Ashton Raggatt McDougall

This approach means that ARM often seems to draw connections that are not apparent: to the nature of a city, particular people, specific building types, historical episodes or events.18 As Ian McDougall explained in his own words, “Architecture appears to want or need to represent something to validate its permanence”.19 The blackened Villa Savoye at Canberra and recreation of Vanna Venturi House in Footscray are chunk-appropriations, a technique antithetical to modernism’s ideas for the forever new.20 Goad commented that it is a practice unseen anywhere else in the…