On the 9th of August Daniel Besen launched the New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2004-2005 exhibition at the award winning, ARM designed, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne. More than two hundred sponsors, architects and supporters of architecture, who later mingled in the gallery discussing the exhibition with glasses of Australian wine in hand, attended the launch. Later local architects hosted the visiting participants (see poster attached) to dinners around the central city, extending the networks that the exhibition has been developing.

The following morning local participant Kerstin Thompson gave the visitors a tour of new architecture in central Melbourne, and that evening Professor Leon van Schaik from the New Trends Organising Committee chaired a seminar in the gallery. Each participant described the propositional basis of their work, and this was discussed with an invited audience of local architects and academics. The seminar was concluded with remarks from RMIT Adjunct Professors and RMIT Honorary Doctors of Architecture William Lim (Singapore) and Peter Corrigan (Melbourne).

On the following day Daniel Besen hosted a lunch for the visitors and some practitioner academics at The Premier Award Winning, Allan Powell designed, Tarrawarra Museum of Art in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range outside Melbourne, giving a taste of Australia's vineyard country. That evening Professor van Schaik hosted the participants as they lectured to an audience of more than six hundred architects, students and supporters of architecture. Then the visitors were hosted to dinner by Kerstin Thompson at her studio, thus concluding a memorable three days of events. The exhibition closes on September 17.