Cairns architecture: old, valuable and sometimes lost
23/09/2016
Cairns architecture: old, valuable and sometimes lost
Cairns architecture: old, valuable and sometimes lost
Designed in Cairns seminar
Start
06 October 2016, 5:30pm
End
06 October 2016, 7:30pm
This Seminar
This seminar is part of the Festival of Architecture for 2016. It examines a brief history of architecture in far north Queensland (including Indigenous architectural types). It showcases a selection of heritage buildings and the lost architecture of the region, and describes how the built environment has affected and contributed to the development of the north.
Where: The Cairns Institute, main lecture theatre, RM-054 with video link to Townsville room D009-001
Dr Shaneen Fantin is a Designer, Thinker and Writer. Shaneen is the Director of POD (People Oriented Design) – a multi-disciplinary architecture, design, research and community engagement practice based in Cairns. Shaneen is also the Chair of the FNQ committee for the Australian Institute of Architects and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University and the University of Queensland.
