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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.