Architecture

Meeting Glenn Murcutt

Fathers & Sons

By Peter Robb

So Architects do square and hew, Green Trees that in the Forest grew. It was a long day on the road. We covered 675 kilometres of highway, city street and dirt track, traversing coastal plain and steep hill, driving among trees and city buildings. The distance was broken by short and long stops. We looked over two houses Glenn Murcutt designed many years ago. One was built among trees and dee

Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre

Northern Light

By Deyan Sudjic

The idea that courtrooms should have distinctive architecture has been remarkably persistent in almost every culture since at least the days of George Edmund Street's Gothic court complex in London. It is a way to celebrate the state, as Mussolini's architects did in Milan and Naples in the fascist period (though without putting much store in an independent judiciary). Le Corbusier acknowledg

Australian Architecture and the Venice Biennale

Beyond the Cringe

By Deyan Sudjic

Even among those people who do it for a living, there is a widely held belief that exhibiting architecture is an activity that stretches the limits of plausibility. You can never show the real thing, runs the received wisdom, so the best that you can hope for is a less-than-satisfactory representation of the subject. Models, drawings and photographs are just that; you might as well try to describe post-impressionism entirely through the