Angry young architects: Counterculture and the critique of modernism in Brisbane, 1967-72

By 1967, Brisbane architecture students had had enough. Disenchantment with their “out-dated” architectural education and the rigidity of the Australian architectural establishment opened out onto the wider context of the Moratorium opposing the Vietnam War, and the peculiarly conservative and reactionary Queensland Government of Johannes Bjelke...

In search of the ugliest country in the world: Australia vs. Belgium on Robin Boyd, Renaat Braem, regionalism and post-war modernism

Three decades after Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre first introduced the notion of critical regionalism into architectural theory, the concept remains decisively current. One of its manifold recent attestation is Place Makers, an exhibition sponsored by the Queensland government to promote an idiosyncratic Queensland architecture by...