2010 Biennale - Media Coverage

Reader's Digest China (September - 2010)

All Roads lead To Atlantis (Surface China mahazine - September 2010)

2050 Urban Century is Coming (Surface China Magazine - September 2010)

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 (Wallpaper, 03.09.10)

Like every other conference, biennale, triennale, festival and trade show, Venice suffers badly from journalistic impatience.

Home Among The Gum Trees (Voyeur - Vrigin Blue - September 2010)
Kitchen-free apartments, courtyards as living rooms, communal vegie patches in the sky?
Emma Pearse speaks with four experts, including Multiplicty's Stefan Mee, about the future of the Australian dream home.

COFA academic Richard Goodwin’s work is on display as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened this week.(UNSW media news 31.08.10)

2010 Venice Architecture Biennale (Australian Design Review 30.08.10)
Australian Design Review speaks to architects Ross Donaldson (Woods Bagot), Stefan Mee (John Wardle Architects) and Ian McDougall (Ashton Raggatt McDougall) at the opening of the Now + When: Australian Urbanism exhibition.

Greening the streets (Handyman Magzine, September 2010)
From backyard maintenance to town planning there's one simple answer for building a healthier environment.

2010 Venice Architecture Biennale (indesignlive.com.au 26.08.10)
Direct from Venice, we've got a behind-the-scenes preview of the Australian Pavilion before the official opening.

Greenz (Japan, August 2010)

Greenz (Japan, August 2010)

Building Journal (Hong Kong, August 2010)

Visions and verve for Venice Biennale (The Fifth Estate, 19.07.2010)
There was a strong note of optimism at Wednesday night's launch at Admiralty House in Sydney of the stunning imagery that will represent Australian architects at the Venice Biennale later this year.

Space-age concept bridges the Strait (Mercury, 03/07/2010)
HOBART will be linked to Melbourne by bridge - in the next 50 to 100 years.

The Future of Cities (FHM, June 2010)
We already know that, after we lose the war with the machines, we'll live in cocoons filled with amniotic fluid and have electrical cables hard-wired to our spines. But what are our other options?

Architects go to Venice to show us cities of the future (Arts Update, 08.06.2010)
Photographer John Gollings has spent the past few months immersed in cities of the future and he likes what he sees.

Australia at Architecture Biennale (indesignlive.com 08.06.2010)
Last week, members of the design community were given a brief but stunning glimpse of what visitors would find in the Australian Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.

Australian architects imagine cities of the future (news.com.au, 08.06.2010)
Architects turn to sci-fi for inspiration.

Australia's 3D urban visions (DETAIL, 04.06.2010)
Australia announces innovative 3D stereoscopic urban visions for this year's Vencie Biennale: The final selection of entries from the national Designs for Australia's citiies 2050+ competition has been announced and will be exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010.

Visions of the eco-city (Canberra Times, 03.06.2010)
Where will you live in 2050? Sarina Talip looks at the changing housing climate.

Rebuilding Future City (The Outlook Magazine, China, May 2010)

Surfers stars in Venice (Gold Coast Sun, 13.05.2010)
Surfers Paradise is to star on the world stage.

NOW + WHEN (Future Constructor & Architect, UK, May 2010)
What better for Future Constructor & Architect, than a visit to the Australian Urbanism pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, illustrating ways of living in 2050 and beyond?

Flying to Venice. NOW + WHEN FINALISTS (Architecture Australia, May/June 2010)
John Gollings writes about the opportunities and challendges of new stereoscopic photography, as explored through NOW + WHEN, and we present snapshots of the finalists' schemes.

Cities fear-free,organic and symbiotic (The Age, 03.05.2010)
Three University of Melbroune projects from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning are among those set to showcase what they believe may point to the forms of future cities as part of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.

The View from Venice (Australian Financial Review, 30.04.2010)
With AVATAR and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland whetting our appetite for 3D visual effects, Australian architects at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale are using stereoscopic images that will surpass anything even cinemagoers have seen.

NOW+WHEN Australian Urbanism exhibition (Online, 09.04.2010)
Australia present new images for its exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Water World (The Age, 09.04.2010)
Climate change and an exploding population will shape Australia's urban landscape at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, writes Ray Edgar.

Finalists announced for Venice Biennale NOW + WHEN exhibition (Australian Design Review, 25.03.2010)
Seventeen futuristic visions of Australian cities in 2050 have been chosen for the NOW + WHEN exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale.

Venetian Theme (The Age, 05.02.2010)
'PEOPLE meet in Architecture' has just been announced as the theme of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.

Kazuyo Sejima reveals theme for Venice Biennale (Online, 01.02.10)
Kazuyo Sejima has revealed her theme for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be 'People in architecture'.

Designers urged to look to future (West Australian, 16.01.10)
The shortlist for the Australian Institute of Architects' Designs for Australia's cities 2050+ competition has been announced.

Living in the future, with under-harbour views (Sydney Morning Herald, 21.12.2009)
IT IS an architect's vision of 2070: rising sea levels rapidly swallowing up swathes of Australia's eastern seaboard.

Biennale finalist announced for Oz exhibition (Online, 18.12.2009)
Twenty-four innovative submissions have been accepted for the Australian exhibition at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Venice Biennale shortlist announced (Online, 18.12.2009)
Twenty-four teams have been shortlisted for inclusion in the Australian pavilion's NOW + WHEN exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale.

National competition draws 129 entries (Online, 04.12.2009)
A national competition designed to visualise Australia's urban spaces in 40 years, and beyond, has fired the imagination of the nation's architects, with 129 vastly different scenarios submitted revealing possible cities of the future.

Venice director (The Age, 20.11.2009)
For the first time in its 29-year history, the Venice Architecture Biennale has chosen a woman as its director.

The architect takes over (The Australian, 16.11.2009)
The "other" Venice Biennale, dedicated to architecture, will have for the first time a woman director.

Venice Biennale appoints first female head (Online, 3.11.2009)
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima is the first woman to be named director of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Venice Biennale: Now for something really creative with Australian cities (Online, 3.11.2009)
Australian Architects who claim their creative juices are stifled by planning laws and conservative clients are on notice: the creative directors for Australia's submission to next year's Venice Biennale are looking for imaginative and dramatic visions of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2050.

New national design competition launches (Online, 26.10.2009)
A national design competition judged by Australia's cereative directors for the 2010 Venice Architecture Beinnale opens tomorrow, which invites architecst to design part of Australia's exhibition in Venice next year.

Adding a creative touch to Venice Biennale (West Australian, 17.10.2009)
Architectural photographer John Gollings and architect Ivan Rijavec will head the creative team for the Australian Pavilion at next year's Venice International Architecture Biennale.

Shape (and Sound) of things to come (The Age, 29.09.2009)
Australia's architectural future will be mapped out in 3D at the Venice Architecture Biennale next year.

Off the shelf and off the chest: Australia's best urban ideas (Sydney Morning Herald, 29.09.2009)
The career of the architect Ivan Rijavec has been defined as much by ideas that did not get off the ground as those that did.

Building the future (The Australian, 29.09.2009)
Architecture, it seems, is about more than bricks and mortar, if Australia's entry for next year's Venice Architecture Biennale is an indication.

Venice creative team (The Australian Financial Review, 29.09.2009)

Venice Biennale creative directors named (Online, 28.09.2009)
Architectural photgrapher John Gollings and Melbourne-based architect Ivan Rijavec will head the creative team for the Australian Pavilion at the upcoming 12th Venice INternational Architecture Biennale.

The transit of Venice (The Age, 07.08.2009)
Twenty-nine submissions were received for the Australian creative directorship of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, with five now shortlisted.

Venice bound (The Age, 26.06.2009)
Janet Holmes à Court has been appointed Australia's new Venice Architecture Biennale Commissioner, replacing Lucy Turnbull.

Venice Biennale commissioner revealed (Online, 24.06.2009)
Janet Holmes à Court has today bee announced as the commissioner of architecture's biggest international events.

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