Awards
- Winner of Sulman Medal for Public Architecture 2018
Overview
Angelo Candalepas: Australian Islamic Mission tells the story of the Punchbowl Mosque, a new architectural Western Sydney landmark and winner of the 2018 Sulman Medal for Public Architecture. Designed by Angelo Candalepas and Associates for the Australian Islamic Mission (AIM), the Punchbowl Mosque represents a poignant moment of collaboration across faiths and cultures. This book presents four written reflections on the mosque from faith, architectural, cultural and engineering viewpoints. In an essay on his architectural inspiration and process, Angelo Candalepas reflects on universal experiences within faith spaces, underlining that such architecture can have a phenomenological impact regardless of its religious intention or a person's beliefs. Senior Associate at Candalepas Associates, Adrian Curtin discusses the bespoke engineering required to deliver the Punchbowl Mosque. Intended as a guide for others, Curtin lays out the specific techniques used to develop the mosque's concrete set-out, including the iconic 102 quarter-spherical, concrete muqarnas. Dr Zachariah Matthews, Vice-President of AIM and the Punchbowl Mosque, speaks to AIM's design brief and the community support for the project, which proved vital to its construction. Maryam Gusheh, Associate Professor in Architectural Studies at UNSW, approaches the mosque as a form of contemporary cultural expression. Both personal and grounded in architectural criticism, Gusheh's essay illuminates the significance of an architecturally designed mosque for the Muslim community of Sydney. Angelo Candalepas: Australian Islamic Mission is the first edition of Architecture in Detail: a series of books on the work of Candalepas Associates.
Full Product Details
Author: Angelo Candalepas ,
Curtin ,
Gusheh ,
Matthews
Publisher: Uro Publications
Imprint: Uro Publications
ISBN: 9780994396648
ISBN 10: 0994396643
Pages: 74
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Angelo Candalepas established his own architecture studio in 1994 and has gone to achieve numerous awards and medals for his contributions to architecture. These include Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, 2012, Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Sulman Medal for Public Architecture in 2009 and the Frederick Romberg National Architecture Award in 2011, the Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture in 2016 and the Aaron Bolot Award for Residential Architecture in 2011 and 2017. In 2016 he was also awarded the Premier's Award for Architecture in NSW. In 2003 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Architecture at UNSW and since then has taught architectural design and theory for the final year Master of Architecture course.
