PaperSpace 2019 - Architecture is a journey

PaperSpace is Deakin University’s School of Architecture and Built Environment’s annual student exhibition showcasing outstanding work from architecture and landscape architecture students.

Architecture is a journey. It has a beginning, a middle and, like all journeys, it has an end… a destination, an outcome. The journey from what we want our architecture to be, to what it can be, to what it actually is.

This exhibition attempts to ‘map’ that journey, through all of the different moments that characterise the architectural trajectory. A journey through and between the entrenched positions of traditional architectural discourse and theory, to a place where the conceptual and the utilitarian come together, to address a wider public responsibility, and where what is not said, is often just as important as what is said.

This ‘mapping’ is illustrated through the successful design projects on display. Drawing, models and portfolios, covering a range of overarching propositional values, in a manner that not only demonstrates the ‘journey’, but also emphasises the importance of diversification in the architectural discipline.

The exhibition will demonstrate that architecture’s responsibilities to the public realm are larger than Space and more durable than Paper.