Buildings made from algae, socially and financially sustainable urban villages and the architectural experiments of the Rice Cake Mafia will been explored in a future-focused panel discussion on October 20 at the Sherman Centre. The four panellists, including Sibling’s Qianyi Lim, will speculate on the future of the built environment, exploring the radical and the practical, the emerging voices and the innovative built and proposed works at the cutting edge of design, architecture and urbanism in Australia and internationally.
Sydney versus Melbourne is a discussion series that looks at the dynamics of architecture in both cities. This is not a battle about which city has better buildings or better public spaces. Everybody already knows that Melbourne has a better civic realm. The lecture series is based on the premise that the most interesting recent periods in architecture have occurred when there were substantial differences in the approach of these two cities. Melbourne’s extravagant postmodernism, Sydney’s radical minimalism, Melbourne’s flamboyant parametricism, and Sydney’s sensible low-techism – all these styles opposed each other and pushed the boundaries of the discipline. Sibling battle out against Trias at UTS as part of this lecture series on October 19.
