Abstract
To commence the thirtieth annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), held on Australia's Gold Coast in July 2013, ten delegates were invited, with very little warning, to take five minutes and one image and offer a provocation on the open matters of architectural history in the present moment. The term 'open' was taken as the conference theme-a device used by SAHANZ meetings not so much to define the scope of papers presented as to declare the conference flavour year by year. It was not, therefore, an open conference ( anything goes) so much as a conference on open issues ( where, indeed, to go). The ten interlocutors were invited after the conference to document their interventions. They are presented here as a record of the preoccupations of a specific moment and a specific institutional geography, with all the idiosyncrasies and commonalities it might reveal to a broader audience.
Highlights
It likely helped that the room in which this session was held—at the Gold Coast’s Arts Centre—contained the exhibition Las Vegas Studio, curated by Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli, which offered a visually rich reminder of the profits of conducting an audit on our habits so far as the production of architectural criticism, history and theory are concerned
The ten interlocutors were invited after the conference to document their interventions. They are presented here as a record of the preoccupations of a specific moment and an institutional geography with all the idiosyncrasies and commonalities it might reveal to a broader audience
These brief position pieces say much about the terms in which scholars from Australia and New Zealand, and those who find the region’s institutional geography a stimulating terrain, all engage with the wider world of architectural history and historiography
Summary
It likely helped that the room in which this session was held—at the Gold Coast’s Arts Centre—contained the exhibition Las Vegas Studio, curated by Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli, which offered a visually rich reminder of the profits of conducting an audit on our habits so far as the production of architectural criticism, history and theory are concerned. These brief position pieces say much about the terms in which scholars from Australia and New Zealand, and those who find the region’s institutional geography a stimulating terrain, all engage with the wider world of architectural history and historiography.
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