19th C / Technology

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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.

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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

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