Informed by research on the practices of how city builders materialise architecture in Global Sydney, this paper argues that deploying assemblage thinking – with the analytical attention that it is able to afford to practices – is able to challenge the hegemonic claims of orthodox approaches to understanding architecture in the global city.

Foreword: The Architectural Science Association (ASA), formally known as the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), was established in 1963 with the goal of promoting architectural science, theory, education and practice. A particular focus of ASA is the development, documentation and application of innovative approaches to environmentally sustainable design. Annual conferences have been...

How is space constituted and made manifest in the cultural and philosophical context of Samoan society? And how can a primordial concept of space be constituted in the architecture of the fale (house) and then reconstituted as a cultural phenomenon, stretching from pre-contact times in Samoa to the present, in the diaspora? This study undertakes...

This poll aimed to gauge the Australian community’s views on the benefits of good design for public buildings and public spaces.

This paper proposes a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood.