Catherine Townsend

It is with great sorrow that the Society shares the news of the death of Professor Andrew Saint. We deeply mourn the loss of a great scholar and a much loved companion. Read more: bit.ly/457fEQJ

An obituary will appear in the November edition of The Victorian, our membership magazine.

#heritage

The Bloomsbury Global Encylopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 is now online! A huge achievement by Karen Burns & Lori Brown. Pleased to have had the chance to write some of the entries. preview31.sspbloomsbury.co.uk/bloomsbury-g...

📣 CFP APSA T&L Workshop AI & Digital Literacy in Political Studies
📍UNSW Sydney | 11–12 Sept 2025
Explore how politics grads can thrive in an AI world: curriculum, ethics, and teaching innovation.
🔹 15-min papers & 5-min showcases
🔹 ECR & EF travel support
🔹 Due 25 July forms.office.com/r/nerxX94yqH

Examples of broad topics:
• explorations of AI use for policy analysis & research;
• hands-on data visualizations for politics/IR/policy teaching;
• teaching critical use of AI tools, including bias detection & explainability tests; &
• designing AI & data ethics assessments for students.

#Becoming the #UIA2026BCN World Congress of Architects in Barcelona, is shaping up to be a great conference. I am happy to share that I accepted the invitation to join the Evaluation Committee in the Critical Essay category.

Read the call for papers and consider attending next year: uia2026bcn.org

Looks like the NAA has put RecordSearch behind Cloudflare browser checks, so all my scrapers are broken. Not a surprise given the current environment, but that's another 15+ years work down the drain. I'm having a good year...

This is very disappointing to hear. Your work should be celebrated not terminated.

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📸 Lynn Goldsmith

!!! pretty depraved algorithm that doesn’t consider this hate speech

I absolutely loved Kathleen Hannah’s (Bikini Kill & Le Tigre) autobiography. Also Will Sergeant and Stephen Morris have each written two great autobiographies each. Will’s capture life in northern England superbly even if you are entirely disinterested in Echo and the Bunnymen.

I’m also feeling profoundly stupid in my writing - but didn’t have the sense to get my self a good lunch.

Clearly not stupid if that’s your lunch!

Call for papers:

If These Walls Could Talk: Fiction, Facticity, and Archives eahn.org/2025/04/if-t...

I’m sold - my not so guilty pleasure is listening to musicians autobiographies read by the musicians themselves.

You have convinced me to listen rather than read this book

Reposting for the afternoon crew 🌇

Link here and 🧵 below: doi.org/10.1111/spol...

synagogues that were also Holocaust memorials. See also apo.org.au/node/212861

The Australian Federal Government privileged the building of functional memorials in the post-war era, and it funded Holocaust memorials within its war memorial spending. Thus, Jewish communities in the post-war era usually received government funding to build (continued below)

This is wonderful news, the Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue is an extraordinary building. However, it is wrong to claim the building as internationally unique for being a synagogue and a holocaust memorial. In Australia nearly every post-war synagogue is both a shul and a holocaust memorial.

Article with the title “Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired: A Treehouse with Bold Character” showing a photo of a house that is CLEARLY NOT Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired.

Is “Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired” in the room with us right now?

YouTube video by Meowbay Out In The Streets - The Shangri-Las (1965)

Monday motivation: fundamental teen melodrama - nothing more intense - The Shanghai-Las in stark black and white on Shindig!: Out In The Streets www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1-...

Can thoroughly recommend this excellent new book on the Shangri-Las newsouthbooks.com.au/books/dresse...

CFP: Women-Architects under State Socialism (online, 9-10 Oct 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/47250

Upcoming workshop of the EAHN interest group Women and Gender in Architecture Landscape and Urban Design.

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Just a reminder that when parties do this if you send anything back in the prepaid envelope you double the cost of the mail out AND waste party office time opening envelopes @cameronwilson.bsky.social #auspol

💔 I hope you will be reunited with him soon xx

Pauline Boty’s rarely-seen 1962 painting “Red Manoeuvre” will be in “The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties” at Gazelli Art House
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For further info see: tinyurl.com/47v9mx4u
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Images of “Red Manoeuvre” and Derek Boshier’s “Viewer”, 1965, and “Highlights”, 1966, courtesy Gazelli Art House.

Are you an experienced architectural heritage professional looking for a new challenge? We’re looking for a Head of Casework to join our small, dynamic team in London:
c20society.org.uk/work-with-us

Most of our public schools were built when our education system was equitably funded and so kids have access to ovals etc. Decades of underfunding and the growth of inner-city communities has left some schools bursting at the seams with no money to address overcrowding.