Interstices – A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is the only established publication of its kind in Australasia.
Since its inception, writers and presenters such a the 2005 Pritzker winner Tom Mayne (USA), Mark Wigley (USA), Francesco Venezia and Renato Rizzi (Italy), Mark Goulthorpe (France, now teaching at MIT), Marco Frascari (Director of Carleton University’s School of Architecture, Canada), Guy Châtel (Belgium), Thomas Mical (Canada), and Laurence Simmons (New Zealand) contributed to contemporary local and international debates.
The journal is published once a year and is supported by editorial board members Andrew Benjamin, Allan Smith, Anthony Hoete, Bechir Kenzari, David Leatherbarrow, Deirdre Brown, Helene Furján, John Macarthur, Jonathan Hale, Jonathan Lamb, Laurence Simmons, Marco Frascari, Mark Goulthorpe, Michael Erlhoff, Mike Austin, Mirjana Lozanovska, Nigel Ryan, Paul Walker, Peter Wood, Uta Brandes.
The current issue, Disagreement, addresses the politics of aesthetics. Several contributions respond directly to the writings of French Philosopher, Jacques Rancière. The double blind refereed part comprises papers by Michael Ostwald (University of Newcastle, Australia), Rancière and the Metapolitical Framing of Architecture: Reconstructing Brodsky and Utkin’s Voyage; A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul (AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand), Travel in Tropical Islands, Enemies Coexisting in Peace; Carl Douglas (AUT University), Barricades and Boulevards: Material transformations of Paris, 795- 871; Hélène Frichot (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), Striving for a Coming Community and the Question of a Life; Leonhard Emmerling (AUT University), PLZKLME; and Stephen Loo and Linda Walker (University of South Australia, Adelaide), And the Open Bridge: Labour, Enchantment, There Forever.
The non-refereed part contains shorter papers about built and unbuilt projects, as well as reviews and translations: Hong-Chi Shiau (Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan), The Glamorous, but Doomed, Bamboo Forest: The Western De/Construction of Local Memory of the 92 Earthquake in Taiwan; Tom Daniell (Seika University, Kyoto, Japan), The Letter of the Law: Constraints on Architectural Form in Japan; Bill McKay (University of Auckland, New Zealand), A Short Venting of the Spleen on the Subject of the Architect and Science; Andrew Leach (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), The Myth of the Nation; Paul Walker (University of Melbourne), Architecture Inspired by New Zealand (book review); Peggy Deamer (Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, USA), Dick Toy’s Last Lecture; Julia Gatley (The University of Auckland), New Measures for Other Moderns; Kerstin Thompson Architects and Architecture Workshop (Melbourne), Waitangi Precinct Competition Entry, Wellington, 2005; and Tim Adams (University of Auckland), Daniel Payot: The Judgement of Architecture (Translation).
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