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Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Isabel Rousset
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860–1960 Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-04-04 G. A. Bremner
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Korean Modern, The Matter of Identity: An Exploration into Modern Architecture in an East Asian Country Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Alex Seo
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Editorial Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Cameron Logan
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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The Penang House: Rise of the Malaysian Architect 1887–2017 Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-20 John Ting
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Vienna Room: A Melbourne Interior by Maggie Edmond, 2018 Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Harriet Edquist
The subject of this paper is a living-room designed by Melbourne architect Maggie Edmond for her own use. Labelled on the plan Vienna Room, it forms part of a 2018 renovation of Edmond’s inner-city...
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Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Johannes Widodo
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Susan Holden
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Growing up Modern: Canberra’s Round House and Alex Jelinek Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Harriet Edquist
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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“This is My kingdom”: Inside the Kitchen Spaces of Lebanese Australian Women Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Maram Shaweesh
Migrants’ homemaking practices create a series of spatial inscriptions within their domestic environments, leaving behind a unique echo of cultural and personal history. Such spatial imprints, when...
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The “Dream Weekend”: Feminism and the Domestic Interior at the Merchant Builders’ Display Home (1977) Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Karen Burns, Alan Pert
In 1977 the North American feminist artist Lynn Hershman conducted a three-day installation and performance piece titled “The Dream Weekend” at a Merchant Builders’ display home in Melbourne’s Verm...
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Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Hannah Lewi
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Andrew Andersons: Architecture and the Public Realm Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Guillermo Fernández-Abascal
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Historic Preservation Theory: An Anthology. Readings from the 18th to the 21st Century Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Amy Clarke
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Caroline Simpson Library: A Resource to Understand the History of Colour in the Home Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Michael Lech, Matthew Stephens
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Report on the Society of Interior Designers of Australia Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Michael Bogle
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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A Tribute to Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023) Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Andrew Leach, Christoph Schnoor
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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An “Artistic Display of Wares”: The Wallpaper Trade During Otago’s Goldrush, 1860-1867 Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Eva Forster-Garbutt, Nigel Isaacs, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
In comparison with interior design and architecture studies in Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia, little research has been conducted on interiors of the 19th century in New Zealand. ...
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The Historical Literature of Australian Domestic Interior Design 1945-1975 Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Catriona Quinn
This article surveys the formation of the historiography of Australian domestic interior design and decoration from 1945 to 1975. The review aims to understand the inclusions and omissions of Austr...
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The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacies in Colonial Melbourne Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ursula de Jong
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Report from the AASA Modernism Collaborative Fabrications Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Julie Collins, Isabel Rousset
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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Kitchen Tours: Re-Interpreting the History of Gendered Labour and Technologies in the Home Through Four Australian Heritage Houses Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Hannah Lewi
Despite its material and metaphorical centrality to the home, the kitchen has been viewed as somewhat of a lacuna in architecture and design histories and heritage accounts. This is in part because...
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Revaluing Modern Architecture: Changing Conservation Culture Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Julia Gatley
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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A Fleeting Glimpse? ‘Sweden’s Shop Window in Sydney’ - the Sweden at David Jones’ Exposition of 1954 Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Mark Ian Jones
On Wednesday 16 June 1954, a vast exposition of Swedish applied arts, manufacture, lifestyle, and industry opened at Sydney‘s largest department store, David Jones‘ Limited. Presenting Swedish desi...
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‘A Village Stood on End’: Anthropology and the Interior of the Modernist Tower Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Hannes Frykholm
The paper considers the influence of American anthropologist Margaret Mead on the design and representation of two residential towers of the Waterloo Estate in Sydney, one of Australia's most well-...
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33:1 Editorial Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Kelly Greenop
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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From Hilltop Landmarks to Suburban Place Makers: Brisbane’s Post-War Religious Territories and Communities Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Lisa Marie Daunt, Janina Gosseye
This paper examines the shifting urban and architectural manifestations of Christian churches built in twentieth century Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and the third most populous city in Aust...
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The Politics of the Visual: Immigrant Architecture in Melbourne’s Tourist Brochures Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Sanja Rodeš, Mirjana Lozanovska
This paper investigates “immigrant architecture”1 in Australia and argues that the reception of the “architecture of the other” is mediated by the visual appearance of this architecture. The paper ...
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Magnifying the Terrace: David Saunders and the Cross Street Co-Operative Housing Development Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Catherine Townsend, Philip Goad, Paul Walker
This paper traces the influence that pioneering Australian architectural historian David Saunders (1928–1986) exerted over the development of the University of Melbourne’s Cross Street Co-operative...
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Form, Function and Monumentality: A Critical Analysis of Jørn Utzon’s Late Work on the Sydney Opera House Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Philip Nobis, Ursa Komac, Kerry London
The reengagement of Jørn Utzon on the Sydney Opera House in 1999 was considered an international coup and opportunity for healing and closure to the controversy sparked by his departure 32 years ea...
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An Antipodean Attica Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Miles Lewis
The Lady Franklin Museum at Ancanthe, near Hobart, is a pivotal building. It represents a conscious attempt by Jane Franklin to evoke Attica in Australia, an important essay in the Greek Revival by...
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Tee Square Journal, Phi, Aspect, and Aedicule: The Publications of the Architectural Students Association of Western Australia Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Andrew Murray
This paper explores four publications produced by the Architectural Students Association of Western Australia (ASAWA), and the shifting intellectual contexts in which they were created. Between 193...
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Architectural Drawings: Collecting in Australia Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Luke Tipene
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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Australia’s First Architectural Competitions, 1826–27 Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Tim Reeves
Architectural competitions have played a significant role in Australia’s development, yet their wider story is largely absent from its architectural histories. This paper foregrounds the topic by e...
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Urban Counter-Place within the 1988 Sydney Invasion Day Convergence Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Seth Dias
This article investigates the history of the 1988 Invasion Day rally to understand the spatial and urbanistic implications of First Nations protest. By broadening the methods of architectural histo...
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The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Cathi Ho Schar
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Errol Haarhoff
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023)
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The Architecture of the State and Statelessness Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Cameron Logan
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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Three Ideas of Emptiness: Structural Biases Towards Isolation, Separation and Absence in the 1979 Australian Parliament House Competition Brief Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Luke Tipene
ABSTRACT The 1979 competition brief for Australia’s Parliament House has been described as an exceedingly complex, bureaucratic document. Its 170 pages summarise site and user data in tremendous detail. Yet, curiously offer little information about Australia’s democratic values and guiding principles. The absence of this information is significant as it inhibits discourse on architecture's capacity
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Ngā Pūtahitanga/Crossings: The 39th Annual Conference of SAHANZ and 16th Conference of Australasian UHPH Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David Nichols
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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After the Australian Ugliness Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Wouter Van Acker
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Tanja Poppelreuter
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Fiona Gardiner
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023)
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On the Verge of Neo-Imperialism and Neutrality: The Construction of the Belgian Consulate-General in Seoul (1903-1907) Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Charlotte Rottiers, Anne-Françoise Morel, Fredie Floré
ABSTRACT This article frames the design and construction of the Belgian Consulate-General in Seoul (1903-1907) as a project of national representation on the verge of neo-imperialism and neutrality. The building project, designed by Belgian architect A. Groothaert, was part of the Belgian mission to showcase itself as an economic, commercial and industrial power via diplomatic architecture. The article
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The Spectre at Vauxhall Cross: Architecture of the State, between Community and Monarchy Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Janina Gosseye
ABSTRACT This paper examines the matter of “architecture of the state” through the development history of the Esso site at Vauxhall Cross in London, which since the early 1990s houses the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), designed by Terry Farrell. The story of this site’s decades-long redevelopment saga calls into question what (or who) precisely “the state” is. Is it
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Bill Lucas: Architect Utopian, Tin Sheds Gallery, 24 February–26 March 2022 Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Anna Corkhill
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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“Lonely Dots”: John Thomas Arundel and the Architecture of Greater British Enterprise in the Pacific Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Jasper Ludewig
ABSTRACT The Victorian idea of a globe-spanning Greater Britain has been largely obscured by more recent discussions about “anglobalisation” and the so-called “Anglo World.” This paper proposes, however, that the political and philosophical positions vested in the idea of Greater Britain can have significant repercussions for understanding the historical relation between architecture and the state
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The Architecture of Territory: The Lands Building and State Expansion in New South Wales Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Nathan Etherington
ABSTRACT The New South Wales colonial project was a land-centred enterprise that became dependent on the surveying and sale of land. The process of land alienation was a significant factor in the configuration of the colonial territory as well as the development, distribution and typologies of architecture. This article considers a building that was central to this project: the Lands Building in Sydney
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Tehran University: A Contested Terrain Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Peyman Akhgar
ABSTRACT Designed by the Beaux-Arts graduates, Tehran University was founded in 1934, in the Pahlavi era (1926-79) when desires for modernisation confronted the arbitrary rule of the Iranian government. The project of the University contained all the complexities of a politically sensitive government building. It was to present an image of a modern and progressive nation to the international community
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Inaugurating the Penelope Visiting Professorship in Architectural History Fabrications Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Andrew Leach
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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2022 SAHANZ PhD Colloquium Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Dijana Alic, Raffaele Pernice
ABSTRACT The fifth SAHANZ PhD Colloquium was organized and delivered at UNSW Sydney in July 2022. It was a single-day hybrid event that saw the participation of domestic and international PhD candidates at various stages of their careers. The day was structured to provide enough time for formal and informal discussion and feedback from senior scholars and academics, from several renowned Australian
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Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925–1975 Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Antony Moulis
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture, 1980 Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Stylianos Giamarelos
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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The Color of Modernism: Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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Writing in the Margins: Speaking of (Hi)stories in Australia and New Zealand Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-10-23 Macarena de la Vega de León
ABSTRACT The use of oral history as a method to rewrite the history of modern architecture has intensified in recent years. This essay presents initial reflections of a research project on oral histories of architectural history, not architecture, through interviews with historians of architecture based in Australia and New Zealand, not architects. Acknowledging the contribution of users and clients
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Editorial Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Kelly Greenop
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2022)
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Light, Space, Place: The Architecture of Robin Gibson Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Andrew Murray
Published in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2022)
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For Export: Buildings for Colonial Commerce in the Asia Pacific Fabrications Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Paul Walker, Amanda Achmadi
ABSTRACT A lasting legacy of 19th-century colonialism in the Pacific and Southeast Asia is the fragmented historiography of the region’s colonial architecture. Historical studies of the built environment continue to adopt geographical frameworks corresponding to nation-states that emerged from colonial empires, overlooking the region’s intricate interconnectivity in the late nineteenth century. The