AAA 2010 Walking Tours

The AAA Walking Tours will start from 17 April 2010.  Tickets to the first tours are now available for purchase on line.  More tours will be progressively added in the coming weeks.

Please click the links to the right to buy your tickets.  For AAA members, your free walking tours can now be booked on line.  Just have your membership number ready when you are booking and don't forget to bring your membership card on the day to show the tour leader.

Newcastle: Civic Tour

In a tribute to the architect Frederick Menkens on the centenary of his death, the Newcastle branch of the Australian Architecture Association will take people on a walking tour of several Menkens buildings on Sunday 18 April.

The walk will take place during the National Trust's Heritage Festival for 2010 and will include﹕

  • St. Andrews Church
  • Baptist Tabernacle
  • Frederick Ash Warehouse
  • Garrett and Son Warehouse

Other aspects of architecture will be discussed during the walk including adaptations or the re-use of historic buildings, the urban landscape and public art.

The tour will be led by heritage architect John Carr and Brian Suters.

  • Date: Sunday 18 April
  • Time: 10.30 - 12.30
  • Cost: Payment accepted on the day $20 per person $30 family $10 student / Seniors
    AAA members and children under 12 are free

Register at the Lock-Up at 10.15am on the day
90 Hunter Street Newcastle
Phone 4925 2265

Click here for more information.

Sydney Design 2010

sydney_design_2010Through it's dynamic events, activities, discussions and lectures, Sydney Design creates a platform for the convergence of design lovers with respected photographers, stylists, craftspeople, designers, curators and artists.

Visit the Powerhouse Museum as often as you like for 16 days during the festival with a Sydney Design Pass. Includes unlimited daytime admission between 31 July and 15 August 2010.

www.sydneydesign.com.au

2010 Sydney Architecture Festival

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The Annual Sydney Architecture Festival celebrates the city's architecture and aims to engage the public in exploring aspects of the built environment.

The AAA has some great tours planned again for the Festival, including the popular Architecture Harbour Cruise on Saturday 6 November which is sure to be an unforgetable experience with architect Nick Hollo leading the tour.

Discover Sydney by going on the Sydney City Architecture Walk; find out about Macquarie Street in the Governor's Street walking tour or learn about the history of the vibrant, inner city suburb of Surry Hills with the AAA trained guides.

Events for the Festival will be held across the City of Sydney and will also feature talks, exhibitions, children's activities and much more. For more information on the Festival, go to www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org

Share your love for architecture!

Share your love for architecture with your family and friends this Christmas!

Get a AAA membership for your loved ones this year.  As AAA members, they will enjoy unlimited free guided architecture walks, discounted tours to buildings otherwise inaccessible to the public, talks by renowned architects and other exciting events in the new year.

We are also offering the AAA boxed set of cards and gift membership as a package deal.  The set includes 24 cards reproduced from original drawings by 24 Australian architects.  All the proceeds from the boxed set will go to the AAA Fund to support a children's program to broader their awareness of sustainable architecture, our architectural heritage and the design process.

Gift Membership Packages:

1. 1 Year Individual Membership: $165
2. 1 Year Individual Membership with Boxed Set of Cards: $210 + $10 p+h
3. 1 Year AAA Senior/Student Membership: $75
4. 1 Year AAA Senior/Student Membership with Boxed Set of Cards $120 + $10 p+h

Download the order form now and fax or email it back to us by 15 December 2010.

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Merry Christmas

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The Board of the Australian Architecture Association would like to wish all members and friends a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

We look forward to seeing you on our tours throughout January (listed below) and all through the year ahead. We have an exciting program planned including our first overseas tours; The Road to Rome in June and September with more in the planning stages.

Download the AAA Christmas Flyer

 

Featured Walk

Sculpture of the City Experience
Saturday 15 January 2011 from 2:00PM - 4:00 PM
Departs Australia Square
Includes Calders ‘Crossed Blades' commissioned as part of Harry Seidler's Australia Square tower project and also looks at sculptures that caused controversy like Tom Bass's P & O Fountain in Hunter Street, more frequently referred to as ‘The Urinal'

Click here to book online today

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