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Our time has been defined by a reformist agenda, by tweaks, slight adjustments to the market and to societal norms without ever really providing to anyone (except the very rich) a feeling of change, of progress, of improvement. Maybe subtlety doesn’t work.
The project begins in 2021 with the expansion of the role of ‘government architect.’ A new portfolio was added to the NSW cabinet in the form of Minister for the Built Environment. The minister is appointed from within the profession itself – they are always trained in architecture, they are not career politicians.
The actual scheme itself replicates and corrects the existing logic. Each square has been increased in size to 42 metres. Four of these are arranged around a central courtyard of the same dimensions, and then the working building is doubled in size. Where the residential building sits, at the top of the site, a foundation of basalt has been revealed which acts as landscape, as recreation, as vista.
The regional office operates in a very specific way, with 500 graduate students attending the Office complex at any one time. This operates as military service did once upon a time, and still does in certain nations. Two years ‘service’ is required, at the end of which every attending architect will have received their registration. The two years service is split – this is the RAAU regional centre; a metropolitan centre also exists. A year is served in each before a six month period of architectural “placement” within a community somehwere in NSW. A requirement is also that you join the Architecture Union.
The purpose of the centre is to reclaim certain knowledges, we want to reconsolidate the profession, particularly in Australia, and battle against this continual division of labour. The notion of ‘labour’ itself is important, the project is cynical, but belies a greater optimism and belief in Utopia.