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Open Form and Design Thinking in the Early Andrews Practice, 1964–1967
No full textPeter Scriver and Antony Mouli
Globality, locality and freedom in the India of 'Satellier'
No full textP Scriver, P Tombesi, B Dave and B Gardinerhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3529910
Empire-building and thinking in the Public Works Department of British India
No full textPeter Scriverhttp://www.routledge.com/books/Colonial-Modernities-isbn978041539909
Building a new university in Cold-War Australia: The Colombo Plan and architecture at UNSW in the 1950s and 60s
No full textPeter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
India: Modern Architectures in History
No full textThis is the first book to examine both colonial and the postcolonial aspects in comparable depth, and the authors draw together a broad range of sources, including private papers, photographic collections and the extensive records of the ...Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture
No full textReligion and Architecture have a long and intimately intertwined relationship in virtually all cultural histories. Through a wide-ranging discussion centring on India and its global diaspora, this chapter considers some of the many ways in which religion continues to be invested in architecture in the world today, and vice versa, broadening and deepening understanding of how religion is literally ‘placed’ in contemporary life. Architecture, we conclude, sustains at least a part of the project that religion pursued more dominantly and directly, with the aid of architecture, in other times; it constructs and articulates space, both physical and social, as a medium in which individuals and collectives may engage and cohere, and through which the self and its relationship to greater wholes or entities may be defined and realised.Amit Srivastava, Peter Scriver and Joshua Nas
Institutionalising the profession in post-colonial Malaysia: the role of Australian trained architects in the establishment of PAM (Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia)
No full textIntersections between professional and political agendas in processes of transnational social and economic exchange are difficult to pin down because professionals aspire, by definition, to act autonomously. Yet, in the context of Cold War anxieties about the fragility of democracy in the Southeast Asian region, strategic investment in the training of Asian architectural professionals was one of the more instrumental and constructive ways in which Australia became engaged in the modern nation building of its Asian neighbourhood. Under the Colombo Plan the British Commonwealth scheme (c. 1950-80) for bilateral aid to developing countries in South and Southeast Asia, Australia took the unusual step in funding a major scholarships program that aimed to train Asian professionals rather than export its own experts to the region. By the early 1980s as many as 40,000 future professionals from participating Asian countries had been sponsored to study in Australian universities. These graduates were to go on to build new networks of transnational exchange that, as the Plan had intended, would help to integrate a region in which the unravelling of the previous colonial empires and the on-going geopolitical struggle for competing capitalist and socialist models of modernity had placed Australia in an unprecedented position of insecurity, but potential new opportunity as well. Focusing on the agency of Malaysian architects who trained in Australia in the Colombo Plan era, the proposed paper will examine their efforts to establish and consolidate the institutional framework and pedagogical foundations of a modern architectural profession in post-colonial Malaysia. In the context of the racial and cultural conflicts that were redefining the region in this period, the paper will also illuminate the importance that the autonomous institutional standing of the profession was perceived to provide for these young Australia-returned modernists in their substantive efforts to develop and build the modernising nation in their subsequent careers.Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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