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Sean Hogan's book design of Richard Goodwin's publication God in Reverse has been internationally recognised in the Dezeen Awards 2019 design longlist.  Sean of Trampoline Design, worked closely with Goodwin to develop a graphic treatment that would fit the unique content of the monograph and pay homage to Goodwin's critique of classic conventions of architecture and art institutions. The publication was selected as one of the top 26 entries in the 'Graphic Design' category, out of thousands submitted. The shortlist will be announced in September 2019. Congratulations Sean and everyone involved!

Jeremy Till, British architect and writer, and Head of Central Saint Martins, London, has offered some comments on Richard Goodwin's God in Reverse. “God in Reverse tracks a lifetime’s work of thinking to make and making to think. It is presented as a series of thought experiments – visual, material, intellectual – which ask ‘what if?’, where the ‘if’ is sometimes extreme but eventually lands in a set of spatial provocations. If Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities has Venice at its core, then God in Reverse has Sydney as its object of tough love, unravelling the stranglehold that financialised space has placed...

We are pleased to announce Architecture in it its Continuums has won the Australian Book Designers Association's Egans Asset Management Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book. In this book, Leon Van Schaik's distillation of a lifetime of thinking about architecture is beautifully presented within book and cover design by Stuart Geddes. Congratulations to both.

Erich Mayer has reviewed Angelo Candalepas: Australian Islamic Mission for ArtsHub Writing & Publishing: “Angelo Candalepas: Australian Islamic Mission records a significant and rare achievement – the building of a beautiful, modern, architect-designed place of worship.’ While noting that some of the more detailed sections “are not designed for the layperson”, Mayer highlights both Angelo Candalepas' and Maryam Gusheh's essays as providing comments of interest to the general public. He particularly enjoyed Candalepas' comments on the nature of concrete – “By taking every effort to ensure a craftsman-like result, concrete forms offer a playfulness or joy to the eye.” Mayer also comments that Gusheh's...