GOLD
SAHANZ ‘16
33rd Annual Conference
of the Society of Architectural Historians,
Australia and New Zealand
Melbourne School of Design,
The University of Melbourne, Australia
6-9 July 2016
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 01: Wednesday 6 July 2016
TOURS
TOUR 1
Solid Gold: Court, Campari and
Columns
A tour of mid-century Melbourne
houses
10.00am-4.00pm
TOUR 2
Golden Interiors
A Tour of Melbourne
interiors
9.30am-mid-afternoon
TOUR 3
Golden Finds: Drawings,
Papers,
Books
A Tour of Architecture Archives
11.00-4.00pm
TOUR 4
Black Gold: Coffee, Beards and Tears
A Tour of Hipster Fitzroy
10.00am-4.00pm
3.30-5.00pm
SAHANZ EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
CONFERENCE OPENING
5.00-6.00pm
RECEPTION
Andrew Lee King Fun Gallery,
Ground Floor, MSD Building
6.00-6.30pm
WELCOME
Singapore Theatre, Room B120, Basement, MSD Building
6.30-8.00pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Singapore Theatre, Room B120, Basement, MSD Building
Gold, Power and Architectural Stories in Indonesia ABIDIN KUSNO
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6-9 July 2016 Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 02 : Thursday 7 July 2016
9.30-11.00am SESSION 1
SESSION 1A
GOLDEN PATHS: MINING, MIGRATION AND
MATERIAL WEALTH
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 1B
GOLDEN FLAW: SPACES OF COMMUNITY AND
CONFINEMENT
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 1C
POSTWAR GOLD I: HOUSES, MATERIALITY AND
MONEY
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Big Gold Mountain Redux
David Beynon
Sociospatial Genealogies of Wartime Impoverishment:
Temporary Farm Labour Camps in the USA
Anoma Pieris
Mindful Material: Buhrich’s Architectural Alchemy
Catherine Lassen
Migrancy and Architecture: The Num Pon Soon
Society Building in Melbourne Chinatown, the See
Yup Temple in South Melbourne and the Kaiping
Diaolou in China as Case Studies
Hing-wah Chau
Does Not the Glorious East Seem to be Transported
to Our Shores? Perth’s Golden Mosque (1905)
Katharine Bartsch, Peter Scriver, and Md. Mizanur Rashid
After the Last Train: Narrating the Tentative Monument
through Simryn Gill’s Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
Lilian Chee
Transitory Homes: Refugee Resettlement and
Detainment in Sydney’s Western Suburbs
Renee Miller-Yeaman
“Cast into the Enveloping Darkness”: Robin Boyd and
Lustre before Japan
Philip Goad
Gold-Plated Doors If You Want Them: Holgar & Holgar
and the Architecture of Opulence
Simon Reeves
11.00-11.30am MORNING TEA MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
11.30am-1.00pm SESSION 2
SESSION 2A
MINING THE ENVIRONMENT: HISTORY AND
AFTERMATH
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 2B
AGENCIES OF ENTERPRISE AND POWER: ARCHES,
GOLDFINGER AND GOLDEN CITY
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 2C
POSTWAR GOLD II: SKILLIONS, SHOPPING AND
SKIING
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Gold Rush Urbanism: Continuing Effects of Gold
Mining on the Urban Form of Victorian Towns
Laura Harper
Arches and Industries: Modelling Natural Resources
and National Enterprise During the 1901 Royal Visit to
Wellington
Christopher McDonald
A Golden Anniversary: 50 Years of the Split Skillion
Roof in Queensland
Elizabeth Musgrave
The Rise and Fall of a Former Mining Town
Sawahlunto: Reflections on Authenticity and
Architectural Conservation
Widjaja Martokusumo
All that Glitters is Not Gold: The Effect of Mining
Activities and Royalties on the Built Environment of
Remote North East Arnhem Land
Hannah Robertson
Goldfinger Revisited: James Bond Set Designs by Ken
Adam as Modernist Spaces of Power
Christoph Schnoor and Scott Wilson
Golden City at Persepolis: As Found
Maryam Gusheh
Shopping Towns Australia, 1957-67: From Reformist
Figure of Collectivity to Profit-Driven Box of Gold
Janina Gosseye and Peter Vernon
White Gold: The European’s Dream of Thredbo
Paola Favaro
1.00-2.00pm LUNCH MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
2.00-3.30pm SESSION 3
SESSION 3A
THE OPPOSITE OF EL DORADO: THE CULTURAL LOGIC
OF URBICIDE
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
Shanghai’s Laneway Housing: Its Design, Occupation and
Demolition
Nicholas Kletnieks
Cultural Coexistence of the City: A Precious but Resilient
Commodity
Dijana Alić
Pillaging the Past, Projecting the Future: Architectural
History and Urban Culture in 21st Century Warfare
AnnMarie Brennan and Claire Miller
SESSION 3B
SEARCHING FOR GOLD: NEW WINDOWS TO
HISTORY
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD
Building
Rooms and Views: The Architectural Wealth and
Poverty of Windows
Christine McCarthy
Discursive Decay: Informalised Architectural History.
Rebecca McLaughlan and Catherine Caudwell
Look Away Prince Charles: Goldfinger is Classic
Hannah Lewi
SESSION 3C
POSTWAR GOLD III: SUBDIVISION, SURFACE AND
SPECULATION
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Gold on the Sand, Gold on the Door: E.J. Hayes, You
Know Where
Andrew Leach and Andrew Wilson
A ‘Not Quite Gold’ Medal Winner: Gus Ferguson
and the University of Western Australia Law School
Building
Andrew Murray
From Heat Absorption to Speculation: The Troubled
Evolution of International All-Glass Architecture in
Melbourne
Giorgio Marfella
3.30-4.00pm AFTERNOON TEA MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
4.00-5.30pm
PARLOUR, WIKIPEDIA AND THE SCHOLARLY CITY
Japanese Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
5.30-6.15pm
RECEPTION
MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
6.00-7.30pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Matters of Extraction: From the Margin of Empire(s)
ALESSANDRA PONTE
Singapore Theatre, Room B120, Basement, MSD Building
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 03 : Friday 8 July 2016
9.30-11.00am SESSION 4
SESSION 4A
GOLD MARK: ARCHITECTURE, IMAGE AND CAPITAL
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 4B
GOLD LABEL I : SEARCHING FOR STYLE,
SPECULATION AND SIGNATURE
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor,
MSD Building
Architecture & Capitalism: A Golden Gridlock
Gevork Hartoonian
Gold in Three Projects by Peter Eisenman
Michael Jasper
What is Iconic Architecture?
Simone Brott
SESSION 4C
GOLDEN VIEWS: PICTURING AUSTRALIAN
ARCHITECTURE
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Mining Boom Styles
Stuart King and Julie Willis
The View from Richmond Hill: Translating Images of
‘Golden Ages’ from Britain to Victoria
Thomas Brigden
Housing Speculation and Nouveau Riche
Taste in Late-Nineteenth-Century Berlin
Isabel Rousset
Gold and Golden: The Colour of Contradiction in
Australian Architecture
Kate Hislop
Explaining the Equitable’s Australian
Buildings
Paul Hogben
Unearthed Golden Nugget: Australia in Modern
Architecture since 1900
Macarena de la Vega de León and Gevork Haartonian
11.00-11.30am MORNING TEA MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
11.30am-1.00pm SESSION 5
SESSION 5A
AFTER UNEARTHING THE NUGGET:
WAYS OF WRITING ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORY
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor,
MSD Building
Looking Across Time: Reflections on
Reverse Chronology in the Writing of
Architectural History
Bill McKay
Ostentatious Dichotomies in
Representations of Japanese Architecture
Ari Seligmann
Gold’s Heaviness and Malleability
Andrew P. Steen
SESSION 5B
GOLD LABEL II: SEARCHING FOR
SYMBOLIC CAPITAL
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor,
MSD Building
Trophy House: The Story of Barncleuth (later Kinneil)
Judith O’Callaghan
SESSION 5C
GOLDEN COMMUNITIES: LABOUR,
IDEALISM AND ACTIVISM
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Who Built Fort Alice? An Analysis of
Subaltern Involvement in Nineteenth
Century Institutional Architecture in
Sarawak
John Ting
SESSION 5D
GOLDEN PEDIGREE: FINDING
UNSPOKEN LINEAGE
George Tibbits Studio, Room 139,
MSD Building
Reconsidering Mies van der Rohe’s
Concept of True Architecture
through its Philosophical
Foundations
Luciana Fornari Colombo
The RIBA Gold Medal of 1923 and London
Architecture Medal of 1934: John Burnet
and Thomas Tait, Early British Modernism,
and the Pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge
Dennis Wardleworth
Golden Bay to Golden Age:
Cooperative Architecture in New
Zealand of the 1940s
Amelia Hoult and Peter Wood
Suomen Kulta: Alvar Aalto, the
Kymijoki industrial projects
Andrew Metcalf
In search of the Philosopher’s Stone:
Alchemy, ARM and the Sydney Opera
House
Cristina Garduño Freeman and Vicki Leibowitz
Women, Architecture, Activism:
Building Community Institutions in the
Late Modern City
Karen Burns
A Golden Pedigree: Finding Mies in
New Zealand Modernism Through
the Work of Edward Erickson
Gina Hochstein and Julia Gatley
1.00-2.00pm LUNCH MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
2.00-4.00pm SESSION 6
SESSION 6A
GOLDEN ISSUES: ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS
OF THE 1960S, 70S AND 80S
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 6B
GOLDEN TRADE: LABOUR, ECONOMY AND THE
COLONIAL PROJECT
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 6C
ALTARS OF GOLD: INTERIORS OF LUSTRE,
LUMINOSITY AND LIGHT
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Mining in 9H: The Translation and Transformation of
Otto Wagner’s Moderne Architektur
Sally Farrah
The Architecture of Cultuurstelsel in Nineteenth-century
Dutch East Indies: Built Traces of Colonial Agricultural
Industry
Amanda Achmadi
lux sacra palatia conplet, lux urbis et orbis
Nigel Westbrook
Postmodern Masters of Media
AnnMarie Brennan
Apocalypse and Psychedelia: Environment, Sense
and the Uncovering of the Unconscious within
Architectural Discourse
Jonathan Lovell
You Are Gold
Penelope Dean
Black Gold: Opium and the Architecture of Imperial
Trade in Nineteenth-Century Asia
Alex Bremner
Lines of Gold: W.H. Rocke & Co. and the Art of Colonial
Retail Persuasion
Gene Bawden
Sunlight in San Carlo
Michael Hill
Gold in Spanish and Spanish-American
Ecclesiastical Interiors of the Early Modern
Sing d’Arcy
Louis Kahn’s First Unitarian Church: Light and the
Making of a Monumental Room
Peter Kohane
Digging and Pilfering: Spatio-Juridical and Moral
Economies of Gold Stealing in Western Australia (c.1906)
William M. Taylor
4.00-4.30pm AFTERNOON TEA (MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building)
4.30-6.00pm
FLAT OUT JOURNAL LAUNCH
Student Journal Panel Discussion
Japanese Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
7.00-10.00pm
CONFERENCE DINNER
The Lincoln Hotel, 91 Cardigan Street, Carlton
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6-9 July 2016 Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 4 : Saturday 9 July 2016
10.00-11.00am SESSION 7
SESSION 7A
INDIVIDUAL GOLD: CASE STUDIES IN
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
SESSION 7B
GOLDEN TIMES: MEDIEVAL JAPAN AND LATEMAO CHINA
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD
Building
SESSION 7C
GOLD STANDARD: PROMOTION AND PROFESSION
IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
Gold and Kitsch: Uses of Gold and Kitsch in Rem
Koolhaas’ Prada Foundation in Milan, Leading to
Another Vision on Peter Zumthor’s Architecture
Laurence Kimmel
Visions of Golden Cities in Medieval Japan: Heiankyō as the Pure Land of Amida
Robert Morrissey
The Architect and His Services: A Discussion on
the Cover of the New Zealand Institute of Architects
Promotional Pamphlet of 1933
Peter Wood
The Rhetoric of Authentic Surfaces: Gold Leaf in the
Recent Work of OMA and Mario Botta
Ashley Paine
A Forgotten Golden Era: Modernism in Late-Mao
China, 1969-76
Ke Song
Gold Standard or Fool’s Gold?: The Registration of
Architects
Gill Matthewson
11.00-11.30am MORNING TEA MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
11.30am-1.00pm SESSION 8
SESSION 8A
FOOL’S GOLD? FAKES, FORTUNES AND ICONIC
ARCHITECTURE
Evan Walker Studio, Room 138, First Floor, MSD Building
Faking Authenticity with Fool’s Gold Architecture
Amy Clarke
Queensland, Golden Chips and the Temptation of the
Asia-Pacific Model
Cecilia Bischeri and Silvia Micheli
Constructing a New Symbolic Form in the Context of
Global Neo-Liberalization: A Study of the Architectural
Spectacles in 21st Century China
Ming Wu
SESSION 8B
ROCKET GOLD: PAST AND FUTURE LANDSCAPES
FOR OUTER SPACE
Ellison Harvie Studio, Room 140, First Floor, MSD
Building
Cold War Manifestations in Australia: Interpreting
Ruins in Remote Landscapes
Andrew Saniga
Greetings From Planet Earth: Representations of
Architecture for the Cosmos on the Voyager Space
Probes ‘Golden Record’
Nicole Sully
After the Gold Rush, or Another Spaceship Earth
Craig McCormack and Nigel Westbrook
SESSION 8C
GOLD STAR: CONSTELLATIONS OF LATE
MODERNISM
Room 142, First Floor, MSD Building
The Golden Chrysalis: A Study of Gold in the
Architecture of Carlo Scarpa Informed by the Theory
of Karl Marx
Gemma Savio
Gold, and the Image of Financial Prosperity in the Late
Modern Architecture of Minoru Yamasaki, 1955-81
Joss Kiely
John Andrews’s RAIA Gold Medal: Green and Gold +
Grey and White
Paul Walker
1.00-2.00pm LUNCH MSD Staff Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
2.00-4.00pm
SAHANZ ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Japanese Room, Fourth Floor, MSD Building
4.00-6.00pm
POST-CONFERENCE DRINKS Markov, 350 Drummond Street, Carlton (not funded by SAHANZ)
GOLD : 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
6-9 July 2016 Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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