Tee Square Journal, Phi, Aspect, and Aedicule: The Publications of the Architectural Students Association of Western Australia

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper explores four publications produced by the Architectural Students Association of Western Australia (ASAWA), and the shifting intellectual contexts in which they were created. Between 1937 and 1961, the ASAWA published three independent journals, each of which reflected a particular moment of student activity and the ambitions of a distinct, yet related, student group. Tee Square Journal (1937), Phi (1950–1953), and Aedicule (1960–1961), along with a guest edited issue of the national broadsheet Aspect (1952), were part of a suite of student journals that were produced across Australasia but which have so far largely evaded scholarly attention. Through an exploration of these publications, and the context which underpinned their creation, this paper contributes to a growing understanding of student activity in Australasia, particularly as it unfolded before the well-known global ferment of the late 1960s.