John Wardle, Stefan Mee, Meaghan Dwyer, Bill Krotiris, Jane Williams
We are fascinated by the fluency and freshness of the work of this practice. In our work with them for this exhibition we have seen the strong intellectual and creative thread which both liberates and directs them. We loved the theme of Somewhere Other presented. They quote D. H. Lawrence writing despairingly about Australia being “upside down at the bottom of the world”.
We were very keen in this Biennale Architettura to reflect on this issue.
How the world might be perceived differently from diverse parts of our planet?
The idea of reversing the Scamozzi trompe-l’œil street scenes in Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico as a means of focusing outwards and capturing an audience, as well as being cross-cultural, showed an openness and a wish to spatially engage with the visitor. They have constructed a series of three-dimensional lenses as a way of describing their view of the world from their particular location on the earth, using light, colour, craft, and the architectural elements of frames and portals.
We see these characteristics in their built projects, which show that feeling of continually manipulating space, zooming in and zooming out, even at the scale of infrastructure such as the beautiful Tanderrum Bridge.
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