CV08: Critical visions - preview of the 2008 RAIA national conference

摘要

The RAIA National Conference for 2008, Critical visions: form, representation and the culture of globalisation, will explore some of the most pressing issues of contemporary practice, in particular the generation of meaningful architectural form within an accelerating globalised culture. We seem to be in a period of unparalleled excess, spectacle and formal indulgence played out against a backdrop of environmental crisis, extreme inequity and cultural alienation. At the same moment this appears to be a time of great formal innovation, genuine creative insight and technological potential. This conference offers a space to pause and reflect on the nature and meaning of this intense period of extreme architectural production, the globalised exportation of architectural culture and the generation of form and meaningful social representations.