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PRESENTATION TO PIA : THE CREATIVE USE OF CONFLICT
Understanding Art Architecture and Urban Design and how it relates to planning
Malcolm Middleton : Queensland Government Architect
Ove
Arup
MAJOR CHANGE IMPACTS
– ECONOMIC
– POLITICAL
– TECHNOLOGY
– PROCUREMENT
– PLANNING
Design thinking is not just an exercise that is particular to
architects – there is transferable power within
design to influence other disciplines. I’ve learned that
while ethics seeks reconciliation of group conflicts,
design makes creative use of conflicts. This
means that the design thinking that architects embody is
not a luxury for society – it is a necessity.
Victoria Beach – Mayor of Carmel , California.
Portrait Project in Melbourne – Grocon / ARM
‘WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS AND AFTERWARDS
OUR BUILDINGS SHAPE US’
Winston Churchill
‘On the night of May 10.1941, with one of the last bombs
of the last serious raid our House of Commons was
destroyed by the violence of the enemy and we have
now to consider whether we should build up again, and
how and when. WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS AND
AFTERWARDS OUR BUILDINGS SHAPE US. Having
dwelt and served for more the forty years in the late
Chamber, and having derived great pleasure and
advantage therefrom, I, naturally, should like to see it
restored in all essentials to its old form, convenience and
dignity.’
Winston Churchill
AIA Code of professional conduct states
‘…dedicated to the advancement of architecture
through involved and innovative practice, with
the aim of raising the quality of the environment
and, consequently, the quality of life’
Harvard Graduate School : Ethics program
‘…there is a great deal of difference between the
science of building and the art of architecture
and an even greater difference between a
building’s profound duty to ethics and art’s
complete freedom from ethics.’
Design thinking is not just an exercise that is particular to
architects – there is transferable power within
design to influence other disciplines. I’ve learned that
while ethics seeks reconciliation of group conflicts,
design makes creative use of conflicts. This
means that the design thinking that architects embody is
not a luxury for society – it is a necessity.
Victoria Beach – Mayor of Carmel , California.
The formal use of noble materials – copper, bronze and stone from a
long historic tradition to signify a place of importance.
The informal use of noble materials: glass and ceramic to signify
enlightenment or just playfulness
THE LEWIS KEEBLE
MEMORIAL LECTURE
2012
“….to find the common basis for the joint work of the
Architect, the Landscape Architect and the City
Planner….Urban Design [being] wider than the scope
of these three professions”.
Josep Luis Sert
Urban Beauty inheres less in the buildings than the
negatives, the spaces they make - rooms, plazas,
porticos, lanes and squares.
Elizabeth Farrelly– February 2015
CONTEXT
The artist is a creator of beautiful things.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are
corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are
the cultivated. For these there is hope
All art is once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril
It is the spectator and not life that art really mirrors.
- Oscar Wilde
Art in the city
Messages and memory in places and spaces
Art is not necessarily produced to make you feel
better but to make you feel differently about the
world around you.
The beauty question
‘To most people it seems a small question, almost
trivial , a foible …it is a question every bit as
important as Medicare and motorways.’
Elizabeth Farrelly
‘People will say architecture cannot be ugly- like
painting or depict it because we have to look at it
all the time. They are wrong…It is perfectly right
to say that brutalism should not be prescribed for
mass housing, nor built for those who have no
choice over where they live.. Yes we should
have local aesthetic boards when it comes to
minimal living standards, but not when it comes
to cultural centres, building for the arts or
national identity, the building tasks where ARM
has flexed its aesthetic muscle and woken us
from preconceptions. ‘
- Charles Jencks
Fog Sculpture National Gallery
Tottenham Court Rail Station
Yayoi Kasuma
Where art is architecture and architecture is art
Where art is architecture and architecture is art
Buenos Aires Street Art
Mix of Street Art and tagging
South Brisbane Rail Viaduct
OFFICE OF THE
QUEENSLAND
GOVERNMENT
(Street) Art can have a commercial purpose
Or a private one : Gibbs Farm NZ
Case Study 1 - Roma Street Parkland
Case Study 2 - HINZE DAM VISITOR CENTRE
Case Study 3: SOUTH BANK
Case Study 4: SHWEDDAGON PAGODA,
YANGON, MYANMAR
Case Study 5 : DJEMMAA EL-FNA, MARRAKECH
MOROCCO
2012 Keeble Lecture response:
It has been said that Town Planners know something about some things.
It has been said that Engineers know everything about one thing.
It has been said however that architects know something about everything.
Which only goes to show that together we have a chance to know everything about all things.
Therein lies the genesis of collaborative urban design.
Victor Feros