Donald Bates

Oct 28, 2024 | architectureau.com | Tom Grant |Donald Bates

Rising living costs are outrunning architects’ salaries, leaving many feeling discouraged. At current, there are few viable alternatives other than to leave the profession altogether. In order to maintain interest and commitment to the profession, systemic change is needed across all levels of the industry, starting at university.

Jun 2, 2024 | architectureau.com | Donald Bates

“You can’t always get what you want…”Just what is it that makes anyone attend an Australian Architecture Conference? The list of speakers? Better if they are international or better if they are local or at least national? Those mandatory CPD points (a year’s worth in two days)? Catching up with out-of-state colleagues and friends? Or is it the themes, the sessions, the topical topics that identify current and future trends, issues that must be discussed and taken on board by responsible architects?

Jun 1, 2023 | architectureau.com | Donald Bates

Too often, architecture exhibitions at the Australia Pavilion have used the presentation mode of the survey, providing an assembly (or “loose assemblage”) of diverse and relevant projects, but with little scope for in-depth presentation or explication: the many rather than the singular; the scan rather than the focus; the generously democratic rather than an acute, if selective, investigation.