WHO John Patterson

PRESENTATION/REPRESENTATION: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM GERMANY Monash Gallery of Art, cnr Jells and Ferntree Gully roads, Wheelers Hill, until August 30, mga.org.au

Lock it in The appeal of this flat-pack system lies in its simplicity. The Lock Me In shelving concept involves slotting together pieces to form a modular unit. Made of sustainable plantation plywood, the pieces can be bought separately for $49.50 each or as a whole unit (the one pictured..read more

IN THE computer-aided sculptures of James Angus, architectural "failures" reinvent as brilliantly twisted follies made from laser-cut plywood, spruce, and MDF. Palazzo della Civita Italiana (pictured) becomes a looping mobius strip satirising the progress narratives of Italian futurist architecture. Elsewhere, utopian projects by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer are "remodelled"..read more

A new generation of designers is discovering the versatility of plywood, Stephen Lacey writes.