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Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts, Dec 11, 2019
UCL Press eBooks, May 25, 2023
Fabrications, Dec 1, 2007
Robert Knapp’s introduction to the early Christian movement provides a historically rich account ... more Robert Knapp’s introduction to the early Christian movement provides a historically rich account of how Christianity emerged in a world characterized by the influence of gods, magic, and the miraculous. Knapp begins with a broad setup of the history of Israel, the exilic period, the advent of the Hellenistic powers, and the rise of Christianity in his first chapter. He is careful to include an account of the supernatural world in which these events occurred, setting a tone and defining the scope of his introduction to the early Christian religious context. Knapp thus introduces his reader to Israelite and what he terms “polytheist” peoples (that is, essentially everyone else) to describe a world in which both groups experienced “unpredictable, powerful forces [that] were always and everywhere at work” (12). In chapter 3, the Jewish religious landscape comes into view through an account of Israelite foundations in the Levant and the experiences of Jewish people and their religious culture into the Roman imperial period. In chapter 4, Knapp returns theological dimensions of Jewish claims about Yahweh’s promises to favor the Jewish people in an “unspecified future” in which Yahweh’s justice would manifest (41). Having focused on the Jewish contexts that contributed to the early Christian movement, Knapp fills in the religious dimensions of the “polytheistic” world in chapter 5, giving a broad account of philosophical culture, forms of worship, prayer and appeal, religious festivals, rituals, and other dimensions of religious practice. In the chapters that follow, Knapp turns from background materials to focus on the more explicitly representative religious and cultural dimensions of the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds that helped shape the early Christian movement. Chapter 6 considers the Palestinian social contexts out of which Christian communities emerged. This leads to a lengthy discussion of charismatic religious leadership within first-century Judaism that allows Knapp to introduce Jesus, whom Knapp casts as an exceptional figure whose “ultimate miracle” of “rising from the dead to defeat death itself, stretched credulity in both [Jewish and polytheistic] traditions” (129) in chapter 7. In
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2019
Association of Consulting Architects, 2018
Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2012
Review(s) of: Marion mahony reconsidered, by David Van Zanten ed., Chicago Architecture and Urban... more Review(s) of: Marion mahony reconsidered, by David Van Zanten ed., Chicago Architecture and Urbanism Series, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011.
Association of Consulting Architects, 2017
Journal of Transport & Health
Primary prevention refers to addressing the root causes of violence against women. It is an incre... more Primary prevention refers to addressing the root causes of violence against women. It is an increasing focus of policy and social change, and public transport is a recognized site where targeted primary prevention interventions could have high impact. However, to date, this locus has yet to be well explored. In addition, while there is a wealth of literature on feminist approaches to women's safety on and around public transport, the public transport sector itself has been slow to implement this research. This paper investigates the disconnect between primary prevention and public transport by conducting a narrative analysis of reviews of women's safety interventions on public transport and looks at how decision-makers in both primary prevention and public transport can work together to resolve this situation.
The colonisation of the Americas by the Iberian powers of Spain and Portugal in the late fifteent... more The colonisation of the Americas by the Iberian powers of Spain and Portugal in the late fifteenth century was toradically alter the cultures, societies, economies and politics of the Atlantic realm. One of the most significant changesin terms of the built environment was the implantation and dissemination of European models of urbanism, architectureand aesthetics within the newly colonised continents – the cathedral, church and chapel as central architectonic andsymbolic devices. For the colonising cultures the new flow of resources, particularly precious metals such as silverand gold, altered the economies of production leading to design innovations born from the spoils of conquest andlater, the pain of crisis. The models developed in Spain and Portugal were then cycled back to their colonies forfurther development and refinement. This paper proposes to analyse the use of gold within Spanish and SpanishAmericanecclesiastical interiors starting from period of the colonisation of th...
Moreland City Council, 2020
Statistics on women in the architecture profession in Australia tell a story of women having trun... more Statistics on women in the architecture profession in Australia tell a story of women having truncated careers, limited longevity in the profession, and relative invisibility, despite significant and longstanding contributions. While Dana Cuff argues that the career path for all architects is fraught with uncertainty, gender appears to figure powerfully in making a career in architecture even more difficult for women. 1 The situation is not well understood, since previous research has tended to draw on simple statistical counts, surveys, and anecdotal reportage-methods that are not necessarily subtle enough to investigate gendered practices in depth. However, research from other fields, particularly those investigating gender and the professions more broadly, reveals that architecture, while perhaps an extreme case, is not alone in its patterns of women's participation. The fact that this has been rarely drawn upon within the field of architecture points to a significant gap in current knowledge regarding the impact of gender in the profession. Gaining a deeper understanding of this situation was a major impetus behind the Australian Research Council-funded Linkage Project: "Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership (2011-2014)," of which this dissertation forms a discrete part. This thesis contributes to knowledge by examining the complexity of gender in the Australian architecture profession through two main strategies, combining quantitative and qualitative methods in a complementary manner. The first strategy involves depicting the macro-scale patterns of women's participation in the profession in Australia more comprehensively than has been done before, by developing an analysis from a wider range of statistical data than are usually sourced. It finds that, although women are present in greater numbers than usually cited, the growth of women's participation is markedly slower than previously predicted, at a rate that lags behind other professions, and that is distorted by certain peculiarities in the architecture profession. This quantitative analysis strengthens the case that there are gendering processes shaping architectural careers, and indicates those points at which women tend to disappear over the course of a career in architecture. Building on the first research strategy, the second and larger part of the dissertation mobilises methods rarely deployed to investigate gender in architecture in Australia; specifically, interviews and workplace observation. Drawing upon seventy interviews held in three large commercial architecture practices, and observation in offices in Sydney and Brisbane, the dissertation seeks to illuminate the social construction of gender in the Australian architecture profession. It uses an
Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts, Dec 11, 2019
UCL Press eBooks, May 25, 2023
Fabrications, Dec 1, 2007
Robert Knapp’s introduction to the early Christian movement provides a historically rich account ... more Robert Knapp’s introduction to the early Christian movement provides a historically rich account of how Christianity emerged in a world characterized by the influence of gods, magic, and the miraculous. Knapp begins with a broad setup of the history of Israel, the exilic period, the advent of the Hellenistic powers, and the rise of Christianity in his first chapter. He is careful to include an account of the supernatural world in which these events occurred, setting a tone and defining the scope of his introduction to the early Christian religious context. Knapp thus introduces his reader to Israelite and what he terms “polytheist” peoples (that is, essentially everyone else) to describe a world in which both groups experienced “unpredictable, powerful forces [that] were always and everywhere at work” (12). In chapter 3, the Jewish religious landscape comes into view through an account of Israelite foundations in the Levant and the experiences of Jewish people and their religious culture into the Roman imperial period. In chapter 4, Knapp returns theological dimensions of Jewish claims about Yahweh’s promises to favor the Jewish people in an “unspecified future” in which Yahweh’s justice would manifest (41). Having focused on the Jewish contexts that contributed to the early Christian movement, Knapp fills in the religious dimensions of the “polytheistic” world in chapter 5, giving a broad account of philosophical culture, forms of worship, prayer and appeal, religious festivals, rituals, and other dimensions of religious practice. In the chapters that follow, Knapp turns from background materials to focus on the more explicitly representative religious and cultural dimensions of the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds that helped shape the early Christian movement. Chapter 6 considers the Palestinian social contexts out of which Christian communities emerged. This leads to a lengthy discussion of charismatic religious leadership within first-century Judaism that allows Knapp to introduce Jesus, whom Knapp casts as an exceptional figure whose “ultimate miracle” of “rising from the dead to defeat death itself, stretched credulity in both [Jewish and polytheistic] traditions” (129) in chapter 7. In
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2019
Association of Consulting Architects, 2018
Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2012
Review(s) of: Marion mahony reconsidered, by David Van Zanten ed., Chicago Architecture and Urban... more Review(s) of: Marion mahony reconsidered, by David Van Zanten ed., Chicago Architecture and Urbanism Series, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011.
Association of Consulting Architects, 2017
Journal of Transport & Health
Primary prevention refers to addressing the root causes of violence against women. It is an incre... more Primary prevention refers to addressing the root causes of violence against women. It is an increasing focus of policy and social change, and public transport is a recognized site where targeted primary prevention interventions could have high impact. However, to date, this locus has yet to be well explored. In addition, while there is a wealth of literature on feminist approaches to women's safety on and around public transport, the public transport sector itself has been slow to implement this research. This paper investigates the disconnect between primary prevention and public transport by conducting a narrative analysis of reviews of women's safety interventions on public transport and looks at how decision-makers in both primary prevention and public transport can work together to resolve this situation.
The colonisation of the Americas by the Iberian powers of Spain and Portugal in the late fifteent... more The colonisation of the Americas by the Iberian powers of Spain and Portugal in the late fifteenth century was toradically alter the cultures, societies, economies and politics of the Atlantic realm. One of the most significant changesin terms of the built environment was the implantation and dissemination of European models of urbanism, architectureand aesthetics within the newly colonised continents – the cathedral, church and chapel as central architectonic andsymbolic devices. For the colonising cultures the new flow of resources, particularly precious metals such as silverand gold, altered the economies of production leading to design innovations born from the spoils of conquest andlater, the pain of crisis. The models developed in Spain and Portugal were then cycled back to their colonies forfurther development and refinement. This paper proposes to analyse the use of gold within Spanish and SpanishAmericanecclesiastical interiors starting from period of the colonisation of th...
Moreland City Council, 2020
Statistics on women in the architecture profession in Australia tell a story of women having trun... more Statistics on women in the architecture profession in Australia tell a story of women having truncated careers, limited longevity in the profession, and relative invisibility, despite significant and longstanding contributions. While Dana Cuff argues that the career path for all architects is fraught with uncertainty, gender appears to figure powerfully in making a career in architecture even more difficult for women. 1 The situation is not well understood, since previous research has tended to draw on simple statistical counts, surveys, and anecdotal reportage-methods that are not necessarily subtle enough to investigate gendered practices in depth. However, research from other fields, particularly those investigating gender and the professions more broadly, reveals that architecture, while perhaps an extreme case, is not alone in its patterns of women's participation. The fact that this has been rarely drawn upon within the field of architecture points to a significant gap in current knowledge regarding the impact of gender in the profession. Gaining a deeper understanding of this situation was a major impetus behind the Australian Research Council-funded Linkage Project: "Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership (2011-2014)," of which this dissertation forms a discrete part. This thesis contributes to knowledge by examining the complexity of gender in the Australian architecture profession through two main strategies, combining quantitative and qualitative methods in a complementary manner. The first strategy involves depicting the macro-scale patterns of women's participation in the profession in Australia more comprehensively than has been done before, by developing an analysis from a wider range of statistical data than are usually sourced. It finds that, although women are present in greater numbers than usually cited, the growth of women's participation is markedly slower than previously predicted, at a rate that lags behind other professions, and that is distorted by certain peculiarities in the architecture profession. This quantitative analysis strengthens the case that there are gendering processes shaping architectural careers, and indicates those points at which women tend to disappear over the course of a career in architecture. Building on the first research strategy, the second and larger part of the dissertation mobilises methods rarely deployed to investigate gender in architecture in Australia; specifically, interviews and workplace observation. Drawing upon seventy interviews held in three large commercial architecture practices, and observation in offices in Sydney and Brisbane, the dissertation seeks to illuminate the social construction of gender in the Australian architecture profession. It uses an