Launch—TERROIR: Territories, Sydney

Join Gerard Reinmuth (TERROIR) and Kimberley Angangan (TERROIR), alongside Anthony Burke (Grand Designs Australia) and Emma Wood (GANSW) for the launch of TERROIR: Territories at Bookshop by Uro, Sydney.

TERROIR Director Gerard Reinmuth will have an informal discussion about the making of Territories and it's implications for design and practice with TV presenter, design advocate and Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at UTS Anthony Burke and Emma Wood, Senior Design Advisor, Government Architect NSW.

Territories repositions architecture as a relational discipline, reversing the logic of building as architecture’s endpoint. Herein buildings are, rather, the after-effect of relations. And while physical or spatial relations are long-established constituent ingredients of architecture, 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.

Drinks and light snacks will be served...

About the speakers

Gerard Reinmuth is the inaugural Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at UTS and director of TERROIR. Gerard’s research spans both architectural practice (including sustainability, procurement practices and larger questions of agency) and research by design. He curated and designed the Sydney exhibition for the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017, was co-curator of the Australian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale, and was the Creative Director of the National Architecture Conference (Parallax) in 2009. 

Kimberley Angangan is the Studio Lead, TERROIR Sydney. She has worked on a range of urban strategy, master planning and built projects and is an exceptional urban thinker and building designer. She has been on the Jury for Super Studio which connects students with industry professionals, providing mentorship and exposure to real-world architectural practices.

Anthony Burke is a Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and host of Grand Designs Australia. Anthony is currently working on a series of productions on architecture for public media, and is host of 2025 ACTAA award-winning Grand Designs Australia Season 11, Grand Designs Transformations, and Restoration Australia, Season 4-7. 

 

Emma Wood is the Senior Design Advisor for the Government Architect NSW. She is a collaborative designer with more than 15 years' experience across landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. She is a creative and strategic thinker with the ability to distill complex ideas into comprehensive outcomes that are legible to a broad audience. An experienced project leader, Emma has delivered projects of various scales that consider social and environmental impacts.