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ItemThe Last Laugh and Its Afterlife: Emerging Narratives in 1970s Melbourne Architecture(Routledge, 2021-01-01)A meeting of architects in Melbourne at a popular comedy venue in 1978, ended in disarray. It should be no surprise, after all John Pinder’s Collingwood venue, which opened in 1976, was called, “The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and Zoo.” There were fisticuffs, yelling, hoodlum activity, violence, and a huge amount of drunkenness. The meeting was to establish an alternative to the conservative RAIA from outside the organisation rather than within. But mayhem developed, probably in part due to there being no set agenda, and the event came to be inscribed in the mythologies of Melbourne architecture and culture as yet another failed uprising by a troublesome underbelly. Using material gained from public and private archives, as well as interviews, this paper traces the trajectories of this event. This event is important in Australian architecture as Melbourne architects processed the ideals of the Whitlam project (1972–75). Moreover, the meeting at the Last Laugh signifies the emergence in architectural discourse of a larrikinism, as Australian architects embraced post-modernism seeking to counter a patrician and cringe-worthy recent history.
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ItemDay in The Age: A Critical Observation of Architecture(Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2021-07-01)Architect Norman Day has been integral to shaping Melbourne’s built work since the early 1970s through built work, exhibitions, writing, and teaching. The representation of architecture through the written word of Norman Day revisits the role of the ‘Architectural Critic' through a contemporary lens to assess the implication it made on the Australian built environment. Having worked in Robin Boyd's office, Day was also the architectural commentator for The Age—Melbourne’s daily newspaper—from 1976-2011, where he contributed over 500 articles. During this time, he was Australia’s pre-eminent architectural critic also working with ABCTV and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was awarded the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media in 2004. This research was conducted as archival work of the written word in a variety of publications, mainly newspaper but also in books and magazine articles. The analysis of these articles results in a grouped based content analysis referencing projects, themes, and chronology. Days main projects during this time are positioned alongside his public criticism. Several interviews were also undertaken with Norman Day. Not dissimilar to Robin Boyd, it will be argued that Day’s architectural journalism as simultaneously making the activity of the architect accessible to the public, while communicating to architects globally the philosophies and methodologies at that moment in time. However, Day’s critiques, mode of criticisms and engagement with media were quite different from Boyd's.
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ItemArchitectural Research as an Autopoietic System: Shifting the Focus from Actors and Identities to Systems(ARCOM, 2020-09-07)This research describes and examines how an association of small Australian architects undertook a self-initiated research project. This project involved a collaboration between the association, represented through its governing board and a university researcher. The group of architects developed a project that asked if architect-designed house renovations improved capital gains in an inner-city property market. This research question was the result of concerned within the group of how its members could better communicate to their potential client base. Hence, the group sought quantitative research that would act to shape public narratives about the value of architects. Notably, the study was funded through an innovative crowdfunding arrangement. Consequently, the research process itself became more interesting in its own right and reflecting on it indicates how the architect's approach and think about research methodologies and methods. A limited literature review of prevailing design as research and professional identity research is presented. Employing an ethnographic method, the way the community of architects formulated, developed, implemented and analysed the research project is described. By employing an Autopoietic framework, the architectural association can be described as a self-organising system shaped by design thinking. Architects need to abandon the idea that research is akin to design thinking and understands that research is not necessarily a creative design pilgrimage in search of idealised solutions.
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ItemDO SMALL PRACTICE ARCHITECT DESIGNED RENOVATIONS IMPROVE CAPITAL GAINS IN THE MELBOURNE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MARKET?(ArchiTeam Co-operative Ltd, 2020)Architects have often relied on qualitative measures to argue the social value of the services that they offer communities. However, architects have struggled to articulate the quantitative and economic value that their services provide to individuals and communities. The research asked, what is the value of an architect-designed house renovation in property markets? The aim was to examine the financial impact of small practice architects. Despite a wide literature search, we found no peer-reviewed previous research that links the work of architects with projects and residential property markets. Given this research context and the seemingly problematic nature of directly comparing individual property assets, it was decided that a comparative “pooled” approach be adopted. Dat was gathered form a survey of architects and a national property database. It was found that when adjusted for time, the per annum average change in architects Pool 1 is 1.2% greater than non-architects Pool 2. Therefore, choosing an architect translates into a significant premium in growth in Capital Value relative to other asset classes.
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ItemPerformance of Public Private Partnerships and Traditional Procurement in Australia(Allen Consulting Group, 2007)
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ItemPerceptions of architectural design and project risk: understanding the architects' role in a PPP project(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008)
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ItemComparative performance of PPPs and traditional procurement in Australia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010)