Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH)

All Abroad! Overseas Travels by Early-Career Australian Architects, 1919-1939

2024 - 2025

The Hellenic Chair in Global Diasporas

2020 - 2025

Project Circle

2025 - 2025

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 2458 for the research group.

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2020

Reference Work | 2026

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 fills a void in architectural history, giving students, scho..

Barbara Hill and the Most Intimate Coffee House in Perth, Western Australia, 1956–1960

Andrew Murray

Book Chapter | 2026

From "Primitive" to "Indigenous": Some comments on the history of Inuit and Aboriginal arts.

Susan Lowish, Bryn Tapper, Oscar Moro Abadía

Book Chapter | 2026

In recent years, the term “Indigenous art” has become increasingly popular among the artist community as well as in archaeology, a..

Deploying FloaTree: computational design-to-construction workflow of a low-tech tensegrity system

Alberto Pugnale, Gabriele Mirra, Jack Halls, Michael Minghi Park, Michael Mack, Sofia Colabella

Journal article | 2026 | Architectural Intelligence

Abstract Large old trees provide essential habitats for birds and many other species, yet t..

Advancing regional and community planning in Australia: the contribution of the Office of Frank Heath 1939–1948

C Townsend, D Nichols, R Freestone

Journal article | 2026 | Planning Perspectives

Australian postwar reconstruction in the 1940s saw idealistic synergies between decentralization, regional development, and ‘new t..

The World of Goods

C Kovesi

Book Chapter | 2026

A multilevel conceptual framework for navigating gendered career trajectories in the architectural profession

A McFadyen, N Galea, K Burns

Journal article | 2026 | Labour and Industry

Gender inequalities in careers often unfold gradually. Whilst individual events are important, longitudinal studies of careers off..

Tasmanian Built The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register

Book | 2025

An introduction to the places and stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register. Dr Stuart King discusses the history of heritage in ..

Tasmanian Heritage: Building a Living Register

Stuart King

Book Chapter | 2025

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

Julie Willis

Journal article | 2025 | Fabrications

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 50 for the research group.

Conserving our cultural record is more important than ever

Robyn Sloggett

We live in a world where misinformation spreads easily, deepfakes blur reality and political spin reshapes narratives. So, our ability to v..

March 23, 2025

Fitzroy 1974: a sumptuous record of a time before hipsters

David Nichols

In 1974, Melbourne publisher Outback Press produced a small book that almost felt like a magazine, perhaps even a fanzine: Into the Hollow ..

October 1, 2024

The Decameron: Medieval lockdown project or ‘wine-soaked sex romp’?

Catherine Kovesi

For anyone versed in medieval European history, the new Netflix adaptation of a 700-year-old story about a group of noble youths seems a ti..

July 24, 2024

The fight to save Syrian antiquities

Andrew Jamieson

For Andrew Jamieson, the conflict unfolding in Syria is a catastrophe on multiple levels – professionally and personally.By day (or more co..

June 12, 2024

Vietnam, brutalist architecture, fees and Gaza: how student protests shaped Australian universities

Hannah Lewi, Andrew Saniga

Australian university students are beginning to set up encampments on campus, in solidarity with college protesters in the United States. P..

April 29, 2024

From invisible segregation to the visible heart: what 100 years of kitchens can tell us about domestic labour

Hannah Lewi

Long before COVID shone a spotlight on working from home, the realms of home and work have always been blurred – particularly for women as ..

March 7, 2024

The Indigenous cultural knowledges co-designing campuses

Andrew Saniga, Susan Holden

Australia’s social and cultural evolution is expressed through its university campus landscapes, which have become increasingly significant..

August 31, 2023

Building social value into affordable housing

Alan Pert, Katrina Raynor

Bureaucrats, community housing providers, developers, service providers and architects are scrambling feverishly to drastically expand the ..

October 26, 2021

Australia's universities are on unceded land. Here's how they must reconcile with First Nations people

Ross Wissing, Andrew Saniga, Robert Freestone

University campuses are urban cultural institutions inextricably linked to the “making” of cities. They are also sited on unceded First Nat..

June 29, 2021

The importance of Australia’s Big Things

David Nichols, Cristina Gardu\u00f1o Freeman

As many Australians enjoy (relatively) COVID-normal summer holidays, many of us may be heading off on road trips, family breaks or beach ho..

January 4, 2021