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2019

Book Chapter

Conclusion: Ways to listen anew: what next for oral history and architecture?

Stead, Naomi, Van der Plaat, Deborah and Gosseye, Janina (2019). Conclusion: Ways to listen anew: what next for oral history and architecture?. Speaking of buildings: oral history and architectural research. (pp. 282-297) edited by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat. New York, NY, United States: Princeton Architectural Press.

Conclusion: Ways to listen anew: what next for oral history and architecture?

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

Journal Article

The Auckland School: 100 Year of Architecture and Planning, 1917-2017

van der Plaat, Deborah (2019). The Auckland School: 100 Year of Architecture and Planning, 1917-2017. Fabrications-The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, 29 (3), 438-443. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2019.1667557

The Auckland School: 100 Year of Architecture and Planning, 1917-2017

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

Book Chapter

West's Furniture Store 1953

van der Plaat, Deborah (2019). West's Furniture Store 1953. Australia modern: architecture, landscape & design 1925–1975. (pp. 135-135) edited by Hannah Lewi and Philip Goad. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames and Hudson.

West's Furniture Store 1953

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

Journal Article

Architecture, environment, history: questions and consequences

Barber, Daniel A., Stickells, Lee, Ryan, Daniel J., Koehler, Maren, Leach, Andrew, Goad, Philip, van der Plaat, Deborah, Keys, Cathy, Karim, Farhan and Taylor, William M. (2018). Architecture, environment, history: questions and consequences. Architectural Theory Review, 22 (2), 249-286. doi: 10.1080/13264826.2018.1482725

Architecture, environment, history: questions and consequences

2018

Journal Article

An Oriental Continent: Climatic Determinism, Race and Identity in the Interwar Writings of Australian Architect William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955)

van der Plaat, Deborah (2018). An Oriental Continent: Climatic Determinism, Race and Identity in the Interwar Writings of Australian Architect William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955). Fabrications : The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, 28 (1), 67-87. doi: 10.1080/10331867.2017.1413703

An Oriental Continent: Climatic Determinism, Race and Identity in the Interwar Writings of Australian Architect William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955)

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

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

2017

Book Chapter

Climatic discomforts: [sub]tropical climates, racial character and the nineteenth-century Queensland house

van der Plaat, Deborah (2017). Climatic discomforts: [sub]tropical climates, racial character and the nineteenth-century Queensland house. On discomfort : moments in a modern history of architectural culture. (pp. 51-63) edited by David Ellison and Andrew Leach. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315598826

Climatic discomforts: [sub]tropical climates, racial character and the nineteenth-century Queensland house

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

Book Chapter

Building flagships: regionalism, place branding, and architecture as image in the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Stead, Naomi, van der Plaat, Deborah and Macarthur, John (2017). Building flagships: regionalism, place branding, and architecture as image in the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Images of the art museum: connecting gaze and discourse in the history of museology. (pp. 261-286) edited by Eva-Maria Troelenberg and Melania Savino. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.

Building flagships: regionalism, place branding, and architecture as image in the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

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

2015

Book Chapter

Twentieth-century (sub) tropical housing: framing climate, culture and civilisation in post-war Queensland

van der Plaat, Deborah, Wilson, Andrew C. and Musgrave, Elizabeth (2015). Twentieth-century (sub) tropical housing: framing climate, culture and civilisation in post-war Queensland. Hot modernism: Queensland architecture 1945-1975. (pp. 75-99) edited by John P. Macarthur, Deborah van der Plaat, Janina Gosseye and Andrew Wilson. London, United Kingdom: Artifice.

Twentieth-century (sub) tropical housing: framing climate, culture and civilisation in post-war Queensland

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