Architecture Australia

Ask architects which Australian magazine they choose to read or to publish their work and the answer is most likely Architecture Australia. If you want to be up to date with the best built works and the issues that matter, then Architecture Australia is for you. Its commissioned contributors are independent, highly respected practitioners, architectural thinkers and design commentators and each article is supported by images from leading architectural photographers. Provocative, informative and engaging – it is the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects.

A final reflection – and a thank you

Celebrating inclusive practice • We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognize their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Architecture Australia

Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice • David Neustein believes that the architectural profession is “perched on a precipice,” out of step with contemporary realities. In Architects After Architecture (edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde and Roberta Marcaccio), he was relieved to find the stories of people who have expanded the definition of a career in architecture, to affirm the profession’s ongoing relevance across many facets of human enterprise and to give hope to anyone feeling constrained by traditional practice.

Indigenizing practice: Documenting Indigenous projects for publication • As built-environment practitioners, we are in a privileged position, with the opportunity to deepen the kind of cultural understanding that strengthens Indigenous engagement. When documenting projects, especially for media publication, it is vital that we articulate the processes, relationships and outcomes in a way that centralizes Indigenous voices and appropriately represents the communities involved. Sarah Lynn Rees and Finn Pedersen provide a practical guide.

Leverage: Diversity as a disruptor in construction • Danna Walker, the founder of UK not-for-profit Built By Us, and Andy Fergus, Melbourne-based urban designer and design advocate, are passionate about increasing diversity in the architecture and construction sector and finding leverage in roles outside of traditional practice. Emma Williamson asked Walker and Fergus about the role that architecture has played in each of their lives and how it can prompt the sector to think in a different way to achieve greater social impact.

Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre Andrew Burges Architects, Grimshaw and TCL • The collaborative design for a public pool and recreation centre in the Green Square precinct of Sydney’s inner-east reflects a harbour-and-headland landscape and thoughtfully caters for the diverse needs of the whole community.

Smart Design Studio • In an inner-city Sydney suburb of urban renewal, Smart Design Studio has made the most of the opportunity to re-imagine its own workspace, experimenting with materials and geometries to create a beautiful place in which to work and live.

Hassell and OMA • Through careful sculpting of new program into an uncoordinated existing context, collaborating architects Hassell and OMA have delivered a civic precinct that is uniquely Western Australian.

Industry Insights • Industry Insights welcomes interactive moveart sculptures® to Australia – inspiring multi-generational connection.

Fender Katsalidis • Standing in dialogue with Fender Katsalidis’s earlier tower, Eureka, a new tall tower attempts to walk the sensitive line between public engagement, community development and private residence.

Marrickville Library BVN • Decades of advocacy, negotiation and design have been required to bring the new Marrickville Library to this site, where an original hospital building has been...