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Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand:

SAHANZ is pleased to announce the publication of volume 18, number 2 (December 2008) of Fabrications, which includes the following articles:

Tristan Guilloux
The Maison "Tropique": A Modernist Icon or the Ultimate Colonial Bungalow?

Gevork Hartoonian
Mies: The Window Framed

Harriet Edquist
Reading Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in the Interwar Australian Novel

David Nichols
Griffin and Griffin, or Tuxen and Miller? Mistaken Authorshop and the Dissemination of Misinformation on Interwar Planned Suburbs

Erik Ghenoiu
Charles W. Moore and the Idea of Place

The issue also includes the following book reviews:
Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia, by Paul Memmott. Review by Deidre Brown

Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Andrew Leach, Antony Moulis & Nicole Sully. Review by Deborah van der Plaat

Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism, by Felicity D. Scott. Review by Gevork Hartoonian

Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism, by Mia Fuller. Review by Johan Lagae

Florence Taylor's Hats: Designing, Building and Editing Sydney, by Robert Freestone & Bronwyn Hanna. Review by Julieanna Preston

Published by the University of Queensland Press.

 

 

Announcing volume 18, number 1, including the following papers presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2008:

Julie Willis & Philip Goad
A Bigger Picture: Reframing Australian Architectural History

Leonie Matthews
Parochial Matters: The Writings of Duncan Richards and Oline Richards

Paul Walker
Migration and Modern Architecture: The Case of New Zealand

Robin Skinner
The Whare in the Bush: Unpacking a Twentieth Century Tradition

Paul Memmott & James Davidson
Indigenous Culture and Architecture in the South Pacific Region: 25 Years of SAHANZ Research

In Memorium: George Richard Tibbits (1933-2008)

We are also pleased to review these new and recent books:

- An Excellent Recruit: Frederick Thatcher, Architect, Priest and Private Secretary in Early New Zealand, by Margaret H. Alington
- Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture, 1917-1967, edited by Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara & Philip Goad
- The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities, by John Macarthur
- Crisis of the Object: The Architecture of Theatricality, by Gevork Hartoonian
- Deleuze and Guattari for Architects, by Andrew Ballantyne
- Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, edited by Mark Taylor & Julieanna Preston
Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900-1930, by Robert Freestone

Published by the University of Queensland Press.