Some obsessions with orthography

Description

I was invited by Kate Finning and Andrew Murray (University of Melbourne) to a garage in Fitzroy to speak for 10-15 minutes about an obsession.

With some nice slides, I highlighted orthographic drawings ability to communicate as a language with various dialects, briefly tracing its different guises in relation to four themes:

I. the archaic
II. war
III. the occult
IV. ambiguity between drawings & models

The Garage Talks and Garage Papers were born without insulation, zoning, funding, or permission, and began with a simple insistence: the freedom to talk about architecture for its own sake. What started as conversations in a garage grew into a space for those who believe in buildings as material, historical, and cultural realities—often overlooked by institutions obsessed with the “extra-” of the discipline.
Drawing on a distinctly Melbourne lineage of informal talk clubs and independent publishing, the project reclaims architecture as a confident cultural practice: a hobby, a pleasure, and something fun.

Period	Sept 2025
Held at	Garage Talks and Garage Papers, Australia
Degree of Recognition	National