Antipodean Modernity

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It is well known that modernism in architecture reached the antipodes somewhat late having been disseminated from a metropolitan culture in Europe and the United States. What is the meaning of this delay? Is the history of modernism in the Antipodes structurally different to the slow acceptance of modernism in the cultural hinterlands of Europe or the States? Was national identity necessarily in a position of opposition to the international style? And beyond the specifics of national and colonial cultures, is there some significance of the back-to-frontness of 'the antipodean' in relation to architectural modernism? Papers in this session open a number of questions around examples and issues from Australia, New Zealand and Congo.

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Eugenie Keefer Bell
Interpretations of Japan in Australian Architecture: an overview

Thom Blake
Efficient and modern - CWT Fulton and the development of the modern hospital in Australia

Doug Evans
Kevin Borland and the Two Strands of Melbourne Modernism

Michelle Hamer
“I see a warehouse and I want to paint it black”

Gevork Hartoonian
Aussie Architecture: modernity revisited

Rachel Hurst
An Unselfconscious Architecture the work of Robert Dickson

Johan Lagae
Building "le nouveau Congo": fifties-architecture in Leopoldville and the emergence of the modern cityscape in the Belgian colony

Elizabeth Musgrave
The Plywood Exhibition House: an investigation of local idiom

Julie Willis & Philip Goad
The Imaging of Government 1918-1945: modernity, tradition or progress?

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