In the modern world of lightweight structures, we often find ourselves at the crossroads of architectural trends. Digital transformation offers us ground-breaking pathways to innovate on novel platforms in strange new ways, with the rise of AI asking us to rethink all we knew. A climate-crisis-driven focus on sustainability has asked us to consider our impact on the world around us through smart materials and biophilic urbanism. And new human-centric approaches to our fields have offered up frameworks spanning vast disciplinary bounds to tackle our world’s most pressing problems.
Today’s world must seize hold of all these new trends. To be held on September 12 and 13, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia, the LSAA 2024 Conference and Design Awards will spearhead the industry’s approach to all these vital challenges under the banner of ‘Connecting to Tomorrow’.
The theme seeks to encompass all the connections that will make up tomorrow’s lightweight structures fields – connections to technology, to environment and to each other. Featuring the world leaders in the field of lightweight structures, this conference stands at an inflection point, seizing the vast opportunity to deal with these crucial issues as we build tomorrow’s world, today.
Keynote speakers:
- Alastair Richardson, Principal Director – Cox Architecture, Sydney, Australia
- Rachaporn Choochuey, Design Director – all(zone) Architecture, Bangkok, Thailand
- Professor Mark Burry AO, Founding Director – Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
Date: September 12-13, 2024
Location: Level 3 AMDC Building, Swinburne University of Technology, 453 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC
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