Limits
September 26 to September 29, 2004
XXIst annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia, 26–29 September 2004
PROGRAMME
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Venues
Conference panels
- A : RMIT Building 8, level 11, rm 68 (8.11.68)
- B : RMIT Building 10, level 11, rm 03 (10.11.03)
- C : RMIT Building 10, level 11, rm 04 (10.11.04)
Keynotes
- Capitol Theatre, RMIT, Swanston St., Melbourne
- Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston St., Melbourne
Sunday 26 September, 2004
Registration: Capitol Theatre 10.00 – 12.00 and 17:00
Welcome: Harriet Edquist and Hélène Frichot, Convenors 17:50
Keynote Lecture: Reinhold Martin Capitol Theatre 18.00
Monday 27 September 2004
Registration : Building 8, Level 11: 8.00 – 9.00
SESSION ONE: 9.00-10.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Anoma Pieris, A Crisis of Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of a Virtual Nation
Gülsüm Baydar and Berfin Ivegen, Territories, Identities and Thresholds: The Saturday Mothers Phenonmenon in Istanbul
Gill Matthewson, Take it to the Limit: Women as Architectural Breach
Chair: Suzie Attiwill
Panel B (10.11.03)
Ursula de Jong, The Square from Inside Out: Federation Square, Melbourne
Diego Ramirez, A Morphology of Complex Boundaries
Ian Woodcock, Kim Dovey and Stephen Wood, Limits to Urban Character
Chair: Shane Murray
Panel C (10.11.04)
Guenter Lehman, Rhetoric versus Practice: ‘Limits’ in Early Modernism
Graham Crist, Aardvark and the Contemporary Guide to Architecture
Christine Phillips, Historical Limits: Local and International Modernism
Chair: Sandra Kaji-O’Grady
morning tea break: 10.30 – 11.00
SESSION TWO: 11.00 – 12.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Simon Whibley, Spaces More or Less Visible: The Raft Project
David Beynon, Newly Authentic Architecture in Contemporary Southeast Asia
John Ting, The Old Kuching Courthouse Architecturally Considered
Chair: Duanfang Lu
Panel B (10.11.03)
Jacky Bowring, The Liminal, the Subliminal and the Sublime: Crossing between Landscape and Architecture
Peter Downton, Limited People: Polemic Models, Ethical Issues
Nigel Westbrook, Monstrous Passages
Chair: Michael Ostwald
Panel C (10.11.04)
Matthew Bradbury and John Adam, Outside the Limits of Modern landscape History
Paolo Tombesi, Capital Gains and Losses: The Expansion Journey of Caudill Rowlett and Scott (1948-1994)
Peter Kohane, Conversation and Agreement: Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Museum and Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Chair: Judy Trimble
lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30
SESSION THREE: 13.30 – 15.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
Peter Scriver, Delimiting Architecture in the Construction of Colonial India
Chris McConville, Memory’s Limits: Sites of Traumatic Heritage
Rosalea Monacella and Sue Anne Ware, Fluctuating Borders: Speculations about Memory and Emergence
Chair: Julian Raxworthy
Panel B (10.11.03)
Quentin Stevens, Testing the Limits: Building Thresholds and Urban Liminality
Christoph Schnoor, Overcoming Limits: Le Corbusier’s Early Treatise “La Construction des Villes”
John Macarthur and Matthew Aitchison, Ivor de Wolfe’s Picturesque, or, Who and What was Townscape
Chair: Antony Moulis
Panel C (10.11.04)
Andrew Hutson, “… a design that was once natural and monumental”: The Political Conception of new Parliament House, Canberra
Deborah van der Plaat and Maryam Gusheh, The Idea of the Liberated Imagination in Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Building (1912)
Ali Mozaffari, Unravelling the National Museum of Australia (NMA)
Chair: Ursula de Jong
afternoon tea break: 15.00 – 15.30
SESSION FOUR: 15.30-17.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
Brandon Hookway, Whatever Happened to the Modernist Chair?
Dorita Hannah, Artaud’s Geysers of Stone and Tschumi’s Big Top
Kate Linzey, Giddy Limits: Experiencing and Representing and Urban Spatial Pathology
Chair: Gevork Hartoonian
Panel B (10.11.03)
Branko Mitrovic, Homogeneity of Space in Leon Battista Alberti’s Architectural Theory
Steven Fleming, The Epistemological Limits of Neo-Rationalism
Stephen Frith, Architecture at the Limits of Language
Chair: Peter Downton
Keynote Lecture: Felicity Scott Storey Hall 18.00
Plenary: Chair: Harriet Edquist Storey Hall 19.30-20.30
21 st Birthday Party Drinks: Storey Hall 20.30
Tuesday 28 September 2004
Registration: Building 8, Level 11: 8.30 – 9.00
SESSION ONE: 9.00 – 10.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Duanfang Lu, Placing Modernism: Architecture and Global Imaginations in China, 1949 – 1965
Eugenie Keefer Bell, Expanding Limits: Introducing Japanese Architecture in Australia, 1870’s – 1880’s
Pedro Guedes, A Revolutionary Dwelling in Meiji Japan
Chair: Doug Evans
Panel B (10.11.03)
Michael Tawa, Limit and Leimma: What Remains for Architecture?
Hélène Frichot, The Limit of the Refugee Camp and Our Coming Community
Nicole Sully, On the Threshold of Forgetting: Amnesiac Identities and the Brazilian Capital
Chair: Sarah Treadwell
Panel C (10.11.04)
Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, The Look of Information: Conceptual Art, Computers and Architecture in the 1970’s
Jane Burry, Collaboration Mechanisms in Design: Drawing on Discourse Analysis
Eric Champion, The Limits of Realism in Architectural Visualisation
Chair: Scott Drake
morning tea break: 10.30 – 11.00
SESSION TWO: 11.00 – 12.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Susan Collins, Atelier Adelaide: Architectural Student Drawings from the Early 1930’s
Julie Willis, Style / Scale / Status / Site: The Sensibility of Architectural Eclecticism
Chair: Andrew Hutson
Panel B (10.11.03)
Mike Austin, Rapa Nui: Beyond the Limit
Martin Fowler, Magical Limits: Other, Others, Gods, Dogs, Crocodiles, Architectures, Other’s Architecture’s
Sarah Treadwell, Pacific Architecture of the Transit of Venus
Chair: Christine McCarthy
Panel C (10.11.04)
Reena Tiwari and Lynn Churchill, Transgressions of Domestic Space at the Frontline Between Everyday and Extra-Everyday, and between Nature and Culture
Julian Raxworthy, Transactions with Chance in the Garden
William Taylor, A Natural Impulse: Unearthing Architecture’s Biological Roots
Chair: Diego Ramirez
lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30
SESSION THREE: 13.30 – 15.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
Emina Petroviç, The Parisian Development of Apartment Culture: Beyond the Limits of the Anglo-American Preference for Suburban Individual Houses
Kevin Green, The Nineteenth Century Railway Station as a Portal to Modernity
Rachel Hurst, Modest Revolutionaries: the Architecture of Dickson and Platten
Chair: Igea Troiani
Panel B (10.11.03)
Bill McKay, Resonant Time and Cyclic Architecture: Notions of Time and Architectural History in New Zealand
Jacqueline Magretts, Limits on Alofi
Kevin O’Brien, Meriam Space
Chair: John Mcarthur
Panel C (10.11.04)
Ivana Wingham, “Taking a Line for a Walk” within Paul Klee’s Modernist Practice
Jan Smitheram, Architecture from the Outside: Enabling and Constraining Limits
Tracey Woods, Shifting Limits
Chair: Karen Burns
afternoon tea break: 15.00 – 15.30
SESSION FOUR: 15.30 – 17.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
Michael Hill and Peter Kohane, Porticos and the Ideal Christian Church
James Weirick, The Case for the Conservation of St John’s: The Limits and Limitations of Architectural History in Contemporary Conservation Practice
Igea Troiani, Building Mayne Hall: Architects and Patrons Talking about (un)Friendly Architectural Collaborations
Chair: Julie Willis
Panel B (10.11.03)
Deidre Brown, He Kokonga Whare e Kimihia: Seeking a Corner of the House
Hannah Davies, Constructing Ex – isle: Matiu/Somes Island, Wellington Harbour
Jeremy Treadwell, Constructions of Privacy in the Cook Islands
Chair: Mike Austin
Keynote Lecture: Peter Corrigan Storey Hall 18:00
Conference Dinner: Rosati Restaurant, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 20.00
Wednesday 29 September 2004
Registration: Building 8, Level 11: 8.30am – 9.00am
Annual General Meeting: 8.15am – 9.30am 8.11.68
SESSION ONE: 9.30 – 11.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
David Bridgman, The Anglo-Asian Bungalow in Australia’s Northern Territory
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, More than One View: The Robin Simpson House (1938 – 39)
Doug Evans, Anxious Modernisms Indeed
Chair: Graham Crist
Panel B (10.11.03)
Antony Moulis, Diagrams, Composition, and Play: Reading Concepts andtechniques throughthe Work of Le Corbusier
Dagmar Reinhardt, (Un)Limited Privacy – (Un)Limited Identity?
The Individual on the Border of 4Dimensional Space -Between Transparency, Information Screen, Digital Work. Surfaces and Representation
Stuart Harrison, Words on Buildings
Chair: Brent Allpress
Panel C (10.11.04)
Jill Franz, At the In-Side of the Limit: Redefining the Architecture and Interior Design Relationship
Suzie Attiwill, Doing Time Inside
Gemma Gillett, Seclusionary Spaces
Chair: Hélène Frichot
morning tea break: 11.00 – 11.30
SESSION TWO: 11.30 – 13.00
Panel A (8.11.68)
Jeanette Budget, Negotiated Boundaries
Harry Margalit and Paola Favaro, The Local and the Migrant: Limits of Mutual Recognition
Douglas Neale, The ‘Essentials’ of the Sub-Tropical House: An Exegesis of the ‘Modernistic’ Town Planning Principles of Dr Karl Langer
Chair: Peter Kohane
Panel B (10.11.03)
Anuradha Chatterjee, Dress as Sexualised Limit of the Body: John Ruskin and the Walls of St Mark’s
Karen Burns, Optical Surfaces: The Limits and Possibilities of Illusionism at William Butterfield’s All Saints’ Church (1849 – 59)
Catherine De Lorenzo and Deborah van der Plaat, Redefining the Urban Limits: European Readings of Wilderness, Photography and late Nineteenth century Australia
Chair: Harriet Edquist
Panel C (10.11.04)
Rosanna Blacket, Visualising Space B.C.
Steve Basson, Beware Greeks bearing Gifts: The Greek Agora as a Discontinuous Subject of Historical Knowledge
Michael Linzey, Pax Romana and the Limits of Friendship
Chair: Michael Tawa
lunch break: 13.00 – 14.00
SESSION THREE: 14.00 – 15.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Inger Mewburn, A Feeling of the Rococo
Joanna Besley and Lisanne Gibson, Pioneers and Public Art: The Use of History in Constructing Identity in Outdoor Cultural Objects
Scott Drake, Ecological Limits: Architecture as Niche Construction
Chair: Anuradha Chatterjee
Panel B (10.11.03)
Rebecca Sinclair, Dressed in Space: The Sartorial Architectures of Rei Kawakubo and Hussein Chalayan
Clare Newton, The Farnsworth House: Irreconcilable Differences
Christine McCarthy, Inflated Architecture: Limits Under Pressure
Chair: Mark Taylor
afternoon tea break: 15.30 – 16.00
SESSION FOUR: 16.00 – 17.30
Panel A (8.11.68)
Alex Selenitsch, HI TO LO: The Liminal Zone of Transformation
Gevork Hartoonian, An Architecture of Limits
Charles Walker, What do You Think You are Playing at? On the Limits of Accredibility in Architectural Education
Chair: Steven Fleming
Panel B (10.11.03)
Mark Taylor, Transgressing the Limits of the Domestic Realm
Michael Chapman and Michael J. Ostwald, The Underbelly of the Architect: Discursive Practices in the Architecture of Douglas Darden
Michael J. Ostwald and Michael Chapman, Cinematic Views: John Lautner’s Architecture and Masculine Spatial Types
Chair: Guenter Lehmann
Keynote Lecture: Diane Favro Storey Hall 18.00
Closing Drinks