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Watch a very special documentary screening and conversation with MPavilion Parkade’s architect Peter McIntyre AO, originally held Friday 22 January.

Peter and Dione McIntyre 1950-1960 – Counterbalancing Forces is a documentary that explores an architecture of ideas between 1950 and 1960. Central to the generation of these ideas is the concept of counterbalancing forces: structural, spatial, geometric, social, aesthetic as well as political. The documentary focuses on this period of their architecture, which had a seminal influence on Australian architecture and is a uniquely original pocket of mid 20th century modernism.

Toby Reed of Nervegna Reed Architects is the creative force and producer of the documentary (first screened in December 2018 at MPavilion). Toby will join Peter McIntyre in conversation to reflect on Peter’s work and its legacy.

The architecture of Peter and Dione McIntyre between 1950 and 1962 is an architecture of ideas. Central to the generation of these ideas is the concept of counterbalancing forces: structural, spatial, geometric, social, aesthetic as well as political and psychoanalytic. At the end of the 1950's Robin Boyd proposed an architecture of ideas as a solution to the Australian Ugliness. He could easily have been talking about McIntyre's work of the preceding decade. This video essay, which we have been working on intermittently with Peter and Dione over the last five years, focuses on this period of their architecture, which had a seminal influence on Australian architecture and is a uniquely original pocket of mid 20th century modernism. This video-sketch is a homage to Melbourne’s architectural scene in the 1950’s which was dominated by Boyd, Roy Grounds, McIntyre, Borland and Neil Clerehan. This video was first presented as a work-in-progress in December 2018 at the Mpavilion. On the night we also presented our doco on Ian Mcdougall’s (ARM Architecture) Elwood House and had a great audience discussion with Ian and Peter (I’ll upload it one day). Recently we presented this cut of the doco with Peter at the 2020 MPavilion at the Parkade carpark designed by Peter in 1962, and now being used as the MPavilion as an example of adaptive reuse in the time of covid-19. Peter's response to the doco and the Q&A on the night will be shared by MPavilion in the near future. Besides our images, these are all images provided by Peter from their archives. However we are still searching for higher resolution copies of some of them. If anyone is not credited for an image we are happy to amend the edit accordingly.

Written, directed and edited by Toby Reed