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. The journal’s contents reflect the wide interests of the Society’s diverse membership. It publishes papers on a wide range of themes, but especially on the architectural, urban and landscape history of Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and South-East Asia. The journal is published for the Society by Taylor & Francis, with each annual volume containing three issues.
For further information on Fabrications and to review past issues, see the Taylor and Francis website.
Reports and Reviews
The journal does not publish unsolicited reviews. All reviews will be commissioned by the journal. We invite members of the SAHANZ community to contact us directly to suggest ideas for reports about symposia and other research events, as well about exhibitions, collections and other resources of interest to the membership of SAHANZ. These can be addressed directly to the Reviews Editor.
Author Guidelines
Papers should be submitted online by the due dates identified below.
The Editors consider essays of 7000 to 9000 words (including footnotes). Papers should be submitted as Word documents. Authors should use the footnote function of Word, but no automatic footing programs such as Endnote. Papers should be submitted with an abstract (200 words) at the beginning of the paper and a brief author biography (80 words), images and image captions. Abstracts are published at the beginning of papers. All papers published in Fabrications are blind peer-refereed by two readers.
Papers must conform with the Instructions for Authors.
Image Specifications
For the refereeing process, please submit low-resolution images of illustrations as separate files {or embedded in a separate pdf file with captions} (72dpi jpeg files). Once a paper is accepted for publication, high-resolution images should be submitted as 300 dpi tiff files, at a minimum of 100mm wide with a separate list of captions indicating permissions.
Authors are responsible for securing all permissions and paying all fees to reproduce images in Fabrications. Authors must meet the publisher’s requirements.
The Editors
Cameron Logan (2019-23)
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney
Darlington
New South Wales 2008
AUSTRALIA
Kelly Greenop (2021-24)
School of Architecture
The University of Queensland
St Lucia
Queensland 4072
AUSTRALIA
Isabel Rousset (2023-26)
School of Architecture
University of Technology Sydney
Ultimo
New South Walls 2007
AUSTRALIA
Isabel.rousset@uts..edu.au
35.2 Housing
Fabrications The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (Vol. 35, No. 2) on the theme of Housing, edited by Kelly Greenop and Isabel Rousset. The deadline is 1st November 2024.
The current housing affordability crisis in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is well documented across all forms of popular media, and its causes and implications also well documented across scholarly discourse in economics, planning, and the social sciences. The situation is mirrored across the globe with decreasing access to housing in other economically prosperous and developing nations alike. Yet, the trope of a “housing crisis” is far from new and has a longer history that can be traced back to nineteenth-century reformist discourse on the conditions of Europe’s industrial workers. Since Henry Roberts presented model homes for workers at the Great Exhibition of 1851, architecture has long played a visible role in shaping housing debate.
This special issue calls for papers that explore the historical tensions between architecture, housing, and social politics. How can an architectural perspective illuminate the social history of housing? How has the relationship between architecture and society been historically imagined through housing? We are particularly interested in papers that delve into the nuanced dynamics that govern the success or failure of affordable housing projects between architecture and the state and its bureaucratic systems.
Topics may include, but are not limited to: temporary housing, emergency housing, prefabrication and standardisation; immigrant housing and refugee camps; public housing and the role of the state; First Nations people’s housing, its design, values and historical apprehension; housing for marginalised groups; discourses on affordability, social need and housing security; the speculative house and the role of real estate; the “housing estate” and the relationship of housing to the city; social justice movements and counter-cultural experiments in housing; imagined housing schemes and social utopias; relationships between housing, land, and settler colonialism; transnational networks and the translation of housing design expertise; the legacy of important historians and critics of housing.
We welcome papers from any period or geography and particularly encourage papers that connect to histories of Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and South-East Asian regions. We also welcome papers that critically reflect on the methods of the housing historian and how architectural perspectives can facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue.
Questions about the special issue should be directed to the journal’s co-editors: Kelly Greenop () and Isabel Rousset ()For submission instructions and portal, go to: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfab20
34.1 Open Issue
Fabrications invites papers for an OPEN issue (Vol.34, no.1). Papers are welcomed on topics addressing the architecture and landscapes of Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, as are those that focus on other places and in any period. Papers are due by Thursday August 31, 2024.
*Please note that papers that are appropriate for an Open issue of the journal can be submitted at any time. The journal now publishes online first, meaning that your accepted paper will be published on the journal’s page on the publisher’s website once it has gone through the normal editing and proofing process. So you do no need to wait for the completion of the whole issue for the paper to be published online.