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China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, designed by Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio, 2009. Shutterstock

May 21, 2020

Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism

Gerard Reinmuth, University of Technology Sydney and Urtzi Grau, University of Technology Sydney

China’s ban on ‘copycat’ architecture goes to the heart of architectural traditions.

The U.S. Supreme Court building, completed in 1935, is considered a neoclassical masterpiece. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

February 12, 2020

Why so many architects are angered by ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’

Kai Gutschow, Carnegie Mellon University

Federal building guidelines say that ‘development of an official style must be avoided’ – which is exactly what a leaked executive order is trying to do.

With the tensile strength of steel but six times lighter, bamboo can be used for ambitious buildings once it has been treated to ensure its durability. Courtesy of Green School Bali

September 2, 2019

Bamboo architecture: Bali’s Green School inspires a global renaissance

Davina Jackson, University of Kent

Bamboo has been used since ancient times for building, but only in recent decades has pioneering work in Bali inspired its wider use for substantial and enduring structures.

John Lander Browne’s hillside house at Church Point might have been Sydney’s first notable postwar interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic principles. Max Dupain (c.1948)

June 28, 2019

How the ‘Sydney School’ changed postwar Australian architecture

Davina Jackson, University of Kent

Sydney Schools weren’t actually schools, but houses that embraced the native Australian landscape, and reacted to international modernism.

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