2022 Book Chapter Wireless architecture: Robert Cumming's early radio broadcastsMacarthur, John and van der Plaat, Deborah (2022). Wireless architecture: Robert Cumming's early radio broadcasts. Architectural education through materiality: pedagogies of 20th century design . (pp. 221-234) edited by Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003201205-17 |
2021 Book Chapter Robin Boyd’s Australian Ugliness, ugliness and liberal educationMacarthur, John (2021). Robin Boyd’s Australian Ugliness, ugliness and liberal education. After The Australian Ugliness. (pp. 45-52) edited by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Megan Patty and Ewan McEoin. Melbourne, VIC Australia: National Gallery of Victoria/Thames & Hudson. |
2020 Book Chapter The smell of politics: Civilia, Collage City, and liberalism in architectural discourseMacarthur, John (2020). The smell of politics: Civilia, Collage City, and liberalism in architectural discourse. GTA papers 4: grand gestures. (pp. 22-45) edited by Adam Jasper and Stefan Neuner. Zurich, Switzerland: gta Verlag. |
2020 Book Chapter For what it’s worth: the value of architecture as heritage and cultureMacarthur, John, Holden, Susan and Paine, Ashley (2020). For what it’s worth: the value of architecture as heritage and culture. Valuing architecture: heritage and the economics of culture. (pp. 8-20) edited by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz. |
2019 Book Chapter 'In the service of clouds': the picturesque and aquatintMacarthur, John (2019). 'In the service of clouds': the picturesque and aquatint. Architecture through drawing. (pp. 168-177) edited by Desley Luscombe, Helen Thomas and Niall Hobhouse. London, United Kingdom: Lund Humphries. |
2019 Book Chapter Pardo’s plumbing: relational art and architectural pavilionsMacarthur, John (2019). Pardo’s plumbing: relational art and architectural pavilions. Trading between architecture and art: strategies and practices of exchange. (pp. 27-38) edited by Wouter Davidts, Ashley Paine and Susan Holden. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz. |
2018 Book Chapter The banality of 240cmMacarthur, John (2018). The banality of 240cm. House tour: views of the unfurnished interior. (pp. 112-115) edited by Adam Jasper. Zürich, Switzerland: Park Books and Pro Helvetia. |
2017 Book Chapter Luscombe Castle (1799)Macarthur, John (2017). Luscombe Castle (1799). Companions to the history of architecture: eighteenth-century architecture. (pp. 1-5) edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118887226.wbcha076 |
2016 Book Chapter Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the picturesqueMacarthur, John (2016). Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the picturesque. The Baroque in architectural culture, 1880-1980. (pp. 61-71) edited by Andrew Leach, John Macarthur and Maarten Delbeke. Abingdon, Oxon, United States: Routledge. |
2015 Book Chapter Letters to the peopleMacarthur, John (2015). Letters to the people. Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall. (pp. 1345-1352) edited by Mark Raggatt and Maitiu Ward. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Uro Publications. |
2015 Book Chapter Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the picturesqueMacarthur, John (2015). Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the picturesque. The Baroque in architectural culture, 1880-1980. (pp. 61-71) edited by Andrew Leach, John Macarthur and Maarten Delbeke. Farnsworth, United Kingdom: Ashgate. |
2014 Book Chapter Of character and concrete: the historian's materialMacarthur, John (2014). Of character and concrete: the historian's material. Forty ways to think about architecture: architectural history and theory today. (pp. 150-154) edited by Ian Borden, Murray Fraser and Barbara Penner. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781118822531.ch21 |
2014 Book Chapter 'The World' and Charters Towers: gold, stock exchanges and the electric telegraph at the beginning of globalisationMacarthur, John (2014). 'The World' and Charters Towers: gold, stock exchanges and the electric telegraph at the beginning of globalisation. Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition. (pp. 129-158) edited by Philip Goldswain, Nicole Sully and William M. Taylor. Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press. |
2013 Book Chapter The figure from above: on the obliqueness of the plan in urbanism and architectureMacarthur, John (2013). The figure from above: on the obliqueness of the plan in urbanism and architecture. Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture. (pp. 188-209) edited by Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin. London, UK: I. B. Tauris. |
2012 Book Chapter The world remade: art and mimesis in the work of Luc DeleuMacarthur, John (2012). The world remade: art and mimesis in the work of Luc Deleu. Luc Deleu: orban space: the work and practice of Luc Deleu, T.O.P. office. (pp. 33-44) edited by Wouter Davidts, Guy Chatel and Stefaan Vervoort. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Valiz. |
2012 Book Chapter Ugliness and romanticism in the work of LyonsMacarthur, John (2012). Ugliness and romanticism in the work of Lyons. More: the architecture of Lyons 1996-2011. (pp. 267-272) edited by Lyons. Port Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Thames and Hudson. |
2012 Book Chapter Sense, meaning and taste in architectural criticismMacarthur, John (2012). Sense, meaning and taste in architectural criticism. Semi-detached: Writing, representation and criticism in architecture. (pp. 229-235) edited by Naomi Stead. Melbourne, Australia: Uro Media. |
2012 Book Chapter Introduction: architecture and aestheticsMacarthur, John and Stead, Naomi (2012). Introduction: architecture and aesthetics. The SAGE handbook of architectural theory. (pp. 123-136) edited by C. Greg Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. |
2010 Book Chapter Pevsner's townscapeMacarthur, John P. and Aitchison, Mathew H. (2010). Pevsner's townscape. Visual planning and the picturesque. (pp. 1-43) edited by Mathew H. Aitchison. Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Getty Research Institute. |
2009 Book Chapter Landscape and prospect from the picturesque to aerial photographyMacarthur, John (2009). Landscape and prospect from the picturesque to aerial photography. Beyond the Picturesque. (pp. 209-219) edited by Steven Jacobs and Frank Maes. Ghent, Belgium: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. |