Talking Homes - Karen Burns  

Dr Karen Burns discusses the home, the house, and housing. Touching on TV’s The Block, Ikea, homelessness, and the work of Simon Anderson in Perth, the video of this brief Melbourne Architecture Annual session in 2011 is worth watching. 11 minutes.

Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC  

Premier’s Design Awards – Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre from State of Design on Vimeo.

Premier’s Design Awards
Melbourne Recital Centre and MTC Theatre
Commissioning Organisation: Major Projects Victoria
Designer: ARM

Robin Boyd: Australian Ugliness  

A 2010 panel speaking on Boyd’s book at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre. Karen Burns, Michael Heyward, Gideon Haigh, and Brenda Niall.

Brenda Niall: “Architecture was something the [Boyd] family understood. It was visual.”

Also coinciding with the republication of the book, Peter Conrad’s review in The Monthly.

RMIT University Design Hub Video  

Sean Godsell talking on Chinese TV about, “RMIT’s Design Hub and the innovative ‘second skin’ of 16,000 glass-capped cylinders that will rotate to help heat and cool the building.”

Peter Hyatt  

Photographer, writer and doco maker. Hyatt has even included his 1990s videos about Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Glenn Murcutt on the site.