‘Else-where’ : essays in art, architecture, and cultural production 2002-2011

“Else-where”: Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002–2011 is a synoptic survey of the representational values given to art, architecture, and cultural production at the closing of the twentieth century and the opening of the twenty-first. Written primarily as a critique of what is suppressed in architecture and what is disclosed in art, the essays are informed by the passage out of post-structuralism and its disciplinary analogues toward the Real (denoted over the course of the studies as the “Real-Irreal,” or “Else-where”). The essays collected in “Else-where” cross various disciplines (inclusive of landscape architecture, architecture, and visual art) to develop a nuanced critique of a renascent formal regard and elective exit from nihilism in art and architecture that is also an invocation of the highest coordinates given to the arts – that is, formal ontology as speculative intelligence itself, or the return of the universal as utopian thought “here-and-now.”

Indigenous landscape change and climate change : the historical transformation of the Port Phillip bay from an indigenous and landscape architectural perspective

Currently there is a dearth of research into Australian Indigenous knowledge and their understanding of climate change especially in regard to how it fits into an Indigenous world view. Recent discussions by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) have highlighted this deficiency and also the need to source projects that address this perspective, and enable the incorporation of traditional ecological knowledge into the planning of climate change adaption strategies. Within this context, this paper examines the use and understanding of landscape, both urban and regional, surrounding Port Phillip Bay and the risks and opportunities climate change adaptation brings to the local Indigenous communities. This paper comprises a literature review and proposes further research with the Wurundjeri (Yarra Valley), Wathaurong (Geelong-Bellarine Peninsula) & Boon Wurrung (Mornington Peninsula - Westerport - southern Melbourne) which aim to elicit a contemporary and local response to issues raised by NCCARF but importantly to articulate a possible Indigenous position about the formation, change and direction that Port Phillip Bay and its environs should take from their perspectives. The research looks to draw on how these communities have adapted to climate change physically, mentally and spiritually over their long habitation of the region and their perceptions of climate change this century. The project looks to uncover a longitudinal perspective of adaptation focused upon Indigenous views of 'country' and custodial obligations to 'country' including accumulated cultural and environmental histories, and how this can inform the contemporary practice of landscape architecture and the design of resilient and sustainable human environments.

Moral rights and Australian contemporary architecture : recent professional dilemmas and the thoughts of Peter Muller in this discourse

The moral rights of contemporary design projects has arisen as a difficult ethical dilemma in Australian architectural discourses, and is more complex when matters of heritage are implicated. This paper considers the position of moral rights under the AustralianCopyright Act 19682 having regard to the Australian exemplars of Peter Muller. Muller is one of the most highly regarded Australian architects of the twentieth century possessing a passion for organic architecture realised in several significant Australian and Indonesian design exemplars. The paper considers recent Australian debates about moral rights and projects that implicate several architectural and landscape architecture projects, the current legal interpretations, and explains the ideas, values, and opinions and practice of Muller in this context. A clear conclusion is that while the Act confers rights, there is no mechanism to ensure adherence to these rights, and particularly in the situation of a living designer where one of their designs is being accorded heritage status.

Teaching in Landscape

“We, the landscape architects, concerned with the future development of our landscapes in a fast changing world, believe that everything, influencing the way in which the outdoor environment is created, used, and maintained is fundamental to sustainable development and human well-being. We, being responsible for the improvement of the education of future landscape architects to enable them to work for a sustainable environment within the context of our natural and cultural heritage”. (IFLA/UNESCO 2005) CHARTER FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION) Nowadays, respect and appreciation of the landscape sustainably grow. Landscape Architecture professionals are makers encourage and guide this growth. However, there is still no legal recognition of the landscape profession in Spain. For this reason we present this paper that shows the current framework in which appear a professional educated with masters and specialized courses, but it lacks a defined work area and unique in its business learned. We present the demands of both IFLA and the EFLA and teaching lines proposed by these organizations at European level are distinguished. Furthermore, we analyze the national scene and major training centres are distinguished.

The ... report of the Residential Planning Project of the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois in cooperation with Bituminous Coal Research Inc., American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute, Anthracite Institute.

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University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of First Scheme], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 27 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of First Scheme], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12x24 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme Site Plan], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 12x20 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme Site Plan], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, initialed, 12x17 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme Phases I, II and III Site Plan], untitled. Ink sketch on electrostatic print with purple marker coloring, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme Section], untitled. Blue and green ink sketch on tracing paper, initialed, 18x18 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketches of First Scheme], untitled. Ink sketches on graph paper, initialed, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketches of First Scheme], untitled. Ink sketches on graph paper, initialed, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 18x23 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Michigan Library, Flint, Michigan, 1986-1995

[Conceptual Sketch of Final Scheme], untitled. Blue and red ink sketch on tracing paper, 18 x 23 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]