New Attitudes is a double lecture series at the School of Architecture at the University of Sydney. On Tuesday, December 10th, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture will join us to discuss Indefinite Plans. The following day, BAST will unveil a recently completed project, C34.

New Attitudes aims to introduce some contemporaneity to the School of Architecture by exploring the work of two young offices well attuned to the current context. It welcomes these two practices, which assemble diverse architectural elements to continuously interrogate the boundary between the ordinary and the exceptional. The work links rough finishes and economic rigour with spatial generosity and freedom, austerity chic at its most.

New Attitudes speculates on how architects might operate today, potentially in a collective manner, constructing both lightly and directly while proposing open-ended structures. Driven by site interventions, sometimes fast and immediate, other times slow and incremental, the work offers attitudes for dealing with a complex reality. The constraints of the existing is a found freedom. In acts of removing, transforming and adding, a bare but assertive logic emerges: Architecture is nothing more, or less, than an infrastructure for the pleasure and mess of everyday life.

New Attitudes are BAST and Bangkok Tokyo in December in Sydney.
New Attitudes are rough and ready.

Bangkok Tokyo's visit is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Japan Foundation, Sydney.
BAST's travel is generously supported by the Embassy of France in Australia.

Curators: Guillermo Fernández-Abascal (USYD, GFA2) and Hannes Frykholm (USYD)