Tickets have now sold out for our in-person Rothwell Public Lecture Living in the City. Register for the livestream here and join us from the comfort of your own home. We will send you a courtesy reminder before the lecture starts.

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Join The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning for this special public lecture presented by Lacaton & Vassal, 2021 Pritzker Prize Laureates and the Rothwell Program Co-Chair(s).

They will extend themes introduced in the 2021 Rothwell Symposium, which showcased exemplary social and affordable housing design by international and Australian architectural firms and researchers.

Living well in the big city is the most important challenge of our time and our generation. This issue involves many crucial topics and challenges, such as climate change, sustainability, energy savings, cost of the land, densification, affordability, integration, social equality and simply, quality of life.

In this presentation, Lacaton & Vassal explore the notion that every existing situation contains an opportunity composed of multiple elements, of qualities, of capacities, that can be integrated, reactivated and reused. They suggest that any strategy for making the city starts from the quality of housing for all.