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Some
histories would give us cause to treat the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
as distinct eras, separated by the advent of the formal vocabulary of
Modernism around the year 1900. However, a case can be put for seeing
this period unified at other levels, and by processes that begin in the
nineteenth century such as: the structuring of the profession and its
relation to other forms of knowledge; and the development of architectural
planning in response to new technique of social formation. Papers in this
session open these questions by looking at the relation of architecture
and engineering, and at the planning of houses and public exhibitions.
Kevin Green
A Rough Trade: how artisan ironworkers mediated architectural modernism.
A case study of early steel framed architecture, The 1897 Wesleyan Church, Darwin.
Pedro Guedes
The Iron Duke’s West Indian Barracks
Mark Hiley
“Reading Giedion Backwards”: Walter Benjamin’s reception
of Building in France
Kerry Jordan
Striving Towards an Ideal: high style mansion planning in Australia
Peter Kohane
The Idea of Empathy in the Architecture of Louis Kahn and Frank Furness.
Kirsten Orr
A Force for Urbanism and National Identity: nineteenth-century Australian
international exhibitions and their domestic exhibits
Iwan Strauven
Alfred Hardy: the odyssey of a constructional entrepreneur