monument magazine

Role Models

Testing Reality: The Architect and the Model, curated by Mark Szczerbicki, is in its final week at Customs House, Sydney. The exhibition looks at the changing role of the model in architecture, especially relevant today as technology gets ever closer to usurping the place of the tangible. Testing Reality also sheds some light on the design processes of some of Europe's most prominant architecture firms including Jean Nouvel, EMBT, Lynch Architects and Bolles + Wilson Architects.

Testing Reality: The Architect and the Model, Red Room & Media Wall, Ground Level, Customs House, Sydney. Closes 1 November.

Tick tock tick

What I can't stop thinking about in regards to last week's media preview of the MCA's Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson exhibition is the fact that the artist is only going to be in town for 48 hours. He'd make a wonderful interview, and I imagine that in conversation with an Australian architect there'd be some fine ideas and strong opinions worth printing. If I can secure some time with him, is there an architect amongst us who would be up for the task?

Olafur Eliasson, One-way colour tunnel (2007). Photo: Ian Reeves, courtesy San Francisco MoMA