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Deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2008
A three day conference exploring connections in the built environment
between the Australia, the United States, and the Pacific region.
Existing scholarship in the history of the built environment has
dealt with the
transmission of progressive architectural ideas through published
American
sources, but has otherwise tended to neglect links across the Pacific.
This
conference aims to redress that balance, and to include the export
of
buildings and techniques from Australasia to the United States,
the effect of
travellers in both directions, and the building materials market
involving New
Zealand, South America, China, and Canada.
some possible topics
- whaling bases;
- Singapore and Hong Kong houses; building for the gold rushes;
- the Californian trade; adobe;
- the Pacific timber trade;
- the stud frame & the balloon frame;
- the machine-made nail;
- prefabrication;
- Elford, Aladdin & other US house exports;
- Chile and the woolshed;
- international exhibitions;
- the Kilburn photographs;
- the corn crib;
- the roller flour mill;
- irrigation settlements;
- pressed metal;
- terra cotta lumber;
- Harry Tompkins & the steel frame;
- expanded metal and the Kahn bar;
- apartment buildings;
- western architects in China;
- the city beautiful movement;
- bungalows & bungalow courts;
- the Carnegie Foundation;
- the Quonset Hut: hospital designers;
- the US Construction Corps in the Pacific
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