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  • Image of front cover of book Architectural Education Through Materiality

    Book launch - Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design

    Published on: 28 April 2022
    Launched during 'The Roosenberg Talks' symposium at the Roosenberg Abbey, Architectural Education Through Materiality explores what kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century.
  • Image of front cover of book Light, Space, Place: The Architecture of Robin Gibson

    Book launch - Light, Space, Place: The Architecture of Robin Gibson

    Published on: 9 March 2022
    To commemorate the launch of Light, Space, Place: The Architecture of Robin Gibson at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2022, editors Deborah van der Plaat and Lloyd Jones will join the University of Melbourne's professor Philip Goad in a discussion of Gibson’s distinctive vision of Brisbane as a sub-tropical city, sensitive to climate and place, and alive with people.
  • Open book on table

    Exhibition and book launch - 'Round About or Inside'

    Published on: 16 October 2021
    The Round About or Inside exhibition explores how artists from multiple geographic and cultural contexts approach the spaces and sites that mark our lives. The exhibition opening will also mark the launch of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture.
  • Image of traditional timber house with modern glass structure addition

    Tactics of reconstructing the past: Recent residential practice

    Published on: 27 July 2021
    Ashley Paine writes for ArchitectureAU about how our houses demonstrate the passage of time and mark the ways we cohabitate with the past.
  • Prof. John Macarthur wins Australian Institute of Architects 2021 Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize

    Published on: 6 May 2021
    The 2021 Neville Quarry Architectural Education Prize was jointly awarded to UQ School of Architecture Professor John Macarthur and RMIT Associate Professor Conrad Hamann.
  • Man on beach walking towards Le Corbusier building

    Book Preview – Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism

    Published on: 11 November 2020
    Ahead of the release of his book Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism (January 2021), Associate Professor Antony Moulis, will outline the genesis of the project and the research opportunities that have underpinned it.
  • Qld Art Gallery external image of fountain

    Seminar - The Life and Work of Robin F. Gibson (1930-2014)

    Published on: 28 October 2020
    This seminar will present three papers from an upcoming book documenting Robin Gibson's life and work.
  • external scaffolded structure over existing brick building

    Buildings in Buildings: Close Encounters of the Architectural Kind

    Published on: 21 October 2020
    For this presentation, the Hill House and its new box highlight the peculiar architecture of buildings-in-buildings and, in particular, the creation of spaces that are not interior nor exterior, but both, simultaneously.
  • Architecture& Art

    Published on: 16 October 2020
    Join us for a panel discussion focusing on the confluence of architecture, art, and its neighbouring disciplines, chaired by UQ Senior Lecturer Susan Holden.
  • Structures on a mining site

    Looking Forward at the Past: The Future of Cultural Heritage in the School of Architecture

    Published on: 14 October 2020
    This seminar will examine the School’s strengths and capabilities in the evolving field of cultural heritage, including recent conferences, publications and research projects in collaboration with government and practice.
  • Artwork titled Between Dystopia And Utopia by Sam Cranstoun

    We Need To Talk About...Architecture and Urbanism in Transition

    Published on: 29 July 2020
    The quote 'To speak of cities and present them only as buildings' by Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1967) presents a fascinating provocation, as we constantly reconsider the role of buildings and public space. What is the relationship between utopian urbanism and real life cities?
  • Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) building

    Works of Robin Gibson become focus of research project

    Published on: 20 May 2020
    Learn more about PhD candidate, Lloyd Jones, and his research into the architectural works of Robin Gibson.
  • artist impression of building landscape

    Shifting strategies: Australian architects and the future of Chinese cities

    Published on: 8 April 2020
    Silvia Micheli and Paul Violett write for ArchitectureAU on how the rapid urbanization of China is opening up significant opportunities for Australian architectural practices.
  • image of book cover

    Book launch - Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research

    Published on: 10 December 2019
    Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research reveals the radical potential of a research method that has historically been cast as subjective, partial and unreliable.
  • exhibition

    Corley public exhibition wins highest honour at heritage awards

    Published on: 10 December 2019
    A public exhibition created with University of Queensland architecture researchers that showcased more than 60,000 photographs of suburban homes was awarded the highest honour at the National Trust Queensland Heritage Awards in October.
  • church in Australia

    Constructing faith: Postwar religious buildings in Australia

    Published on: 5 November 2019
    In 1950s Australia, places of worship were a pivotal component in the construction of culture and community in rural and suburban expansion. However, the subsequent significance of these buildings has been largely unrecognized. Philip Goad and UQ Architecture PhD candidate Lisa Marie Daunt introduce some of the country’s most intriguing experiments with a new, modernist language for ecclesiastical architecture.
  • Macarena de la Vega de Leon headshot

    ATCH postdoc Macarena de la Vega awarded an Opler Grant for Emerging Scholars 2020

    Published on: 25 October 2019
    Macarena de la Vega de León a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with ATCH receives Opler Grant for Membership for Emerging Scholars 2020.
  • International recognition for architecture research

    International recognition for architecture research

    Published on: 8 July 2019
    Attempts to redevelop informal settlements with apartment buildings could cause more harm than good in developing regions, according to a University of Queensland PhD architecture student.
  • image of a building in rural landscape

    Build it, they will come: the pavilion frenzy

    Published on: 10 May 2019
    Spectacular architectural pavilions are big crowd-pleasers, but critics claim they’re running out of control. UQ Architecture's Professor John Macarthur weighs in with habitusliving.com
  • Brisbane’s Windmill Tower, built by convicts in the 1820s

    Virtual reality recreates architectural history

    Published on: 27 September 2018
    Virtual reality will allow the public to take a journey through Brisbane’s oldest standing structure, thanks to University of Queensland researchers.
  • Good Shepherd Chapel (c.1969, architect: A. Ian Ferrier) in Mitchelton, Brisbane, was demolished in 2004.

    Uneasy heritage: Australia’s modern church buildings are disappearing

    Published on: 17 April 2018
    Of the thousands of churches erected to serve the fast-growing communities of post-war Australia, very few are protected. UQ Architecture's Lisa Marie Daunt asked The Conversation whether we are happy to lose buildings that are so much part of our modern heritage?
  • Building. Image: Richard Stringer

    Don Watson: an architecture icon

    Published on: 14 March 2018
    Witty and wise, Donald Watson's architectural designs represent some of the finest examples of postmodernism in Queensland. The exhibition Don Watson: A Civil Servant, sheds light on some of Queensland’s little known architectural treasures.
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