The Australian Centre of Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage is pleased to announce the inaugural Miles Lewis Oration , online and in the Japanese Room at the Melbourne School of Design. The 2022 fellow is Professor Alex Bremner of the University of Edinburgh. Bremner will be giving a talk titled “Back to the Future:
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The writing of architectural history shifted with the turn of the twenty-first century. Theoretical and methodological reassessments, as well as the study of postcolonial theories in architecture, challenged the previously accepted disciplinary canon and made the development of a global history of architecture urgent. More than twenty years later, there has been resulting literature, disciplinary reassessments, and continuous debate around the meaning of global in the history of architecture. One of the latest additions to the field, the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s rebranded as Global History of Architecture (2019), is proof of the continuous scholarly interest in reframing the global.