Limits/ SAHANZ 21 / Melbourne 2004

 

 

Conference Tours

Sunday 26 September, 2004

 

 

 

1. Modern Melbourne Houses – Doug Evans SOLD OUT

Subject to confirmation with owners and preparation of the detailed itinerary the tour will include important houses designed by (amongst others) Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds, David Chancellor, David Godsell, Kevin Borland and Walter Burley Griffin.

Places will be limited to 11 - a minibus load. The tour will take approximately five hours including short lunch and afternoon tea stops and will include a cross section of exemplary modern houses from the last seventy years or so.

 

meeting time and place: to be announced

 

contact: Doug.Evans@rmit.edu.au

 

 

2. New Works around St. Kilda Road – Stuart Harrison

Description: Starting at the Shrine of Remembrance (steps) - going to ARM's Shrine extension, WoodMarsh's ACCA/Malthouse Redevelopment, Edmond & Corrigan's' VCA Drama School, Minifie Nixon's VCA Centre for Ideas, Mario Bellini's National Gallery of Victoria Refurbishment and finishing for a drink at Peter Madison's Transport (pub) at Federation Square.

 

meeting time and place: 2.00pm, on steps of the Shrine of Remembrance, St Kilda Rd.

 

contact: stuart.harrison@rmit.edu.au

 

 

 

3. City Interior – Suzie Attiwill , Olivia Griffith and Roger Kemp CANCELLED

Time will be spent strolling, inspecting and lounging in city interior. Exterior becoming interior in the form of art gallery, retail space and night life - these limits will be encountered.

 

meeting time and place: 4pm to around 6pm, under the cone at Melbourne Central.

 

contact: suzie.attiwill@rmit.edu.au

 

 

4. The New West – Graham Crist CANCELLED

This tour will travel to the sprawling western suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne, traditionally an area of neglect in architectural attention. Extending from Footscray to Sunshine and beyond, it focuses on 1990's work by Lyons, and will include also ARM's Kronberg clinic.

 

meeting time and place: 12.30pm, Blg 8, level 11, Swanston St (12.30-4.30)

 

contact: graham.crist@rmit.edu.au

 

 

5. Wanderlust Tour – Kirsten Bauer and Peter Connolly

A tour for those well acquainted and less acquainted with the urban spaces of inner Melbourne. The walking tour wonders around the inner limits of the city, exploring well known and unknown above and below ground spaces. A predominantly experiential tour of the city with an emphasis upon the public realm, some Melbourne spatial history, architecture-landscape interfaces and its contemporary variations. Good air, coffee and drinks.

 

Meeting time and place: 1.00pm start at RMIT, in front of Storey Hall, Swanston St.

 

contact: kirstenb@aspect.net.au or peter.connolly@ems.rmit.edu.au