Jenny Brown from the Melbourne newspaper, The Age, wrote a nice wee story about Humbug last Saturday. Have a read for yourself online, here, or download the pdf for your fridge door from the link to the left.

Last night Sam presented a public lecture about Humbug and the way in which it joins painting and architecture. They used to be bedfellows of course, but have spent the last hundred years or so talking to each other over the fence. Time to take the fence down and chat more we reckon.

Sam spoke alongside two other highly esteemed members of the Architectural Centre in Wellington. Each speaker spoke about a single house and then chatted about its ins and outs. It was just swell, and if you weren't there you should have been.

Sam was a guest lecturer in the MArch(Prof) Design/Research/Design Lecture Series at Auckland University. He gave a double barrelled lecture: the first half focussed on the body of KebbellDaish's work in a broader historical context. The second half provided a detailed description of Humbug as an example of design as research.

Other speakers in the series included Jeffrey Inaba of INABA Inc, Los Angeles, on the role of research in his design consultancy and publishing activities; John Walsh on architecture in relation to the general public; Professor Dorita Hannah on research in relation to performance and theatre design projects, and Gerald Melling of on the role of research in disaster relief based, residential design projects.

Issue 80 of Houses Australia featured photographs of Humbug by Melbourne-based photographer Sonia Mangiapane and words by Toby Horrocks.

Grab your own copy or, if you're not on that continent, click on our link to the left to download it.

Urbis published a series of articles about art & architecture including photographs of Humbug by Melbourne-based photographer Sonia Mangiapane. If you missed seeing this edition, you can download the article by clicking on the link to the left. Or if you're short of time to read it now: download it, hit print, stick it in your scrap book and save it for later.