Sydney Architecture Festival

With #SydArchFest wrapped for 2019 - we wanted to thank every one of you for your participation, support and deep engagement with the challenge of Making Housing Affordable. We couldn't have done it without you. THREAD!

Finally, #SydArchFest would not be possible without our extraordinary crew of Volunteers who always make it look so easy - they care so much about architecture, and it shows! Thank you!

@ByronKinnaird @ArchInsights You may have caught some glimpses already of #SydArchFest beamed live to your office last week, all thanks to @BECnetwork - they continue to support us and we're so glad they do!

With #SydArchFest wrapped for 2019 - we wanted to thank every one of you for your participation, support and deep engagement with the challenge of Making Housing Affordable. We couldn't have done it without you. THREAD!

I'm calling it for sure now. Best @sydarchfest yet. Many congrats @mrbarnabyb @ArchInsights - thanks @affordable_syd @ByronKinnaird @LHSyd @HillThalisAUP @AssoConsultArch + others for your talks, events, enthusiasm for the festival! #sydarchfest #architecture #affordablehousing

Karakusevic Carson - I see here those timeless Vitruvian qualities - stability, utility, beauty. #affordablehousing worth every cent (and more) if it produces such generosity in its architectural expression as much as its accomodation #architecture #citiesforpeople #sydarchfest

@OurNewHomecoach No worries Jennifer - appreciating your engagement this week, glad you’ve had such a great Festival #sydarchfest is another good # option!

Paul Karakusevic on Bacton Estate 'we were called up one morning, asked to attend a project interview that evening, four other architects were also invited but didn't turn up - clearly they thought the client was crazy. We won the job' #Architect as optomist! #affordablehousing

@OurNewHomecoach You haven’t missed it - our handle has been tagged as the common option this week.

UK architect #PaulKarakusevic does a high speed run through of the history of public housing in England. Fabulous early works 1850-1900, then post-WW2 some remarkable statistics on the sheer quantity of public housing built - remarkably around 200 000 per year @sydarchfest

Paul launches energetically into his work - he has possibly been to the most @sydarchfest events of anyone this week (!) and his third and final talk this week is already deeply interesting - contextualised, informed, and precise

Architect Timothy Hill, with typical cut through, says inter alia “Australia does not have a housing policy, it has a tax policy that produces junk” & that most countries deliberately do not “build housing in the ‘Australian Way’” Take a read - @sydarchfest

We are there - the finale of @sydarchfest, the culmination of a week of diverse, deeply informed and shared discussions on #affordablehousing.

On last night of this year’s fantastic @sydarchfest, director @mrbarnabyb welcoming a full house (again) @cityofsydney’s Customs House. So looking forward to tonight’s speakers #TimothyHill & #PaulKarakusevic to discuss their take on the fundamentals of good housing design

"Security and affordability are two sides of the same coin, you cannot look at one without the other. You can't have one, without the other." Jemima Mowbray from @TUNSW and #MakeRentingFair tells the @sydarchfest @shelternsw Better Housing Now session. #SydArchFest

@OurNewHomecoach @timhorton_ @LHSyd Hi Jennifer, it was! We are working to share this and other key talks from the Festival! We’ll keep you posted