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FAIA Applications & Architectural Academic Editing

Archwriter works with applicants for FAIA and other Fellowships. We do not offer academic editing however we work closely with an associate whom we can refer and recommend unreservedly.

Academic Dr Christina Houen has over ten years’ experience in writing and editing academic theses, articles, book chapters, monographs and anthologies. She worked for 18 months as a project officer in the Department of Architecture Interior Architecture at Curtin University, Perth WA, Australia, where she acquired a sound knowledge of the research culture of the built environment.

Dr Houen has edited several published anthologies and monographs on architecture, interior architecture and design. Although not trained in architecture, her academic training is interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and eclectic, so the theories and practice of architecture and design are familiar territory. She edits for style, grammar and punctuation, flow, coherence and consistency, with an eye to simple and concise expression, and respecting the author’s voice.

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This globe shining in the morning sun seemed like This globe shining in the morning sun seemed like a metaphor of how the world has been viewed from windows this past year.
 
Image: Globe in an Argyle Street-facing window of Partners Hill Design Group, Hobart on a sunny late April morning. 

#architecture #hobart #tasmania #globe #macquariestreehobart #design #partnershillarchitects #partnershill
Natural flooring pattern #floor #authenticdesign # Natural flooring pattern
#floor #authenticdesign #shadow
Landed! Have been enjoy the spectacle of this hou Landed! 
Have been enjoy the spectacle of this house under construction. The barriers are down and tonight it was lit up for a photoshoot.
Looking forward to my story about Moshe Safdie app Looking forward to my story about Moshe Safdie appearing in a few weeks. Will post links. What can designers learn from a starchitect to help their businesses? Here he was talking about humanising the megascale and repossessing the public realm, at Edge, this year’s annual conference of the Australian Institute of Architects. It was the first time since 1959 the AIA held its conference on the Gold Coast. 
Safdie designs outside of the box. This was my second interview with him. My first was at the opening of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore (swipe). He has a new building Jewel opening at Singapore’s Changi Airport in 2019. 
He designed a master plan for Robins on the Gold Coast in the late 1970s that was never realised. It included a canal on the same scale as the Grand Canal in Venice and the plan would have been a precursor to Marina Bay Sands. Safdie described the mall and home developments that were built  at Robina as heartbreaking’. Another in the catalogue of the greatest unbuilt projects. I have worked on a few, writing copy for bids for architects and the design comes alive in your imagination and resides there forever in a kind of parallel universe. 
Meanwhile people use the space never knowing how it might have been.

#designstuff #designbusiness #architecture #designer #architecture #marinabaysands #jewelsingapore #jewelchangiairport  #moshesafdie #edgegc2018 #australianinstituteofarchitects #archwriter #unbuiltarchitecture
The Gold Coast is destination for the National Arc The Gold Coast is destination for the National Architecture Conference, titled Edge next week. 
Looking forward to talks and writing about it.

If you are a publisher or a design firm who’d like a report from the event on a specific angle or to find out what you are missing let me know.
Keynote speaker is Moshe Safdie who I interviewed (along with many others) at opening of the amazing Marina Bay Sands in 2010.

##Design #Architecture #AIAEdge #ArchitectureConference #MosheSafde #marinabaysands #GoldCoastConventionCentre
#Architecturalreview #businessofarchitecture #designtrends #archwriter
#architecturalfirms #journalist #content #copywriting
The pod on the right said to the pod on left.... I The pod on the right said to the pod on left.... I have watched this building being made after wondering what would be put on the site. Couldn’t have guessed. It’s a house with the living area in the pod on the right and the sleeping quarters on the left. 
Would love to write about it for a mag or the designer. 
#podhouse #pointdanger #tweedterrace #sustainabledesign #gcbconstructions #raunikdesigngroup #raunikdesigh #architecture #architectureaustralia
New block replaces brick veneer flats that had bee New block replaces brick veneer flats that had been part of Rainbow Bay forever. 
Quite chunky as new blocks go. The balconies are like indoor/outdoor rooms. Appealing retreat from the sun and breeze.  I would want to be from Level 4 up up so I don’t see the road but see beach life. The rear view looks across buildings towards boat harbour and river.
Will add more details in comments as I discover them.
What do you think?
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#jackevansboatharbour #tweedriver #greenmounthill #snapperrocks #apartmentliving #balconyliving #oceanview
Brisbane skyline #brisbane #brisbanecity #brisban Brisbane skyline

#brisbane #brisbanecity #brisbaneriver #meriton #brisbanelibrary
Revisiting my snaps from Venice Biennale 2016 in Revisiting my snaps from Venice Biennale 2016  in its last week. Loved these screens on easels. 
#venezia #labiennale #labiennaledivenezia #venicebiennale #giardini
The wonderful pre-school that was part of China's The wonderful pre-school that was part of China's display at Venice Biennale 2016. It has almost no furniture. The inset panels in the walls and floors provide nooks for work, play and rest. 
#venezia #chinapavilion 
#preschool 
#labiennaledivenezia #architecture #chinesearchitecture
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