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This envelope is being mailed from one student to another in my Popular Architecture and Design class. Each person has to add something to the envelope before sending it onto the next. Following is a photographic record of the “layers” that it has acquired to date. Read more
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Derham Groves’ foreword for the as yet unpublished Australian crime novel, Duck Season Death by June Wright The crime novels by the Australian author, June Wright (née Healy), are not known as well as they should be in my view. She was born in 1919 in Malvern, Victoria, and educated locally at Kildara College, Loreto Read more
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Samples of Laurie Baker’s architecture: (1) The Laurie Baker Centre, Trivandrum Ms. Shailaja Nair talking to the first-year students about Laurie Baker and his architecture. (2) The Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum (3) The Indian Coffee House, Trivandrum (4) The Hamlet (Laurie Baker’s own house), Trivandrum (5) Loyola College, Trivandrum (6) Buildings by some of Read more
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The suite of six letterboxes in front of Holmesglen Institute of TAFE Lachlan Michael Muhummad Abid En Yee Teh Audrey Zerafa David Young Nur Zainal Abidin Rubina Barooah NOT JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL An innovative program at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning has seen students design unique letterboxes which were Read more
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The Doll Theatre Project Derham Groves The first cohort of students to do the new Bachelor of Environments degree at the University of Melbourne completed the course in semester two of last year, 2010. “Architectural Design Studio 4: Fire,” which I coordinated, was the Architecture Major students’ final design subject. The task of the 183 Read more
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Architecture students doing my Popular Art, Architecture and Design course at the University of Melbourne have designed and made pairs of shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, which will appear in a book about Anna May to be published by the Culicidae Press early next year. Here is a sample of the shoes: Read more
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The following 14 brick letterboxes are just a sample of those designed in my Popular Art, Architecture and Design course at the University of Melbourne. A selection of the students’ letterboxes will be built by apprentice bricklayers from Holmesglen Institute of TAFE later this year. Audrey Zerafa Kate Fitzgerald Claire Welsh Ying Li Alexandra Wall Read more
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A test video using my new incredible Flip Ultra HD camcorder. I’m no Ed Wood…yet. Read more
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