Architecture as Spectacle

**Guest Lectures**

Prof. Kim Dovey • Reshaping Melbourne Water Front: The Fluid City

Prof. Paul Walker • Museum Architecture through History and Today

Dr Brendan Josey • Informality: Production of the city and transnational spatial agency

Francesco Stassi • Beyond Architecture: Lessons from East Africa

**Students**

Bjorn Tan • Architect & The State: Wielding the Sword of Empires

Danna Wan • The Spectacle of Tiananmen Square; Architecture and Political Framing

Daquan Guan • An Examination of the Architectural Crisis and Emerging Paradigms: Critical Analysis and Future Direction

Eddy Zhou • Capitalising on the victims of Capitalism: Spectacle of Melbourne's "Public Housing Towers"

Elvis Choi • Architecture as an Instagrammable Space in Post-Tourism

Iggy Licup • Architectural Image Making in the Exponential Age

Jack Osborn • The Generic City Realised: How the spectacle of globalised place produces inauthentic urban environments

Jeremy Hui • Participatory Design for a Better City Planning and Image Making

Jingxuan Yan • Olympic Branding: Spatial Control and the Cultural Symbolization in Rio's Favelas

Jonah Schembri • Moving beyond Capitalism with Biomimetic Architecture

Katia Romanic • How does the concept of Orientalism explain ongoing stereotypical portrayals of Egypt in contemporary media?

Lisa Biasotto • Architecture's role beyond branding amidst globalisation and changing identities

Madeline Craigie • The Weaponisation of Architecture as an Apparatus: Power, Resistance and Spectacle

Matthew Gallmann • The 'Other' Architecture: The Case of Kosovo

Michael Giese • On Greenwashing: Image-making and the Spectacle of Sustainable Architecture within the 21st Century Climate Crisis

Nathan Arceri • Echoes of an Old Memory: The Australian Dream, Expectations, and Belonging in Greenfield Suburbia

Polly Gemmell • Dark Tourism - an Essay

Raymond Hao • The City Branding of Xi'an

Sebastian Konyn • Seeing green: Spectacle and representation in NEOM

Sharvari Rane • Reimagining Power: Decolonizing British Museums Through Architecture in the Post-Tourism Era

Yueyao Xu • Idealisation and Contested Memorial Spaces: Rethinking the Critique of Spectacle. National Stances, and Emotional Accommodation

Architecture as Spectacle (2024)