resources
Catherine Griffiths
“My work is a mix of visual communication design, self-published artist books, typography in public spaces, architecture and the landscape, and more recently, writing on design.”
DesignByMany
“DesignByMany is a challenge based design technology community. Users post challenges to the community along with their design source files. The community can then post responses with their own source files to solve the challenge. They can also comment on the challenge and interact with other designers throughout the process.”
Building Connections — NSW Architects Registration Board & Object
“Building Connections is a multi layered resource aimed at supporting the teaching of architecture units as part of the Visual Arts Syllabus Stage 6. It is divided into 3 parts – the frames, conceptual framework and practice, and focuses on the architecture of six art galleries and museums. It explores the connections between architecture and other art forms, investigating ideas and themes through images, text, artmaking activities and links to other information. Two of the galleries are examined in more detail through essays and descriptions of practice, demonstrating how architecture can be considered within broader discussions of the Visual Arts.”
TED CITY2
TED is proud to offer ten (10) awards of $10,000, coming out of the $100,000 TED Prize award, for local projects likely to spur the creation of the City 2.0. All applications must be submitted by May 15 to be considered. All shortlisted projects will be contacted for phone or video interviews. The awards may be handed out on a rolling basis, with all 10 awarded by and announced at TEDGlobal (end of June 2012).
Architext Melbourne
The AIA’s Melbourne book shop for architecture.
Kerb 20 due May 4th
SPECULATIVE STORIES: Narratives in Landscape Architecture
GEElab
The GEElab is a creative think & design tank for what is next (in 3-5 yrs) in games & entertainment. We conduct applied, yet critical research at the intersections of game design and game thinking with architecture & urbanism, with mobility, with various media, with entrepreneurship, as well as with novel types of engagement in non-entertainment contexts. The GEElab team explores and evaluates the ways that games and everyday life will mix, and how one could, meaningfully, colonize the other.
Two 3-Year Full-Time PhD Stipends at RMIT GEElab, in Germany
RMIT University’s Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab) is currently offering two 3-year full-time PhD stipends to highly motivated Australians or New Zealanders. The successful applicants will be spending the majority of their stipend at the GEElab Europe in Germany, see the position descriptions below.
HEAT Architecture
Queensland government-funded directory of architects.
Archleaks
A now retired site with anonymous contributions describing working conditions in architectural offices in Europe. To be taken with a dose of salt.
UN Call for proposals
un Magazine volume 6 issue 1 Call for Proposals
Deadline: 5 MARCH 2012
Density Is Home - Housing By A+t Research Group
A+t Research Group (Editors)
A+t (2011), 400 pages, paperback.
Homelessness Research Conference call for papers
Abstract submissions close on Friday 16 December 2011
Canadian Competitions Catalogue
“The Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC) search engine is an initiative of the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle, in order to render public an essential portion of its documentary database.”
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.
The Melbourne Urbanist
Dr Alan Davies: “The Melbourne Urbanist is a site for discussion about key issues in planning and development, particularly in my city, Melbourne, Australia.”
Hastings Civic Square Redevelopment Competition
This is a design competition to put forward how Civic Square can become an arts, culture and heritage hub of the future Hastings city.
The Atlantic Cities
An online offshoot of the The Atlantic magazine, this website groups together articles urban.