Insights
Date
Title
Summary
4 Sep 2026
Richard Francis-Jones, Dr Shannon Foster and Jo Kinniburgh discuss the tensions and opportunities in designing with Country and architecture’s limits.
10 Aug 2026
An Environmental Crisis: Urban Overheating. Professor Matthaios Santamouris on the technologies and strategies helping cities survive rising temperatures.
29 Jul 2026
The Critical Space Between Development and Architecture: Barrie Barton of Right Angle on closing the gap between designer and developer for better outcomes.
11 Jun 2026
Richard Thorp shares the stories behind the design of Australia’s Parliament House by Mitchell/Giurgola and Thorp at this free event, The Making of Parliament.
13 May 2026
Unfrozen music with Hikaru Fuminashi, Elizabeth Carpenter and Annie Hensley explores the relationship between architecture and music, with live performance.
9 Apr 2026
Sails, Octopuses and Telescopic Cranes: Paolo Stracchi and Luciano Cardellicchio on the Sydney Opera House’s construction decisions and its sail-like roof.
16 Feb 2026
Women, Design, Equity: how can architecture and design overcome gendered structures and inequities, and support women’s wellbeing, safety and agency?
30 Jul 2025
A panel debate on the fence and the villa, two typologies that shape and fragment the built environment: is architecture complicit in withdrawal?
2 Sep 2024
A discussion on whether consciousness extends beyond human life and what that means for architecture, ethics and the environment today.
18 Mar 2024
Memories of Monuments: Penelope Seidler and Richard Thorp on Harry Seidler and Romaldo Giurgola, in the Culture of Australian Architecture Series.
18 Oct 2023
Join an eminent panel on The Consciousness of Architecture and The Will of the Architect, asking whether architecture is a form of extended consciousness.
12 Jul 2023
Why the fence and the villa may be architecture’s most destructive typologies, partitioning land and driving alienation, inequality and environmental harm.
28 Jul 2022
Locating Giurgola launches an Australian Research Council-funded project on the work of Romaldo Giurgola, principal designer of Australian Parliament House.
6 May 2022
Truth and Lies in Architecture, provocative essays by Richard Francis-Jones on the cultural, social and environmental challenges facing architects.