Profs Kerry and Lindsay Clare, a RAIA gold medallist husband and wife duo, are joining us at ArchiCamp again! Learn more on their website and Wikipedia. ArchiCamp 2016 will take place 30 September – 3 October in Butterwick, NSW (Hunter Valley). Registrations will be open to architecture students and graduates from across Australia as well as overseas. Pre-register to be notified…
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Following the humbling success of our 2015 camp, we’re now well under way organising the next! Joining us this year will be Adrian Welke of Troppo Architects (2014 RAIA Gold Medallist, Perth). Also on board are David Travalia (Hobart) and Drew Heath (Sydney). Interested are Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury, Kerry and Lindsay Clare, Lawrence Nield and Lindsay Johnston – their participation will have to be confirmed closer to the camp…
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2-5 October 2015, Hunter Valley ArchiCamp is an annual grassroots event for architecture students, professionals, artists, craftsmen and their families, with camping, design workshops, tours, talks, discussions and entertainment. First and foremost, ArchiCamp is about the enjoyment of sharing ideas with others and building professional culture within Australia and internationally. A number of key figures…
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This year, ArchiCamp is poised to step up into a whole new level. With Rick Leplastrier and Lindsay Johnston (timing/availability to be confirmed), two of Australia’s finest architects generously willing to share their time and expertise with us, and a number of other exciting professionals, artists and musicians currently being talked to, this will be an…
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ArchiCamp 2015 host, Shepherds Ground farm and village project, was founded by Lucie Bruvel, a social entrepreneur trying to create a blueprint for the renewal of the rural village, master planned by Gregory Burgess, 2004 AIA gold medalist. Growing up on a self sufficient small holding, her family grew everything, baked their bread, made cheese…
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The inaugural ArchiCamp was a great success. We visited a timbercrete house in Rylstone with Rado Marjanac; AREC strawbale + rammed earth workshop with Steve Garland; a solar passive house, cob and earth bag cottages with reciprocal framed roof at Milkwood permaculture farm; and Bowman residence, a modern home incorporating 3 heritage cottages. We toured the historic town of Mudgee with heritage…
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