Trevor Howells, senior lecturer in Architecture, is releasing his new book, A Guide to the Architecture of the University of Sydney, in a few weeks.

The book highlights the University's architectural heritage, providing an insider's guide to over 100 university buildings.

Highlights include the Quadrangle, all of Leslie Wilkinson's buildings and the Colleges. According to Howells, the guide book represents 'the first attempt to compile into a single source a ready reference to the architectural glories of the University; it includes all of the University's buildings, including the sublime, the good, the bad and the outright ugly.'

(The Guide is published by Watermark Press. Read an excerpt about our Faculty building, the Wilkinson Building, from the Alumni Magazine).

At the end of last year, on 6 - 19 December, the Emerging City - Visions for Parramatta exhibition was held.

Coordinated by Marc Aurel Schnabel, the exhibition showcased architecture’s next generation of designers, exploring novel techniques to expand the horizons of human habitation.

Graduate students of the Faculty presented us with an architectural vision for Parramatta – the emerging city within the Greater Sydney Area. Exploring digital possibilities in architectural form, media and philosophy, they present a fresh and young city that allows life, culture, work and community to find a confident identity beyond its borders.

The above image is a proposal for Parramatta Cultural Centre (from education to exhibition), by Andrew Davis: 'the design was also a social statement about sustainability and the importance of longevity of life in what we build today through flexibility and adopting change. Views light, social interaction, flexibility and ambiguity of program are key factors'.

Here, in a proposal called 'Digitalics', Theodora Bowering examines a dialogue between the digital and the analogue.

Paul De Sailly's 'New Urbanism' attempts to instigate a new urbanism for the city of Parramatta that will incorporate a level of infrastructure to accommodate an increasingly urban population. It attempts to break down the hierarchy between city, building and people, and facilitate a future emergence of architecture designed at a personal scale.

Morphing pinkish-red cucumbers with Shimokitazawa (a suburban Bohemian district in Japan) urban fabric to explore form by digestion.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).