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Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Sydney’s most famous Brutalist building and most high profile affordable housing sits in an area called the Rocks, known as the original settlement of the city. The Sirius Building — source architectureau.com History characterises the Rocks as a struggle between workers and capitalists, the local community of low-income families battling the economic value found in…
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Laugier’s Lack of Data
Students explore various characters who shaped culture through writing in my Introduction to Architectural History course. Apart from the big ticket items such as Vitruvius and Alberti, we begin by reading Marc-Antoine Laugier’s “An Essay on Architecture” (Laugier 1753). Laugier’s essay, written in the age of The Enlightenment, argues for architecture’s origin. Consequently, he links…
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Live Coding Architecture
Apart from architecture, I have other interests in music, coding and visual performance. When I found out they exist under one activity, live coding, I became genuinely intrigued. After different experiments with gibber, tidal cycles, fox dot, sonic pi and orca I realised I should get back to doing architecture, but wondered if architecture could…
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Making in Mixed Reality
Fologram Since Microsoft and Magic Leap announced their respective headset technologies in 2017, there has been a lot of hype surrounding Mixed Reality. The ability to overlay human-readable information over a visible experience of the physical world provides a more versatile connection between the digital and physical than our current screen interfaces. I recently tried…