School of Architecture

We host a number of events for students, alumni, staff and the community. Explore our upcoming and past events below.

If you know of an event which isn't listed below, please email us at events@eait.uq.edu.au.

  • The Life and Work of Robin F. Gibson (1930-2014)
    Lloyd Jones, Dr Susan Holden, and Dr Deborah van der Plaat | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 28 October 2020 12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Robin Finlay Gibson (1930-2014) is one of Qld’s most distinguished architects, having raised the community’s understanding and appreciation of architecture through his advocacy and consistent quality of his many public and private projects. Apart for the Queensland Cultural Centre, Gibson’s architectural output and career remain largely unstudied. Since his death in 2014, ATCH has been working to determine the range and usefulness of primary resources – architectural plans, drawings, models, photographs and correspondence – relating to Gibson’s life and career. These sources include the working collection of the practice recently donated by the Gibson family to the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland. This research has resulted in new book, to be published in 2020, which will document aspects of Gibson’s life and work. The seminar will present three papers from the book.

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  • Book Preview – Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism
    Associate Professor Antony Moulis | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 11 November 2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Ahead of the release of his book Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism (January 2021), Associate Professor Antony Moulis, will outline the genesis of the project and the research opportunities that have underpinned it. After the presentation, a panel will reflect with the author on the book’s approach, which reconsiders the ways that the architectural work of ‘modern masters’ was received outside Europe – a framework which opens up critical new research paths and methodological inquiry into cultural transfer.

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  • Buildings in Buildings: Close Encounters of the Architectural Kind
    Dr Ashley Paine | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 21 October 2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    The Hill House by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1902-1904) is widely considered a seminal work of early modern architecture. But today, after more than a century of saturating Scottish weather, the house is crumbling from water damage, and needing renovation. In 2019, works to stabilise the house and rectify its damp walls began in radical fashion with the construction of the “Hill House Box” by London-based architects Carmody Groarke—an oversized architectural raincoat that entirely envelops the original house. For this presentation, the Hill House and its box highlight the peculiar architectural consequences of buildings-in-buildings. Moreover, it will argue that, while there are countless ways in which buildings have historically become encased within other buildings, it is within museums and sites of preservation, like the Hill House Box, that these architectural encounters find their most exciting and emphatic expression.

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  • Looking Forward at the Past: The future of cultural heritage in the School of Architecture
    Associate Professor Chris Landorf, Dr Kelly Greenop, Dr Susan Holden, Dr Ashley Paine, Dr Deborah van der Plaat, Ms Carroll Go-Sam | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 14 October 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    With the impending expansion of the School of Architecture into a CBD location, this seminar is an opportune forum to examine the School’s strengths and capabilities in the evolving field of cultural heritage. This includes recent conferences, publications and research projects in collaboration with government and practice. The seminar will be presented as a round table where each participant will briefly outline their current cultural heritage projects (what is going on?) and propose opportunities for the future (where are we going?).

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  • Modernism
    Ayman Alanssary, Azin Saeedi, and Maryam Fayyaz | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 7 October 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Three PhD candidates will discuss aspects of their projects that reflect the influence of modernism on the ways of thinking about architecture and changing the existing built environment. The presentations look at how modernist ideas started to travel and found expressions in three different parts of the world.

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  • Architecture Alumni Webinar Series
    Rachel Barnard

    Thursday 17 September 2020 9:00am

    Join us for the final instalment of the online Architecture Alumni Talk series featuring Rachel Barnard, Executive Director and Founder of Young New Yorkers in New York, USA.

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  • Nocturnal Memorials
    Dr Nicole Sully | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 16 September 2020 12:15pm to 1:15pm

    This paper will consider the progressive dematerializing of memorials, from the twentieth century until the present, through a discussion of what it terms “nocturnal memorials”—being memorial objects and events that entail a distinct aesthetic experience that only materialises at night. The paper, will consider some of the historic precedents for such projects, including early attempts to incorporate light components into memorial designs, before making a first attempt to chart the rise of this new memorial type.

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  • Making the Modern Australian Campus
    Dr Susan Holden | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 9 September 2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    In this seminar, Susan will discuss the forthcoming book Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities (UWA Press, 2021) the major outcome of a recently completed ARC Discovery Project. She will discuss select parts of the book including the policy context of the expansion of higher education in Australia in the post-WWII period, the planning and architecture of the ‘gumtree’ universities built in the 1960s and 70s, and the evolution of campus landscapes. She will also discuss the experience of working on a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research project, and ponder the question of what to do with an abundance of research and archival material when the project comes to an end!

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  • Architecture Alumni Webinar Series
    Jasmin Ong

    Thursday 3 September 2020 9:00am

    Join us for the third instalment of the online Architecture Alumni Talk series featuring Jasmin Ong, Co-founder and architect at MASS DESIGN, Shanghai, China.

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  • Non-human animals and Architecture
    Gail Pini, Natalie Lis, and Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Wednesday 2 September 2020 12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Architecture does more than establish spatial arrangements that exclude or enclose non-human animals, proscribing their movement and contact with their own kind and other species. It is a cultural and representational practice imbued with history and meaning. Architecture cues and curates the encounter between humans and animals. The research we are each doing has in common the conviction that architecture is a component technology in the shaping of animal identities and multispecies communities. Our shared ambition is to reveal key theoretical and material moments in the longstanding engagement humans have had with other animals through architecture.

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  • Behind the veils of modern tropical architecture
    Dr Pedro Guedes | 2020 Research Webinar Series

    Thursday 27 August 2020 12:00pm to 1:30pm

    While orthodoxy was consolidating its hold on modern architecture in the 1930s, fresh new ideas from the periphery began to widen and question its limiting vocabulary. This study looks at projects emerging before the end of that decade that paralleled the much publicized work of Le Corbusier and Brazilian innovators in developing ideas for taming the sun in warm climates. The story focuses on a forgotten speech given in Rangoon which enthused about a soon to be forgotten but effective method of solar control and triggered a yearning for architecture widening its scope to engage with attributes of national identity.

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  • Architecture Alumni Webinar Series
    Julia Watson

    Thursday 20 August 2020 9:00am

    Join us for the second instalment of the online Architecture Alumni Talk series featuring Julia Watson, designer, author and academic in New York, USA.

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  • Architecture Alumni Webinar Series
    Deborah Riley

    Thursday 13 August 2020 9:00am

    Join us for the first instalment of the online Architecture Alumni Talk series featuring Deborah Riley (Bachelor of Design Studies 1991), four-time Emmy Award-Winning production designer and art director.

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  • Architecture Alumni Webinar Series
    Mathew van Kooy

    Thursday 2 July 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm

    You are invited to join us for the seventh instalment of our new online Architecture Alumni Talk series featuring Mathew van Kooy, Principal at John Wardle Architects in Melbourne, Australia.

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