INTERVIEWS

GREGORY HODKINSON,
CHAIRMAN OF ARUP GROUP
Interviewed by Hamish Robertson
04/12/14
When the Anglo-Danish engineer Sir Ove Nyquist Arup founded the engineering company Arup & Arup Ltd in 1938, it was the first step in the eventual creation of a global, multidisciplinary firm embracing engineering, urban planning and design.
Arup now operates across several continents, and has had a long association with Australia, including a central role in the structural engineering and design of the Sydney Opera House. It's currently responsible for the structural and facade engineering of the three International Towers currently under construction at Barangaroo in Sydney, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, as well as being closely involved in the Sydney Light Rail project, whose construction is due to get underway in April 2015, the Canberra Light Rail scheme, and the now completed Gold Coast Light Rail, or G:link.
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KENNETH FRAMPTON
22/12/07

Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor at Columbia University, is a highly regarded & widely published New York based Anglo-American writer and critic. Roger Barrett undertook his major graduating study at Sydney University in 1984 on the subject of Kenneth Frampton's proposition of a "Critical Regionalism". After many years of conversations with Kenneth, Roger asks a few further questions .......
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