Sydney Talk—Architecture Follows Fish, book talk

Join author André Tavares, with Andrew leach and Andrew Toland for a hybrid conversation in Sydney about architectural history and its relation to fish.

André Tavares (online) will explore the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries. Andrew leach and Andrew Toland will be respondents in conversation in-person in Sydney.

Architecture Follows Fish sheds light on the connection between marine environments and terrestrial landscapes. The book explores the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries. To encompass the scope of fishing architecture, and to establish the connections between marine ecology and architectural practice, the book oscillates between different continents, centuries, and species.

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

About the speakers

Andre Tavares is an architect, Founding Director of Dafne Editora, and a researcher in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto where he leads the project Fishing Architecture. He was chief cocurator of the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Form of Form, and is the author of the books The Anatomy of the Architectural Book and Vitruvius Without Text.

Andrew Leach is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Sydney and the author of Manfredo Tafuri (2007), What is Architectural History? (2010), Rome (2017), and Gold Coast (2018), and editor of, among other things, Sydney School (Uro 2018, with Lee Stickells).

Andrew Toland is a Senior Lecturer in landscape architecture at University of Technology Sydney. A transdisciplinary scholar of the natural and built environment, his research is focused on the capacity of landscape architecture to change how we view, understand and change our environmental realities.