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After nearly a hundred years, the nation's capital will have memorials dedicated to World War I and World War II.
The Governor General, Major General Michael Jeffery today announced a design competition for creating two memorials to Australia's participation in last century's World Wars.
"In many parts of the world, in Gallipoli, in the Somme and along the Kokoda Trail, there are memorials to our soldiers", said Minister for Veterans Affairs, Alan Griffin.
"Here in Canberra we are planning memorials, to acknowledge the efforts and sacrifice of those at home and those who served overseas, and to remind all of us, especially those of us in this House, of the cost and consequences of war."
"Almost 1.4 million Australians served in World War I and World War II.
More than 101,000 didn't return.
For a young country, these were defining events, affecting almost every family and requiring the collective effort of the nation", he said.
"It is past time we acknowledged this with two dedicated memorials in our nation's capital."
The Memorials are to be built on the Rond Terrace, in the parkland adjoining Lake Burley Griffin, and will be central elements along the land axis from Parliament House to the Australian War Memorial.
These memorials will be an important addition to the vista from Parliament House.
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The 5th Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize has been announced within the framework of the 5th European Landscape Biennial: "Storm & stress", which will take place on September 25th, 26th & 27th 2008 in Barcelona.
The Biennial is organized by the Institut of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Master's Program in Landscape Architecture and the Association of Friends of the UPC), and the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works (Architecture and Landscape General Directionate) of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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It seems that the public view on the role of architecture is more and more affecting the approach and the design education of students of environmental, architectural and interior design.
Motivation, engagement and knowledge of younger students seem to experience a deep reconfiguration phase.
The first year education process can be considered as the start of a training process and consequentially a confrontation of the students in design studios.
The matter finds a strategic evaluation and re-thinking moment in the first year education process and it might be discussed starting from that very harsh confrontation that take place in design studios.
How can architectural education approach in a positive way the energy for better and various human urban models and designs to get more attraction for skilled and motivated students?
Design might be considered as an instrument and a medium of expression, a kind of international language; or as a non-neutral actor that internationally tries to equalize taste, needs, as the modern building structures disregards national, regional and local culture and behaviour.
The awareness of such facts is indeed very important in teaching and learning, both for academicians and students, not only in universities but also in high schools and secondary schools.
The congress will accentuate this global effect and also the protection of the individual characters of design education and practice.
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Architect Sophie Pedersen has been named as the new fifth Associate at London-based architects and designers SHH.
Australian architect Sophie has been with SHH since 2004, working on major residential and leisure projects such as the 68-bedroom, four star Parkcity hotel and a new leisure centre for Ark Leisure Ltd - whilst becoming an invaluable part of the SHH team.
Sophie is also now the only female Associate within SHH's second tier of management - although not the first female to be appointed Associate.
Sophie joins Architects Stuart McLauchlan, Steven Southall and Guy Matheson, as well as Designer Daniel de Groot, as a client-facing project runner in the practice, helping the three company directors Graham Harris, David Spence and Neil Hogan administrate the company's growing workload.
Sophie graduated with a BA in Architecture from Deakin University, Australia in 1996, going on to work for a number of Australian architectural practices such as James Architects in Cairns and Gary Hunt & Partners in Port Douglas on luxury housing and commercial projects, before re-locating to the UK in February 2004.
After a short contract with Sutters Partnership Architects in London, Sophie found just the right opening for her skills at SHH, where she has stayed ever since, now joining the other Associates, several of whom have been with SHH for ten years or more.
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Opening April 4th at Materials & Applications, Los Angeles: A new installation by Jimenez Lai, titled Phalanstery Module.
Mr. Lai is a designer, a comic book author and currently is the LeFevre Fellow in the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University.
Lai hypothesizes that in zero-gravity, one can rotate (in) architecture and treat all elevations as plans - i.e., walls, ceilings and floors.
Without gravity, all surfaces can be occupied.
In essence, the distinctions between orthographic drawings become obsolete.
To this end the installation will be a large constantly rotating structure which visitors will be able to approach and use differently every time.
The installation is inspired by a comic book he created to assert commentaries regarding the Broadacre City - a 1932 Frank Lloyd Wright vision of a Utopian city where each family own a one-acre agrarian plot and commutes by private automobile.
Wright never really took into account that space and natural resources are limited.
We are witnessing such an impact today.
Wealthier citizens have fled cities for sprawling suburban sub-divisions.
Downtown cores are left to the poor, and cities are becoming increasingly ineffective in controlling energy consumption.
Lai takes Broadacre City to outer space.
Flipping it on its side and making it an Ark are ways he signifies that resources are finite.
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