Art and architecture, from London to Sydney
The Yellow House, 57-59 Potts Point, Sydney, September 1971. Photograph: Greg Weight. [Paper presented at the A quarius Redux: Rethinking Architecture's Counterculture conference, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, 4-5 July 2016] "...let's paint a ju ngle on the walls....", Third grade boy, Freestone - Advertisements for a Counterculture, Progressive Architecture , July 1970. Cited in Blauvelt 2015. "[The Yellow Ho us e] is probably one of the greatest pieces of conceptual art ever achieved." Martin Sharp, televison interview, September 1971. Abstract : In 1970 Martin Sharp - a former University of Sydney architecture student (1961), graduate of the National Art School (1963) and co-editor from 1963 through to 1968 of the landmark Australian and British counterculture magazine OZ - returned from London where between 1966-9 he produced a series of stunning Pop art posters and helped set in place the basic template for mo...