art in extraordinary places
Join professor of architecture and Restoration Australia host Anthony Burke for an exploration of the spaces beyond the traditional art gallery in which one can experience art today. From the streets of London to a Second World War bunker and the fields of rural New Zealand, this five-week Learning Curve lecture series will consider the new contexts for art – including reclaimed and found spaces, informal and temporary spaces, and outdoor environments – and the artists who embrace these unusual, and sometimes extreme, sites. Fridays and Saturdays, 24 February to 25 March. More here.
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