Parramatta and the Ministry of Love
Monday's Parramatta City Council meeting was a classic example of force-fed ugliness.
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Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate Professor (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
Free Christ from the Christian Church
Abandon religion, by all means – if by "religion" you mean the badged and epauletted corporate hierarchy. Sooner the better. But never abandon the right to spiritual beliefs.
Tyranny of the mob and the mainstream
Trump's belligerent vulgarism has lowered the tone of the party, for sure. But still he is more symptom than cause. Everywhere you look, democracy is devolving into mob rule. It's as Washington (George) despairingly predicted. In universities, businesses bookshops and boardrooms, the mob is throwing its dumb and angry weight around. Race to the bottom accelerating, fast.
Act III: Life begins again – at 60
I don't usually have parties, especially not the birthday type. Sixty was tempting to deny but, for some reason I womanned up, and I'm glad.
The man who made our world
Never think architects don't matter, and Frank Lloyd Wright demonstrates exactly why.
The future is female: hitch a ride with go-getting grannies
To relegate older women is to undernourish the entire human race.
Are state governments really less corrupt than councils?
The last thing our city needs is a panel of arm's length experts.
Could Canberra really become cool?
It's sad to see Canberra emulate the worst of Sydney development, Elizabeth Farrelly writes.
Building with grace should be Architecture 101
How can we infuse our metaphysical dreamings into physical reality? How can buildings offer this thing I call grace? (And why, actually, isn't this Architecture 101?)
You can't cross a picket line you were never behind
Social media makes mob fury feel righteous, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.
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