Their ideas are compelling, the expression is evident, the belief is electric – even if the detailing is sometimes mundane – but that’s the point, it is not about the detail.The exhibition shows drawings, tracing paper sketches, models and photographs (many through the superb eye of John Gollings), along with bits and pieces of their office including bookshelves (with books), illustrations and signage. But Edmond and Corrigan’s contribution has been patient, driven by a need to contribute, informed by an active intellect and dedicated in no small way to celebrating the human condition of ordinary Australia.Nicolas Koulouras’s Knot Building proposal was “unusually creative attempt to literally tie up architecture’s unravelled strands of theory at the end of the millennium.”Alice Hampson and Sheona Thompson’s winning submission to the 1995 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work explores ideas about intimacy, rituals, emotions and privacy.We revisit the winner of the second annual AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, awarded in 1994 to “belligerent but exciting” scheme that challenges conventional expectations.What do students need to learn now in order to ameliorate the climate crisis and bring sustainable techniques to the profession in a radically different …Original Edmond & Corrigan drawings on the back wall.Sketches of Corrigan’s theatre sets, with videos of Giuseppe Verdi operas playing at either end of the small side gallery.

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A selection of rare books from Corrigan’s extensive library, on show in the green room. Why does it appear so difficult?” My response has been to wait; history will tell its story. As RMIT curator Vanessa Gerrans focuses on Peter Corrigan’s life and work, we recognize his generosity of spirit and how much his influence has guided other architects – by example, badgering, challenging and encouraging. Peter Corrigan: Cities of Hope traces the creative focus of this remarkable Australian architect, bringing to life many of his designs over four decades.Architect, set and costume designer Peter Corrigan is well known for designing RMIT’s Building 8 – a campus landmark and city icon. It showcases the cultural dimension of architecture and design by revealing the diversity of sources upon which creative practitioners like Peter Corrigan draw. Peter has been an active and important mentor to many of us and significant in shaping the identity of architecture in Australia, as well as for over 35 years, the identity of RMIT Architecture. He would have made a great AFL coach (or cinematic director). Probably his deep interest in Australian culture – sport, art, literature, theatre and learning – aligned with an intoxicating devotion to the cultural brawl, has galvanized a highly charged approach to making architecture.He is a sublime thinker and salesperson, able to transfer his demands to others so that they become believers. The modernist movement in the 50s and 60s embraced industrialism and scientism, demanding refined and replicable forms. (Earn CPD points.) Corrigan’s sketch of Building 8, RMIT University, Melbourne 1994.Corrigan’s drawings show impeccable and precision and care. Image: Anthony Geernaert After spending several years studying in RMIT University’s iconic Building 8, designed by Corrigan with Maggie Edmond (together, Edmond and Corrigan), I can say I’ve had quite a lot of time to ponder their style and attitude towards architecture. I have spent many of the past years entwined with the Edmond and Corrigan practice and its work. Regarded as one of the most outstanding postmodern buildings in Melbourne today, Building 8 combines the bold vision and whimsical style that is Corrigan’s trademark.Dr Peter Corrigan is an RMIT Architecture Professor and RAIA Gold Medal winning architect. This exhibition, which catalogues all Corrigan has been involved with, shows the depth and breadth of his offerings over time.Architecture is often possessed by an elite who can afford it, like some kind of luxury allowed for those with wealth, standing and cunning. This led to such absurdities as architects complaining that the Sydney Opera House was flawed because it didn’t offer an industrially reproducible model. Photo: Anthony Geernaert.Set design for Le Grande Macabre for the Komische Oper, Berlin, 2003, by Peter Corrigan. RMIT University 2,442 views. Photo by Mark Ashkanasy, RMIT Gallery 2013.

Edmond & Corrigan + Professor Peter Corrigan INFLUENCE SAVE THE DATE - SATURDAY 26 AUGUST 20 ... Read more INFLUENCE: Edmond & Corrigan + Professor Peter Corrigan Norman Day reviews that RMIT exhibition about the life and work of the extraordinary Melbourne architects Edmond and Corrigan, whose creativity expanded into theatre and costume design, visual art, literature and learning. What’s the idea? Corrigan embraced architecture’s complexity and contradiction, rather than the widespread desire in architectural modernism to simplify tasks and to purify form. Dr Peter Corrigan is an RMIT Architecture Professor and RAIA Gold Medal winning architect.

Why does he do it? His wife Maggie and son Matthew share their memories, following the family’s gift of documents and books to the RMIT Design Archives.