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Unfortunately, due to the resurgence of COVID-19 and the re-instated isolation restrictions, Bookshop by Uro will be closed to the public from 09/07/20 until 20/08/20. However, our online shop will still be operating 7 days a week—stay home and let us bring the books to you! Thank you to all of those who visited the new shop in our brief month open to the public, and we look forward to seeing you again on the other side.

It's been a tumultuous few months, but Uro's new bookshop will finally be open to the public from next Tuesday 9 June onwards. The shop interior has been designed by our good friends Architecture Architecture and sits within the Collingwood Yards, a hidden courtyard garden surrounded by historic buildings recently revitalised by Fieldwork and SBLA. We can attest that these brilliant people, not to mention the team that manages the Collingwood Arts Precinct and our many talented neighbours, have created a very special place to spend time in. So, with restrictions easing, we would like to invite our Melburnian customers to...

Architectural academics Pia Ednie-Brown and Timothy Burke have reviewed Richard Goodwin's God in Reverse: Art, Architecture and Consciousness in Mar/April print edition of Architecture Australia. While describing his “love affair with cities,” the author acknowledges their inherently destructive nature and calls for a responsive architecture in which cities such as Sydney (around which the book is focused) are alive to their own memories, begins the review. The authors weave comparisons to film, particularly the pleasingly unexpected comparison to the ways that films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbarella (both produced in 1968) depicted technology. Of the writing, they say “the...

Landscape Australia has reviewed Kerb 27: Selective Perceptions, locating the journal within the context of 2019 – a year of protesting against the impacts of consolidated power and wealth – as well as the literature on the social agency of landscape architects, and the profession itself. As Andrew Toland summarises of Kerb 27: What all contributions, as well as the editorial position, share is an unheroic and unsentimental awareness of the complexity and complications of designers’ roles in the production of overtly and covertly political space: positions that are not unproblematically “great” or “good,” are sometimes progressive, sometimes complicit, sometimes...

Musk Cottage garden is maverick designer Rick Eckersley’s own private garden. It is the culmination of decades of experimentation in Australian landscape gardening and an emphatic expression of the loose, almost painterly approach to landscape design that Eckersley is renowned for. Rogue: Art of a Garden documents and explores this remarkable Australian landscape and the sensibility that produced it. Ahead of the publication of Rogue in early 2020, The Planthunter spoke to Rick about his vision for Musk. “In designing Musk, I wanted to break new territory but stay within the profile of the Australian landscape – I just tipped...