Kristen Green Architecture + Michelle Hamer

JOINT FIRST PRIZE WINNER

‘Long Term Parking’

Green & Hamer explore the long-lasting qualities of tapestry in relation to contemporary disposable architecture and culture.

Drawing on the tradition of collage in architecture to mesh critical ideas together: the temporary Phillip Cox Venice Pavilion in amongst archival footage of the Tent Embassy in the forecourt of Canberra’s Provisional Parliament House and flora grappled with by John Glover collide with the woven wall as tent, - rich in architectural history.

As tapestries outlast many contemporary buildings, the viewer is invited to question what it means to be temporary, displaced, replaced, be represented, misrepresented and to have longevity.