Monument No. 91 (June/July 2009)

The latest issue of Monument has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Close-Up: New Brick - The humble brick breaks free from its institutional reputation
• News Site - New products and design events
• Trend Report - Incandescent light bulbs are making way for their environmentally-sound counterparts: LED lights
• Objects - Monument hand picks designs in-store
• Design Profile - New York-based design firm, Commonwealth, unites the handmade with the limitlessness of digital technologies
• Digital Revisited: The New Code - Will the uprise of digital exploration in architecture equal the obsolescence of more conventional tools in the future?
• Architecture Profile - Studio Mumbai work with local craftsmen and young architects to fuel an exchange of knowledge that yields spectacular results
• In Conversation: Tom Wiscombe - Sam Spurr talks to Tom Wiscombe about the theories that form the basis of his highly experimental practice
• New Generation - Monument uncovers ten names to watch in architecture and design today
• Musical Twist - UNStudio's Musical Theatre in Graz features a central twist structure upon which the whole building revolves
• Back to Basics - BASE Architecture layer-up to create a cosy abode in a circa 1923 commercial building in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley
• Raw Theatrics - WOHA's Genexis Theatre in Singapore takes an innovative approach to answering questions of acoustics, functionality and space
• The Space Between - David Boyle's renovation of a Victorian townhouse in Sydney's inner-west is a testament to the continuing need for craftmanship in present architecture
• Sound Design - Smart Design Studio morphs a Sydney heritage-listed warehouse into the new workplace of the Australian Performance Rights Association
• Double Vision - San Francisco-based Faulders Studio and Tokyo-based Studio M use digital technologies to striking effect in their collaboration on Airspace in Tokyo
• Photoessay - Tobias Titz reimagines the great Australian Dream through the lens of a Polaroid 600 Land Camera
• Reading Matter - New book releases
• Site Unseen - Projects on the drawing board
• Last Word - David Neustein discusses the necessity of an architecture that is not only a response to its surroundings, but also a safeguard against it