Friday Symposium.
Venue: Bark Architects, 413 Sunrise Rd, Tinbeerwah QLD 4563
Date: Friday 21st July 2023
Time: 8am-9.30pm including dinner and house concert in evening.
Tickets: bookings via humanitix
Catering: Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner are all included in the ticket price. Food is from local providers
Applepip Catering, The Tea Shop, Tipple and Bean, Vanilla Food and Sally’s Feast.
Note: 6.5 hours formal CPD available for the Friday Symposium.
LIGHT - the essence of architecture, theme abstract available here.
Speakers.
Bark Architects.
RAA is pleased to welcome Bark Architects’ Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie as the Creative Directors for this event. Established by Lindy and Stephen in 1997, Bark is celebrating 25 years of continuous regional practice in Noosa on the Sunshine Coast. They lead a collaborative team of 7, in their Noosa hinterland design studio, on diverse projects, from bespoke residences to public facilities, housing and urban design. Every project is a uniquely crafted response to landscape, climate, people and place, underpinned by a desire to unlock the ‘spirit’ of each site. In parallel with practice, Lindy and Stephen have invested in various forms of design advocacy and in particular championing sustainable regional architecture practice. Bark’s portfolio has attracted recognition through numerous awards, publications, lectures and exhibitions.
barkdesign.com.au
instagram.com/barkarchitects
Clare Kennedy.
Clare Kennedy is an architect and leader of Five Mile Radius, a Brisbane based research, design and manufacturing studio exploring a future based on natural and recycled construction materials.
Founded in 2016, the studio delivers work that imagines a world built on a respect for material resources. The practice works with low carbon bio-based materials such as timbers, earth and stone as well as construction waste and salvaged materials.
Project highlights include a compressed earth-block house in Sri Lanka, a timber shingle bar in rural Queensland, a traditional mud house in Central India and more recently, a furniture series made entirely from scrap material.
In recent years the studio has launched a product line alongside their project work to help fund their material research.
fivemileradius.org
instagram.com/five_mile_radius
Melody Chen.
Melody Chen is the co-founder of architecture practice Atelier Chen Hung (A-CH).
A-CH was established in 2008 as a result of an ongoing dialogue of ideas with partner James Hung. Since launching, A-CH has received multiple awards and in 2014 was listed as one of the world’s best 20 young architecture practices by Wallpaper Magazine.
Melody has a focus on conceptual design thinking that explores the intrinsic relationship between nature, buildings and human beings. Her work marries the poetic with the pragmatic and embraces collaboration and experimentation as fundamental to the design process. At A-CH she works closely alongside James and the atelier to ensure that ideas and build-ability go hand-in-hand.
Melody leads the practice to deliver design that is robust and strategic, informed by the individual project brief and site specificity. Importance is placed on ensuring that design resonates with the client, merging aspirations and functional needs.
Prior to A-CH, Melody worked in several Brisbane practices on educational, mixed-use and high-rise commercial projects, gaining solid experience in the design, documentation and delivery of complex, large-scale projects.
Melody is a regular tutor and guest critic at the UQ and Bond University architecture schools, delivers lectures and talks and was a jury member for the ArchiTeam awards in 2021.
Born in Taiwan, Melody is fluent in Mandarin and takes inspiration in her cross-cultural upbringing.
a-ch.com.au
instagram.com/AtelierChenHung
Lyndon Davis.
Lyndon Davis is an internationally acclaimed artist, educator and cultural performer. Born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, Davis' arts practice represents his deep connection to Country. Most recently, Davis has been making work that visualises the calls of different species on Kabi Kabi Country using cymatics, the science of visualising acoustic energy or sound. Davis’ practice is grounded in communicating the importance of custodianship and caring for Country. Lyndon is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
theconversation.com/profiles/lyndon-davis
vimeo.com/Djagan_Yaman
Megan Cope.
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka (North Stradbroke Island) artist. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work, paintings and public art investigate issues relating to identity, the environment and mapping practices.
Cope’s work has featured in the TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, NGV Triennial 2020, UNSW Galleries presentation for Sydney Festival, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2020), The National (2017), and Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial (2017) and many more. In 2017-19 Cope was the Official Australian War Artist.
Cope’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery Australia, Musées de la Civilisation: Canada, and more. Public art commissions include After the Flood at James Cook University, Weelam Ngalut at Monash University, The Koorie Art Commission, Melbourne Museum and You Are, Here Now at the Australian Catholic University.
Megan Cope is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW and is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
www.megancope.com.au
instagram.com/nutmegandhoney
Photo: Megan Cope & Djalo, 2020, Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country, North Stradbroke Island QLD, Photograph by Rhett Hammerton, Courtesy of the Artist and Milani Gallery, Meeanjin / Brisbane.
Michael Kennedy.
Michael Kennedy founded Kennedy’s Timbers as a sole trader in 1993 with a focus on better environmental outcomes utilising reclaimed timbers. As he saw a valuable resource being dumped and wasted Michael left the corporate world to create a business which enhanced the health of the planet.
Over the last 30 years Michael has strongly supported excellence in architectural design utilising reclaimed and sustainably sourced hardwoods through sponsorship and education on timber use. Michael helped establish Australian Industry Standards for recycled timbers and in 2005 built a Head Office and World Class timber Production Facility in Narangba Queensland.
Kennedys Timbers now also sources indigenous harvested hardwoods from Far North Queensland under a partnership with the Wik peoples.
kennedystimbers.com.au
instagram.com/kennedystimbers
Kelly Martin.
Growing up in Central Queensland, Kelly has always felt more connected and engaged in regional communities which was a pivotal factor in the decision to move to Noosa to start her own practice after a long stint in Brisbane.
Kelly firmly believes architecture is for every day and everyone. It’s holistic in every sense of the word and she creates clever spaces which not only tick the pragmatic boxes but are also a delight to experience. Sustainability in design is multifaceted and what Kelly achieves through her work is building longevity by futureproofing and creating socially sustainable buildings that are adaptable by nature to stand the test of time.
marchitecture.com.au
instagram.com/kelly_martin_architecture
John Mainwaring.
John is an architect and director of Hollindale Mainwaring Architecture (HMA). He is a graduate of the University of Queensland and has an Honorary PHD from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
He is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, a member of the Sunshine Coast Urban Design Advisory Panel, a member of the Sunshine Coast Environment Park Advisory Panel and is the Chair of the University of the Sunshine Coast Vice Chancellors Art Gallery Committee. John is a past chair of the Queensland Heritage Council Development Committee and a past member of the Queensland Government Board of Urban Places and the Noosa Iconic Panel.
John Mainwaring has been practising in Southeast Queensland, predominantly, as part of the Sunshine Coast School of Architecture for 40 years. HMA carries out residential, mixed use projects, nursing homes, master-planning, industrial and commercial projects.
www.hmarchitecture.com.au
facebook.com/hmarchitecture
Paul Hotston.
Paul has over twenty years leading the theory-based design practice Phorm architecture + design with seven years previous experience working in North Queensland’s Tropics.
He is currently ‘Industry Partner’ at the University of Queensland, School of Architecture.
Phorm architecture + design seeks to create new architecture with local identities with half of their projects located within Brisbane’s inner-city suburbs and the compliment scattered throughout regional Queensland’s diverse terrains and townships.
Phorm crafts site-specific projects that 'inherently belong to' or celebrate place. Choreographing and nurturing the relationships between occupants and landscape or cityscape.
The Practice believes the act of making architecture should be tantamount to the idea, experience, or resultant form. Phorm looks to maintain or develop local building techniques and skills with each project by engaging directly with the local knowledge of assembly.
Recipient of this year’s AIA Gabriel Poole’s ‘House of the Year’ for the Sunshine Coast Region.
phorm.com.au
instagram.com/phorm_architecture
Gosti - House Concert.
Stay on site for a grazing style dinner and a unique musical performance by world music trio Gosti.
Gosti is a world music trio including Tunji Beier, Philip Griffin and Linsey Pollak. From the age of ten Tunji was studying Yoruba drumming in Nigeria. Six years later he travelled to Bangalore in South India to study percussion for three years at the Karnakata College of Percussion. Philip Griffin's extraordinary talents defy categorisation as they cross so many areas of musical activity, and Linsey Pollak has created dozens of amazing music projects and toured his solo shows all over the world. They have performed together in various ensembles such as Ross Daly’s Australian Labyrinth, Dva, dididumdum, Makedonski Bop and the Balkanics to great acclaim eg (regarding Ross Daly’s Australian Labyrinth): “This was some of the finest music heard in Sydney for years.” John Shand – Syd Morning Herald. Gosti plays original compositions which are strongly influenced by Macedonian music, but the strength of the trio lies in the fact that they are all great improvisers.
philipgriffin.com/gosti
Photo by Simon Woods
