The exhibition Modern Times, currently at the Powerhouse Museum, reveals how modernism transformed life in Australia across five decades from 1917 to 1967. Given that a major outlet for modernism has been the built environment, there exists an opportunity to extend the reach of this exhibition out of the museum and into Australian cities. A [...]
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More Articles from Archive ~ August, 2008
A new house profile—17 Meredith Circuit, Kambah
Canberra houses, Laurie Virr, Organic architecture ~ 26. Aug, 2008
I’ve developed a new profile for the house designed (and substantially built) by architect Laurie Virr at 17 Meredith Circuit, Kambah. The house is an energy efficient, complex geometric design from the mid 1970s and an outstanding example of the late twentieth century organic style of architecture.
While the house has been published in the United [...]
UC Student Residences among latest additions to ACT Heritage Register
Brutalist, Heritage, John Andrews ~ 02. Aug, 2008
More recent activity at the ACT Heritage Unit, as several places have been provisionally registered under the Heritage Act 2004. Among buildings included in the latest batch are works by Frederick Romberg, Enrico Taglietti, Ken Woolley and John Andrews.
The latest provisional registrations are for:
Ken Woolley’s Woden Library and Phillip Health Centre (1977)
Frederick Romberg’s Lutheran Church [...]
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