A global understanding of architecture and architectural history is providing new frameworks for research and education. Interconnected trans-continental and transnational geographies of architecture are emerging with the potential to re-frame regional architectural cultures. The “European Architecture Beyond Europe" research network has highlighted the diffuse spread of European architecture globally, through mobile networks of actors, expertise, technologies, publications and conventions. Former understandings of bilateral exchanges between “centre” and “periphery” have been challenged by multifaceted examinations of the worldwide dissemination of architecture.
Exploring regional legacies of colonialism and internationalism across the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries is an ongoing concern of architectural historians in Australia and New Zealand. Fabrications invites papers that advance this scholarship in relation to the networks and flows of ideas, personnel, practice and production that have influenced architecture, especially in Australasia—the connections that operate within and between Australia and New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific and globally. This themed issue aims to explore the formal networks of actors and expertise sponsored by governments and philanthropic agencies operating across geographies, as well as the informal flows of architectural cultures associated with migration, trade, travel and cultural exchange. Examinations of networks and flows influencing architecture in regions beyond the Asia-Pacific are also encouraged for wider international perspectives.
We are seeking new perspectives on the dissemination of architecture. We are interested in papers that examine the networks of personnel and practice within the institutions, companies and cartels of the colonial period and within design specialisations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, for example “tropical” architecture. We invite new scholarship on the multi-directional influences and appropriations of indigenous and European architectural cultures in both colonial and metropolitan settings. Papers may explore interconnections created through networks of trade in materials, manufacturing and construction; the formation and operations of professional and educational networks; and international awards, prizes, publications, exhibitions, conferences and conventions that have established and maintain relationships between geographically distant architectural cultures.
Papers should be submitted online at http://www.edmgr.com/rfab/default.aspx by the due date identified above.
Guidelines for Authors
- The Editors consider essays of 4000 to 8000 words (including notes). Papers should be submitted as Word documents. Authors should use the footnote function of Word, but no automatic footing programs such as Endnote.
- Additional guidelines for authors can be found here: www.sahanz.net/publications/guidelines.html
- Papers should be submitted with an abstract (200 words) at the beginning of the paper and a brief author biography (80 words), images and image captions. Abstracts are published at the beginning of papers.
- All papers published in Fabrications are blind peer-refereed by two readers.
- Proposals for reports or for reviews of books, exhibitions and other events of interest to the membership of SAHANZ can be made to the Editors, Julia Gatley [julia.gatley at auckland.ac.nz] and Stuart King [stuart.king at utas.edu.au].
Image Specifications
- For the refereeing process, please submit low-resolution images of illustrations as separate files (72dpi jpeg files). Once a paper is accepted for publication, high-resolution images should be submitted as 300 dpi tiff files, at a minimum of 100mm wide.
- Authors are responsible for securing all permissions and paying all fees to reproduce images in Fabrications. Now that the journal is published by Taylor & Francis, authors must meet UK copyright regulations. For information, see: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp