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.

SAHANZ is pleased to announce the publication of volume 17, number 2 of Fabrications, which includes the following articles:

Stephen Frith
On Style: The Trespass of the Sign

Paul Walker & Stuart King
Style and Climate in Addison's Brisbane Exhibition Building

Helen Hills
The Baroque: Beads in a Rosary or Folds of Time

Gevork Hartoonian
In What Style Could They Have Built?

Luka Skansi
Form, Style, History, Autonomy: Ritm v arhitekture

In addition, we are pleased to review the following books:

The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor, by Judy Siers
Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House, edited by Anne Watson
The Ludic City: Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces, by Quentin Stevens
Colonial Modernities, edited by Peter Scriver & Vikramaditya Prakash
Kevin Borland: Architecture from the Heart, edited by Doug Evans
Curtain Call, by Marika Neustupny; Imaging Sustainability, edited by Helen Lewis & Chris Ryan; and The Sensuous Intellect, edited by Ross McLeod
Hayes and Scott: Post-War Houses, edited by Andrew Wilson
Exquisite Apart: 100 Years of New Zealand Architecture, edited by Charles Walker
Memory and Architecture, edited by Eleni Bastéa

Published by the University of Queensland Press.

SAHANZ is pleased to announce the publication of volume 17, number 1 of Fabrications, which includes the following articles:

Antony Moulis
An Active Silence: Le Corbusier's Art in Australia

Julia Gatley
Alison Shepheard (nee Sleigh), ARIBA: "Success of New Zealand Lady Student" Revisited

Kirsten Orr
The Realisation of the Sydney Technical College and Technological Museum, 1878-92: Aspects of their Cultural Significance

Michael Linzey
A Fault-line at Te Papa: The Use of a Metaphor

Johan Lagae
Celebrating a Cinquantenaire: The Section of the Belgian Congo at the 1935 Brussels World's Fair

In addition, we are pleased to review the following books:

New Dreamland: Writing New Zealand Architecture, edited by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins;
The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by William M Taylor;
On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, edited by Anna Smith & Lydia Wevers;
New Directions in the Australian House, by Anna Johnson; and
A Landscape for Learning: A History of the Grounds of the University of Western Australia, edited by George Seddon & Gillian Lillyman.

Published by the University of Queensland Press.