Stories of Earth: Echoes in Architecture

A one-day event intended to reframe, reconnect and restore.

This collection of speakers offers a unique opportunity to be inspired by an architecture of integrity.

Fully catered event on the day.

**Up to 5 formal hours of CPD**

Speakers:

Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s most internationally acclaimed architect. His work is best known for its distinctive Australian character and environmental sensitivity. Glenn Murcutt has won numerous significant awards, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (1992), the Alvar Aalto Medal (1992), the Pritzker Prize for Architecture (2002) and the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal (2009).

Marina Tabassum
The first confrontation in professional life surfaced with the commodification of architecture as I witnessed the global tendency towards instant gratification and industrially-produced anthropogenic materials devised to standardise the entire globe. The perennial quest for identity that was a struggle since childhood seemed more diluted with high-flying capitalist culture.

Niall Mclaughlin
The way to make good architecture – that is, to respond with dignity to the relentless jostling of theoretical positions and of the buildings themselves – can be to say very little indeed and just to enquire into what a particular place might, by way of buildings, most need

Peter Stutchbury
Peter Stutchbury is an Australian architect. His architectural expression has been described as "lyrical technologist". In 2015 Stutchbury was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Stutchbury lived and worked in regional Australia, Africa, Asia and Papua New Guinea, and also visited Europe and America.

Rick Joy
What we're trying to do is be very honest with ourselves and really respectful of the place, so we can come to some truth and work from that moment

Marusa Zorec
There are places that we return to again and again because by inhabiting them we rediscover something essential about ourselves

Uncle Dean
Culture is life, without it we have nothing and become lost

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