Session Partner: Brickworks
Session 4B (S4B)
When: 4.00pm–5.00pm , Saturday, 03 May
Where: Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, University of Sydney
CPD: 1 Formal Point
How can private residential buildings contribute to the public realm while maintaining their intimate purpose as homes? In this session, hear the ways in which single-dwelling residential design interacts with the broader urban and social landscape.
This session will examine how thoughtful architectural design can bridge the gap between private living spaces and their public context. Through engaging case studies and insights, learn how homes can embody values such as sustainability, community connection, and aesthetic harmony, offering more than just shelter—they become part of the collective fabric of society.
John Birmingham
John Birmingham has published lots of books. So many that he sort of loses track of them. He wrote features for magazines in a decade before publishing He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, working for Rolling Stone, Playboy and the Long Bay Prison News amongst others. He won the National Award For Non-Fiction with Leviathan: an unauthorised biography of Sydney. He started writing airport novels because they were more fun. His most recent series of books that improve with altitude are The Cruel Stars and The Shattered Skies.
Anita Panov
Anita Panov established architecture practice PANOV—SCOTT together with partner Andrew Scott in 2012, following a decade each of apprenticeship with respected Sydney practices. Their work has been recognised locally and internationally, and includes public and private buildings, exhibitions, strategic planning and research-based speculations.
Their practice has an ambition to engage meaningfully in the shaping of the physical and cultural world around them. In this sense they believe working with the everyday is the most profound offering of design, and their role is to recalibrate a new normal that enables joyful engagement with communities and environments, while retaining a position of empathetic sensitivity to the existing character of the places in which they work.
https://www.instagram.com/panovscott/?hl=en
Philip Goad
Philip Goad is Chair of Architecture, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH) at the University of Melbourne. He is an authority on Australian architectural history, a contributor to the recently published Australian House: The Robin Boyd Award, and with Alan Pert, editor of the forthcoming volume, This is Not Subtopia!: Merchant Builders and the Total Environment. He is a past-President of the AIA Victorian Chapter, Chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA), and a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects (LFAIA).
Caroline Butler-Bowdon
Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon began in the role of State Librarian in November 2023. She is a published author and curator of architecture and urban history and has 20 years of executive leadership experience in public institutions, including the Historic Houses Trust and the Art Gallery of NSW. Her career has been dedicated to leadership that connects citizens and visitors to special places, culture and heritage through a broad range of statewide public engagement programs.
Before starting at the Library, she was Deputy Secretary for Cities and Active Transport for NSW Government, where her work focused on major policy and a program of investment in NSW addressing the wellbeing, walkability and activation in our streets, and civic places. She led a Premier’s Priority, Greener Public Spaces from 2019-2023. She also serves on a range of committees and boards to promote the power of place, culture and community in Australia.
Image: Highgate Park House | Vokes and Peters | Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
