Canberra House » Events http://www.canberrahouse.com Mid-century modernist architecture Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 9th World Congress on Art Deco http://www.canberrahouse.com/2007/03/30/9th-world-congress-on-art-deco/ http://www.canberrahouse.com/2007/03/30/9th-world-congress-on-art-deco/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:26:45 +0000 martin http://www.canberrahouse.com/2007/03/30/9th-world-congress-on-art-deco/ In April 2007, the Art Deco Society will host the 9th World Congress on Art Deco in Melbourne. The 2007 Congress will be held from Monday 16 April to Friday 20 April, 2007.

A World Congress is held at a nominated city around the world every two years, allowing Art Deco enthusiasts to hear presentations by experts, go on tours of Art Deco highlights around the host city and attend social events.

Details of the Congress can be found at the Art Deco Society website.

A pre-Congress event is being held in Canberra from 12-14 April. Organised by the Twentieth Century Heritage Society of New South Wales, the well-packed three-day program will look at a wide range of Canberra landmark buildings, from East Block (John Smith Murdoch, 1925) and Old Parliament House (John Smith Murdoch, 1927) through to the Academy of Science (Roy Grounds, 1959) and the National Gallery of Australia (Colin Madigan, 1982).

The program will also tour residential areas, passing a number of important modernist houses like the Whitley House in Braddon and the house at 43 Melbourne Avenue, Forrest designed by Malcolm Moir in 1935.

For more details, visit the Twentieth Century Heritage Society of New South Wales website.

]]> http://www.canberrahouse.com/2007/03/30/9th-world-congress-on-art-deco/feed/ 0 The Fifth Canberra Weekend of Ideas http://www.canberrahouse.com/2006/03/09/the-fifth-canberra-weekend-of-ideas/ http://www.canberrahouse.com/2006/03/09/the-fifth-canberra-weekend-of-ideas/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:00:00 +0000 martin http://www.canberrahouse.com/WP/?p=7 Taking the theme ‘Shelter, house and home’ the Fifth Canberra Weekend of Ideas is a three day festival of talks, fine food and drink in the gardens of Manning Clark House at 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest on 10, 11 and 12 March 2006. Speakers’ sessions take place under a large open marquee. Food, drinks and books will be for sale from stalls around the garden. Speakers include architects Romaldo Giurgola, Sean Godsell and Peter Freeman.

]]> http://www.canberrahouse.com/2006/03/09/the-fifth-canberra-weekend-of-ideas/feed/ 0 Max Dupain: Lost Locations http://www.canberrahouse.com/2005/11/26/max-dupain-lost-locations/ http://www.canberrahouse.com/2005/11/26/max-dupain-lost-locations/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:00:00 +0000 martin http://www.canberrahouse.com/WP/?p=9 Max Dupain donated many of his architectural photographs, taken from the 1950s through to the 1980s, to the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Most were identified but a number of images were not fully documented.

During August 2004 thirty of the Dupain photographs were exhibited at the RAIA in Potts Point, along with copies of over 400 other Dupain images where the location was unknown. A lot of these images were of Sydney School architecture and project homes and interiors, including Pettit & Sevitt houses. The RAIA asked the public to help identify what they are.

A number of these Dupain images are now online at the RAIA website. Sydney School architecture, project homes, Pettit & Sevitt interiors: it’s a great collection of images. Some of the locations are still lost. If you recognise them, send the RAIA an email.

Visit the Max Dupain: Lost Locations exhibition online.

]]> http://www.canberrahouse.com/2005/11/26/max-dupain-lost-locations/feed/ 0 The Landscape Artistry of Marion Mahony Griffin http://www.canberrahouse.com/2005/09/11/the-landscape-artistry-of-marion-mahony-griffin/ http://www.canberrahouse.com/2005/09/11/the-landscape-artistry-of-marion-mahony-griffin/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:00:00 +0000 martin http://www.canberrahouse.com/WP/?p=19 The Canberra Chapter of the Walter Burley Griffin Society will host a lecture about Marion Mahony Griffin’s landscape art and architecture at the Shine Dome on Tuesday 25 October, 6pm. ‘The Silence of Mountains and the Music of the Sea’ will be presented by Christopher Vernon, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia.

Shortly after Marion Mahony wed Walter Burley Griffin, her world turned ‘upside down’, as she put it, when the couple left Chicago for Australia in 1914. Here, Marion and Walter’s encounters with the native landscape and its flora were a startling, revelatory experience. It emboldened them to advance their horticultural studies and led Marion to invent (around 1917) a highly-personal genre of botanical illustration that she titled ‘Forest Portraits’.

Marion’s Australian landscape artistry, however, was not confined to two dimensions. Further inspired, she then began to practice landscape architecture. In his illustrated lecture, Christopher Vernon will survey the results of this Australian efflorescence of Marion’s landscape arts, both graphic and landscape. The presentation will include numerous here-to-fore unpublished images.

Christopher Vernon’s lecture is derived from his chapter in the catalogue accompanying the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art’s (USA) new exhibition Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing The Form of Nature. Opening in Chicago this September, this exhibition is the first to focus exclusively upon Marion Mahony Griffin. It is anticipated that Vernon’s lecture will also serve as the Australian launch of the catalogue, with copies available for purchase on the night.

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