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.

Our ninetieth year and the history that shaped us

Unbridled ambitions and aspirations • 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

Roundtable: A pulse check during the COVID-19 recession • As the longer-term implications of the pandemic begin to become apparent, Linda Cheng brings together six members of the profession from across the country to find out how they are faring, and what they see as the opportunities for architects and their collaborators in a post-COVID world.

Indigenizing practice: Patronage and peril • In the second of a series of discussions on Indigenizing architectural practice in Australia, Sarah Lynn Rees invited Andrew Broffman to respond to our theme of unbuilt work by exploring projects that are never constructed not because they are speculative or utopian, but because their Indigenous association is met with complex barriers that are often impossible to overcome.

Leverage: Positioning practice and challenging expectations • Continuing our series on the idea of “leverage,” Maryam Gusheh speaks with Jude Barber from Collective Architecture in Glasgow and Kerstin Thompson from Kerstin Thompson Architects in Melbourne about how they activate their professional circumstances, training and knowledge to extend architecture’s reach.

Monash University Chancellery ARM Architecture • With Passivhaus principles driving its rectangular form and digitally designed brise-soleil, the “quiet icon” that is ARM’s Chancellery acts as a portal between Monash University and the community, celebrating the campus’s history while providing a striking contemporary facility.

Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney JPW • Rendered in raw, off-form concrete that will accept the effects of the weather and wear its patina with grace, JPW’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is a composed and monolithic yet welcoming addition to Sydney’s public institutions.

Bridge of Remembrance DCM • On a highly contested site, valued as both a place of memorial and a green space available for the people, DCM has worked with local partners and government to create a symbolic and functional structure that changes with viewpoint, inviting a variety of interpretations.

Cox Architecture • On the site of an old local state school, Cox Architecture has designed Brisbane’s first vertical school, where students are experiencing a different kind of secondary education that makes the most of the urban surroundings, the subtropical climate and the opportunity to engage with the community.

Candalepas Associates • In high-density Surry Hills, The Surry apartment block continues a pattern of renewal in this part of inner Sydney as well as an architectural pattern immediately discernible as Candalepas Associates’ work: rigorous, disciplined design with a surprising touch that lends a welcome sense of joy and artistry.

Imagining new directions through unbuilt architecture

New work for the unbuilt • Guest editor Anthony Burke introduces this dossier on unbuilt work by arguing that, in the contemporary world, the unbuilt dimension of architectural...