// URBAN ISLANDS 2009 // Intensive Design Studio on Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour

WELCOME TO URBAN ISLANDS 2009

Following the enormous success of last year's studio, we are pleased to announce Urban Islands 2009, introducing to Sydney three emerging international practices: Geoff Manaugh [USA]; Mette Ramsgard Thomsen [Denmark / UK], and Mark Smout [UK].

GEOFF MANAUGH [ USA ]

METTE RAMSGARD THOMSEN
[ Denmark ]

MARK SMOUT [ UK ]

Public Lectures

The Australian Institute of Architects will host the following speakers for two evenings of guest lectures:


Geoff Manaugh / BLDGBLOG    [ USA ]
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Marcus Trimble / Super Colossal    [ Sydney ]
Date:   Tuesday 14th July 2009
Venue Open :   6.00pm
Start Time:   6.30pm
Location: Tusculum - Australian Institute of Architects, 3 Manning St Potts Point.
Admission:   TBA

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen    [ Denmark ]
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Mark Smout / SMOUT ALLEN    [ UK ]
Date:   Tuesday 21st July 2009
Venue Open :   6.00pm
Start Time:   6.30pm
Location: Tusculum - Australian Institute of Architects, 3 Manning St Potts Point.
Admission:   TBA

Geoff Manaugh presents architecture news and conjecture to-the-minute via his acclaimed blog BLDGBLOG, and is senior editor of Dwell Magazine; he is from Los Angeles.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an interdisciplinary architect currently working on a series of projects under the heading Robotic Membranes, and is a Unit Master at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

http://cita.karch.dk

Mark Smout of Smout Allen Architects, London, is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and builds architectural interventions that allow the mutability of landscape to be exposed.

http://www.smoutallen.com/

Inquiries: Please call 0409 204 236 or email Joanne.Jakovich@uts.edu.au

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NEWS
• Enrolments are now full for 2009. Urban Islands will be happening again in 2011.

SYMPOSIUM
This year's symposium will address contemporary myth-making in the realm of the political economy.

LECTURES
Emerging international practices will present guest lectures of recent works open to the public.

CUTTINGS Vol. 1
The publication from Urban Islands 2006 was launched on Cockatoo Island

WHERE IS COCKATOO?
Sydney Harbour aerial photo:

PRESS
Reviews that the Urban Islands Project has received, including AA, AR and Shinkenchiku architecture magazines.

CATALOGUE
The Altogether Elsewhere catalogue of ideas.