Assembling the centre: architecture for indigenous cultures ; Australia and beyond

"This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the social and political project of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture counts...

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Main Authors: McGaw, Janet (Author), Pieris, Anoma ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2015
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Routledge research in architecture
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Summary:"This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the social and political project of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture counts when designing Indigenous Cultural Centres? How does architectural history and contemporary practice territorialise spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is architecture for Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised? This ambitious and provocative study pursues a new architecture for colonised Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of recognition to its heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual engagement as a crucial condition for architectural projects that design across cultural difference. The book's structure, method, and arguments are dialogically assembled around narratives told by Indigenous people of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial justice, and architectural presence in settler dominated societies. Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these accounts"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Cultural Centres, Identity, Assemblages -- Voices : Story, Writing Exchange -- Centre : Space, Politics, Typology -- Land : Belonging, Law, Rights -- Programme : Dreaming, Time-keeping, Becoming (by Emily Potter) -- (Im) materialities : Clearing, Erasure, Disguise -- Skin : (S)crypts, Inscriptions, Hide -- Conclusion : Re-Assembling the Indigenous Cultural Centre
Physical Description:xiv, 209 p. ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780415815321
0415815320
9781315746647

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