EVENTS
Zero Carbon Building Australia Plans
14 August 2013
You are invited to join BZE at one of their premiere launch events across the country, where Research Director Trent Hawkins will partner with leading environmental building experts to unveil this key report. Numbers are strictly limited.
Sydney Design 2013 presented by Powerhouse Museum
3-18 August 2013
International keynote lecture on Tuesday 6 August from Eko Prawoto – an Indonesian architect from Java who combines traditional aspects of Javanese architecture in a contemporary context along with David Sheppard, the President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects who lives in Christchurch and was the convenor in developing the blue print for the reconstruction of the city.
Malcolm Carver – Hill End & Beyond
6-31 August 2013
Exhibition launch with the artist to be opened by Ken Woolley AM Architect 5-7pm Saturday 17 August. Artist Talk and Drawing Demonstration 2-3pm Saturday 24 August.
23 -25 August 2013
This drawing weekend is an opportunity to live and draw at Riversdale while immersed in an environment co-created by Glenn Murcutt. How the building is placed on site, how it touches the earth, how it frames our daily activities, will become our questions. Living on site and early morning movement sessions will relax our bodies, engage our senses, and develop what philosopher Merleau-Ponty calls incarnated perception.
REFORM – AILA 2013 National Conference – People Power Landscape are central to our survival.
22-24 August 2013
REFORM reflects the urgency of actions required by all built environment design professions in addressing the present and pending environmental, economic, cultural and social issues confronting our cities, towns, regional and rural places. The conference will be a conversation ‘beyond transformation’ – to actively advocate ‘reform’ and to set The REFORM Agenda.
6th International Urban Design Conference
9-11 September 2013
The conference program includes 60 session presentations, 20 posters, 3 study tours, a Q&A forum and 10 keynote presenters. Early Bird Registrations close next Wednesday 17th July. Click here to register.
MEDIA RELEASE
WB Griffin Society – the Griffins’ Canberra half day symposium
15 – 17 August 2013
The Walter Burley Griffin Society’s will celebrate the Centenary of Canberra and the arrival of WBG in Australia in August 1913. The centrepiece event is a half-day symposium with international speakers. Also the Marion Mahony Griffin Lecture 2013 will be held in the stunning lecture theatre of The Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science.
SEMINARS
2013 ACSE Annual Seminar – “The White Bay Passenger Terminal”
27th August 2013
The Association of Consulting Structural Engineers Annual Seminar for 2013 takes a closer look at one of the latest transport infrastructure projects to be completed in NSW.
Safety in Design
12-13 September
Consult Australia is the key player for Safety in Design training. This course was the first of its kind to be developed in Australia and remains unmatched. Click here for more information.
Project Management
10-11 October 2013
Consult Australia’s Project Management CPD will equip your design based consultants with the essential knowledge to successfully transition into coordination roles. Click here for more information
FutureNet Business Leaders Course
The FutureNet Business Leaders course is run by Consult Australia’s young professional’s leadership forum, FutureNet. It offers leadership development and enhanced industry networks to enable future leaders to thrive in the changing built and natural environment. Expressions of interest are now open click here for further information.
TOURS
September 2013 Japan Architecture Tour
19 – 28 September 2013
This 10-day Japan Architecture Tour will spend 6 nights in Tokyo and 4 nights Kyoto. The tour will visit some remarkable contemporary buildings, historic temples and shrines see great art and architecture exhibitions, meet with Japanese architects, visit historic towns and see the works of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. The tour is conducted and guided by Architect, former Tokyo resident and Japan expert, Robert Day. For information contact robert@rdayarch.com.au