LIMITS

XXIst annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand

Melbourne, Australia

26–29 September 2004

PROGRAMME

Venues

Conference panels A : RMIT Building 8, level 11, rm 68 (8.11.68) B : RMIT Building 10, level 11, rm 03 (10.11.03) C : RMIT Building 10, level 11, rm 04 (10.11.04)

Keynotes Capitol Theatre, RMIT, Swanston St., Melbourne Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston St., Melbourne

Sunday 26 September, 2004

Registration: Capitol Theatre 10.00 – 12.00 and 17:00

Welcome: Harriet Edquist and Hélène Frichot, Convenors 17:50

Keynote Lecture: Reinhold Martin Capitol Theatre 18.00

Monday 27 September 2004

Registration : Building 8, Level 11: 8.00 – 9.00

SESSION ONE: 9.00-10.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Anoma Pieris, A Crisis of Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of a Virtual Nation Gülsüm Baydar and Berfin Ivegen, Territories, Identities and Thresholds: The Saturday Mothers Phenonmenon in Istanbul Gill Matthewson, Take it to the Limit: Women as Architectural Breach	Panel B (10.11.03) Ursula de Jong, The Square from Inside Out: Federation Square, Melbourne Diego Ramirez, A Morphology of Complex Boundaries Ian Woodcock, Kim Dovey and Stephen Wood, Limits to Urban Character	Panel C (10.11.04) Guenter Lehman, Rhetoric versus Practice: ‘Limits' in Early Modernism Graham Crist, Aardvark and the Contemporary Guide to Architecture Christine Phillips, Historical Limits: Local and International Modernism
Chair: Suzie Attiwill	Chair: Shane Murray	Chair: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

morning tea break: 10.30 – 11.00

SESSION TWO: 11.00 – 12.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Simon Whibley, Spaces More or Less Visible: The Raft Project David Beynon, Newly Authentic Architecture in Contemporary Southeast Asia John Ting, The Old Kuching Courthouse Architecturally Considered	Panel B (10.11.03) Jacky Bowring, The Liminal, the Subliminal and the Sublime: Crossing between Landscape and Architecture Peter Downton, Limited People: Polemic Models, Ethical Issues Nigel Westbrook, Monstrous Passages	Panel C (10.11.04) Matthew Bradbury and John Adam, Outside the Limits of Modern landscape History Paolo Tombesi, Capital Gains and Losses: The Expansion Journey of Caudill Rowlett and Scott (1948-1994) Peter Kohane, Conversation and Agreement: Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum and Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Chair: Duanfang Lu	Chair: Michael Ostwald	Chair: Judy Trimble

lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30

SESSION THREE: 13.30 – 15.00

Panel A (8.11.68) Peter Scriver, Delimiting Architecture in the Construction of Colonial India Chris McConville, Memory's Limits: Sites of Traumatic Heritage Rosalea Monacella and Sue Anne Ware, Fluctuating Borders: Speculations about Memory and Emergence	Panel B (10.11.03) Quentin Stevens, Testing the Limits: Building Thresholds and Urban Liminality Christoph Schnoor, Overcoming Limits: Le Corbusier's Early Treatise “La Construction des Villes” John Macarthur and Matthew Aitchison, Ivor de Wolfe's Picturesque, or, Who and What was Townscape	Panel C (10.11.04) Andrew Hutson, “… a design that was once natural and monumental”: The Political Conception of new Parliament House, Canberra Deborah van der Plaat and Maryam Gusheh, The Idea of the Liberated Imagination in Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin's Capitol Building (1912) Ali Mozaffari, Unravelling the National Museum of Australia (NMA)
Chair: Julian Raxworthy	Chair: Antony Moulis	Chair: Ursula de Jong

afternoon tea break: 15.00 – 15.30

SESSION FOUR: 15.30-17.00

Panel A (8.11.68) Brandon Hookway, Whatever Happened to the Modernist Chair? Dorita Hannah, Artaud's Geysers of Stone and Tschumi's Big Top Kate Linzey, Giddy Limits: Experiencing and Representing and Urban Spatial Pathology	Panel B (10.11.03) Branko Mitrovic, Homogeneity of Space in Leon Battista Alberti's Architectural Theory Steven Fleming, The Epistemological Limits of Neo-Rationalism Stephen Frith, Architecture at the Limits of Language
Chair: Gevork Hartoonian	Chair: Peter Downton

Keynote Lecture: Felicity Scott Storey Hall 18.00

Plenary: Chair: Harriet Edquist Storey Hall 19.30-20.30

21 st Birthday Party Drinks: Storey Hall 20.30

Tuesday 28 September 2004

Registration: Building 8, Level 11: 8.30 – 9.00

SESSION ONE: 9.00 – 10.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Duanfang Lu, Placing Modernism: Architecture and Global Imaginations in China, 1949 – 1965 Eugenie Keefer Bell, Expanding Limits: Introducing Japanese Architecture in Australia, 1870's – 1880's Pedro Guedes, A Revolutionary Dwelling in Meiji Japan	Panel B (10.11.03) Michael Tawa, Limit and Leimma: What Remains for Architecture? Hélène Frichot, The Limit of the Refugee Camp and Our Coming Community Nicole Sully, On the Threshold of Forgetting: Amnesiac Identities and the Brazilian Capital	Panel C (10.11.04) Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, The Look of Information: Conceptual Art, Computers and Architecture in the 1970's Jane Burry, Collaboration Mechanisms in Design: Drawing on Discourse Analysis Eric Champion, The Limits of Realism in Architectural Visualisation
Chair: Doug Evans	Chair: Sarah Treadwell	Chair: Scott Drake

morning tea break: 10.30 – 11.00

SESSION TWO: 11.00 – 12.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Susan Collins, Atelier Adelaide: Architectural Student Drawings from the Early 1930's Julie Willis, Style / Scale / Status / Site: The Sensibility of Architectural Eclecticism	Panel B (10.11.03) Mike Austin, Rapa Nui: Beyond the Limit Martin Fowler, Magical Limits: Other, Others, Gods, Dogs, Crocodiles, Architectures, Other's Architecture's Sarah Treadwell, Pacific Architecture of the Transit of Venus	Panel C (10.11.04) Reena Tiwari and Lynn Churchill, Transgressions of Domestic Space at the Frontline Between Everyday and Extra-Everyday, and between Nature and Culture Julian Raxworthy, Transactions with Chance in the Garden William Taylor, A Natural Impulse: Unearthing Architecture's Biological Roots
Chair: Andrew Hutson	Chair: Christine McCarthy	Chair: Diego Ramirez

lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30

SESSION THREE: 13.30 – 15.00

Panel A (8.11.68) Emina Petroviç, The Parisian Development of Apartment Culture: Beyond the Limits of the Anglo-American Preference for Suburban Individual Houses Kevin Green, The Nineteenth Century Railway Station as a Portal to Modernity Rachel Hurst, Modest Revolutionaries: the Architecture of Dickson and Platten	Panel B (10.11.03) Bill McKay, Resonant Time and Cyclic Architecture: Notions of Time and Architectural History in New Zealand Jacqueline Magretts, Limits on Alofi Kevin O'Brien, Meriam Space	Panel C (10.11.04) Ivana Wingham, “Taking a Line for a Walk” within Paul Klee's Modernist Practice Jan Smitheram, Architecture from the Outside: Enabling and Constraining Limits Tracey Woods, Shifting Limits
Chair: Igea Troiani	Chair: John Mcarthur	Chair: Karen Burns

afternoon tea break: 15.00 – 15.30

SESSION FOUR: 15.30 – 17.00

Panel A (8.11.68) Michael Hill and Peter Kohane, Porticos and the Ideal Christian Church James Weirick, The Case for the Conservation of St John's: The Limits and Limitations of Architectural History in Contemporary Conservation Practice Igea Troiani, Building Mayne Hall: Architects and Patrons Talking about (un)Friendly Architectural Collaborations	Panel B (10.11.03) Deidre Brown, He Kokonga Whare e Kimihia: Seeking a Corner of the House Hannah Davies, Constructing Ex – isle: Matiu/Somes Island, Wellington Harbour Jeremy Treadwell, Constructions of Privacy in the Cook Islands
Chair: Julie Willis	Chair: Mike Austin

Keynote Lecture: Peter Corrigan Storey Hall 18:00

Conference Dinner: Rosati Restaurant, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 20.00

Wednesday 29September 2004

Registration: Building 8, Level 11: 8.30am – 9.00am

Annual General Meeting: 8.15am – 9.30am 8.11.68

SESSION ONE: 9.30 – 11.00

Panel A (8.11.68) David Bridgman, The Anglo-Asian Bungalow in Australia's Northern Territory Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, More than One View: The Robin Simpson House (1938 – 39) Doug Evans, Anxious Modernisms Indeed	Panel B (10.11.03) Antony Moulis, Diagrams, Composition, and Play: Reading Concepts andtechniques throughthe Work of Le Corbusier Dagmar Reinhardt, (Un)Limited Privacy – (Un)Limited Identity? The Individual on the Border of 4Dimensional Space -Between Transparency, Information Screen, Digital Work. Surfaces and Representation Stuart Harrison, Words on Buildings	Panel C (10.11.04) Jill Franz, At the In-Side of the Limit: Redefining the Architecture and Interior Design Relationship Suzie Attiwill, Doing Time Inside Gemma Gillett, Seclusionary Spaces
Chair: Graham Crist	Chair: Brent Allpress	Chair: Hélène Frichot

morning tea break: 11.00 – 11.30

SESSION TWO: 11.30 – 13.00

Panel A (8.11.68) Jeanette Budget, Negotiated Boundaries Harry Margalit and Paola Favaro, The Local and the Migrant: Limits of Mutual Recognition Douglas Neale, The ‘Essentials' of the Sub-Tropical House: An Exegesis of the ‘Modernistic' Town Planning Principles of Dr Karl Langer	Panel B (10.11.03) Anuradha Chatterjee, Dress as Sexualised Limit of the Body: John Ruskin and the Walls of St Mark's Karen Burns, Optical Surfaces: The Limits and Possibilities of Illusionism at William Butterfield's All Saints' Church (1849 - 59) Catherine De Lorenzo and Deborah van der Plaat, Redefining the Urban Limits: European Readings of Wilderness, Photography and late Nineteenth century Australia	Panel C (10.11.04) Rosanna Blacket, Visualising Space B.C. Steve Basson, Beware Greeks bearing Gifts: The Greek Agora as a Discontinuous Subject of Historical Knowledge Michael Linzey, Pax Romana and the Limits of Friendship
Chair: Peter Kohane	Chair: Harriet Edquist	Chair: Michael Tawa

lunch break: 13.00 – 14.00

SESSION THREE: 14.00 – 15.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Inger Mewburn, A Feeling of the Rococo Joanna Besley and Lisanne Gibson, Pioneers and Public Art: The Use of History in Constructing Identity in Outdoor Cultural Objects Scott Drake, Ecological Limits: Architecture as Niche Construction	Panel B (10.11.03) Rebecca Sinclair, Dressed in Space: The Sartorial Architectures of Rei Kawakubo and Hussein Chalayan Clare Newton, The Farnsworth House: Irreconcilable Differences Christine McCarthy, Inflated Architecture: Limits Under Pressure
Chair: Anuradha Chatterjee	Chair: Mark Taylor

afternoon tea break: 15.30 – 16.00

SESSION FOUR: 16.00 – 17.30

Panel A (8.11.68) Alex Selenitsch, HI TO LO: The Liminal Zone of Transformation Gevork Hartoonian, An Architecture of Limits Charles Walker, What do You Think You are Playing at? On the Limits of Accredibility in Architectural Education	Panel B (10.11.03) Mark Taylor, Transgressing the Limits of the Domestic Realm Michael Chapman and Michael J. Ostwald, The Underbelly of the Architect: Discursive Practices in the Architecture of Douglas Darden Michael J. Ostwald and Michael Chapman, Cinematic Views: John Lautner's Architecture and Masculine Spatial Types
Chair: Steven Fleming	Chair: Guenter Lehmann

Keynote Lecture: Diane Favro Storey Hall 18.00

Closing Drinks