Join author Hannes Frykholm and landscape architect Ursula Brin Meyer in Sydney for the launch of Frykholm's new book Infra-Ordinary Architecture, together they’ll be discussing some of the ideas underpinning the book.

Infra-ordinary Architecture is a spatial biography of an ordinary apartment built in the 1940s, offering a perspective on architecture, time, and the poetics of everyday life.

NOTE: Tickets strictly limited—ticket price redeemable as a discount from book purchases.

About the speakers

Hannes Frykholm is an architect (UC Berkeley and LTH, (MSc. Arch)), researcher and lecturer at ADP. He holds a PhD in architecture from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2021 and 2024, he was the Rothwell Chair Postdoctoral Associate, in collaboration with Rothwell co-chairs Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. His current research sits at the junction of critical theory and housing architecture, investigating how better apartment plans and free space in residential buildings can address the challenges of high-density cities.

Ursula Brin Meyer is a landscape architect, teacher and writer, living on Gadi land. Her work operates at the intersection between landscape and narrative, with a critical focus on extractive work and modes of countermapping. She works in conjunction with designers, landscape artists and architects, as an editor and collaborator, and as an academic at USYD and UTS. She holds an MPhil from Cambridge in Critical Theory and Anthropocene Studies, and her current project involves documenting algal deposits at a decommissioned copper mining site.