Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2098564
P. Hogben
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the growing body of scholarly research into the boom in church construction that took place in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. Building on recent work by Lisa Marie Daunt and others, it focuses on a regional location as a noteworthy arena of this activity and seeks to understand the forces behind the appearance of a number of striking examples of modern church and chapel architecture. Due to its development as a major mining and industrial manufacturing centre, the Hunter region of New South Wales became a place of significant church construction. After the Second World War the region experienced a wave of church building activity as authorities looked to accommodate expanding congregations and as new religious territories emerged, particularly within the suburban growth areas of Newcastle. This paper examines key developments in church design and construction within the Hunter region in the post-war decades by considering three areas of architectural change and innovation: the simplification of traditional form, the introduction of new spatial arrangements, and the creation of physically and visually rich interior environments through the use of textured materials. Structuring the study around these areas clearly reveals how change took place in the transition from a conservative modernism to a range of innovative designs. The paper argues that not only do these changes reflect the impact of liturgical reform and the desire to enhance the church-going experience of modern-day worshippers, they also need to be understood in terms of a shift away from the patronage of established local architectural practices to the commissioning of Sydney architects who were employing new ideas for church and chapel design.
本文对20世纪50年代和60年代澳大利亚教堂建设热潮的学术研究做出了贡献。在Lisa Marie Daunt和其他人最近的工作基础上，它将重点放在一个区域位置，作为这个活动的一个值得注意的舞台，并试图理解一些现代教堂和礼拜堂建筑的引人注目的例子背后的力量。由于其发展成为一个主要的采矿和工业制造中心，新南威尔士州的亨特地区成为一个重要的教堂建设的地方。第二次世界大战后，该地区经历了一波教堂建设活动，因为当局希望适应不断扩大的会众和新的宗教领土，特别是在纽卡斯尔郊区的增长地区。本文通过考虑建筑变化和创新的三个方面，考察了战后亨特地区教堂设计和建筑的关键发展:传统形式的简化，新的空间安排的引入，以及通过使用纹理材料创造物理和视觉上丰富的室内环境。围绕这些领域的研究结构清楚地揭示了从保守的现代主义到一系列创新设计的转变是如何发生的。这篇论文认为，这些变化不仅反映了礼仪改革的影响，也反映了增强现代信徒去教堂体验的愿望，而且还需要从对当地建筑实践的赞助转变为对悉尼建筑师的委托来理解，这些建筑师正在为教堂和礼拜堂设计采用新的想法。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2093451
M. Lozanovska, A. Pieris
The “Diasporic Architectural Histories” session presented in April 2021 was organised by Mirjana Lozanovska and Anoma Pieris as part of the SAHANZ selection for the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) annual conference. Five papers developed for presentation were selected from thirty-five submitted abstracts, the array of abstract submissions by early career and established scholars revealing the escalation of interest in this field of research and its slow but glacial influence on architectural historiography. For many decades, including at the height of identity and cultural theory in the 1980s and 1990s, architectural historiography within colonial settler nations and in Europe appropriated critical theories but remained chal-lenged by the architecture of immigrant communities and unprivileged migration (including forced and economic migration). Except for a few scholars, the subject of migration was largely dismissed partly because such an architecture does not fit into the professional limits of an architect-centred discipline, nor does it fit easily within the scope of vernacular architecture. 1 Two anthologies and two monographs are foundational to the field. 2 Recent minority scholar activisms have advanced earlier foundational platforms of postcolonial theory, Critical Race Theory, Asian American Studies, and Inter-Asian Cultural Studies – lines of diasporic intellectual questioning of colonial and statist racial constructs – into architectural historiography. 3 These efforts continue to dislodge Euro-centred frameworks, but the reluctance of many architectural historians to step out of their expertise areas and perceive the canon as contingent on these worldviews means that an imbalance of knowledge is perpetuated. Diasporic spaces are seen as exceptional rather than integral to our percep-tions of the built environment. At the 2021 SAH conference, sessions pursuing these new terrains included “Transnational histories of
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2093449
Catherine Townsend
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2093454
Kate Hislop
particularly highlighted in her investigation of the residents’ unsanctioned renovations of dilapidated apartments and walk-out basements. Schwenkel shows that an entrepreneurial urbanisation arose, especially amongst women, whereby residents constructed shops in the walk-out basements and adhoc markets and stalls in Quang Trung’s common spaces. Schwenkel’s intent in every facet of Building Socialism is to extend and democratise the objects of scholarship, and overturn commonplace narratives. The architectural historian to which Building Socialism refers most frequently is Esra Akcan, and Schwenkel cites both Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House, 2012, and Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship, and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg, 2018 several times. Schwenkel adopts Akcan’s notion of the translation of built form between cultures and extends it to include habitation and affect (6). This corresponds to Schwenkel’s larger intellectual project of moving scholarship on buildings away from the discussion purely of high cultural objects to the lived experience of residents and users. Building Socialism rejects the notion of uniform socialist cities, especially assumptions about uniformity and drabness of life in socialist mass housing. Building Socialism shows that “people in Vietnam did not unconditionally accept modernist utopian design; they reworked and translated it, ideologically and architecturally” (321). Quang Trung emerges as a vibrant place, with a plurality of social life and unique spatial qualities that a more limited methodological palette may have left undocumented. As such, Building Socialism has much that can inform contemporary writing of architectural history.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2082034
D. Beynon
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2092953
I. Tan
ABSTRACT From 1873 to 1915, the Singapore Municipal Commission (SMC) constructed five markets in the town area, all built with iron as their main structural material. This paper focuses on the construction of two such markets, namely Clyde Terrace Market and Telok Ayer Market, two early iron markets constructed in 1873 and 1894 respectively. Municipal markets were important sites not only to sell produce and fresh meats. They also fulfilled important representational objectives as sites of governance and health control in a colonial city. My paper posits iron as essential in performing this semiotic role. Iron, and other industrial building materials such as glazed tiles, were believed to be resistant to diseases just as they could withstand fire and water. It offered an alternative to masonry and timber in curbing the spread of miasma and germs through building materials and structural improvements. It will examine three aspects instrumental to the transplantation of the western market model in an Asian context. First, establishing a link between the environment and the decision to adopt iron and its engineering technology and knowledge; second, analysing how the epistemological shift from miasma to germ theory impacted architecture; and third, evaluating the influence of sanitary specialists as key proponents shaping the urban environment.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2121528
P. Walker, Amanda Achmadi
ABSTRACT A lasting legacy of 19th-century colonialism in the Pacific and Southeast Asia is the fragmented historiography of the region’s colonial architecture. Historical studies of the built environment continue to adopt geographical frameworks corresponding to nation-states that emerged from colonial empires, overlooking the region’s intricate interconnectivity in the late nineteenth century. The establishment of industrial agriculture and commercial shipping routes opened up territories facilitating movement of goods, labour, capital and ideas. Crossing colonial boundaries, networks developed by commercial entities transformed the Asia Pacific region, leaving behind traces in buildings for trade, travel and export-oriented agriculture. This paper focuses on the architectural infrastructure of the interregional operations of the Australian firm Burns Philp, particularly its engagement with large-scale agricultural production: kapok manufacture in Java, copra estates in the Pacific, and wool production in Australia. Trade operations of Burns Philp and other major shipping companies including the Dutch Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij facilitated not only industrialisation of agriculture in Asia Pacific but also the development of tourism. Drawing on two collections of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of the Pacific and Southeast Asia, the paper examines images of mostly anonymous commercial built forms and reflects on how their production was informed by interconnectivity and movement.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2129115
Kelly Greenop
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2093453
P. Hogben
Curated by Dr James Curry of the University of Adelaide and Mark Gilbert of the State Library of South Australia, the Lust for Lifestyle: Modern Adelaide Homes exhibition offers an insight into a particular arena of post-war architectural modernism in Adelaide: the single-family domestic house, architect-designed, artistically furnished, and thoughtfully attuned to exist-ing site conditions and natural and scenic surroundings. It presents a thematically oriented display of a select number of individual houses, beautifully captured in black-and-white and colour photographs, copies of original drawings and descriptive texts. The first theme “Economy and Excess” draws attention to what is a primary interest of the exhibition – the owners of the houses, the luxuries afforded by their wealth, and the desire to achieve a modern lifestyle inspired by international trends. The exhibition catalogue explains:
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2022.2092960
J. Ting
ABSTRACT Rendered, whitewashed masonry shophouses are a common vernacular type in Southeast Asia’s urban heritage districts. There were, however, parallel vernacular timber shophouse traditions where brick was not available. In much of nineteenth-century Sarawak, local timbers were used for structural frames, joinery, wall cladding and roofing shingles. Even when bricks became available, timber approaches were not completely replaced. Although timber shophouses are now uncommon in Southeast Asia’s large cities due to modernisation and development, outstation Sarawak is a rich repository of pre-1960 examples. Shophouse development in Sarawak was non-linear, with modern and vernacular approaches pursued contemporaneously. While timber construction was necessary due to the lack of bricks outside of the capital, Kuching, it is also because of the government’s unique approach to governance, hygiene, building regulation and approaches to representation before World War Two. Despite their ubiquity and longevity in many parts of Malaysia, timber shophouse types have generally been left out of national architectural historiographies This paper begins to address this gap by interrogating the architectural development of shophouses in Sarawak, within the context of the history of the type’s architecture and construction in Malaysia and Singapore.
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