Architecture Makes the City_2013 Friday 25 October

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The Opera House:Celebrating 40Architecture and Design Symposium

Day schedule _Program

Session 1_11:00 - 12:40Cultural Effects

Lunch _12:40-1:40

Lunch break out discussion_1:00-1:35 Open Agenda Presentations

Session 2_1:40 – 3:20 Architecture makes the city

Session 3_3:35Politics and potentials of cultural production

Break_3:20 - 3:35

Ann Mossop, Sydney Opera House

Anthony Burke, University of Technology Sydney

Rachel Healy, City of Sydney

Jakob Fenger and Thomas Nikolaj Heltoft, SUPERFLEX

John Choi, CHROFI

Dan Stubbergaard, COBE

Lucy Warnock

David Neustein

Samaneh Moafi

Gerard Reinmuth, Terroir

Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Rask Gregersen, NORD Architects

Matthew Bennett, Bennett and Trimble

Peter Thorsen, Lundgaard and Tranberg

Camilla Block, Durbach Block Jaggers

Anthony Burke, University of Technology Sydney

Mette Kynne Frandsen, Henning Larson

Jan Utzon, Utzon Associates Architects

Richard Johnson, Johnson Pilton Walker

The Sydney Opera House is incredibly proud to be presenting the Architecture and Design Symposium: Architecture Makes the City as part of our 40th Anniversary celebrations.

When the people of NSW sought to build a better, more enlightened community, they put their faith in a young and innovative architect from Denmark. It was risky, but Jørn Utzon’s visionary design transformed the life of this city and indeed the nation.

The symposium brings together the best in the field of the built environment from Australia and Denmark, reflecting the special connection between our two nations that began with the construction of this World Heritage-listed masterpiece.

Today is about exchanging ideas on how architecture and design can contribute to enriching the cultures and communities of our cities. Importantly, many of today’s key speakers possess the same blend of youth and innovation that contributed so much to Utzon’s radical vision. It is a particular honour to have Jan Utzon, Jørn’s son, with us.

I would like to thank symposium curator and Head of Architecture at UTS Anthony Burke for putting together a terrific program and acknowledge the support of our sponsors, the City of Sydney, the Danish Agency for Culture and the

Australian Institute of Architects. And I encourage everyone to visit the conceptual exhibition Danish Design at the House, which opens here tonight and was co-curated by symposium speaker Gerard Reinmuth, of TERROIR.

For 40 years, Jørn Utzon’s masterpiece has inspired architecture, engineering and design professionals to take risks and collaborate to achieve something great. I hope the discussions today – and the ideas and concepts you generate – will become part of the unfolding story of the Opera House and the city around it.

Louise HerronCEO, Sydney Opera House

Welcome statement_Sydney Opera House

The Danish Agency for Culture is very pleased to be a partner for the symposium, Architecture Makes the City. As a cultural agency under the aegis of the Danish Ministry of Culture we are currently working with the Ministry to formulate a new policy for architecture, which the Danish Minister for Culture is expected to launch in the beginning of 2014. The primary objective of this new policy is to place the people at the centre of attention. We build and construct for people. The policy has different themes, but fundamentally it is a policy that thinks about architecture from the people’s point of view. We fundamentally believe that cultural institutions can contribute to bringing architecture and design into the everyday life and mind of the public. Another important theme is the communication of the values of good architecture. Children should be introduced to architecture in school, so that they develop a constructive and critical sense of the built environment. The importance on international exchange and inspiration still today remains vital for all architects and designers; therefore we also actively support the international dialogue between Danish and Australian architects and designers today.

Anne Mette Rahbæk, CEO

Sydney Opera House is one of world architecture’s great achievements. But beyond its postcard image, it is a symbol of how we can re-imagine our city.

Its creation was a bold step for Sydney. It was a departure from the norm, a new way of thinking about our harbour and the use of precious public land.

Sydney embraced Jorn Utzon’s vision, and we have reaped the benefits ever since.

The City of Sydney has been working with another visionary Dane, Jan Gehl, to extend this bold thinking across our city centre. One result will be the transformation of George Street into a civic spine and welcoming place for people. At the City we are also finalising a landmark Cultural Policy to support Sydney’s creativity into the future.

We will continue to look for excellence from our architectural and design communities to enhance the well-being of Sydney and its people.

The white sails on Bennelong Point show that when outstanding design, culture in all its forms, and the public interest come together, we can achieve great things. This is the greatest legacy of our much-loved Sydney Opera House.

I hope this symposium will inspire more visionary ideas about how our city can marry architecture, design and culture in ways that enrich us all

Lord Mayor Clover Moore

Welcome _The Danish Agency for Culture

Welcome_City of Sydney

Welcome and Intro_Anthony Burke Curator

Anthony Burke is a Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney and since 2001 co-director of the practice Offshore Studio. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of NSW, Anthony is recognised internationally for his work in architectural design, curation and commentary, specialising in contemporary design theory at the intersection of technology, urbanism and practice.

Anthony combines scholarly research with design practice through developing creative works, exhibitions, installations, events, publications and design projects. He has published several books and many articles on Architecture, and is the founder and chair of Open Agenda, an annual speculative design research competition, exhibition and publication for emerging Australian architects, which is now in its fourth year.

In 2012 Anthony was selected as co-creative director for the 2012 Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, for the exhibition, Formations; New practices in Australian Architecture, and spoke as one of the 2012 TEDx Sydney presenters. As a designer he has exhibited internationally at venues such as SFMoMA, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Beyond Media in Florence and the Beijing Architecture Biennale.

Anthony is the chair of the board of the Australian Design Centre (ADC), and consults to industry panels and advisory groups on architecture, urban design, and the emerging role of design across industry, regularly contributing to architectural media and public forums as an animated advocate for design and architecture.

The 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House is an opportunity to explore a new story for Australia’s most recognizable icon. A story necessarily of its increasing entanglement with the city of Sydney, its evolution in response to changing forms of culture, and the complex relationship to Danish and Australian national identity and their cultures of design.

It is important to recognise that the Sydney Opera House is still young, and as such it has only just begun to gather around it the stories that will colour its history. As each generation finds unique ways to make and remake the Sydney Opera House their own, I can only imagine (happily) a long history of new beginnings for this remarkable building. That we are a part of that continuing conversation is a privilege and a responsibility we all enjoy.

While not forgetting for one moment the rich history of the Sydney Opera House that continues to inspire so many, Architecture Makes the City is a way to look forward and project a new relationship to the city that has been its backdrop. By extension this view allows us to examine the relationship between all architecture of substance to its changing cultural and physical context over time. What is it that we expect our best architecture to provide? What does exceptional architecture expect of us in return? How does Architecture of quality make a city?

Architecture Makes the City, stands in contradiction to much talk of cities at the moment, where architecture has disappeared behind the scales of the intensely local - farmers markets, and the intensely urban -infrastructure. This symposium explores how our ideas of culture have changed in 40 years at the unique scale of architecture. This is a question inextricably bound up in issues of our urbanity, and changing notions of who we are and who we might allow ourselves to image we could become. That ambition for a young, modernizing nation was there as a core component of the Opera House competition over 50 years ago. To quote geographer and anthropologist David Harvey, “The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from the question of what kind of people we want to be.”

The Danish and Australian architects and designers that have come together for this event represent the very best of two cultures of design that share so much. I want to thank them all, for their enthusiasm to join in this unique conversation, their generosity to share their work and their belief in this topic as a necessary and timely projection, not just for Sydney or the Sydney Opera House, but more generally for architecture. I would also like to thank the dedicated individuals, from the many institutions involved in this celebration, from Copenhagen to Sydney, that worked together on this ambitious event to bring to life this provocative conversation on such an auspicious occasion.

Prof. Anthony Burke

Rachel has been working in the cultural sector for more than twenty years including four years as Director of Performing Arts for Sydney Opera House and ten years as General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre. Rachel has also worked for The Australian Ballet, Handspan Theatre and the State Theatre Company of South Australia and as a cultural industries consultant and independent producer. She was a participant in the Australian Prime Minister’s 2020 summit and has served on many arts boards including the Sydney Opera House Trust, Live Performance Australia, Arts NSW and as Deputy Chair of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council.

In 1998 she was awarded an inaugural Nugget Coombs Award for Arts Administration and her essay on arts centres in the 21st century was recently published by Skira. Rachel is currently Executive Manager, Culture for the City of Sydney, responsible for developing the City’s first cultural policy.

cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Rachel Healy_City of Sydney

Session 1_Architecture Makes The City

_11:00am to 12:35pm

Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen founded Superflex in 1993 along with Rasmus Nielsen. Superflex has gained international recognition for their projects. They had solo exhibitions, among others, at the Kunsthalle Basel, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, Coleccion Jumex in Mexico City, Redcat in Los Angeles and Hirshhorn Museum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and Sculpture Garden in Washington. Superflex has participated in international arts biennials such as the Gwangju Biennial in Korea, the Istanbul Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, Shanghai Biennial and in the Utopia Station exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Well-known, on-going projects include Guaraná Power, Supergas, Supercopy and Copy Shop.

They describe their works, which are related to economies, democracy and self-organisation as Tools, as proposals that invite people to participate in the development of experimental models to alter given conditions. Often the works are assisted by experts who bring in their special interest as well. All tools can be further used and modified by their users.

superflex.net

Jakob Fenger and Thomas Nikolaj Heltoft_SUPERFLEX

John Choi_ CHROFI

John Choi is partner of CHROFI. Established in 2000, the practice’s founding design, TKTS, has been widely recognised for its design excellence and innovation, from fields as varied as planning, architecture, branding, public space and tourism. Awards include New York Art Commission Award, World Architectural Festival Award, Jørn Utzon Award for International Architecture, and has been cited as New York’s Building of the Decade.

Other key projects include Stamford on Macquarie, Lune de Sang - a private rural estate in the Byron Shire hinterland, The Goods Line with Aspect Studios, Ballast Point Amenities, Manly 2015 Master Plan, Millstream Lookout and Mona Vale House. In 2009, the practice received 3 Commendations in AR Award for Emerging Architecture and in 2012, John was nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize.

He is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at University of Sydney and serves on the board of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

chrofi.com

Founded in 2005 by Dan Stubbergaard and Vanessa Miriam Carlow, COBE (whose name is derived from the cities in which the studio is based: COpenhagen and BErlin) is a progressive, contemporary community of architects that focuses on architecture and design – from buildings to public space, to large scale urban planning. Since its establishment, COBE has gained international recognition, winning a number of high profile projects and prizes, including the Golden Lion of the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006 and Scandinavia’s prestigious Nykredit Architecture Prize in 2012.

The Copenhagen office is headed by Dan Stubbergaard and currently employs some 50 architects and city planners. COBE is realizing major projects in Denmark, including Nørreport Station in the centre of Copenhagen, The ROCKmagnet, Denmark’s museum of rock music in Roskilde, and consulting on the development of Nordhavnen in Copenhagen, Scandinavia’s biggest urban development project of the moment.

Dan Stubbergaard (b. 1974) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, in Copenhagen, in 2001.

cobe.dk

Dan Stubbergaard_COBE

NORD Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark, is an award-winning, multidisciplinary, agency with a research based design approach grounded in the Scandinavian tradition.

Established in 2003 by founding partners Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Rask Gregersen (both b. 1974), NORD Architects has engaged in a broad range of assignments within architecture, urban development and societal innovation.

NORD Architects are particularly recognized for their work on public institutions, such as Copenhagen Centre for Cancer and Health, House of Natural Sciences and Vardheim Healthcare Centre - all projects that redefines how architecture performs within the realm of public service. One of the tools to pursue a parallel development of the institutional content and the architectural framework has been to involve employees and users in an expanded co-creation process.

NORD Architects is concerned with how the Nordic welfare society model can be reformed. In this context, the office has contributed to push the boundaries of how architects can contribute to the public debate. It has particularly happened through participating in projects as Possible Greenland, Pharmland and Oilism.

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Johannes Molander Pedersen and Morten Rask Gregersen_NORD Architects

Session 2_Cultural Effect Studio

_1:45pm to 3:15pm

Matthew Bennett is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He worked with Rafael Moneo in Madrid on a range of architectural and urban projects before establishing Bennett and Trimble with Marcus Trimble in 2009. Their current projects include a social learning space for Macquarie University, the redesign of the front of house areas for the Seymour Centre, an installation for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a house museum within central Sydney and various projects for the Australian War Memorial.

Matthew has taught at the University of Sydney and UNSW and is currently running a Masters design studio at the UTS School of Architecture. He is the recipient of the University of Sydney Medal, the Byera Hadley Traveling Scholarship, the Royal Institute of British Architects Student Design Medal Commendation and the Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard.

bennettandtrimble.com

Peter Thorsen, born 1957, has been employed at Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects since he graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 1987.

As lead architect and design manager, he has been in charge of some of Lundgaard & Tranberg Architect’s most renowned and award-winning projects over the years.

In addition, he has been deeply involved in the development and management of the company, and has been a partner since 2005, since 2009 also Managing Director.

Furthermore, he has periodically served as lecturer, and has since 2002 been examiner at the two Danish schools of architecture, appointed by the Council of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Other positions of trust include duties as a jury member at architectural competitions, appointed by the Danish Association of Architects in 2000.

In 2010, Peter Thorsen was elected member to the Board of Danish Association of Architects, and has since 2011 served as its Vice Chairman.

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Matthew Bennett_Bennett and Trimble

Peter Thorsen_Lundgaard and Tranberg

Camilla Block graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) in 1991, and joined Neil Durbach in practice in 1992. In 1998, the office of Durbach Block Architects was established. Camilla worked as the project Architect on the Droga Apartment (completed 1998) which received the National RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Housing and the RAIA Wilkinson Award for Housing (NSW).

Camilla has been a design principal in all of the major projects of Durbach Block, including Roslyn Street Kings Cross (2009), the Brickpit Ring, Homebush Bay, (2005), House Holman (2005), House Spry (2005) Commonwealth Place, Canberra (2002) and Sydney Amenities Buildings Homebush Bay, (1999). Camilla Block has taught, lectured, exhibited, judged awards and been published both nationally and internationally.

durbachblockjaggers.com

Gerard Reinmuth is a Director of TERROIR, an architectural practice which emerged from conversations around the potential for architecture to open up questions of cultural consequence. Research and practice on these questions led to his appointment as Professor in Practice at the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney in 2011.

TERROIR’s work encompasses projects, research and regular contributions to the profession through exhibitions, teaching and writing. The practice held the Creative Directorship of the 2009 National Architecture Conference and Gerard was juror for the 2007 National Architecture Awards. TERROIR have been featured in a number of international exhibitions and publications including AV Monographs “20 international emerging architects”, the Phaidon 10x10/3 volume and the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture. A monograph on the practice, titled TERROIR: Cosmopolitan Ground was published in 2007. TERROIR have also been featured twice in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2008 and 2010) and Gerard Reinmuth was involved in both the Danish and Australian pavilions for the 2012 event . For the Australian Pavilion, Gerard was co-curator with Anthony Burke. TERROIR have also appeared in and produced exhibitions in Australia, Germany, the United States and Scandinavia.

Gerard’s current role is split between his Directorship of TERROIR’s Sydney and Copenhagen offices and his Professorial role at UTS. This crossover of practice and research is centred on questions around the agency of the architect in making our cities and the future of the profession in a globalised interconnected world marked by ever increasing flows of capital and expertise.

terroir.com.au

Camilla Block_Durbach Block Jaggers

Gerard Reinmuth_Terroir

Mette Kynne Frandsen has been part of the management team at Henning Larsen Architects since 1998 and was appointed CEO with responsibility for the operational and financial development of the company in 2003. Thus, Mette is behind the development of an organisation that has doubled its number of employees in recent years and today occupies people from a number of different professional fields.

Mette’s sound competence in managing a creative and innovative company working on a global scale has positioned Henning Larsen Architects as a leading architecture company. Mette holds a number of significant positions of trust - including the positions of Chairwoman of the Govermental Marketing Panel of Denmark and Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Directors at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Danish Architecture Centre. Mette has strengthened the company internationally by expanding its network of clients and partners. Today, Henning Larsen Architects has offices in Saudi Arabia, Norway, Turkey and Germany.

henninglarsen.com

Mette Kynne Frandsen_Henning Larsen

Session 3_Politics Of Architecture And Culture

_3:30pm to 5:00pm

Jan studied architecture in both Sydney and Copenhagen. He graduated in 1970 and became a registered architect in Denmark after which time he joined Utzon architects to work on a Church in Copenhagen and other national projects. In 1974 Jan worked in Honolulu and become a registered architect in Hawaii. From 1975, Jan worked in Zurich with Utzon architects on the Kuwait National Assembly Complex project, until its completion in 1983. Since 1998 Jan has been involved in the refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House.

Jan has worked with Utzon associates in Denmark, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, USA, China, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico and Australia. For the last twenty years Jan has been the head of Utzon associates architects office in Denmark and abroad.

Richard Johnson studied Architecture at UNSW, gaining the RAIA Prize for Design, the RAIA Silver Medal, and the NSW Board of Architects Bronze Medal. He graduated with First Class Honours in 1969. He was awarded a Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship and in 1977 was admitted to the degree of Master of Philosophy following study in Town Planning and Urban Design at University College, London. In 1976 he was admitted as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for Public Service in the field of architecture. Richard was appointed as architectural advisor to the Sydney Opera House Trust in 1998. He was awarded the RAIA Gold Medal in 2008, a Life Fellow in 2012, a Life Governor of the AGNSW in 2012, and a distinguished Alumni Award from UNSW in 2013.

He has worked both nationally and internationally, with his award winning work varying from pavilions at world expos, to detailed museum and museum/gallery exhibition design, embassies, schools, office buildings, hotels and a range of master planning and urban design, landscape design and architectural projects in Australia and China - all involving exceptional design solutions. His interests are broadly spread from architecture and urban design to the design of museums and exhibitions. He is active in the professional and educational arenas and is an active member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), and has delivered many public lectures, served on Award Juries and is currently a Professor of Architecture at the UNSW.

Richard is a founding Director of the Australian Architecture Association (AAA) and is on the Board of the Australian Technology Park and the Redfern Waterloo Authority. He has been an active member of the RAIA, being a NSW Chapter Councillor in 1992 and 1993. He serves on the City of Sydney Design Advisory Panel and the Public Art Advisory Panel.

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Jan Utzon_Utzon Associates Architects

Professor Richard Johnson MBE_Johnson Pilton Walker

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