Melbourne-based firm Six Degrees will feature twenty years of their work in an exhibition as part of the Alumni Retrospective Series at the University of Melbourne later this week.

The annual series of events celebrates the work of Faculty graduates and highlights the contribution they make to Australia’s design culture and built environment.

The firm, known for their ability to design for high use spaces, such as social venues and universities, will present Greatest Hits 1992-2012, focusing on first twenty years of the firm’s work.

The exhibition will feature drawings, sketches, documentary photography and film, art projects, self-built work, archival material and built works. The exhibition will centre around a built form containing relics, objects and drawings, seating, lighting, a speaker’s box and, of course, a concrete bar.

The opening on 19 October will be marked by the pouring of the concrete bar, with the assistance of ABP students.

Six Degrees have been part of the cultural fabric of Melbourne’s CBD since they designed the first laneway bar, Meyer’s Place and they have continued to contribute to the rich bar culture Melbourne is so well known for.

Dark laneways are not the only design terrain of this talented firm. They are also responsible for revitalising other neglected part of the city including the Vaults below Federation Square, the City Square retail precinct and the Boatbuilders Yard at Southwharf.

The founding Directors of Six Degrees are Craig Allchin, Mark Healy, James Legge, Peter Malatt, Dan O’loughlin (all alumni of the University of Melbourne, 1989) and Simon O’Brien (RMIT).

For more information visit http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/events/six-degrees

The University will also host John Andrews Symposium and Public Lecture this week (20 October).

John Andrews is known as one of the country's most significant architects - an international star of late Modernism, who forged a prominent career and reputation in Canada in the 1960s and 70s before returning to Australia.

The symposium brings together critics, scholars and colleagues of John Andrews and presents a unique opportunity to hear Andrews’ personal overview of his most substantial built and unbuilt works.

To launch the event Mary Lou Lobsinger, University of Toronto will present a free public lecture on 19 October outlining Andrews’ Canadian work.

Image caption: Left - Michael Hugo-Brunt, Middle, John Andrews, Right - Michael Hough, Scarborough College Library University of Toronto

RSVP at: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/heritage/john-andrews-symposium

Architecture & Design Team

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