Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1834991
J. L. Roberts
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1826687
Abdulaziz Alshabib, Sam Ridgway
ABSTRACT Partially hidden by bushland in the Sydney suburb of Georges Heights sit five unassuming, prefabricated timber houses. Saved from demolition in 2003 and now restored, these houses were manufactured in the early 1950s in Sweden by Åmåls Sågverks Aktiebolag (ASA). They were erected in 1951 for the Australian Navy and are some of the last remnants of thousands of prefabricated houses imported by the Federal and State Governments to alleviate the post-war housing shortage. By the end of 1951, approximately 70,000 prefabricated houses had been imported into Australia. While the importation of prefabricated houses was driven by urgent need, questions of quality and suitability to Australian conditions were considered important enough to warrant considerable research. Several European study tours by building experts established that the Swedish houses were of high quality, particularly in relation to their materials, detailing, and levels of insulation. In nineteen fifties Australia, this implanted example of sophisticated Swedish design would have represented a quite different cultural frame for household living. Despite their obvious quality, these prefabricated houses were not accepted into the mainstream housing market as they were in Sweden and Ormal Construction Pty Ltd, the company ASA established in Melbourne in 1950, lasted only a few years.
在悉尼郊区乔治高地的丛林中，坐落着五座不起眼的预制木结构房屋。这些房屋在2003年的拆除中被保存下来，现在得到了修复，这些房屋是在20世纪50年代初在瑞典由Åmåls s gverks Aktiebolag (ASA)建造的。它们是1951年为澳大利亚海军建造的，是联邦和州政府为缓解战后住房短缺而进口的数千套预制房屋的最后残余部分。到1951年底，大约有7万所预制房屋进口到澳大利亚。虽然预制房屋的进口是由于迫切需要，但质量和适合澳大利亚条件的问题被认为非常重要，值得进行大量研究。建筑专家的几次欧洲考察表明，瑞典房屋的质量很高，特别是在材料、细节和绝缘水平方面。在20世纪50年代的澳大利亚，这种复杂的瑞典设计的植入例子代表了一种完全不同的家庭生活文化框架。尽管这些预制房屋具有明显的质量，但它们并没有被主流住房市场所接受，因为它们在瑞典和1950年在墨尔本成立的ASA公司normal Construction Pty Ltd只持续了几年。
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Pub Date : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1758296
F.-Y. Lin
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749218
D. Byrne
ABSTRACT The hundreds of houses built in their home villages by people who had migrated from Zhongshan County, China, to Australia between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1940s represent a remarkable record of transnational flows. Beginning as enlarged versions of vernacular houses, by the 1920s many of the houses were being built in a neoclassical style based on reinforced concrete frames. It is argued here that these houses drew inspiration not from Australia as a country but from a colonial architectural milieu in which Australia participated. The relation of the Zhongshan houses to Australian architecture was to a large degree one of simultaneity rather than a unilinear flow of influence. It is proposed that the houses represent a transnationally “distributed” form of heritage that provokes a rethinking of the conventional approach to migrant heritage in places like Australia where a unilinear, one-way narrative of migration has been imposed, a narrative which disregards the ongoing history of transnational mobility and belonging that is common to many or most peoples’ experience of migration.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1770157
M. Neustupny, Laura Harper
The phasing out of the White Australia Policy (1966–75) paved the way for increased immigration into suburban Melbourne from Asia, leading to the development of tight-knit “enclaves” of specific cultural groups. Particular streets in Melbourne can transport those who pass through them to distinct places in Asia – Station Street in Box Hill (to China) or Victoria Street in Richmond (to Vietnam, Figures 1 and 2). The culture of those who live, work and shop in these streets is evident in the treatment of facades and organisation of streetscapes superimposed over-familiar elements of the common Melbourne building and site types. We refer to this new combined aesthetic and organisation as Asian Melbourne. The purpose of this research project we have termed Asian Melbourne is to investigate the fit betweenMelbourne’s urban structure and Asian ways of life. As a way to start, we ran a design research elective at RMIT University, which spent a semester studying parts of Melbourne with high Asian populations. Students were asked to record what they saw and consider two questions:
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749219
Maram Shaweesh, Kelly Greenop
ABSTRACT Migrants’ houses not only offer shelter and a setting for everyday life, but a platform from which to maintain a migrant identity. Migrants’ efforts to express their culture can be reflected in the appearance of their houses, where aesthetic differences spark “aesthetic anxieties” towards an ethnic-looking artefact from non-migrant neighbours. In this paper, we extend the category of “aesthetic anxieties” to include the migrants’ own experiences within their Australian houses, rather than the reactions of mainstream society. The settings provoking such anxieties are often not visible from the street but are experienced by migrants within the house in response to a lack of housing diversity to accommodate their cultural needs. This study aims to provide insights into the experience of Lebanese migrants in Australian houses, and to reflect their responses to the spatial organisation of their houses, considering changing factors such as household occupants’ age, marital status, and household dynamics over time. We use in-depth interview data from three Lebanese families to reflect on their behaviour within, and emotional and physical relationship to, their houses. We find the spatial organisation of mainstream Australian housing may clash with residents’ cultural values affecting whether they are able to comfortably occupy their houses, or not.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749335
C. Hamann
ABSTRACT Since the nineteenth century a physically distant Metropolis has been invoked to determine the validity of Australian architectural projects and their ideas, and the assumption is this Metropolis sends out resolved principles to a provincial culture. This view assumes that actual immigration to Australia equals cultural erasure. It assumes Australia’s architectural culture is infantile or child-like and must accept a continual and necessarily painful education- the pedagogical focus-to animate local architecture. It is frequently asserted that architects whose capacities do not seem adequately recognised in Australia would always fare better in this Metropolis. The Metropolis proves, on closer inspection, to be nebulous and varied in location. Its constituent countries and cultures, usually associated with “age” and cultural power, have warred with each other constantly, and have consistently driven architects from its perceived membership. Its principles are frequently changing and often thoroughly inconsistent, and half its ‘member’ cultures are out of cultural action at any given moment. This is papered over by a minatory orthodoxy in criticism and rhetoric, which works well in Australia because it serves local needs and worries at several levels, and because Australian architectural culture projects values and characteristics onto this metropolis from an assumed geographical distance.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1757930
M. Lozanovska, C. Logan
This editors’ issue of Fabrications is primarily concerned with the anxieties aroused by migration. Aesthetic Anxiety, as described and dissected in this issue, refers to both the prevalent anxieties connected with migrant experiences of inhabitation, as well the anxieties of state protection. The theme may at first invoke aesthetic theory or critical theories related to the rise of postmodern anti-aesthetics in architecture and art, a theme explored in Architecture and Ugliness (by Wouter Van Acker and Thomas Mical, review in this issue). The theme will suggest to others an engagement with critical cultural theories. For the authors included here joining “anxiety” to “aesthetic” raises concerns related to architecture as cultural production, and how diaspora aesthetics challenge conceptions of culture or cultural particularity. Diaspora aesthetics and its interest in everyday life and actual lived social processes draws on theories that challenge “taken-for-granted” framings precisely because the diasporic is a trans-cultural and trans-national concept and serves as metaphor to rethink national boundaries of aesthetic production. The collective implication of the work presented here under the banner of Aesthetic Anxiety is that an architecture of migration involves aesthetic production and that such production disrupts the visual imaginary of national cultures. The theme aims to expand the aesthetic field of reference by shifting its focus. Informed by key theoretical developments in cultural studies and the social sciences – notably those connected with the work and legacy of Stuart Hall, Pierre Bourdieu and James Clifford – architectural historians have revised their approach to architectural historiography. Gülsüm Baydar’s theoretical reflection on cultural particularity mobilises a critique of conventional, canonical framings and their systematic dependence on architectural categorisation. Anthony King’s work revises architecture within the rise of globalisation, and outlines ways to analyse ethno-burbs and their links tomigration histories. Two key anthologies –Drifting: Architecture andMigrancy (Cairns 2004) and Ethnoarchitecture and the politics of migration (Lozanovska 2016) outline the breadth of the field and highlight key research areas. Why “anxiety”? Migration gives rise to fears about security and territory revealing ways that diversity, identity and cultural production are entangled with protective narratives of the nation-state. Aesthetic judgements of migrant architecture are key to this fear. In the late 1980s, published during the heyday of multicultural policy in Australia, Judith Vulker proposed topics for debate FABRICATIONS 2020, VOL. 30, NO. 2, 149–152 https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2020.1757930
本期编辑出版的《捏造》主要关注移民引发的焦虑。正如本期所描述和剖析的，审美焦虑既指与移民居住体验相关的普遍焦虑，也指国家保护的焦虑。该主题可能首先援引美学理论或与建筑和艺术中后现代反美学兴起有关的批评理论，这是《建筑与丑陋》（Wouter Van Acker和Thomas Mical，本期综述）中探讨的主题。该主题将向其他人建议参与批判性文化理论。对于本文中的作者来说，将“焦虑”与“美学”结合起来，引发了人们对建筑作为文化生产的关注，以及散居美学如何挑战文化或文化特殊性的概念。流散美学及其对日常生活和实际生活社会过程的兴趣借鉴了挑战“理所当然”框架的理论，正是因为流散是一个跨文化、跨民族的概念，是重新思考美学生产国界的隐喻。在“审美焦虑”的旗帜下呈现的作品的集体含义是，迁移的建筑涉及审美生产，这种生产扰乱了民族文化的视觉想象。该主题旨在通过转移焦点来拓展审美参考领域。在文化研究和社会科学的关键理论发展——尤其是与斯图尔特·霍尔、皮埃尔·布迪厄和詹姆斯·克利福德的工作和遗产有关的理论发展——的指导下，建筑历史学家修改了他们的建筑史学方法。Gülsüm Baydar对文化特殊性的理论反思动员了对传统、规范框架及其对建筑分类的系统依赖的批判。安东尼·金的作品在全球化兴起的背景下对建筑进行了修订，并概述了分析民族打嗝及其与移民历史联系的方法。两本重要选集——《漂流：建筑与移民》（Cairns 2004）和《民族建筑与移民政治》（Lozanovska 2016）概述了该领域的广度，并突出了关键研究领域。为什么是“焦虑”？移民引发了对安全和领土的担忧，揭示了多样性、身份认同和文化生产与民族国家的保护叙事纠缠在一起的方式。对移民建筑的审美判断是这种恐惧的关键。20世纪80年代末，Judith Vulker在澳大利亚多元文化政策的鼎盛时期发表了《2020年捏造》第30卷第2期149–152的辩论主题https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2020.1757930
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749221
M. Lobo
ABSTRACT A permit for a Buddhist place of worship in suburban Melbourne was rejected by the local Planning Committee. The application by the Mirror of the Dhamma Society to hold small religious gatherings in a semi-detached single storey house in an area zoned General Residential was deemed inappropriate. The paper focuses on this event that circulated contagious global white affects of anxiety and fear in response to potential changes in the Australian suburban infrastructure. What escaped scrutiny, however, was state-sanctioned aesthetic judgements of appropriate suburban infrastructures that were underpinned by invisible but dominant social and cultural norms. This paper calls for undoing these norms, recomposing white affects, and remaking Australian suburbia in ways that veer away from stigmatising or exoticizing material expressions of cultural diversity in the built landscape. Responding to Felix Guattari’s call for a new aesthetic paradigm with ethico-political implications, I explore the possibilities for new suburban ecologies that transcend the secular/sacred binary. The paper is written from my shifting positionality as a first-generation migrant woman and Australian of Indian heritage who arrived in Melbourne 19 years ago. It is informed by my broad research agenda on everyday multiculturalism, grounded religiosity, and belonging in cities with white majority cultures.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1770156
Jordan Kauffman
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