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High achievers: The PhD route for interior design

High achievers: The PhD route for interior design

Investigating the process of a Reflective Industry Practice Model PhD Architecture and Design at RMIT University, we discover just what is involved and how the course influences those who participate.

Climate crisis informs new graphic novel, Cabal

Climate crisis informs new graphic novel, Cabal

Andrew van der Westhuyzen, one of Australia’s pre-eminent creatives, has launched his debut book Cabal, the first in a series of illustrated science-fiction short story works. 

Newly released toolkit gives architects key strategies for climate-resilient design

Newly released toolkit gives architects key strategies for climate-resilient design

Drawing on years of experience, Marra+Yeh Architects has made a new toolkit available online for everyone.

Conscious architecture: fjcstudio’s panel series continues in Brisbane

Conscious architecture: fjcstudio’s panel series continues in Brisbane

Expanding on his published collection of essays, Richard Francis-Jones curated a stimulating discussion about what elicits an architectural response.

Shaking up the monograph

Shaking up the monograph

It’s big and bold and very red and Architecture Discipline’s new book will provide food for thought as it turns the idea of a monograph on its head.

Towards a regenerative landscape architecture with Phillip Withers

Towards a regenerative landscape architecture with Phillip Withers

With a recent book on natural Australian gardens, we spoke with the Victorian landscape designer on what it means to take a truly holistic approach to the environment.

Questions of design with novelist Amanda Lohrey

Questions of design with novelist Amanda Lohrey

Award-winning novelist Amanda Lohrey’s latest novel, The Conversion, is deeply concerned with issues of home renovations, architectural theory and the psychology of dwelling.

Book review: When Modernism landed in the tropics with Concrete Jungle

Book review: When Modernism landed in the tropics with Concrete Jungle

What happens when rational, Modernist architecture puts down roots in a lush, tropical setting? Concrete Jungle, a new book by gestalten, explores locations across Asia and the world to find some of the most visionary residential adaptations of an international style to distinct local settings.

Print Kitchen mixes it up at Melbourne Art Book Fair 

Print Kitchen mixes it up at Melbourne Art Book Fair 

Presented below the spectacularly beautiful stained glass ceiling of the NGV Great Hall for the duration of the Melbourne Art Book Fair, Print Kitchen will play with the connection between printmaking and food-making.

Literate design: The bookstore infused with Chinese history by HAS

Literate design: The bookstore infused with Chinese history by HAS

As an architecture practice, HAS design and research is leading the way, creating inspirational projects with ingenuity and originality. They are projects that always amaze and The Glade Bookstore in downtown Chongqing is no exception.

Reshaping executive spaces for the new era of work

Reshaping executive spaces for the new era of work

Wilkhahn’s innovative seating and furniture solutions turn conference settings and executive offices into compelling spaces centred on the people who use them.

Review: Queer Spaces – an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places

Review: Queer Spaces – an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places

The newly released book, Queer Spaces, delves into the history of just that – queer spaces – through the voices of many. It’s a new chapter in queer literature, writes Caelan Kaluder.