Keyword results: Architecture
Pecha Kucha
What:
Pecha Kucha
Where:
The Blue Diamond, Lvl 15, 123 Queen St, Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Aug 7, doors at 6pm, talks from 8pm
How much:
$10, or free if you drive a Saab (yah rly)
Description:
As if two design festivals weren't enough - we have more of a good thing right here. Pecha Kucha is on again tonight with quite a hefty lineup of designers who will try to squeeze the interesting things about themselves into 400 seconds. This time, it's a dude called Jeffrey Bernett - furniture designer from NYC, Steven Cornwell (king of type), Rory Hyde (the good-looking one from The Architects on RRR, everyone's favourite artist and musician (except for the MX editorial team, who feel he is too old and ugly), Nathan Gray, and more.
Event: Party
Stimulus: W
Liquid Architecture 9 - Festival of Sound Arts
What:
Liquid Architecture 9 - Festival of Sound Arts
Where:
Mainly at Arts House, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne
When:
Opening Thurs July 19, doors 6.45pm
Festival runs until July 19
How much:
Opening $12/$15 +BF from here
Description:
Sound art: like regular art, but you can't talk at the launches. Just jerking your chain. Well, no actually you can't talk, but god what do you people want? Liquid Architecture is a national festival of sound art, invented nine years ago by the good people at the RMIT School of Art, and it's happening in Melbourne again this week.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: A
Eureka Skydeck 88
So we are standing in an opaque glass cube, cantilevering out three metres, but 300m above Southbank when the glass goes clear and there is a second of pure excitement as we look through our blue shoe covers to the streets below (this is done by turning the smart glass 'on' to align crystals in between layers of clear glass, letting light through).
Architext
Architext bookshop is apparently the only bookshop in Australia (and rumour has it, one of the few in the world) entirely dedicated to architecture, landscape architecture and interior design.
Established 24 years ago by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the bookshop has long been a reliable friend for Melbourne’s designers and architects seeking inspiration.
Monocle
Worldly, business savvy but with a finger on design and fashion, this site and monthly magazine aims not just to inform, but entertain. By filtering through the information masses it delivers handpicked stories from a group of opinion leaders on the ABC (D and E) of what's happening around the globe.
Pecha Kucha Night
It’s a common affliction - give a microphone to most designers (architects we’re looking at you) and you’re hit with a viral spiel on the “process driven, sculptural, embryonic, contextual, terrain vague”…Neh?
Thankfully, next Tuesday Pecha Kucha presents us with a cure to forum boredom.
The Brilliance
There’s no shortage of ethos options being slammed in all directions atany given moment. Let alone the hounds of ‘culcha’ who are only toohappy to advise that you obey your thirst, or think different, or just do it. You can go the Kleindestine culture-jam option or you can filter out what inspires.
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