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GK suggested “ The Universal Traveller – Koberg/Bagnall (creativity … the process of reaching goals).” With which I agree wholeheartedly, especially the one pager on how to give a critique: describe the approach (for simpatico), praise the best bits, critique the worst bits, show how the best can fix the worst. Was a big hit in the late 70’s, but not for Neville Quarry. SF suggested: “Further to your reading list, I still have a copy of a prescribed text from my first year of Archit...

Tone Wheeler objects. But practitioners know it as a process. A gulf of understanding, which I want to illustrate with two words, normally seen as nouns, but if you flip them as verbs, they tell us a lot about how we should think of designing dwellings. The late Col James, as senior lecturer at Sydney University, was chair and coordinator of the I.B. Fell Housing Research Unit, critically looking at housing policy. The message on his answer phone ended with the exhortation to “make housing a...

Info 18 May 2007 RWA DA Proposal for Parking, Stalls and Performance Space at Blacksmiths’ Shop – until Wednesday 6th June 2007 / ILC National Indigenous Development Centre Concept Plan (MP 06_0267) on Exhibition until Friday 15th June 2007 / Local Action Plan Grants – Now you see them now you don’t – CoS Budget until 8th June 2007 / Minister Approves RWA Contribution Plan and Affordable Housing Contributions Plans / RWA Employs New Community Rel...