News — God in Reverse

Architectural academics Pia Ednie-Brown and Timothy Burke have reviewed Richard Goodwin's God in Reverse: Art, Architecture and Consciousness in Mar/April print edition of Architecture Australia. While describing his “love affair with cities,” the author acknowledges their inherently destructive nature and calls for a responsive architecture in which cities such as Sydney (around which the book is focused) are alive to their own memories, begins the review. The authors weave comparisons to film, particularly the pleasingly unexpected comparison to the ways that films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbarella (both produced in 1968) depicted technology. Of the writing, they say “the...

God in Reverse: Art, Architecture and Consciousness has been awarded the highest prize at the 2019 AGDA Design Awards 2019: Distinction. Congratulations to book designer Sean Hogan and author, artist and mastermind, Richard Goodwin. To view more of the book, see here.

We are very happy to announce that God in Reverse, designed by Sean Hogan of Trampoline Design, is a finalist in the Australian Graphic Design Associations' 2019 awards. View the whole entry.   Australian art journal, Art Almanac has reviewed artist/architect Richard Goodwin's God in Reverse: Art, Architecture and Consciousness, admiring the book's ambition in combining imagination and research to create an “unorthodox monograph”. “Richard Goodwin’s preoccupation with the delineations between art, architecture and urbanism means that, to our delight, he does not walk the line.” “With innovative ideas and the, at times dizzying, asymmetry of its presentation, one cannot...

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...