Conferences

Upcoming conference

"redolent of the soil": New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1890s: a one day symposium

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 1st December 2023

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

ConvenerChristine McCarthy

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Past conferences

"... more cars and fewer hen houses ....": New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1960s: a one day symposium

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 2nd December 2022

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

ConvenerChristine McCarthy

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And "... the dazzle continued inside ....": New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1930s: a one day symposium

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 3rd December 2021

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"simply another thing to keep clean""simply another thing to keep clean": New Zealand Architecture in the 1990s: a one day symposium

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 4th December 2020

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"The raging fury of Edwardian ornamentation" meets "a virtual frenzy of stylism": New Zealand architecture in the 1900s: a one day symposium

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 6 December 2019

Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"Colonisation ... in top gear": New Zealand architecture in the 1870s

This conference is held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: Friday 7 December 2018

Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"Nothing to be ashamed of in a good nail": New Zealand architecture in the 1910s

Date: Friday 1 December 2017

Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"all the appearances of being innovative": New Zealand architecture in the 1970s

Date: Friday 2 December 2016

Convener: Christine McCarthy

Venue: Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatre 03, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington

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"Everything tastes better with cream": New Zealand architecture in the 1950s

Date: Friday 4 December 2015

Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"A massive colonial experiment": New Zealand architecture in the 1840s

Date: Friday 5 December 2014

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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UHPH_14: Landscapes and Ecologies of Urban and Planning History

12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History conference, Victoria University of Wellington

Date: 2–5 February 2014

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Architectural style spreads its wings: New Zealand architecture in the 1880s

Date: Friday 6 December 2013

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"a distressing lack of regularity": New Zealand architecture in the 1850s

Date: Friday 7th December 2012

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"Good Architecture should not be a plaything": Architecture in the 1920s

Date: Friday 2 December 2011

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"Elegance and excesses: War, Gold and Borrowings": Architecture in the 1860s

Date: Friday 3 December 2010

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"... ponderously pedantic pediments prevail ... good, clean fun in a bad, dirty world": New Zealand Architecture in the 1980s

Date: Friday 4 December 2009

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"From over-sweet cake to wholemeal bread" - the Home & Building years: New Zealand Architecture in the 1940s

Date: Friday 5 December 2008

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"strident effects of instant sophistication": New Zealand Architecture in the 1890s

Date: Friday 7 December 2007

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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One day Symposium: "Pleasing homogeneity," "Dull times," and "animated cocktails": New Zealand Architecture in the 1930s

Date: Friday 8 December 2006

Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"Fabricating Sustainability"

39th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association.

Date: 17–19 November 2005.

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One Day Symposium: "... about as austere as a Dior gown ...".

Date: Friday 9 December

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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"...we have no style...": New Zealand architecture 1900-1918: a one day architectural history symposium

Hosted by the Centre for Building Performance Research

Date: Friday 3 December 2004.

Convener: Christine McCarthy

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