Designing with Country is an invitation to architects to embrace Indigenous perspectives and create spaces that honour the deep connections between the land, culture, and people. By engaging with Community, understanding their values, and respecting their heritage, architects can contribute to the revitalisation of culture while fostering sustainable and inclusive practices.
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‘Of droughts and flooding rains’ - Dorothy Mckellar’s famous poem ‘My Country’ always come to mind when we experience the weather extremes of Australia. Whilst McKellar’s poem, eloquently portrays the climate extremes that the Australian continent regularly undergoes, she wrote at a time when climate change science was hardly on the agenda at all. These days her words take on a new level of meaning as we face a more extreme and unpredictable future climate.
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There are some myths and misunderstandings about the true costs of engaging an architect to design your home. The biggest one of these is up-front build costs vs long term running costs and resale value. Just with any purchase, if you buy a quality made product, the up-front cost is going to be more but at a point in the future the value of quality make/design begins to outweigh the initial savings one might have made in the purchase if opting for the cheaper path. Sustainable and cost-effective architectural design contributes not only to immediate savings but also to a more sustainable future, benefiting both the home owners and the environment.
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The quaint fibro cottage is in danger of being replaced by not so quaint duplexes.
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What is the tallest building in the Northern Illawarra and what does it say about our society?
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Is the mid century modern fibro beach cottage making the endangered list of buildings in Australia’s seaside suburbs?
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I actually robbed the title of this article from another online article. You see I recently set up a Google alert on the term sustainability to see what were the “latest trends” on the term ‘sustainability’. It was something I learnt about in an online marketing seminar. There are so many of these nowadays since Covid showed us the way! Whilst the article just took me down a random wormhole of how big business can still achieve sustainability during a cost of living crisis, it made me reflect on how this would play out in the architecture/construction industry.
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