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2021

Conference Publication

Unrecognised actors and multiple networks: Balwant Singh Saini and teaching tropical architecture in mid-twentieth century Australia

van der Plaat, Deborah (2021). Unrecognised actors and multiple networks: Balwant Singh Saini and teaching tropical architecture in mid-twentieth century Australia. EAHN2021 Sixth International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2-5 June 2021. Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh .

Unrecognised actors and multiple networks: Balwant Singh Saini and teaching tropical architecture in mid-twentieth century Australia

2019

Conference Publication

Disease, discomfort and development: The physiological study of climate as scientific method in twentieth century Australia

van der Plaat, Deborah (2019). Disease, discomfort and development: The physiological study of climate as scientific method in twentieth century Australia. iNTA 2019: Urban Tropicality, The University of Queensland Brisbane, 5-8 December 2019.

Disease, discomfort and development: The physiological study of climate as scientific method in twentieth century Australia

2019

Conference Publication

Tropical comfort in the unproductive north. Commonwealth Bank Building, Cairns, 1922-1952.

van der Plaat, Deborah (2019). Tropical comfort in the unproductive north. Commonwealth Bank Building, Cairns, 1922-1952.. iNTA2019: Urban Tropicality, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-8 December 2019.

Tropical comfort in the unproductive north. Commonwealth Bank Building, Cairns, 1922-1952.

2019

Conference Publication

The Anxiety of Acclimatisation in the Architecture and Urban Planning of 19th Century Queensland (Australia)

van der Plaat, Deborah (2019). The Anxiety of Acclimatisation in the Architecture and Urban Planning of 19th Century Queensland (Australia). American Society of Environment History, Columbio, Ohio United States, 10-14 April 2019.

The Anxiety of Acclimatisation in the Architecture and Urban Planning of 19th Century Queensland (Australia)

2018

Conference Publication

The New Exhibition Building (1891): Liberalism, Settler Colonialism and Empire in 19th Century Queensland

van der Plaat, Deborah (2018). The New Exhibition Building (1891): Liberalism, Settler Colonialism and Empire in 19th Century Queensland. Liberalism in the Built Environment: Then and Now, State Libary of Queensland, Brisbane, 17-19 May 2018.

The New Exhibition Building (1891): Liberalism, Settler Colonialism and Empire in 19th Century Queensland

2018

Conference Publication

Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks

van der Plaat, Deborah and Macarthur, John (2018). Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks. 100 Year of Architectural Education in Queensland, QUT, Brisbane, 22-23 November 2018.

Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks

2018

Conference Publication

Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks

Macarthur, John and van der Plaat, Deborah (2018). Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks. Objects & Technologies of Schooling. Rethinking 20th Century Architectural Pedagogies, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17 April 2018.

Robert Percy Cummings Radio Talks

2017

Conference Publication

A Quiet Revolution: Robert Percy Cummings’ unpublished talks (1930-1970)

van der Plaat, Deborah and Macarthur, John (2017). A Quiet Revolution: Robert Percy Cummings’ unpublished talks (1930-1970). Educating Architects and Planners, 1917-2017, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 8-9 September 2017.

A Quiet Revolution: Robert Percy Cummings’ unpublished talks (1930-1970)

2017

Conference Publication

Empty and Unproductive Australia: Migration, Race and Architecture in Twentieth Century Australia

van der Plaat, Deborah (2017). Empty and Unproductive Australia: Migration, Race and Architecture in Twentieth Century Australia. Aesthetic Anxiety or Performative Subjectivity: National Narratives Encountering migrant architecture in Australia, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, 16-17 November 2017.

Empty and Unproductive Australia: Migration, Race and Architecture in Twentieth Century Australia

2017

Conference Publication

Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture

Gosseye, Janina, Stead, Naomi and van der Plaat, Deborah (2017). Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture. Theory's History 196X-199X - Challenges in the Historiography of Architectural knowledge, Ghent Belgium, 8-10 February 2017.

Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture

2017

Conference Publication

Climatic Anxieties: Climate and Comfort in the Historiography of Australian Architecture

van der Plaat, Deborah (2017). Climatic Anxieties: Climate and Comfort in the Historiography of Australian Architecture. Environmental Histories Workshop, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 9-10 March 2017.

Climatic Anxieties: Climate and Comfort in the Historiography of Australian Architecture

2017

Conference Publication

Triumph in the Tropics (1959): The physiological study of climate, Queensland architecture, and the development debate

van der Plaat, Deborah (2017). Triumph in the Tropics (1959): The physiological study of climate, Queensland architecture, and the development debate. iNTA2017: 6th International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference: Tropical Storms as a Setting for Adaptive Development and Architecture, Florida, United States, 2-4 December 2017.

Triumph in the Tropics (1959): The physiological study of climate, Queensland architecture, and the development debate

2015

Conference Publication

Re-evaluating the Australian dream: narratives of high-rise living in Torbreck

van der Plaat, Deborah, Holden, Susan, Stead, Naomi and Greenop, Kelly (2015). Re-evaluating the Australian dream: narratives of high-rise living in Torbreck. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2015. Sydney, NSW, Australia: SAHANZ.

Re-evaluating the Australian dream: narratives of high-rise living in Torbreck

2014

Conference Publication

Building and living north of the 28th parallel: climate, character and the Queensland house

van der Plaat, Deborah (2014). Building and living north of the 28th parallel: climate, character and the Queensland house. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2014. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ.

Building and living north of the 28th parallel: climate, character and the Queensland house

2014

Conference Publication

Architecture of sun and soil. European architecture in tropical Australia

van der Plaat, Deborah (2014). Architecture of sun and soil. European architecture in tropical Australia. EAHN Turin 2014: European Architectural History Network Third International Meeting, Turin, Italy, 19-21 July 2014. Turin, Italy: Politecnico di torino.

Architecture of sun and soil. European architecture in tropical Australia

2013

Conference Publication

Architecture at the ragged edge of empire: the problems of race, place and taste

van der Plaat, Deborah (2013). Architecture at the ragged edge of empire: the problems of race, place and taste. Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, 27-28 June 2013.

Architecture at the ragged edge of empire: the problems of race, place and taste

2013

Conference Publication

Oral history: abusive widow of [architectural] historiography?

van der Plaat, Deborah (2013). Oral history: abusive widow of [architectural] historiography?. Lost in Conversation: Constructing the Oral History of Modern Architecture, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1 November 2013.

Oral history: abusive widow of [architectural] historiography?

2013

Conference Publication

Digital stories and semantic web technologies: new practices in developing and interpreting an architectural archive

van der Plaat, Deborah, Hunter, Jane, Gosseye, Janina, Macarthur, John and Wilson, Andrew (2013). Digital stories and semantic web technologies: new practices in developing and interpreting an architectural archive. 66th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Buffalo, NY, United States, 10-14 April 2013.

Digital stories and semantic web technologies: new practices in developing and interpreting an architectural archive

2012

Conference Publication

Contrasts (agency and difference) in nineteenth-century writings on architecture and design: Pugin, Ruskin and Wilde

van der Plaat, Deborah (2012). Contrasts (agency and difference) in nineteenth-century writings on architecture and design: Pugin, Ruskin and Wilde. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Launceston, TAS, Australia, 5-8 July 2012. Launceston, TAS, Australia: University of Tasmania.

Contrasts (agency and difference) in nineteenth-century writings on architecture and design: Pugin, Ruskin and Wilde

2012

Conference Publication

Formal vocabularies. Cosmopolitanism, analogy and orientalism in Oscar Widle’s writings on art and architecture,

van der Plaat, Deborah (2012). Formal vocabularies. Cosmopolitanism, analogy and orientalism in Oscar Widle’s writings on art and architecture,. Victorian Vocabularies, AVSA 2012,, Griffith University, Brisbane, 11-14th April, 2012.

Formal vocabularies. Cosmopolitanism, analogy and orientalism in Oscar Widle’s writings on art and architecture,