Title & Author:

Semi-detached : writing, representation and criticism in architecture / edited by Naomi Stead.

Publication:

Melbourne : Uro Media, 2012.

Description:

336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Many of the contributions to this book were developed from papers first presented at the conference 'Writing architecture: a symposium on innovations in the textual and visual critique of buildings', held on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 July 2010 at the Queensland Art Gallery's Gallery of Modern Art, and the State Library of Queensland. Other contributions were presented or developed during a workshop held at The University of Queensland School of Architecture on 19 and 20 July 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: A Semi-detached Introduction to Commentary on Architecture / Naomi Stead -- Conference: Writing -- A Performative Mode of Writing Place: Out and about the Rosenlund Park, Stockholm, 2008 -- 2010 / Katja Grillner -- It's Not the End of the World But You Can See It From There / Sally Breen -- Placing: Writing place, place writing / Linda Carroli -- Writing as Architecture: Theorist practitioners and DIY architecture 1917/1974 / Erk Ghenoiu -- The Invisible House: David Malouf's 12 Edmondstone Street and a colonial rhetoric of space / Deirdre Gilfedder -- Ekphrasis and the Writing of Architecture / Stephen Frith -- Kurilpa Bridge / Andrew P. Steen -- Conference: Representation -- I'm There Right Now: Occupying architectural spaces photographically / Gavin Hipkins -- Dilettantes, Amateurs and Eccentrics: The Architectural Review's Townscape campaign / Mathew Aitchison
Note continued: Reading and Writing the Seattle Public Library, New regimes of architectural (re)presentation / Ari Seligmann -- Cinematic Architecture and Subversive Sites: Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong cityscapes / Danica Van De Velde -- Remembering Home / Katarina Wadstein Macleod -- Remembering in Red: Architectural followings / Cathy Smith -- Ancient Modernists: Junction Dam / Dianne Peacock -- Pillars of a Nation: A layperson's journey into photographing and writing architecture for the general public / Joan Beddoe -- Conference: Criticism -- New Belle-Lettrism / Naomi Stead -- Robin Boyd and the Art of Writing Architecture / Philip Goad -- International Comparison as Critical Strategy / Paul Hogben -- Critical [Re]connections: Oscar Wilde's `The Critic as Artist' (1891) / Deborah Van Der Plaat -- Interpretation, Intention and the Work of Architecture / Paul Walker -- Sense, Meaning and Taste in Architectural Criticism / John Macarthur -- Practice
Note continued: Words and Pictures: Communication in architectural practice / Naomi Stead -- `It may be that the image outlives the project itself / Shannon McGrath -- In Conversation / Andrew Mackenzie -- `The architect's involvement must be considered as an influence' / Dianna Snape -- In Conversation / Marcus Trimble -- `Clarity, to distil a moment' / Peter Bennetts -- In Conversation / Elizabeth Watson-Brown -- The photographer applies a mask to the building' / Christopher Frederick Jones -- In Conversation / Jan Van Schaik -- `We shoot, stuff and exhibit the game' / Brett Boardman -- Workshop -- Messages of the Wind / Linda Marie Walker -- They Told us They Would be Checking our Papers (Sic): A text under revision / Isabel D'Avila Winter -- Horizontality / Jason Haigh -- Picture Perfect: The home that wasn't / Andrew Blythe -- Kurilpa Reach and Northbank / Jon Henzell -- St Lucia House Film Stills / Claire Humphreys
Note continued: Land Living and Spatiality: My home at The Gap / Christine Dauber -- Mechanics of Materials (or: Mechanics of Deformable Bodies) / Audrey Lam -- The Queen's Land -- 2010 / Lynette Gurr -- Fantasy Island: Suburban dreams on the Isle of Capri / Alex Chomicz -- Unfixed Collage / Georgina Russell -- The Effects of Time / Susan Rothnie.

Summary:

Documentation of the conventions of architectural representation, an exploration of the many ways in which those conventions can be productively challenged, subverted, or ignored to broaden the conversation about architecture and what it means. Contributions from some of Australias most highly regarded architectural photographers.

ISBN:

9780987228130 (paperback)
0987228137 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural criticism Australia.
Architecture Historiography.
Critique d'architecture Australie.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architectural criticism.
Australia.
Australian

Added entries:

Stead, Naomi, 1975-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285345
Call No.: BIB 224768
Status: Available