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Sydney symposium explores architecture with a light touch

Sydney symposium explores architecture with a light touch

Three guests at next week’s Architecture Hub share a common purpose: coexistence with the landscape.

A render of Sou Fujimoto's 'Arbre Blanc' (White Tree) apartment building.  

Stephen ToddDesign editor

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Modernist architecture sought to take possession of the earth, make grand statements about humanity’s dominion over nature. As the machismo inherent in that approach becomes increasingly inappropriate, more nuanced architects are seeking symbiosis, an elegant cohabitation between the built and natural environments.

Rigorous, vigorous, experimental, their work desires to neither dominate nor disappear into the landscape as much as coexist with it.

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Stephen ToddDesign editorStephen Todd writes for The Australian Financial Review's weekly Life&Leisure lift out and AFR Magazine. Email Stephen at stephen.todd@afr.com

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