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The Naarm Architecture Foundation collaborates with Naarm/Melbourne based organisations to cultivate a city-based discourse on architecture through events, exhibitions and polemics. If you’re interested in collaborating on a local event, please get in touch.
The Naarm Architecture Foundation collaborates with Naarm/Melbourne based organisations to cultivate a city-based discourse on architecture through events, exhibitions and polemics. If you’re interested in collaborating on a local event, please get in touch.
Boyd and Corrigan and Corrigan and Boyd, November 2026
In partnership with the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation is hosting two evening talks exploring the transition from mid-century modernism to postmodernism following Robin Boyd’s death in 1971: Boyd and Corrigan (at the Walsh St House) and Corrigan and Boyd (at 46 Little La Trobe Street). Buy tickets through this link.
In partnership with the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation is hosting two evening talks exploring the transition from mid-century modernism to postmodernism following Robin Boyd’s death in 1971: Boyd and Corrigan (at the Walsh St House) and Corrigan and Boyd (at 46 Little La Trobe Street). Buy tickets through this link.
small symposium, November 2026
The Naarm Architecture Foundation is pleased to support small symposium, an afternoon exploring small-project architecture through a series of presentations and conversations curated by Kerry Kounnapis and the Robin Boyd Foundation.
Speakers will reflect on the potential of compact briefs for emerging practices; quiet acts of care on Country; how collaborative, provisional and participatory gestures can furnish cities and regional areas; economies of scale; and evolving approaches to reinventing the home on a tight budget. Buy tickets through this link.
The Naarm Architecture Foundation is pleased to support small symposium, an afternoon exploring small-project architecture through a series of presentations and conversations curated by Kerry Kounnapis and the Robin Boyd Foundation.
Speakers will reflect on the potential of compact briefs for emerging practices; quiet acts of care on Country; how collaborative, provisional and participatory gestures can furnish cities and regional areas; economies of scale; and evolving approaches to reinventing the home on a tight budget. Buy tickets through this link.
SUBURBAN PROVOCATIONS, October 2026
The Foundation is sponsored a Pecha Kucha night: SUBURBAN PROVOCATIONS for emerging practices partnering with the Melbourne School of Design as part of the School’s three-day symposium: The Future Suburb.
The Foundation is sponsored a Pecha Kucha night: SUBURBAN PROVOCATIONS for emerging practices partnering with the Melbourne School of Design as part of the School’s three-day symposium: The Future Suburb.
AIA Small Project Sponsor, June 2026
The Foundation sponsored the Small Projects Category at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Awards and presented the award as part of the 2026 program.
The Foundation sponsored the Small Projects Category at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Awards and presented the award as part of the 2026 program.
Coming soon in 2027
The Foundation will launch a quarterly event program called Practice Polemics in which local practices host a discussion evening focused on a polemical or discursive idea of specific interest to that practice’s creative and professional practice – with all sessions video recorded and included in the Foundation’s public archive.
The Foundation will launch a quarterly event program called Practice Polemics in which local practices host a discussion evening focused on a polemical or discursive idea of specific interest to that practice’s creative and professional practice – with all sessions video recorded and included in the Foundation’s public archive.
The Naarm Architecture Foundation is based on the unceded lands and waterways of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. We acknowledge over 65,000 years of continuous place-making, cultural knowledge and custodianship by Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and by First Nations communities across Australia.
Naarm means place in Woi-wurrung language and reflects our commitment to place-based creative practice in the city of Naarm/Melbourne. We thank the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation for their guidance in using this word to shape our identity as a Foundation.
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