LAB EXPERIMENTS

摘要

Architecturally, Melbourne is wacky. For a long time, the capital of Victoria seemed to be the seat of provincial respectability. But in the mid 1970s, tectonic culture was transformed, largely by Peter Corrigan of Edmund and Corrigan, who brought a sense of Irish larrikinism, disrespect for the po-faced and a continual questioning of what architecture is about and what it can do. The arrival of Leon van Scheik as professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) reinforced the tendency, which is not confined to the profession, but infects the whole of society and its attitude to architecture. Ashton Raggatt McDougall began to muck about with fractal geometries in architecture a decade ago.