School of Architecture and Building
Faculty of Science and Technology
History in practice: The 25th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand [SAHANZ]
Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3rd to 6th July 2008
The meaning of cultural significance
Notions of regeneration or appropriation
The relationship between age and value
The notion of history as salvage
Is preservation an irrational urge?
Determining and contesting urban character
Definitions of site analysis and design response
The contentions of intervention
Multiculturalism and contemporary urban character - the practice of difference
The relationship between critical heritage and adaptive reuse
Architectural meaning and time
Design and time - notions of the contemporary and the avant-garde in history
Time present, time past, time future - A new architecture for a new age?
Continuity of performance versus persistence of form
The role of history and historians in training generations of architects
Transformations
Vernacular traditions in the contemporary world
Flows of ideas, people and cultures in global heritage practice
Place, taste and tradition
From Far East to Near North - Australia, Asia and the Pacific
Is heritage a Western concept?
Modernity, modernisation and regionalism in architectural cultures
Postcolonialism and architectural culture
Independence, nationalism and the preferred past
What contribution does local historiography make to international knowledge of architectural history? And vice versa?
What is modern about Modernism today?
The authentic, the salvaged and the invented
Economic development and heritage - pressures and priorities
Living heritage - between museums and theme parks
How does regional history inform architectural historiography?
Architectural heritage and Tourism
Architecture, heritage and digital culture
The role of virtual interpretation in heritage places
Digital interpretation, speculation and creation
Visions of the past and future in virtual space
Overlaps of the virtual and the real in architectural culture
Technology, technique and history
Techniques of preservation
Why renew? - the useful past
Growth, weathering, decay and architectural intervention
The importance of exactitude
Sustainable history/sustainable architecture
The clarity of history - distinguishing between old and new
Creating the reality of the past
Where ecology meets culture - is adaptive reuse sustainable?
Environmental lessons from historical architecture
Writing architecture
Relationship of architecture to its history; of buildings to books
Text as structure, buildings as quotation
Recreating the course of history
Historical discourse as an aspect of theory
History as the critique of architecture
Teaching architectural history and theory
The nexus between narrative and interpretation
The architect/critic/client/historian speaks
Looking back through different lenses - architectural history from other perspectives
Poetry and architecture
Creative communication
From the quotidian to the sublime
Stories of everyday life and architecture
The sublime ruin revisited
Whose history? Whose heritage?
Heritage and the multiplicity of the present
Uncanny heritage - the black armband view of architectural history?
Indigenous architectures - history/theory/practice
Architects in history - the noted and ignored
Exchanges between inside and outside
Icons and iconoclasts - the canon and its discontents
Alternative architectures - the heritage of outsider architecture
Subcultures and space - on the street, between the gaps
Australian vernacular? - suburban building outside the work of architects
Urban morphology and architectural identity
City patterns past and present
Multiculturalism and visions of the city
Questions of origin - where things come from versus where they are
Finding architectural culture in the suburbs
Architecture and memory – critique and creation
Methods of historiography in practice
Constructed identities
Authenticity and authority in architecture and heritage
Public heritage/private memories
History and taxonomy
Canons, categories and practice
Representation, documentation and intervention
Critical contextualism
Exchanges between conservation and architectural design
The ephemeral and the permanent
Intangible heritage: construct or reality?
Place, memory and form
Architecture, heritage and the body
Space, place, time and cultures
Abstracts should be submitted through the Authors and Abstracts page
