Wiradjuri Contemporary: Towards Other Institutions III & Burramattagal Contemporary: Towards Other Institutions II — bundled together at 20% off — bring two editions of influential student work into your hands for less.
About These Books
Wiradjuri Contemporary: Towards Other Institutions III showcases the work of a group of Masters students from the University of Sydney, who reimagined alternative institutions by repurposing the Eugowra Farmhouse — designed by architect John Andrews for himself. Together, documents, words, and images open a dialogue about the kinds of museums and institutions we collectively aspire to build.
Burramattagal Contemporary: Towards Other Institutions II documents the same cohort turning to John Andrews's endangered Octagon Offices in Parramatta — a heritage building at serious risk of demolition — as their site of speculation and intervention, opening a parallel dialogue about the institutions we choose to build and the values embedded within them.
Key Features
- Wiradjuri Contemporary III: A short text by Andrew Burges and two visual essays by Hamish McIntosh, alongside archival material documenting the students' speculative reworkings of the Eugowra Farmhouse. Edited by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Anna Tonkin.
- Burramattagal Contemporary II: 77 pages of student project documentation, critical texts by Hannes Frykholm and Olivia Hyde, and photography by Hamish McIntosh; design by Samson Ossedryver. Edited by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Charles Curtin.
- Both volumes centre on buildings designed by architect John Andrews, extending the Towards Other Institutions series' inquiry into speculative institutional reinvention.
What You'll Discover
- How two different cohorts of emerging architects approached the same question — institutional reinvention — through two distinct, richly documented Andrews-designed sites
- How Hamish McIntosh's photography operates across both volumes as a connective visual thread, doing conceptual work alongside the written and drawn material
- Critical frameworks — from Andrew Burges in III, and from Hannes Frykholm and Olivia Hyde in II — for rethinking what museums are and the values they instantiate
- How documents, words, and images together open a dialogue about the kinds of museums and institutions we collectively choose to build
About the Editors
Both volumes were edited by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, working with Anna Tonkin on Wiradjuri Contemporary III and Charles Curtin on Burramattagal Contemporary II, as part of the Towards Other Institutions series exploring alternative institutional futures.
Specifications
Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 28.5 x 22 cm
Pages: 77
Language: English
ISBN: 9781763628632 & 9781763628618
Publisher: University of Sydney (USYD)
Perfect For
Architecture students and educators interested in speculative institutional design, heritage and adaptive reuse practitioners, curators and museum theorists, and readers of small-press Australian architectural publishing.