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SUMMARY:Miles Lewis Oration 2024 - Khoo Salma Nasution (Penang\, Malaysia)
DESCRIPTION:Consuming The Porous City : George Town\, Penang\nKhoo Salma Nasution \nThe term ‘porous city’\, introduced by Walter Benjamin and his collaborator Asja Lacis (credited more to the latter) in their 1925 essay on Naples\, serves as an analytical lens in contemporary writings on architecture and urbanism. This essay applies the concept of porosity to urban history and heritage conservation\, from building materials to city boundaries\, to the legibility of historical layering. \nInitially\, rent control delayed the redevelopment of the old city\, and UNESCO listing later placed George Town on a unique developmental path. A port city in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes\, George Town has long been fertile ground for civilizational exchange and expressions of intangible heritage\, particularly related to religious diversity. UNESCO’s 2008 listing of the Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca cited these outstanding universal values\, as well as the largest collection of shophouses and townhouses in the region. \nBuilt on a swampy promontory\, George Town developed a townscape of artisanally-intensive and environmentally-responsive vernacular forms\, later guided by building codes for ventilation and sanitation. Two features of the shophouse represent innovations of tropical urbanism: the skywell\, which moderates the interior microclimate\, and the mandatory five-footway\, which functions as pedestrian shelter and social space. \nUrban projects in the old city contend with layers of history\, occasionally sparking contestation among indigenous\, migrant\, colonial\, and contemporary narratives. The challenges of preservation are illustrated by various projects: dewatering around an underground car park and the discovery of a canal system\, the remaking of a pocket park\, the proposed redevelopment of a municipal market\, the redesign of the clan jetty waterfront\, and the re-introduction of moats in Fort Cornwallis. \nWhile heavy-handed approaches risk turning historic sites into ersatz heritage\, new residents and street artists are embracing the ‘aesthetics of decay.’ Aging long-time residents are increasingly outnumbered by tourists and guest workers\, leaving many shophouses vacant or underutilized. In this fragmented landscape\, creative entrepreneurs engage in micro placemaking\, attracting weekend visitors to savour Penang’s street food\, street life\, and a sense of the past. \nDuring annual festivals and processions\, crowds suddenly reappear\, reclusive residents perch themselves by windows or on five-footways\, and streets are reclaimed by pedestrians\, reaffirming the ‘porous city’ as a stage for enacting rites of belonging. These traditional celebrations allow us to imagine the strategies needed to mend the fractured connections between the inner and outer city – disrupted by late 20th-century zoning and eroded public transport policies – through a comprehensive\, whole-city approach to urban resilience. \nKhoo Salma Nasution is a writer\, publisher\, social historian\, and an advocate of heritage and environmental protection. A leading author of Malaysian place-histories incorporating social history and environmental history. Co-founder of heritage and sustainability initiatives which advance knowledge at the intersection of culture\, community and environment. \nZoom link is available via registration on Eventbrite. \nOrganised by the Australian Centre for Architectural History\, Urban and Cultural Heritage
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/miles-lewis-oration-2024-khoo-salma-nasution-penang-malaysia/
LOCATION:Japanese Room\, Level 4\, Glyn Davis Building (133)\, Parkville Campus
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Book Launch : The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE FOR CATERING PURPOSES \n— \nHosted by ACAHUCH with Stuart Harrison\, please join us to hear author Warren Andersen and former collaborator for the New Horizons exhibition to discuss his recently released book ‘The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff’ in the Japanese Room at Melbourne School of Design. \nThere will be copies available to purchase on the night\, and pre-order is available. \n— \nTHE ARCHITECTURE OF IWAN IWANOFF book is a comprehensive review of houses\, commercial buildings\, apartments\, and shop fitouts from 1950 to 1986. \nIwanoff unified international modernism\, Besser block relief\, and innovation with material use and construction to create a unique aesthetic putting Perth\, Western Australia onto the global architecture map. Including historical photography\, drawings\, furniture\, lost structures\, and unbuilt projects\, this book provides a new perspective and authoritative resource. \nUnderpinned by five years of research in university archives in Australia\, Germany\, and Bulgaria\, it examines Iwanoff’s legacy through recollections f his sons\, Michael and Nicolai Iwanoff\, professional architects\, artists\, contractors\, and house owners. \n‘One of the most exciting things was documenting all of the houses\, some of which have never been open to the public. So you can look at bespoke woodwork\, furniture and cabinets which are part of the whole package\, not just the exteriors – Warren Andersen.’ \nThis book takes the reader on a fresh journey through three decades of Iwanoff’s design innovation and influences from California moderne\, geometric besser block\, to Italian sculptural abstraction with a feast of biographical details and archive imagery. \n— \nStuart Harrison is an Australian architect\, good design advocate\, recently appointed senior lecturer in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture\, Building and Planning\,. He is a specialist in the re-use of buildings and believes in a strong link between history and contemporary practice. He has worked across architectural practice\, teaching and media during the last 20 years. Stuart is director of Harrison and White (HAW)\, has worked in public radio\, television\, academia and has authored three books on housing. He hosted Seasons 2 and 3 of Restoration Australia on ABC-TV. \nWarren Andersen is an urban planning and business management consultant with over 40 years experience in public and private sector. As a heritage advocate\, he initiated the national listing and restoration of the 1906 WA Rowing Club building\, and listing of Timber Town of Jarrahdale. In 2021\, he secured inclusion into the municipal inventory of the City of Fremantle of the 1968 Martin Clark recording studio building designed by Iwan Iwanoff.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-launch-the-architecture-of-iwan-iwanoff/
LOCATION:Japanese Room\, Melbourne School of Design (University of Melbourne)\, Masson Road\, University of Melbourne\, Parkville\, Victoria\, 3010\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:ACAHUCH Symposium : Parklife 2022
DESCRIPTION:The values ascribed to streets and landscapes\, buildings and places shift over time. Access\, interpretation and display have become crucial components in recognising and enacting conservation. \nThe landscape of Quor-nóng/Royal Park has been inhabited by First Peoples for millennia. Following colonisation\, Royal Park was reserved as a public park with neighbourhoods and institutions constructed on its edges. Park Life seeks to interrogate the impact of institutions such as the university\, hospitals\, a prison\, a major park and a zoo\, as well as local precincts. Parkville is a suburb of diverse building types surrounding Royal Park\, and home to major Melbourne institutions including the symposium host\, the University of Melbourne. Parkville has played a pivotal role in Australian understandings of heritage\, memory\, commemoration\, and dwelling. \nIn 1972\, South Parkville was declared Melbourne’s first historic area by the National Trust. This one-day symposium strives to examine how global and national understandings of heritage have been reflected in all parts of Parkville\, and what different meanings Parkville has come to take on since that time. \nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS \n\nProfessor Emeritus Miles Lewis AM\nAssociate Professor Shawana Andrews\n\nVENUE AND REGISTRATION \nThe symposium will be held (in a COVID-19 safe manner) at the University of Melbourne’s Glyn Davis (MSD) Building\, and involve a walking tour of Parkville. A $50 / $25 fee covering catering costs will apply for those attending in-person. Due to COVID-19 restrictions\, these arrangements are subject to change. \nCONTACT \nThe symposium team is David Nichols\, Catherine Townsend\, Hannah Lewi and Theo Blankley.\nEnquiries | ACAHUCH Coordinator : theo.blankley@unimelb.edu.au
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/acahuch-symposium-parklife-2022/
LOCATION:Glyn Davies Building\, University of Melbourne\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Miles Lewis Oration delivered by Professor Alex Bremner
DESCRIPTION:The Australian Centre of Architectural History\, Urban and Cultural Heritage is pleased to announce the inaugural Miles Lewis Oration \, online and in the Japanese Room at the Melbourne School of Design. \nThe 2022 fellow is Professor Alex Bremner of the University of Edinburgh. Bremner will be giving a talk titled “Back to the Future: Architecture and the Geopolitics of Communications Technology in the Edwardian Era”\, more information of which can be found in the Eventbrite registration link here. \n\nThe world is currently experiencing a telecommunications race the political implications of which are perilous. Extending far beyond corporate interests\, concern rests with who creates\, owns\, and ultimately controls such technology\, including the intervening power of the state. Such technology has in recent years become a proxy for international power politics as its potential uses raise alarm. The development and installation of 5G mobile phone infrastructure is perhaps the most widely publicised example of this concern. \nThis dilemma was rehearsed during the first telecommunications revolution in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Then\, as now\, the geopolitical stakes were high\, as the world’s great powers jostled for advantage. To control information was to control society and the economy\, not just at ‘home’ but abroad. The ability to communicate over vast distances via the telegraph enabled European imperial powers\, and Britain in particular\, to govern their global empires in direct and newly systematic ways. These technologies required an infrastructural basis that necessarily took spatial form. Submarine cabling\, as well as telegraph stations and offices\, became ubiquitous features of this brave new world\, as did the techno-utopian politics that accompanied them. \nThis lecture considers the architectural manifestations of this ‘first’ telecommunications age. It will highlight how the coalescence of these concerns in the context of global communications and conflict encouraged ideas of closer union between Britain and its colonial empire. Particular attention will be paid to how\, in this context\, the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture sought to present ‘Greater Britain’ as a strong and coherent cultural and political unit. Buildings associated with communications technology\, such as post offices and telegraph companies\, were one form that embodied this idea. The rhetorical dimensions of this architecture in relation to the projection of imperial power across the British world will form the lecture’s focus. \nAlex Bremner is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in the history and theory of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British architecture\, including British imperial/colonial architecture\, architecture and energy in the context of climate change\, and the spatial networks of commodity exchange in the Asia-Pacific region. His books include Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire\, c.1840-1870 (2013) and (ed.) Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (2016). He is currently completing a new study entitled Building Greater Britain: Architecture\, Imperialism\, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival\, c.1885-1920\, to be published by the Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press in Autumn 2022. \nPlease ensure you register \nThe link is here : https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/acahuch-inaugural-miles-lewis-oration-prof-alex-bremner-uedinburgh-tickets-334404451717 \nZoom link will be made available after registration. \nThe event will be recorded and a link will be posted to the ACAHUCH website and the Melbourne School of Design Youtube under the ACAHUCH playlist in the weeks after the event. \nProfessor Bremner is joining ACAHUCH for April of 2022\, supported by the Miles Lewis Fellowship at the Faculty of Architecure\, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/inaugural-miles-lewis-oration-delivered-by-professor-alex-bremner/
LOCATION:Melbourne School of Design\, Masson Rd\, University of Melbourne\, VIC\, 3010\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Public Symposium: Australasia & the Global Turn in Architectural History Symposium
DESCRIPTION:A symposium exploring the expansion of the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture that encompass Australasia \nConvened by Macarena de la Vega de León and Paul Walker\, this event will be held in person at the Melbourne School of Design\, and on Zoom. Note\, not all panellists will be in person at the Symposium \nLink will be made available after registration. \nThe writing of architectural history shifted with the turn of the twenty-first century. Theoretical and methodological reassessments\, as well as the study of postcolonial theories in architecture\, challenged the previously accepted disciplinary canon and made the development of a global history of architecture urgent. More than twenty years later\, there has been resulting literature\, disciplinary reassessments\, and continuous debate around the meaning of global in the history of architecture. One of the latest additions to the field\, the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s rebranded as Global History of Architecture (2019)\, is proof of the continuous scholarly interest in reframing the global. \nAlthough historians of architecture in the region have contributed their expertise in the Global South to some of the resulting publications\, there is still a limited presence of an Australasian perspective. In general\, the field continues to present challenges in combining these geographies and cultures\, in defining the notion of region\, in the periodization of narratives and in capturing transnational connections. The aim of this event is twofold: on the one hand\, to celebrate the publication of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture highlighting the Australasian contributions to the volume; on the other\, to open a wider discussion on the global issues of gender\, race and migration in architecture that continue to have a limited presence in global narratives. To critically review the most recent literature on the global is necessary to inform next steps. \n  \nSession 1_ Wednesday 27 April\, 9am-10.45am \nMurray Fraser\, “A Provisional\, Collectivised Global History.”\nVimalin Rujivacharakul\, “Buildings of the Oceans: Ephemerality and Monumentality in Architectural History.”\nDeidre Brown\, “Decolonising and Indigenising Architectural History.”\nAmanda Achmadi and Paul Walker\, “Writing architecture across colonial borders: ‘Southeast Asia\, Australia and the Pacific\, 1780-1914.’”\nPhilip Goad\, “Time for Global Reassessment: Architectural Histories of Southeast Asia\, Australasia and Oceania.” \nSession 2_ Wednesday 27 April\, 11am.-12.30pm \nMark Jarzombek\, “Beyond History?”\nVikram Prakash\, “Eventualities: The Agency of Architectural Historiography in Decolonization.”\nJoanna Merwood-Salisbury\, “Race and the Historiography of American Architecture.”\nMirjana Lozanovska\, “Theory + History = Historiography.”\nKaren Burns and Lori Brown\, “Women\, Global History\, and the Nation State.” \nBOOK HERE \n  \nMurray Fraser (pictured) is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture\, and Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In 2008 his book Architecture and the ‘Special Relationship’ won the RIBA Research Award and CICA Bruno Zevi Book Prize. He is General Editor for the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2020)\, awarded the SAHGB’s Colvin Prize. He received the 2018 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Education.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/public-symposium-australasia-the-global-turn-in-architectural-history-symposium/
LOCATION:Melbourne School of Design\, Masson Rd\, University of Melbourne\, VIC\, 3010\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:A World of Architectural History 
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss the preparations and outcomes of the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis lecture will discuss the preparations and outcomes of the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture\, in what are two entirely re-written volumes\, also available online. It constitutes the most ambitious attempt to provide an overall account of architectural history in all parts of the world across the past 5\,500 years. Three scholars from the University of Melbourne (Dr Amanda Achmadi\, Prof Philip Goad\, Prof Paul Walker) wrote chapters on Australian/Southeast Asian architectural history\, and hence in part this public lecture will also be a celebration of their roles within the task. \nMurray Fraser is joining ACAHUCH for April of 2022\, supported by the Macgeorge Bequest at the University of Melbourne. \nMurray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture\, and Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In 2008 his book Architecture and the ‘Special Relationship’ won the RIBA Research Award and CICA Bruno Zevi Book Prize. He is General Editor for the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2020)\, awarded the SAHGB’s Colvin Prize. He received the 2018 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Education. \nHosted by Australian Centre of Architectural History\, Urban and Cultural Heritage\, University of Melbourne \n\nBOOK HERE.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/a-world-of-architectural-history/
LOCATION:Malaysian Theatre\, Glyn Davis Building\, Masson Road The University of Melbourne Parkville\, VIC 3010\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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