TANGIBLE - INTANGIBLE HERITAGE(S) Conference, Journal of Architecture Media and Politics (AMPS) publications, 2019
In this paper, we investigate a heritage site located on the urban edge of the city of B... more In this paper, we investigate a heritage site located on the urban edge of the city of Barcelona with significant tangible (physical remnants) and intangible (history and narratives) heritage values.We suggest that finding a balance between removing, retaining and inserting new fabric and built structure to the site seems to be the key in transforming such heritage sites into places of opportunity for linking the past history to the present and motivating unexpected modes of inhabitation. This kind of mediation between total deconstruction, extraction and reconstruction can serve to represent the narratives of the past and stimulate embodied experience and liberal occupation in the present. In this investigation we put a distinct emphasis on the importance of the design strategy in rethinking the aesthetics of the heritage and its transformation. The selected project, Turo De la Rovira was designed by Jansana de la villa de Paauw (principal architects) and AAUP-Jordi Romero architect in 2012.
The conservation movement: A history of architectural preservation [Book Review]
The Historic Environment, 2016
Review(s) of: The conservation movement: A history of architectural preservation, by Miles Glendi... more Review(s) of: The conservation movement: A history of architectural preservation, by Miles Glendinning, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
Long Live the Modern: New Zealand Architecture 1904-1984 [Book Review]
Review(s) of: Long Live the Modern: New Zealand Architecture 1904-1984, by Julia Gatley, editor, ... more Review(s) of: Long Live the Modern: New Zealand Architecture 1904-1984, by Julia Gatley, editor, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008.
This paper describes a project carried out by the authors to design and evaluate a mobile guide w... more This paper describes a project carried out by the authors to design and evaluate a mobile guide with visual content for a large and significant war memorial in Melbourne called 'The Shrine of Remembrance'. A practical intention was to display items from extensive, but currently unseen, archives of historic materials, including architectural drawings, iconic postcards, film of past ceremonies of remembrance, and oral accounts of war experience. A parallel intention was to address the problem, identified in previous research into audio-tours, of individual visitors becoming isolated in an electronic 'information bubble' that inhibits the social dimension of visiting and learning about places. In contrast to the immersive style of many audio-tours, we set out to investigate the use of relatively lean and fragmentary visual and audio content intended to provoke new readings of the material site and to exist alongside the social activity of visiting.
Abstract This paper explores counterculture and activism in the production of the modern Australi... more Abstract This paper explores counterculture and activism in the production of the modern Australian university in the 1960s and 1970s in Australia. In focusing on the building of new suburban university campuses, it interrogates how spatial production was important to the politics of occupation and transformation. Through this examination of campus planning, landscapes and architecture we explore design intentions to the realisation of mid-term consequences in situation, buildings, spaces and form. We unearth alternative historical narratives and understandings of counterculture and activism in two Australian universities: Monash University in Clayton, Victoria and La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria. We therefore interrogate here, not the liberating opportunities of the counterculture movement in terms of shifting the way architecture was conceived and produced, but instead the consequences of actions of resistance within the spaces of newly built university campuses, and how this altered the way buildings and landscaped amenities were occupied, used and also developed in subtle and temporary ways.
“The Home of the Borough” The use and value of Port Melbourne Football Ground in the 21st century
“The revolution is in full swing.” So wrote commenter “Matt” in October 2013 underneath an online... more “The revolution is in full swing.” So wrote commenter “Matt” in October 2013 underneath an online report that the State Liberal government was considering proposals to alter the form and use of the Port Melbourne Football Ground. “Matt’s” point was primarily that Port Melbourne was changing irrevocably, and that both adult residents and their children had interests less clearly focused firstly, on localism (Port Melbourne football team is an old VFL, rather than nationally-focused AFL, team) and on Australian Rules football itself: “Matt” was of the opinion that soccer was becoming more popular in the area. For him, sad as it was, “Port” locals could not be “stuck in some 1950s time warp dream world”.
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