Designing for Interesting People

Andrew Andersons is, and has been, engaged to contribute to many of Australia's leading art museums as well as to other public buildings and spaces. His work might be described as adaptive; accommodating to the style and typology of the major buildings on which he has worked as well as responding to the varied views of curators with whom he has co-operated closely when designing galleries.

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Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage

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Independent Curators

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Local Conditions: New Zealand Art

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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning

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Testing the Meaning of Heritage

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To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments

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