Introduction

Building on the success of recent years, SAHANZ's XIXth conference is the largest body of research on the history and theory of architecture yet presented in Australia and New Zealand. This volume contains over one hundred papers by members and colleagues from Australasia, Asia, Europe and America. The Conference Committee set out to offer a broad and inclusive forum for scholars, seeking contributions in areas previously under-represented such as interiors, landscape and the study of indigenous building traditions. In these areas and in the on-going focus of many members on the history of modern architecture in the region, we see an overall interest in how historical change is experienced and conceptualised. The conference theme 'Additions to architectural history' refers to this expanded vision of the role for the Society's annual conference, and it also refers to some of the issues of disciplinarity raised by this expansion. In the call for papers we asked contributors to consider not only what they might add to the store of knowledge of architecture, but how architecture is articulated with a world of knowledge and practice. What is conjoined and articulated when one writes, for instance, as many of our contributors have, of 'architecture and memory'? This is a relation we have sought to open around the concept of 'additions', and the use of the '+' symbol, which has produced the following conjunctions: Architecture + Science, Architecture + Arts and Crafts, Architecture + Politics, Architecture + Gender/Representation, Architecture + Landscapes of Production, Architecture + Memory, Architecture +Antipodean modernity, Architecture + the Interior, Architecture + Housing, Architecture + Museums, Architecture + 19C/Technology, Architecture + Building Traditions.

The concept of 'additions' leads to further speculations: Are these the points at which the discipline engages with a world from which it is autonomous, or the places where we need supplementation and assistance? Are these the partnerships with other kinds of thought and practice, or the unstable borders of a voracious interdisciplinarity? Do we add to architecture the things to which we aspire or the things that cause us discomfort?

The contributors to ADDITIONS offer insights on the valency of architecture - whether this is a discussion of issues, persons, or periods which have become inescapable and perennial topics, or provocative new conjunctions through which to understand architecture. The conference's four keynote speakers also offer a broad vision of scholarship in architectural history. Hilde Heynen revisits the crucial role that the concept of utopia played in 20th century modernism. Esa Laaksonen examines Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library as an historian and as a conservation architect. Jane Rendell discusses the textual production of architecture in research and critical practice. Andrew Benjamin, looks at how we might conceptualise the differences between history, theory and criticism of architecture.

We thank the keynote speakers and all the participants in ADDITIONS for their insightful contributions to architectural history.

John Macarthur & Antony Moulis, editors

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