This research theme encompasses a range of projects addressing architectural history within a broader history of ideas, along with historic approaches to architectural culture and production in the European tradition. Projects address specific histories of buildings, projects, and architects; as well as the longue durée of architectural concepts, types and techniques; and larger philosophical and epistemological questions around historiography, canon-formation, and the continuing presence of the past in built form today.
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This research theme addresses the history and current conditions of architectural culture and production in Queensland. Bringing a range of theoretical frames to bear on the discussion and analysis of built work, the theme has a particular focus on local architectural and urban heritage, as well as histories of local architectural offices. It is also concerned with the ways in which concepts of climate-responsiveness, landscape, and place have been employed to construct a particular ‘regionalist’ identity for Queensland architecture.
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This research theme is concerned with the intersections and overlaps between architecture and the visual arts, and to addressing aesthetic theory to architectural questions, past and present. Projects examine architectural strategies in contemporary art practices; the way that practices and media of criticism vary across aesthetic genres; and historic ‘systems of the arts’ as defined by philosophers. The theme seeks to understand the disciplinarity, or specific disciplinary knowledge, of architecture in relation to that of its allied arts.
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