Parts of Practice considers the work of emerging architectural practice today, shifting the focus from singular outcomes and complete narratives to distinct and separate parts of architectural production.
For early-career practitioners in Australia, the shaping of practice is a varied and non-linear process. In the early years there is often a body of residential projects that serve as a testing ground for ideas and design strategies, but the focus is rarely singular, with emerging practices engaged in a patchwork of building types and scales, public and private commissions, urban, suburban, and regional conditions. This exhibition brings together a group of young Australian practices that are actively engaging with this variable context and who, alongside a commitment to testing their ideas in built form, share an openness to shaping contemporary practice through teaching, exhibiting, testing, making, learning, representing.
Parts of Practice includes the work of Zuzana and Nicholas, Lineburg Wang, Retallack Thompson, Anthony St John Parsons, Youssofzay Hart, Brunsdon Studio, Office MI—JI, Trower Falvo Architects, James Bowman Fletcher, Eldridge Anderson and Prior Barraclough, with design by Maximilian Bufardeci and photography by Ben Hosking and generous support from Tensys Engineers, Ronstan Tensile Architecture and Fielders Steel. The exhibition is organised by mode of representation rather than by practice or project as convention may expect, such that the parts of practise - models, drawings, photographs, ideas, objects of reference – can be viewed and understood as distinct components of architectural production and culture.
Parts of Practice video interviews
Participants were asked to talk about an Object of Reference that helps inform their practice.