Launch—TERROIR: Territories, Melbourne

Join us for the launch of TERROIR: Territories at Bookshop by Uro, Melbourne, including a conversation between co-authors Gerard Reinmuth and Andrew Benjamin alongside Anna Jankovic, as they discuss the book and its implications for design and practice.

Territories repositions architecture as a relational discipline, reversing the logic of building as architecture’s endpoint. Rather, the book contends, buildings are the after-effect of relations. This aligns with the philosophical writing and teaching of Australian philosopher Andrew Benjamin, who argues that architecture is a critical activity not simply synonym for building. Similarly, the work of Anna Jankovic foregrounds a research-led approach to design and creative practice, as recently exemplified by exhibition Deep Time Real Time, which is co-curated with Fleur Watson and André Bonnice.

While some relations within architecture, such as the physical and spatial, are long-established constituent ingredients of practice, Territories adds cultural, political, economic and social relations to this architectural repertoire. Seen through this lens, the architect’s scope and agency expands to a network of complex real-world relations, in which designing buildings is only one territory of action.

Ticket price redeemable as a discount from book purchases.