The inaugural Murcutt Symposium was held in Sydney, with house tours, talks and social events spanning three days 11-13 September. The climax of the Symposium was an unscheduled, and very personal moment when Glenn Murcutt chose to acknowledge the distances travelled by so many and the passing of dear friends in recent weeks, and the support given to him by all those who attended this first ever Murcutt Symposium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2025 Murcutt Symposium - Catherine Hunter on Glenn Murcutt
The inaugural Murcutt Symposium was held this week in Sydney, with house tours, talks and social events spanning three days 11-13 September.Celebrated Australian documentary film maker, Catherine Hunter, has filmed Glenn Murcutt and his work for around 30 years. Two short films by Catherine on Murcutt's life and work have been aired to acclaim worldwide: Spirit of Place and the Cobar Sound Chapel. But Catherine's footage extends beyond these films at a time when funding for arts and cultural works is dwindling. At the close of Catherine Hunter's presentation, the Foundation announced a crowd funding campaign, to be matched by funding from the Foundation, to complete the work of 30 years and produce the definitive documentary on Glenn Murcutt: his life and works. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2025 Murcutt Symposium - Carol Marra
The inaugural Murcutt Symposium was held in Sydney, with house tours, talks and social events spanning three days 11-13 September. Sydney-based architect Carol Marra's work on the publication 'Design for Climate/ design for change' synthesises precedents drawn from vernacular architecture that has developed in response to specific place-based climatic, cultural and other conditions. Those precedents are explored and explained, and applied in case studies under conditions that are changing along with our climate. These include design for bushfire, heat, flood and wind - elements that are increasingly a feature of natural disaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The inaugural Murcutt Symposium was held in Sydney, with house tours, talks and social events spanning three days 11-13 September. A highly interactive afternoon session led by 2010 Gold Medal winning architects Lindsay and Kerry Clare, Ché Wall and former Environment Commissioner, Rod Simpson, questioned whether our current planning and building regulatory settings are really achieving gains in the race to decarbonise our buildings. Limits to natural ventilation and drive towards airtightness can lead to buildings that overheat in Australian conditions unless reliant on mechanical ventilation to avoid the unintended consequences like poorer indoor air quality and mould. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2025 Murcutt Symposium - Dr Piers Taylor
The inaugural Murcutt Symposium was held in Sydney, with house tours, talks and social events spanning three days 11-13 September. On Saturday 13 September we experienced the irrepressible energy of Dr Piers Taylor - founder of the UK's Invisible Studio and alumni of the 2001 Murcutt Masterclass. Piers opened his keynote address by announcing "I am hardly an architect...I have never had a roadmap and I haven't really had a career"! In a talk titled 'Muddling On', Piers' work shares the focus on learning through making and an intense study of local conditions as the driver for design decisions. Throughout Piers' work in teaching and practice is a endless curiosity that generates an architecture of invention and testing; aiming to reduce waste in the fabrication phase so that form is often a result of this search, and not wilful shape-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"With some thought, I believe that one can discover an architecture that responds to its place, culture and ecological demands, incorporating appropriate, responsible, technological solutions. To achieve this position, as designers we must not only consider what architecture is, but also ask what an appropriate and responsible architecture is for our culture, our time and our place." - Glenn Murcutt AO, Australian architect Join us as we discover architecture that responds to its place, culture, and ecological demands. We share the work of Glenn Murcutt; hear from those who have worked, taught and learned from him, and gain insight into the mind of one of the world's most respected living architects.To find out more about the Murcutt Foundation, head to murcuttfoundation.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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