Design Speaks Weekly
Design Speaks Weekly
Podcast Description
Design Speaks Weekly brings you the biggest stories in Australian architecture and design. Produced by Architecture Media, each episode explores a key theme shaping the built environment, paired with the latest industry news and analysis. As an extension of the Design Speaks event series, this podcast opens up vital conversations to a wider audience, wherever you are.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores topics such as gender equity in architecture, lessons from renowned architects, and advancements in modular design. Specific episodes include discussions on pay equity with Justine Clark, reflections on architectural practice by Glenn Murcutt, and the benefits of prefab construction led by Stuart Vokes and Dan Burnett.
Design Speaks Weekly brings you the biggest stories in Australian architecture and design. Produced by Architecture Media, each episode explores a key theme shaping the built environment, paired with the latest industry news and analysis. As an extension of the Design Speaks event series, this podcast opens up vital conversations to a wider audience, wherever you are.
Lee Hillam is a seasoned design critic. Her experience as an architect, as a reviewer for national publications such as Architecture Australia, and as chair of the State Design Review Panel for the Government Architect NSW has sharpened her eye for what makes a successful architectural outcome.
In this episode, Lee unpacks how we justify a project’s merit and explores the tension between subjective and objective evaluation in design.
Further reading
Lee Hillam on how to improve the competition system
https://architectureau.com/articles/lee-hillam-on-how-to-improve-the-competition-system/
Green Square Public School and Community Spaces by BVN
https://architectureau.com/articles/green-square-public-school-and-community-spaces-by-bvn/
Murrin Bridge Preschool Community Hub by CD Studio, Supercontext, GFA2, Fake Industries and University of Technology Sydney
https://architectureau.com/articles/murrin-bridge-preschool-community-hub/
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland
https://architectureau.com/articles/the-pavilion-performing-arts-centre-sutherland/
Music, desert and sky: Cobar Sound Chapel
https://architectureau.com/articles/cobar-sound-chapel/
Architecture as storytelling: Quay Quarter Lanes
https://architectureau.com/articles/quay-quarter-lanes/
An act of civic pride: Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre
https://architectureau.com/articles/gunyama-park-aquatic-and-recreation-centre/
Third-gen city-making: 44A Foveaux Street
https://architectureau.com/articles/44a-foveaux-street/
The architecture of interdependence: Escarpment House
https://architectureau.com/articles/escarpment-house/
Making a community: Arkadia
https://architectureau.com/articles/arkadia/
Tall ambitions: Short Lane
https://architectureau.com/articles/short-lane/
Cowper Street Housing
https://architectureau.com/articles/cowper-street-housing/
Long hours: Go hard or go home!
https://architectureau.com/articles/long-hours-go-hard-or-go-home/
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