Steve Woodland of Cox, Howlett, Bailey & Woodland has been appointed Western Australia's new Government Architect.
The announcement is below:
Leading international architect Steve Woodland has been appointed as Western Australia's new Government Architect.
Mr Woodland is based in Perth and is Design Director for architectural firm Cox Howlett and Bailey Woodland.
He is one of WA's most respected and awarded design architects and has created many significant projects in Australia and overseas, including the Western Australian Maritime Museum, the recently completed District Courts complex and the new Albany Entertainment Centre. He has also completed a landmark 65-storey tower in Dubai and is currently involved with a new campus for the University of the United Arab Emirates.
Premier Colin Barnett said the appointment of an architect of international reputation as Government Architect was a great opportunity for WA.
"Good design is fundamental to the quality of our social, cultural, economic and built environments," Mr Barnett said.
"The State Government will also be looking for the Government Architect's input into the development of design standards for Government buildings that focus on whole-of-life economic efficiency."
The Office of the Government Architect was established in 2003, with a brief to improve the design of public buildings and spaces to enhance the quality of the built environment in WA.
The Government Architect will perform a design leadership and advocacy role. It has a whole-of-government focus engaging with a range of agencies and, where requested, provides advice to the highest levels of Government.
10 questions, Series 2 - Frank Young, Perth Architect.
Jones House, Frank Young Architect.
In this series, Perth Architect Frank Young answers some questions.
Name: Frank Young
Short Description of Work: Mainly Residential Design
Education (year): 1971
Website: http://www.fyarch.com/
1. Describe your style, as a friend would describe your work.
A journalist once described a house he covered as having "More facets than a handful of dice". I think it's sculptural, fun and cares a lot about the site and the environment.
2. Recent work completed: written, drawn, or constructed. Can you provide a description or images?
Young House 2
Yo House in Phoenix, Arizona
World Trade Center Memorial Competition in New York
3. Do you read Architectural press? Online, Hard Copy or both? Could you please list them?
Mainly Architectural Record online.
4. Could you suggest an article worth reading?
Arch Record video on Buckminster Fuller exhibition (click to link).
5. Can you provide a link to an inspiring piece of design you've seen online recently? Local or Global.
Daniel Libeskind Art Museum in Denver Colorado.
Sancho-Madridejos Architecture, Valleaceron Chapel, Spain.
6. A company/person you'd most like to design for.
Nobody (or company) I can think of, but someone (or firm) prepared to do something that is architecturally different from conservative standard design and wants to be environmentally responsible.
7. Western Australian Architect you most admire. Dead or Alive.
Probably Lyn Matthews. He's prepared to to be sculptural, use materials in clever ways and knows what "big scale" means.
8. In your opinion, best piece of Architecture in the last 10 years. Local or global.
Probably Libeskind's Denver Art Museum
9. Your intepretation of the public's perception of Architects/Architecture in Perth.
Public thinks - Architects are Expensive - I can't afford that!! Personal thought - basic architecture principles should be taught in schools to break the cycle of - being brought up in "spec" homes, never experiencing anything else, then naturally looking for a spec house when looking to set up a family home.
10. Any thoughts on the role of the 21st Century Architect?
Architects must become very aware of what has to be done to minimise the environmental impact of their buildings (yet make them attractive to the public) and put that knowledge into action. Global warming is real and architects can do a huge amount to reduce the problem.
ALVA Exhibition - India Chennai Studio
If you are in Perth, Western Australia hop along to Cullity Gallery at the UWA Architecture Faculty to see the exhibition of student work from the recent Design Studio held in Chennai, India.
It opens at 6pm, on April 9, 2009.
Humour, Humor
If you spell using American English, I assume it will rate higher in search engines. More humour from pintday.
Direct quotation from "Las Vegas of the Welfare State" - S,M,L,XL Book - Koolhaas and Mau.
Las Vegas of the Welfare State
Biljmermeer Redeclopment.
Amsterdam, Netherlands Project, 1986.
"Weaknesses
...But most wasteful and unfortunate of all has been the complete neglect and under exploitation of the highway as potential instrument of desirable social activity. Maybe inevitably in a model conceived in the European thirties, and not fundamentally adapted since, the car itself has still been seen, implicitly, as an intruder in the socialist idyll, in spite of the huge megastructure of highway and parking harbors that accomodates it. For its designers, the true inhabitant of the Bijlmer would not even want to own a car and would happily shuttle back and forth between the city and satellites in a lavish variety of public transport. This dogmatism has created an anomaly where, although physically dominant, the road is conceptually ignored, not there.
In the Dutch seventies, almost universal car ownership could and should have generated "socialistic drive-in culture," a deliberate strip, not of crass, exploitative casinos, but an exhilarating boulevard of social condensers, all accessible by car, old and new types of facilities that would also have articulated the polarity Biljmer vs. Amsterdam = modern vs. traditional, and thus positively reinforced the Bijlmer's identity and reasons for existing.
Unless this still latent potential is realized, there is every reason to consider the Bijlmer as historic, or at least unfinished."
Biljmermeer Redeclopment.
Amsterdam, Netherlands Project, 1986.
"Weaknesses
...But most wasteful and unfortunate of all has been the complete neglect and under exploitation of the highway as potential instrument of desirable social activity. Maybe inevitably in a model conceived in the European thirties, and not fundamentally adapted since, the car itself has still been seen, implicitly, as an intruder in the socialist idyll, in spite of the huge megastructure of highway and parking harbors that accomodates it. For its designers, the true inhabitant of the Bijlmer would not even want to own a car and would happily shuttle back and forth between the city and satellites in a lavish variety of public transport. This dogmatism has created an anomaly where, although physically dominant, the road is conceptually ignored, not there.
In the Dutch seventies, almost universal car ownership could and should have generated "socialistic drive-in culture," a deliberate strip, not of crass, exploitative casinos, but an exhilarating boulevard of social condensers, all accessible by car, old and new types of facilities that would also have articulated the polarity Biljmer vs. Amsterdam = modern vs. traditional, and thus positively reinforced the Bijlmer's identity and reasons for existing.
Unless this still latent potential is realized, there is every reason to consider the Bijlmer as historic, or at least unfinished."
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