The Naomi Milgrom Foundation champions art, design and architecture to improve Australian lives.

Tadao Ando by Kinji Kanno courtesy Tadao Ando Architect & Associate

Tadao Ando, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect, Selected for 10th MPavilion

 

We create extraordinary projects with extraordinary people that would not otherwise happen. Exploring design’s close interconnections with contemporary culture—we create opportunities for the community, search for liveability and generate impact through placemaking.

 

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As part of ongoing commissions like MPavilion and Living Cities Forum, we are able to work with amazing artists, designers and thinkers to initiate valuable conversations about the world we live in.

 
“Free admission is not enough, we need to do more... it means we have to go with art to the people.”
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Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London, in conversation with Victoria Lynn, Director of TarraWarra Museum of Art

Essential listening for anyone interested in art, curation and culture: Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke in early May with Victoria Lynn about what a building without walls can do for bringing art to the community. Exploring experimentation, conversation marathons, how early morning joggers use pavilions, a world after COVID-19, digital engagement, Roland Barthes, and the value of art in a crisis — this conversation is not to be missed.

 

"Free admission is not enough, we need to do more... it means we have to go with art to the people." —Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London, in conversation with Victoria Lynn, Director of TarraWarra Museum of Art Essential listening for anyone interested in art, curation and culture: Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke in early May with Victoria Lynn about what a building without walls can do for bringing art to the community. Exploring experimentation, conversation marathons, how early morning joggers use pavilions, a world after COVID-19, digital engagement, Roland Barthes, and the value of art in a crisis — this conversation is not to be missed.

 
Rem Koolhaas is among the most celebrated and exciting architects working today. From the gravity-defying CCTV Headquarters in Beijing to the startling Seatt...
What is the minimum amount of architecture necessary? Design Director of Bangkok architectural practice all(zone), Rachaporn Choochuey presents a series of projects for adaptive reuse, incremental development, climate control and temporary housing, devised for a city of protests, floods, transient employment, hyper-density and enervating humidity.
We couldn't be more excited to unveil MPavilion 2019 - this year designed by Australia's only Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, Glenn Murcutt AO. The ref...

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Check out eminent Australian architect and 2019 MPavilion designer Glenn Murcutt AO contribution to @kaldorpublicart online project, do it (Australia). The project gathers simple instructions from 18 Australian practitioners, and Murcutt’s imag

Founder & Philantropist

Naomi Milgrom AC

 

Naomi Milgrom AC is an Australian business leader, philanthropist and patron with an international reputation for initiating and supporting cultural innovation. She has collaborated with some of the world’s leading architects and urban thinkers through her MPavilion architectural commission and Living Cities Forum, with a focus on projects whose goals are to promote diversity, public benefit and making life better through design.

 
Naomi Milgram Portrait