Current issue
35.1 (2025)
The first issue of Volume 35 of Fabrications is an open issue. Serendipitously, all five papers featured here deal in some way with projects “tied up” (to borrow from the title of David Nichols’ paper), whether by bureaucratic obstruction, financial necessity, social conflict, or a combination of all three. Many of the architects featured – Marion Mahony Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin, Russell Ellis, Hugh Buhrich, Eva Buhrich, Joseph Allen Stein, and Minoru Yamasaki – will be familiar to Fabrications readers, yet rather than taking a leading role in the histories presented, they are cast as players in a larger field of actors, their ambitions frequently frustrated by bureaucrats, developers, clients, and various publics. It is a good reminder that the lives of architectural projects cannot stand alone as single acts of intention but are bound to the complexities of policy and profit, and the passage of time.
