The Naarm Architectural Papers Vol 1: 46 Little La Trobe Street - Patch, Repair and the Cache is the first of an ongoing series by the newly establish Naarm Architecture Foundation. 'Unabashedly local', the inaugural issue documents the building and space formerly occupied by the influential practice Edmond and Corrigan, which will soon house the Foundation's activities.
About This Book
The Naarm Architectural Papers is a new biannual publication to encourage, promote and document a public discourse on architecture in the city, within the specific vision and remit of the Naarm Architecture Foundation. It aims to speak to ideas about architecture and the city in a language that can engage both a public and disciplinary audience.
In the late 1960s the Royal Australian Institute of Architects published a series of long form essays called The Melbourne Architectural Papers, initiated and edited by Robin Boyd, with international writers speculating on themes including "The New Forces," (Peter Blake) "A Critic's View," (J.M.Richards), and "An Architecture of Participation" (Giancarlo de Carlo). This series, urgent in tone and content, was intended to provoke a public discourse on architectural ideas within the context of pressing social changes in the late 1960s. The series lapsed with the untimely death of Boyd in 1971.
This new publication seeks to take up this mantle for times and challenges that have changed. It is driven by ideas: polemical, critical, historical, cultural, experimental, and provocative. Focused on Naarm/Melbourne within a wider world of ideas and places, the publication is both parochial and cosmopolitan.
Key Features
- Contributions from Anna Jankovic, Andre Bonnice, Maggie Edmond and Philip Goad
- Photography by Rory Gardiner with Colby Vexler
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Graphic design by Ziga Testen and Stuart Geddes
What You'll Discover
- A documentation of the building and space designed and formerly occupied by the practice Edmond and Corrigan
- Critiques of generalist approaches to the restoration of culturally significant spaces
- A photographic documentation of 46 Little La Trobe Street's physical space in its present form
- A meditation on the former Edmond and Corrigan office space within a global context of architects designing and locating their own creative workplaces
- Maggie Edmond own reflection on the complex choreography of ideas, people, materiality and projects that animated the offices' creative space
About the Author
The Naarm Architecture Foundation has been established to foster, develop and promote the past, contemporary, and speculative practice of architecture in Naarm/Melbourne, and its role in the city’s culture and society. It supports architectural and related design practices that engage in a range of discursive, cultural, social, environmental, and aesthetic issues.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 27 x 19.5 cm
- Pages: 54
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781837290000
- Publisher: Naarm Architecture Foundation Limited, 2026
- Publication Date: September 2026
Perfect For: Designers, architects and locals interested in a public and critical discourse on architecture, Naarm/Melbourne's culture and society, and ideas that are polemical, critical, historical, cultural & experimental.