ABSTRACT

A meeting of architects in Melbourne at a popular comedy venue in 1978, ended in disarray. It should be no surprise, after all John Pinder’s Collingwood venue, which opened in 1976, was called, “The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and Zoo.” There were fisticuffs, yelling, hoodlum activity, violence, and a huge amount of drunkenness. The meeting was to establish an alternative to the conservative RAIA from outside the organisation rather than within. But mayhem developed, probably in part due to there being no set agenda, and the event came to be inscribed in the mythologies of Melbourne architecture and culture as yet another failed uprising by a troublesome underbelly. Using material gained from public and private archives, as well as interviews, this paper traces the trajectories of this event. This event is important in Australian architecture as Melbourne architects processed the ideals of the Whitlam project (1972–75). Moreover, the meeting at the Last Laugh signifies the emergence in architectural discourse of a larrikinism, as Australian architects embraced post-modernism seeking to counter a patrician and cringe-worthy recent history.

摘要

1978 年在墨尔本一个受欢迎的喜剧场地举行的建筑师会议以混乱结束。这应该不足为奇，毕竟 1976 年开业的约翰·平德 (John Pinder) 的科林伍德场地被称为“最后的笑声剧院餐厅和动物园”。有拳打脚踢、大喊大叫、流氓活动、暴力和大量醉酒。会议旨在从组织外部而不是内部建立保守的 RAIA 的替代方案。但是混乱的发展，可能部分是由于没有既定的议程，并且该事件被铭刻在墨尔本建筑和文化的神话中，因为麻烦的下腹部又一次失败的起义。使用从公共和私人档案中获得的材料以及采访，本文追溯了这一事件的轨迹。这一事件在澳大利亚建筑中很重要，因为墨尔本建筑师处理了 Whitlam 项目（1972-75 年）的理想。此外，最后一笑的会议标志着建筑话语中出现了拉里金主义，因为澳大利亚建筑师拥抱后现代主义，试图对抗贵族和令人畏惧的近期历史。