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Coburg Plan is a book of photographs and essays documenting a suburb in
flux: the past lives of old Coburg and the new
layers of residential architecture rewriting the landscape ... Jessie
Scott’s photographs, taken over the last six years, are accompanied
by essays, stories and texts by Timmah Ball, Tilde Joy, Eugenia Lim, Emma
McRae, Kyle Weise, Maggie Scott and Ugly Melbourne Houses, exploring what a
shifting urban landscape might reflect about the economic and
political forces that shape architecture, urban planning and infrastructure.
The
National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural exhibition at its new premises on St
Kilda Road in 1968 was The Field, the first comprehensive display of
colour field painting and abstract sculpture in Australia. Regarded as a
landmark exhibition in Australian art history, The Field was a
radical presentation of seventy-four works by forty artists who practised
hard-edge, geometric, colour and flat abstraction, many of which were
influenced by American stylistic tendencies of the time. The Field
Revisited recreates this landmark exhibition for its fifty-year anniversary in
2018. This two-volume edition includes a facsimile of the rare and highly
collectible 1968 exhibition publication alongside The Field Revisited –
a new publication which reflects the importance of The Field over the
past fifty years. The Field Revisited includes more than fifty-five
colour illustrations as well as critical essays by Janet Dawson with Jenny
Bell; Tony Ellwood; David Homewood and Paris Lettau; and Beckett Rozentals.
This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview
of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse,
showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from
Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other
countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field,
establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights
important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered
include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous
knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and
practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to
reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical
understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture. The book is an
indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other
professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a
built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built
environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners
working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of
current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.
The future is no longer the distant, mythical condition it
once was to us. Technology has placed it at our fingertips, it wasn't so long
ago that we marveled at devices that could tell us where we were at that exact
moment; it became odd when they recently began to tell us where we would soon
be. The most important issue, however, might not be whether a future coproduced
and made available to us by technology is good or bad, but rather how we want
to relate to it as human beings. The three essays by Douglas Coupland collected
in this volume address this question.
Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with
suburbs conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the city
system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of services. But
suburbs are not the city spread too thin, and in fact hold potential for a
lived complexity as satisfying as that assumed to be available in inner cities.
Just as the ecological function of wetlands was ignored by modernist planning,
and swamps once-drained are now recognised as vital to water cycles, suburbs
are increasingly recognised as part of a city’s wellbeing with their own
alternative ideology and opportunities for urbanity and ecological
sustainability. Suburbia Reimagined shows how such subdivision
structures can offer new possibilities for sustainably integrating living
between generations and between established and arriving migrant communities.
