Session 1A :
progress Urbanism

Chair: J. Weirick

Peter Proudfoot
Cosmic Canberra: The Griffins’ ‘Theatrical Whole’, The Capitol And The Idea Of The Theatre - Temple
Paolo Tombesi
Back To The220 Future: The Pragmatic Classicism Of Australia’s Parliament House
Jillian Walliss
Progressing Griffin’s Vision – An Exploration Of Commonwealth Place, Canberra

Session 1B :
progress Confronting Modernity

Chair: Naomi Stead

Dijana Alic
Riegl, Grabrijan And The Problem Of Style
Martin Fowler
The Burning Question In Papuan Architecture
Eugenie Keefer Bell
Translating The Japanese Tea House

Session 2A :
progress Landscape and Memory

Chair: Andrew Leach

Catherine De Lorenzo
The Politics Of Design: Two New Museums
Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins
In Pursuit Of Stillness - The Architecture Of Rigby: Mullan
Katrina Simon
The Future Of The Past: Time And Decay In A Swamp Cementary

Session 2B :
progress The Ghost of Walter Benjamin

Chair: Gevork Hartoonian

Steve Basson
The Angel Of Death: The Non-Progressive Subject Of Architectural History
Ali Mozaffari
Architecture As A Fragment Of Progress: The Case Of ‘The Glassware And Ceramic Museum’
Sarah Treadwell
Motels: Images Of Elsewhere

Session 3A :
progress Postwar Architecture: Critical Reflections

Chair: Gevork Hartoonian

Scott Colman
Murcutt And Mies
Paul Hogben
The Aftermath Of ‘Pleasures’: Untold Stories Of Post-Modern Architecture In Australia
Judith Trimble
Place, Progress And Memory: Mcglashan And Everist At Geelong College

Session 3B :
progress Historical Reflections

Chair: Sue Stewart

Christopher Brisbin
Perspectival Generation In/Within The Sala Della Pace: Broading The ‘Viewfield’ Of Spatialised Images
Peter Kohane And Michael Hill
The Language And Decorum Of Profiles In Architectural Theory
Nigel Westbrook
Spoliation And Imitation: Continuity And Radical Disjunction In Byzantine Palatine Architecture

Session 4A :
progress Progressive Importations

Chair: Harry Margalit

Joseph Buch
Beyond Brutalism: Another Imported Style Vs Team Ten Theoretical Ideas
Andrew Hutson
Architects Group And The Pipe Dreams Of Clyde Cameron College
Peter Raisbeck And Simon Wollan
Boyd As “Bower Bird”: Robin Boyd’s Space Tube And The Global Avant-Garde

Session 4B :
progress Progress and Promises

Chair: Glen Hill

Stephen Frith
Architecture And The Mask Of Progress
Sandra Kaji-O’grady
Divergent Accounts Of Architectural Progress: Virilio And War, Flusser And The Factory
Jan Smitheram
Questions Of The Body And Occupying Space From Parc De La Villette To Site Of Reversible Destiny: The Promise And Suppression Of Utopia In Architectural Discourse

Keynote Address : Mary McLeod
Le Corbusier, the New Woman, and Domestic Reform

Merewether Lecture Theatre 2

Session 5A :
progress Postwar Urban Perspectives

Chair: Peter Kohane

Shirley Daborn
“All Roads Lead To Roselands” Regional Shopping Centres: A 60’s Solution
Philip Goad
Progress And Reform: Robin Boyd And The Australian City 1944-1971
Peter Armstrong
The Construction Of Heritage: Sydney Central

Session 5B :
progress Techniques of Progress

Chair: Michael Ostwald

Scott Drake
Aesthetics Of Animation
Daniel Grafton
Evocative Beyond Form: The Relation Between Darkness, Electricity And Structure
Pedro Guedes
What, Architecture? Not Architecture! Iron’s Last Stand In The Arena Of Architectural Legitimacy

Session 6A :
progress Beyond Colonialism

Chair Sarah Treadwell

Katharine Bartsch
A Prize For Progress: Transnational Practice And The Aga Khan Award For Architecture
David Beynon
Tradition As Past Is A Modernist Idea
Robin Skinner
Something More Ought Have Been Done…

Session 6B :
progress Spatial Recoveries

Chair: Catherine DeLorenzo

Rachel Carley
Demolished
Lynn Churchill
“People Live In Their Space With A Temerity That Is Frightening..."
Carl Douglas
Faulting An Archaeological Site

Session 7A :
progress Postwar Housing

Chair Hannah Lewi

Joanna Besley
The Progress Of The Populist House – Modernism In The Suburbs
Amanda Gray And Tony De Goldi
Suburban Blueprint: The Influence Of State Programmes On New Zealand 1950s And 1960s Housing Expectations
Kate Linzey
Historic Occupations: John Sidney Swan’s ‘Moorings’

Session 7B :
progress Landscape

Chair: Sandra Kaji-O’Grady

Ursula De Jong
Dwelling In The Landscape: From Blairgowrie House To Portsea Palace
Julian Raxworthy
“Landscape Symphonies”: Gardening As A Source Of Landscape Architectural Practice, Engaged With Change
SueAnne Ware
The Ecology Of Contemporary Landscape Design

Session 8A :
progress Collective Settlements

Chair: Robin Skinner

Bill Mckay And Antonia Walmsley
Maori Time: Notions Of Space, Time And Building Form In The South Pacific
Quentin Stevens And Christy Collis
Living In The Cold Light Of Reason: Colonial Settlements In Antarctica
Jeremy Treadwell
The Island Library: An Architecture Of Collection
Hannah Lewi And Stephen Neille
Suburban Sport: The Games Village Of The Viith British Empire And Commonwealth Games Of 1962.

Session 8B :
progress Italian Perspectives

Chair: Stephen Frith

Rika Devos And Mil De Kooning
A Retreat From Modern Architecture, A Reaction Against Formalism Or “The True Face Of Italy?” The Italian ‘Village’ At The 1958 World’s Fair In Brussels
Julian Patterson
“The Creation Of Immense Images As If They Were Real”:Illusiveness In Gio Ponti’s Casa Melandri
Raymond Quek
Scepticism And Progress In Architectural Discourse

Keynote Address : Mike Austin
Kiwi Architecture

Merewether Lecture Theatre 2

Session 9A :
progress Finding Identities

Chair: Philip Goad

Kevin O’Brien
Architecture And Aboriginality
John Stephens
Putrefaction And Pestilence: The Reticent Progress Of Sanitary Architecture In Nineteenth Century Perth
Elizabeth Musgrave
John Railton: Brisbane Houses 1962–70

Session 9B :
progress Stories of the Near Past

Chair: Peter Kohane

Michael Chapman And Michael Ostwald
Fortifying Sisyphus, Or The Architectural Machinery Of Modern Punishment (1820-1870)
Anuradha Chatterjee
The Body Of History In John Ruskin’s Theories
Antony Moulis
Geometry Into Drawing: Appropriation And Technique In Beaux-Arts Practice

Session 10A :
progress Post War Modernism

Chair: Maryam Gusheh

Steven Fleming
Building In Wright’s Penumbra: Kahn’s Unitarian Church
Kathi Holt-Damant
Constructs Of Space: German Expressionism, Mies Van Der Rohe, And Yasujiro Ozu
John Roberts
Prospect-Refuge Theory And Alvar Aalto’s ‘Experimental House’ At Muuratsalo: ‘What Is It That We Like About Aalto’s Site-Related Architecture, And Why?’

Session 10B :
progress Theorizing Historical Perspectives

Chair: John Macarthur

Andrew Leach
Making Progress: Tafuri, History And The Psychoanalysis Of Society
Reena Tiwari
Production Of Space – A Linear Process?
Igea Troiani
Friendship And Warring In Modern Architecture:The History Of Early O.M.A
Michael Ostwald
Symbols Of Evolution, Signs Of Regression: Mies And The Politics Of Geometry

Panel Discussion
State of Architecture in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Perspectives

Mike Austin
Justine Clark
Richard Francis-Jones
Philip Goad
Gevork Hartoonian
Peter Kohane
John Macarthur
Harry Margalit
Mary McLeod
Robin Skinner
Jennifer Taylor