Brilliance
University of Canberra
16 Dec 2011 - 28 Jan 2012
Highlighting the innovation from the Faculty of Arts and Design in 2011. Works from Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Media Arts and Digital Design.
Media Partner Architecture Media
2011 National Architecture Awards
09 Nov 2011 - 10 Dec 2011
A public exhibition of Australia’s 2011 award-winning architecture - designed by the nation’s top architects and photographed by our most talented architectural photographers.
Media Partner Architecture Media
Opening sponsor Liquor Legends, Urban Cellars, Curtin, Canberra
Furniture sponsor INO, Braddon, Canberra
Freeform thinking
Sculptural works by Sante Monachesi (1910-1991)
22 Sep 2011 - 03 Nov 2011
The Perspex and foam works by Monachesi originally curated by Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli and Marina Gargiulo at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, will be shown for the first time in Australia at the Gallery of Australian Design in conjunction with the Italian Embassy, Canberra.
Monachesi worked as both painter and sculptor and was ahead of his time when it came to working with industrial materials in the 1950’s and 60’s. These extraordinary sculptural forms embody lightness, rigidity, absorption and reflection while hinting at Monachesi’s non conformist attitude to making art. A must see exhibition for 2011.
Media Partner Architecture Media
Opening Sponsor Urban Cellars, Curtin, Canberra
Urban Au
STREET/ART/ARCHITECTURE
04 Aug 2011 - 03 Sep 2011
Urban AU_Sreet/Art/Architecture Urban AU. Street/Art/Architecture is a process-based project, workshop and exhibition, highlighting the vivid scene of street art activities, modern planning and contemporary architecture and the links between the different disciplines. Artists participating in the project include: ZAP, JUMBO, Tanja Milbourne and Russell Isaac-Cole. Curators: Dr Claudia Perren and Miriam Mlecek
Australian Chair Survey
16 Jun 2011 - 23 Jul 2011
A national survey of contemporary chair design curated by Melbourne based curator Ramona Barry.
Designing a chair can feel like reinventing the wheel. An object so weighted down by it’s own iconography poses perhaps the greatest design challenge for a furniture designer. Is it possible to create a new classic? Can a chair be particularly Australian? What does that mean anyway?
Ramona Barry Monument Magazine Issue 96
featuring Darcy Clarke, Michael Conole, Simon Alexander Cook, Tait Design, Ross Didier, Jon Goulder, Chris Hardy, Andrew Thorton Hick, Nicola Macklin, Laura McCusker, Rock Martin, Paul Morris, Meagan Oglesby, Justin Vecchio, Christina Waterson, Charles Wilson and Simon Zablotsky.
revival
revived dormant urban landscapes in Queensland
05 May 2011 - 04 Jun 2011
Curated by Gamble McKinnon Green, Revival is a collection of landscape architectural projects that reinterpret architectural and social history while creating connected, lively and diverse urban spaces. By reviving landscapes, rich urban environments are created that are reflective of the past and responsive to the challenges of contemporary Queensland urban life.
Revival showcases 9 projects from six Queensland design practices, Aecom, Brisbane City Council , Cardino SPLAT, Gamble McKinnon Green , RPS and the Place Design Group. One true to life scale image is presented for each project, showcasing photography and design to encapsulate a sense of place.
Major Sponsor Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
media partner Landscape Architecture Australia
Robert Foster
Strange Planet
23 Mar 2011 - 26 Apr 2011
A collection of lighting works by Robert Foster capturing his fascination with how light is emitted through form and material. Foster explores the boundaries between lighting installations and sculpture while finding new ways to engage and challenge himself and the audience.
These elegant and unexpected forms appear as macro zoomorphic shapes akin to creatures jettisoned from some Strange Planet.
Alexander Lotersztain
Ten Years - a design journey
23 Mar 2011 - 26 Apr 2011
Lotersztain works across Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Industrial Design. He has produced numerous ranges for manufacturers and continues to invent with material, process and industry. This exhibition will focus on one offs and limited edition pieces.
Squint/ Opera
10 Feb 2011 - 10 Mar 2011
Squint/Opera is a unique film and media production studio operating within the film industry and architectural practice.
The studio unites the efforts of directors, animators, architects, designers, visual effects artists, writers and music composers, resulting in a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to making short films about the built environment, installations, computer generated visualisations and other creative and broadcast content.
Redefining traditions of visual communication, the company's work encompasses initial creative concepts, through production to presentation, combining humour and narration with imaginative design, innovative visual effects and illustrative techniques.
Event Sponsor James Boag and Lion Nathan
Abandoned Cubby Huts
Daniel Armstrong
10 Feb 2011 - 10 Mar 2011
Over a ten year period Daniel Armstrong has been documenting a series of abandoned cubby huts which are located in a wild Poplar forest in central Victoria.
The cubby hut is a powerful symbolic and archetypal structure, a place of imagination, dreams, refuge and adventure. The cubby is ephemeral and with the passage of time passes from childhood explorations of the world and into the dreams and memories of adulthood.
These cubby huts are primarily built from and located in the landscape and are intrinsically linked to this context: they are landscape as architecture and architecture as landscape and in their construction articulate a connection between the imagination and landscape and in decay they return to the earth and the psyche.
In building these structures children are engaging with the phenomenon of materials and form and solving design problems while intuitively learning about the properties and limitations of the material at hand as well as transforming space into place.
Armstrong has used a plastic toy camera to make these images. The toy camera presents a primitive image with soft focus; distortion and image fall off (darkening at the edges). These qualities evoke the feelings and sense of memory and imagination that is located within these primitive and ephemeral structures.
Event Sponsor James Boag and Lion Nathan
cream
Outstanding Design Graduates 2010 University of Canberra
03 Dec 2010 - 29 Jan 2011
CREAM brings together the outstanding design graduates from the diverse range of design disciplines including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Interior Design.
The work highlights the range of complex design briefs provided by the talented staff in the Faculty of Arts and Design and the inventive, creative responses of the graduating students.
As a springboard to professional Careers, CREAM brings to the public the future today and indicates the excellent reputation that the University of Canberra has for design.
Exhibition Coordinator: Geoff Hinchcliffe
Concept Designer: Erin Collett
2010 National Architecture Awards
29 Oct 2010 - 26 Nov 2010
A public exhibition of Australia’s latest award-winning architecture - designed by the nation’s top architects and photographed by our most talented architectural photographers .
The ‘2010 National Architecture Awards Exhibition’ features the 33 projects announced as winners of this year’s Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards. The winners were announced at a special ceremony last night at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. To coincide, full-colour glossy images of all projects will be on public display at the Gallery of Australian Design on the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin from today.
Winning projects by leading architects including Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Donovan Hill, WOHA, Durbach Block Architects, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, Wood/Marsh, Kerry Hill Architects, and HASSELL are featured in the exhibition. Leading photographers featured include John Gollings, Brett Boardman, Anthony Browell, Jon Linkins, Earl Carter, Ray Joyce, Peter Bennetts, and Diana Snape.
Visitors can view the home described by this year’s awards jury as ‘impossible to leave’ and crowned ‘best residential’ project in Australia, or the award-winning house working as both home and art museum. The great depth and breadth of public architecture projects with exemplary ‘community spirit’ and beauty will also be a highlight.
The diverse range of international projects receiving awards this year will also feature. Visitors can admire the innovation and creativity of this year’s Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture - the Met apartment building in central Bangkok, or delight at the sublime serenity of the Wall House on the Japanese coast, or the Alila Villas on the northern Indonesian coast.
Two German Architectures
1949-1989
01 Oct 2010 - 23 Oct 2010
Two German Architectures is a survey exhibition on the architectural achievements of East and West Germany prior to reunification in 1989. Presented at the Gallery of Australian Design by the Goethe-Institut Australia.
The exhibition approaches its subject with more questions than answers while tracing the diverging and converging aspects of the two apparently separate architectural discourses. The cultural, political and economic contexts of the built works are examined in light of different consenting authorities and architectural history.
Two German Architectures attempts to provide a new basis for comparative studies by publishing so far unknown material from East and West German archives and to initiate further debate regarding the design of homes and memorials and how architectural form relates to tradition and innovation.
Included in the exhibition are the results of a perennial research project at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (University of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture) .The curators of the project, Simone Hain and Hartmut Frank participated as well as numerous students with their studies and models.
Acknowlegements
An exhibition by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) in cooperation with the Föderation der Deutschen Architektursammlungen (Federation of German Architectural Archives).
Event Sponsor
Lion Nathan and James Boag
Accompanying Events:
Planning means Dividing
Lecture by Simone Hain
Tuesday 28 September
12.30pm – 2.30pm
Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Opening and Launch of Berlin Dayz Program
Thursday 30 September
6.00pm – 7.30pm
Gallery of Australian Design
Floor Talk with Simone Hain
Thursday 30 September
7.30pm
Gallery of Australian Design
Simone Hain is the co-curator of this exhibition. She is Professor of the History of Architecture in Graz, Austria and specialises in East German and Eastern European architectural history.
Design Media In Australia
04 Aug 2010 - 25 Sep 2010
Design Media in Australia is an exhibition promoting published design in Australia. The exhibition models itself on a trade fair where Australia’s premier design magazines have created free standing installations for a person to interact with their product. The maximum allocated space for each title is 1.8 x 1.8 meters squared. As the installations are being made off site it is intended that they work in a free standing space and not be dependent of the fixed walls in the gallery.
Invited titles include:
Architecture Australia, Houses, Artichoke, Landscape Architecture Australia, Indesign, DQ, Habitus, Green, Desktop Magazine, Inside, Architectural Review, King Brown, Blank, Empty, Orphan and Process Journal.
Curator Jas Hugonnet
Event sponsor Lion Nathan and James Boag
Images Cole Bennetts
Abundant Highlights
01 Jul 2010 - 24 Jul 2010
Following the phenomenal success at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice 2008, models from the Abundant Australia Exhibition will be showing at the Gallery of Australian Design (GAD) in partnership with the Australian Institute of Architects.
The Abundant exhibition in Venice showcased over 300 interpretive models from abstract forms to architectural fragments, responding to the Venice Biennale Director Aaron Betsky’s theme: ‘Out there: architecture beyond the building’. It is a reinstallation reminiscent of the original 'garden of architectural artefacts', curated by Creative Directors Neil Durbach, Vince Frost, Wendy Lewin, Kerstin Thompson & Gary Warner.
The ‘Abundant Highlights’ exhibition will see over 100 of these models, from emerging and established practices around Australia. This exhibition uses models to demonstrate the breadth and depth of Australia’s architectural practice, highlighting Australia’s diverse architectural history and inspirational future.
This is the final showing of ‘Abundant Highlights’, as it returns to Australia after Asialink managed and coordinated its Asian touring leg; Abundant Highlights exhibited in Bangkok, Singapore and Malaysia.
Prior to this, it featured in Victoria’s State of Design Festival, and exhibited in Sydney’s Object Gallery.
Australian presentation selected and supported by Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design. Abundant Highlights is a major project of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Event sponsor Lion Nathan and James Boag
University Of Canberra Campus Design Ideas Competition
Special public viewing till Sunday
23 Jun 2010 - 27 Jun 2010
12 noon Wednesday 23 JUNE
to
4pm Sunday 27 JUNE 2010
The University of Canberra is committed to its campus being a unique contemporary environment that delivers learning as a transformative experience for all people, irrespective of their origins, age and circumstance; an inclusive centre where learning is part of the community way of life.
The University invited Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners and other allied design professionals and students to participate in a Campus Design Ideas Competition. In response the University has received over 30 entries embracing a wide range of ideas and approaches for reinvigorating the University Campus.
connections brazil and australia
05 May 2010 - 19 Jun 2010
From 5 May to 19 June, the Gallery of Australian Design (GAD) will highlight connections between Brazil and Australia. From ancient Gondwana to the future, the exhibition covers environmental sustainability, conservation research, science and technology, urban design and sustainable development.
Brazil and Australia have strong connections in geology, flora, fauna and design. The exhibition also looks at the context of current scientific research and industry-based joint ventures while promoting the discussion of environmental issues with a historical viewpoint.
Supported by the Embassy of Brazil and the Australian Government through the Council on Australia Latin America Relations which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Curated by Services for Art. Sponsored by Wine sans Frontieres and Liquor Legends Canberra.
Sponsors
Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Canberra
JBS Swift
HSBC
BHP Billiton
Qantas
glenn murcutt
architecture for place
17 Mar 2010 - 26 Apr 2010
Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s most internationally recognised architect. In 1992 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Institute of Architects; in 1996 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AO); in 2002 he received the Pritzker Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for architecture; and in 2009 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
This exhibition profiles a selection of his built work and, through his drawings, his working methods. Photographs by Anthony Browell fluently capture the essence of Murcutt’s design: harmony between building and nature. The exhibition is supported by the Australian Government through the Visions of Australia program.
barragán in context
17 Mar 2010 - 26 Apr 2010
During the past three decades, the work of Luis Barragán has become emblematic of twentieth century architecture in Mexico. The significance of his work continues to be recognised at an international level and his distinctive style has influenced countless architects. Barragán in Context explores the development of his works throughout his life while looking at the important relationships he had with artists and architects of his time.
Recognised as architect, landscape architect and urban planner, the works of Barragán are defined by an excellent command of space and light through his bold use of planes of colour and water that define exterior and interior spaces.
In 1996 the Barragán Foundation was established in Switzerland after his professional archive was put up for sale and purchased by individuals. The primary intention of this exhibition has been to re-establish Barragán’s archive and bring it to international audiences.
national architecture awards
03 Feb 2010 - 06 Mar 2010
During February, the GAD hosts Australia's major architecture awards from 2009. The AIA's National Architecture Awards are the country's most prestigious annual architecture awards. A total 32 awards and commendations across 12 categories were awarded to projects in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, the ACT, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
best of the best
Graduating Students and Alumni Exhibition
02 Dec 2010 - 26 Jan 2010
This exhibition displays the best of the best designs from design faculties of the University of Canberra. The faculties include; Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture. This exhibition also features the alumni which presents recgonised work of graduates from the University of Canberra.
faction
29 Oct 2009 - 21 Nov 2009
2009 ACT Architecture Awards – The New Push – UC Industrial Design
An exhibition to celebrate the best of this year’s architecture in the ACT and also to acknowledge the contributions of those who have come before.
sunburnt:
australian practices of landscape architecture
26 Sep 2009 - 24 Oct 2009
This exhibition examines spatial and material qualities that define the Australian landscape through the lens of landscape architecture. The presence or absence of water in its various forms determines much about the cultural and physical differences in Australia. Iconic aspects of the landscape will be explored through the richness of extremities, which are marked, but gradual in relation to the scale of the country. The discrepancy between ideas about and the reality of Australia are played out through the selected landscape design projects. Key partners include RMIT, the design research institute and QUT.
ecology design synergy
31 Jul 2009 - 29 Aug 2009
The exhibition presents recent collaborative work between Stuttgart based architects Behnisch Architekten and climate engineers, Transsolar Climate Engineering. Ten innovative, aesthetically refined, energy-efficient and sustainable building projects from around the world are presented around six key themes: temperature, air, sound, light, material and human scale. Ideas and projects are presented on large light tables and banners, through models, drawings and an audio-visual presentation. Ecology Design Synergy was curated by Frank Ockert, in cooperation with the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) and Galerie Aedes, Berlin and sponsored by the Goethe Institute.
Stadt und haus
berlin architecture in the 21st century
22 May 2009 - 20 Jun 2009
Stadt and Haus comprises selected plans and photographs covering Berlin’s post 1945 planning and architectural developments. Far Away so Close is a separate photographic exhibition that explores the way Australian and German expatriates respond to and thrive in their respective countries. Both exhibitions were sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut.
