City Talks: Sean Godsell

Melbourne-based architect Sean Godsell is the guest speaker for the latest City Talks event,
where he will present recent projects to be selected by the audience. Godsell’s projects have been characterised as rich yet unprepossessing, and range in scale from a park bench that doubles as a shelter for the homeless to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Design Hub building.

Sean Godsell graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1984 and worked in the London office of eminent British brutalist architect Sir Denys Lasdun from 1986 to 1988. Godsell established his own practice in 1994, and his work has been published in the world’s leading architectural journals. Godsell has been described as displaying a mental toughness from his days as an elite Australian Rules football player, and Time magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who – the New Contemporaries’ section of their Style and Design supplement.

City Talks is an ongoing initiative of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington branch and presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington. The series aims to foster dialogue around contemporary architecture and urban issues.

The talk starts at 6pm and is free.