Book Launch: Is Architecture Art: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Architecture by John Macarthur

Prof. John Macarthur’s new book, Is Architecture Art?, draws on accessible and thought-provoking accounts of historical and contemporary architectural and art theory. This authoritative new volume interrogates the relevance of philosophical aesthetics to the practice of making buildings, and asks why this relationship matters to the discipline of architecture.

This book launch event will be hosted by Garden Variety, with Prof. Macarthur in discussion with A. Prof. Andrea Bubenik, Josh Milani, and Aaron Peters. Tickets can be purchased here.

John Macarthur is Professor of Architecture and co-director of ATCH at The University of Queensland where he teaches history, theory and architectural design. His research focuses on the intellectual history of architecture, particularly the aesthetics of architecture and its relation to the visual arts.

Andrea Bubenik is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Queensland, her research and teaching are focused on the histories and afterlives of Renaissance and Baroque art

Josh Milani is a Meanjin/Brisbane based gallerist with a particular interest in post-conceptual, indigenous, feminist, queer and activist art practices.

Aaron Peters is a director of Vokes and Peters