Conferences and symposiums

Upcoming conference

"the need for beauty": New Zealand Interior and Landscape Architecture in the 1940s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 6 December 2024

Venue: Victoria University of Wellington

ConvenerChristine McCarthy

Past conferences

"redolent of the soil"—New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1890s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 1 December 2023

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

ConvenerChristine McCarthy

"more cars and fewer hen houses"—New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1960s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 2 December 2022

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

ConvenerChristine McCarthy

"the dazzle continued inside"—New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1930s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 3 December 2021

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"simply another thing to keep clean"—New Zealand architecture in the 1990s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 4 December 2020

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"The raging fury"—New Zealand architecture in the 1900s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 6 December 2019

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"Colonisation in top gear"—New Zealand architecture in the 1870s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 7 December 2018

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"Nothing to be ashamed of in a good nail"—New Zealand architecture in the 1910s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 1 December 2017

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"all the appearances of being innovative"—New Zealand architecture in the 1970s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 2 December 2016

Venue: Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatre 03, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"everything tastes better with cream"—New Zealand architecture in the 1950s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 4 December 2015

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"a massive colonial experiment"—New Zealand architecture in the 1840s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 5 December 2014

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

Landscapes and Ecologies of Urban and Planning History

The 12th Australasian Urban History / Planning History conference, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: 2–5 February 2014

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Architectural style spreads its wings—New Zealand architecture in the 1880s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 6 December 2013

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"a distressing lack of regularity"—New Zealand architecture in the 1850s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 7 December 2012

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"Good architecture should not be a plaything"—New Zealand architecture in the 1920s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 2 December 2011

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"Elegance and excesses"—New Zealand architecture in the 1860s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 3 December 2010

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"ponderously pedantic pediments prevail"—New Zealand architecture in the 1980s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 4 December 2009

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"From over-sweet cake to wholemeal bread"—New Zealand architecture in the 1940s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 5 December 2008

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"strident effects of instant sophistication"—New Zealand architecture in the 1890s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 7 December 2007

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"Pleasing homogeneity"—New Zealand architecture in the 1930s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 8 December 2006

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

Fabricating Sustainability

39th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association.

Date: 17–19 November 2005

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

"about as austere as a Dior gown"—New Zealand architecture in the 1960s

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 9 December 2005

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy

"we have no style"—New Zealand architecture 1900-1918

A one-day symposium held under the auspices of the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington.

Date: Friday 3 December 2004

Venue: Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Convener: Christine McCarthy