Sydney talk—Owen Hopkins, The Manifesto House

Join author Owen Hopkins, and respondent Kate Goodwin in Sydney for a discussion on his recent book, The Manifesto House – buildings that changed the future of architecture.

The Manifesto House reflects new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for innovation, new ideas, and new ways of doing things.

Most houses are the product of multiple layers of norms and expectations built up over time, whether methods, materials, and technologies or social, cultural, economic, and political pressures. Yet at various moments houses have been built that break with the past and do something different—houses that stand outside of these expectations and instead are conceived to embody whole new theories or agendas. We call these “manifesto houses.”

When: 6 pm Thursday  23 October  2025

Where: Bookshop by Uro, Blackfriars St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia

Ticket: $5-Ticket price redeemable as a discount from book purchase