LECTURE SERIES

In collaboration with: Architecture Theory Review & The Histories of Architecture and Built Environments Group

Lecture Series

  • Dr. Maren Koehler, eminent researcher and Academic Fellow in Architecture (University of Sydney) and Dr. Jasper Ludewig, Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Built Environment (University of Newcastle) and USYD alum. As co-editors and contributors of the Architectural Theory Review issue Terms and Conditions: Financialized Space, they will be sharing insights on the challenges and fluctuations within the financial dimensions of spatial production.

    CIRCA presents, in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review and Histories of Architecture and Built Environment Group on May 2, 2023

  • Dr James Lesh, esteemed historian and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at the Deakin University, Melbourne. In this talk, Lesh traces the Australian heritage movement and its role both in celebrating the Australian nation and reconciling settler colonialism for the twentieth century in his lecture Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth Century Australia

    CIRCA presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review and Histories of Architecture and Built Environment Group on May 24, 2023

Lecture 01: Denise Costanzo & Andrew Leach

Italian Imprints on 20th Century Architecture

  • Editors Denise Costanzo (Pennsylvania State University) and Andrew Leach (University of Sydney) launches their book Italian Imprints on Twentieth Century Architecture. Leach and Costanzo speaks on the collection of twenty essays and explore the modern and contemporaries legacies of Italy’s place in an architectural culture sceptical of centres and alert to the fragility of artistic tradition.

    CIRCA Presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review & Histories of Architecture and Built Environments Group on March 22, 2023

  • Esteemed scholar and author, Isabel Rousset, share her insights on the intersection of art and politics in her book The Architecture of Social Reform.

    CIRCA presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review and Histories of Architecture and Built Environment Group on April 4, 2023

  • Dr Timothy O’Rourke a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland speak about his recent publication Camps, Cottages and Homes and share insights on the history and agency of Indigenous housing in Queensland.

    CIRCA Presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review & Histories of Architecture and Built Environments Group on April 19, 2023

  • Lee Stickells, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning to share insights from his extensive research on the socio-cultural interactions between 1970s ecological design, capitalism and international transformation, in his lecture Ecologically Camping, Eating, Drinking Wine

    CIRCA presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review and Histories of Architecture and Built Environment Group on April 26, 2023

  • Prof. Chris L. Smith, distinguished scholar and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning to launch his recently published book Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari.

    CIRCA presents in collaboration with Architectural Theory Review and Histories of Architecture and Built Environment Group on May 10, 2023

Lecture 02: Isabel Rousset

The Architecture of Social Reform

Lecture 03: Dr. Timothy O’Rourke

Histories of Architecture and Environment Group

Lecture 04: Lee Stickells

Ecologically Camping, Eating, Drinking Wine

Lecture 05: Dr. Maren Koehler & Dr. Jasper Ludewig

Histories of Architecture and Environment Group

Lecture 06: Prof. Chris L. Smith

Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

Lecture 07: Dr. James Lesh

Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth Century Australia