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“The thing that Jack Greenland did was to explain very complex ideas of the qualities of the internal spaces of the buildings through diagrams, through basic principles. They are comprehensible to architects to help them make better buildings. I know that attention at the moment is to external form-making – if you go to glamour websites, you'll see hundreds of pictures of the outside of buildings and very, very few of the inside. But the whole reason for architecture is actually the inside of the buildings, which is where architectural science happens,” Wheeler observes.

The book, Gunyah Goondie and Wurley was published in its second edition by last month. The contents are as described on the cover’s subtitle, The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia. A huge topic, done brilliantly.

Cowan, considered by some as the godfather of architectural science, summed up the oxymoronic difficulty of combining science and art in architecture in the title of his memoir, A Contradiction in Terms. Nevertheless, a golden era of architectural science began: Alan and Sue Coldicutt in Melbourne, John Ballinger at UNSW, Steve Szokolay in Queensland, and Deborah White in Adelaide.

Jackson finds that Freeland’s history holds up in the hindsight of more rigorous research, although she claims it mentions too few architects, which Jackson sets to ‘writes’ by name checking every architect with a significant building in Australia in the last 230 years.

Book Review: Voices of the Land—Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies Book Review: Voices of the Land—Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies A compilation of work by Indigenous students from the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture provides glimpses of what Indigenous knowledge can bring to design education. By Voices of the Land: Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies Edited by Reanna Merasty, Naomi Ratte, Danielle Desjarlais and Desiree Theriault (Indigenous Design and Planning Students’ Association, 2021) In 2019, Ininew (Woodlands Cree) a...