The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) promotes standards of excellence in the field of architectural history research with a focus on Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.

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6th PhD Colloquium

We welcome you to join us for the 2023 SAHANZ PhD Colloquium on Thursday, 2 November 2023. There will be two parallel sessions, both starting at 9 AM AWST (12 noon AEST). The schedule of presentations can be accessed by clicking the Program PDF button on the left. Participants are welcome …

Piranesi, Arch of Galienus

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Special General Meeting – Agenda

A Special General Meeting of the Society will take place on Friday 7 July from 12pm-2pm AEST, 2pm-4pm Auckland. Held online, this meeting will be devoted to the election of a new SAHANZ Committee, an expression of thanks to those who are stepping down from positions on the Committee and Editorial …

June 1, 2023

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Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand—current calls for papers.

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2022 SAHANZ Conference Proceedings – now available

The proceedings of the 2022 SAHANZ Conference ‘Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings’ (held jointly with the Australasian Urban History Planning History Group) are now available through the Publications pages of this website (here). Consisting of 40 papers, they can be accessed in the form of an entire 665-page document or, alternatively, the papers …

The Auckland waterfront, showing the Auckland Harbour Board Downtown Scheme. Whites Aviation Ltd Photograph. Ref: WA-66196-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23236356

The Auckland waterfront, showing the Auckland Harbour Board Downtown Scheme. Whites Aviation Ltd Photograph. Ref: WA-66196-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23236356

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Fabrications (Latest issue)

32.3 (2022)

The phrases “state architecture” and “architecture of the state” today might be understood to refer not to buildings at all, but to the formal arrangements of power in sovereign states; the composition of a representative assembly, for example, and the relationship between the judiciary and the executive; the role of the bureaucracy and ministers of state and other such arrangements that define who can legitimately exercise state power. Such a usage implies that the word architecture principally denotes a diagram of functions and responsibilities. This editors’ themed issue of Fabrications is dedicated to a more expansive, but also more concrete and conventional idea of “the architecture of the state.” For the work included here, architecture unquestionably involves the design and use of buildings. Yet, each of the papers in the current issue also coveys a sense that architecture is inexorably involved in delineating relations of power.The papers contained here encompass great geographical and stylistic diversity. We encounter a technical apparatus of colonial expansion wrapped in the decorous formal language of the classical tradition in the Victorian period; prefabricated German buildings in Nauru and other parts of the Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; expressions of Belgian identity and materiality at the beginning of the twentieth century in Seoul; tensions between modernity and tradition and the authority of religion and the state respectively in Tehran in the 1930s; functional prescriptions for Australia’s permanent national parliament as planned in the 1970s; and debates about the Englishness of postmodernism in England in the early 1980s. But each paper asks probing questions about meaning and function in architecture and how states depend heavily on both what buildings do and what they can say.
Taylor and Francis

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Fabrications

Fabrications is the refereed journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ). Established in 1989, it is devoted to scholarly publication in the field of architectural history.

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CfP: New Voices in Expo Research – ISIE’s 2024 Online Emerging Scholars Symposium

22 March 2024ISIE invites abstracts for its 2024 online symposium New Voices in Expo Research Submission deadline: 13 December 2023  The 2024 symposium will bring emerging scholars and established experts together to generate new ideas about the history and legacy of international expositions. We seek to emphasize new and developing strategies for research, …

November 22, 2023

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CfP: Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History

Call for Papers: “Real Estate Agency: Land Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History” to be held at the University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024. In the cities of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily …

November 14, 2023

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Call for Papers: Designing for First Nations Communities Call for Papers:

Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 34, No. 3) on the theme of Designing for First Nations Communities, edited by Kelly Greenop and Isabel Rousset. The deadline is 1st May 2024. Histories of architecture for First Nations …

November 3, 2023

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CfP UPDATE: What is “shared”? Architectural Heritage in Conflict:

Fabrications invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 34, No. 2) guest edited by Savia Palate and Panayiota Pyla (University of Cyprus) on the theme of ‘What is “shared”? Architectural Heritage in Conflict’. Papers are due on February 16, 2024.  Scholars typically describe heritage as intrinsically dissonant or difficult, particularly in …

October 4, 2023

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