Category: asides

Dan Hill has been blogging his entry for the Now+When exhibition at the Australian Pavilion for the 2010 Venice Biennale. In full-flight Marco Polo mode, his entry, (foolishly!) overlooked by the selection panel, imagines 14 future cities in Australia. Each is a delight, familiar and exciting, positing tangibly fantastic places like the Darwin Special Economic…

The ever energetic Linda Bennetts of Archininja has an interview up with me up on her site. Check it out, and while you are at it take a look at the now long list of great interviews Linda has chalked up on her site.

“Exactly. That’s what we like about it. We like dual carriageways and parking lots. We like control tower architecture and friendships that last an afternoon. There’s no civil authority telling us what to do. This isn’t Islington or South Ken. There are no town halls or assembly rooms. We like prosperity filtered through car and…

Co-Isolated is a group exhibition in a giant shed in Alexandria featuring a new work by SC buddy David Burns together with Richard Goodwin and Michael Snape. Adrian Lahoud’s catalogue text for the catalogue has this to say of Burns: David Burns is a junkie for repetition; his work is an aesthetic k-hole. Ketamine is…

Video of Elia Zenghelis talking at the Berlage on the 1970s and the Beginning of OMA.

Monolithic. Late notice, I know, but I will be in Brisbane tomorrow night talking at the University of Queensland Architecture School’s 2010 Public Lecture Series. UQ St Lucia Campus, Tuesday March 30 6pm.