Introduction

Building on the success of recent years, SAHANZ's XIXth conference is the largest body of research on the history and theory of architecture yet presented in Australia and New Zealand. This volume contains over one hundred papers by members and colleagues from Australasia, Asia, Europe and America. The Conference Committee set out to offer a broad and inclusive forum for scholars, seeking contributions in areas previously under-represented such as interiors, landscape and the study of indigenous building traditions. In these areas and in the on-going focus of many members on the history of modern architecture in the region, we see an overall interest in how historical change is experienced and conceptualised. The conference theme 'Additions to architectural history' refers to this expanded vision of the role for the Society's annual conference, and it also refers to some of the issues of disciplinarity raised by this expansion. In the call for papers we asked contributors to consider not only what they might add to the store of knowledge of architecture, but how architecture is articulated with a world of knowledge and practice