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&tDisp=Andrew Maynard's Architecture explores a variety a narratives at the interface of built and natural environments. His work is progressive and at times subversive. Rooted in the importance of ecology but unburdened responsibility, it envisions the natural and built environments as companions, an optimistic architecture that models a sustainable future.
The Styx Valley Protest Shelter is an architecture of activism, at once providing a clever solution to the immediate needs of forest protesters and their aims, whilst sending a potent ideological message. Quon is less political, but represents a similar pragmatic and more sustainable design solution for future urban housing in Australia, whilst Urban Orchard blends aspects of Cuba's Market Gardens 'cradle to cradle' philosophy into a sustainable Melbourne cityscape.
The three projects in this exhibition represent diverse and sensitive perspectives, offering distinct solutions to issues that place sustainability at the centre the built environment. Rejecting a 'one size fits all' approach, Maynard's architecture takes creative care to balance necessity and potential in the context of ecology, community and commerce.&