Avery Green subject of Book Chapter.

An extended account of the experience of working with Avery Green has just been published as a book chapter titled ‘A Vital, Architectural Materialism; a House-person’s Escape from the Anthropocentric’, in Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, Maria Voyatsaki (ed), Edinburgh University Press. 2018.

The essay explores the idea of ‘person’ and ‘personality’ and how this might work in the case of house, such as Avery Green. It explores the dangers of anthropomorphism and how to avoid those dangers, the indispensable involvement of anthropomorphism in approaching a house as a person, and how this all works against anthropocentrism.

There are accounts of the process of renovating and extending, and how this became a way to tap into a deep temporal/geological history in which Avery Green remains implicated.

Avery & Jane taking part in Workaround

The Jane Approach  will be developed and further explored with a group of talented co-explorers in a online broadcast and a program of live events, called WORKAROUND, going to air on Saturday July 28, between 12 and 5pm. Just come along, and/or REGISTER HERE.

Co-creators include: Annie Bolitho, Fiona Harrisson, Jondi Keane, Gina Moore, Francesca Mountfort, Peta Murray, Caitlyn Parry and Mattie Sempert.

Avery Green's transformation was the first 'event' through which The Jane Approach was developed – as a sister project.  Avery Green will be discussed during STORY-TIME, between 12.45 and 2.15 (see schedule in flyer below), alongside a series of four stories about different houses/places. 

There will be live drawing, making, cello playing, readings, video, holoLens clay moulding, digital animating... 

Avery Green reviewed in Architecture Australia

Lovely article written by Fleur Watson: A real Character: Avery Green. 

Curious Grace & Avery Green

Avery Green was featured on the website of Curious Grace, in a story called Leaving Avery Green. 

A lovely account that picks up on the love. 

TED talk: Can a building be a person?

Architectural Animality: drawings out for a walk

“In play, the human enters a zone of indiscernibility with the animal. When we humans say ‘this is play’ we are assuming our animality.” Brian Massumi

This work, Architectural Animality – drawings out for a walk, was produced for an exhibition dedicated to an enquiry into the nature of the act of drawing. The work was a composition of multiple pieces, being constituted by 12 individual drawings/images/objects. The project explored how diverse ideas can become productively entangled through the drawings that take part in the design process. Working with an architectural project (see: Avery Green) still in early stages of design development, the many influences and ideas at play led to thinking about that stage of design development as somewhat ‘wild’ and very much at play – like a complex ecosystem of interdependent but as-yet-unclear relations. This project tested how the process of composing this complex ecosystem into an exhibition assemblage could become a meaningful part of the design process. As such, this was not an exhibition of either a process or a finished product, but rather an experiment in folding the process of exhibiting into the design process. This approach offered a way of exploring the potential role of drawings as part of design processes. Via a play of analogue and digital techniques, the drawings set out for a walk across an assemblage of ideas, influences, and obsessions as they move toward an emerging house-creature.

Trace: Architecural Musings, Leonie Matthews & Amanda Alderson (curators), Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia, Oct/Nov, 2014.