Please join us on Tuesday 10 December 2019 for the book launch of Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research.

Urban Tropicality 2019 is the 7th meeting of the International Network of Tropical Architecture (iNTA) hosted for the first time by The University of Queensland's School of Architecture.

The 2019 University of Queensland International Architecture Lecture Series brings together forward-thinking global architects, designers and intellectuals who each generate new knowledge, ideas and strategies within the international architecture community.

Land tenure is ephemeral, since the life of people is short – generally less than a century – compared to the age of the landscape – where geological epochs are measured in tens of millions of years. Yet both are processes that are temporal, and both shape the landscape separately and now together, creating “artefacts”, landscape forms that are by-products of the processes’ operation. This presentation forms part of the ongoing development of Julian’s next book project provisionally entitled Latent City: the landscape architecture of land tenure, and will comprise a background historical investigation of land title and an argument for treating it as a temporal process that has formal effects, linking it to the model of “practices” that he developed in his last book Overgrown.

At the Art of Transport local and international experts will discuss travel behaviour, route choices, passenger experience, transit equity and the creative design ideas that are shaping the future of transport and cities. Speaker presentations will be followed by a Q+A moderated by Professor Cameron Bruhn (The University of Queensland).