Assembling the centre : architecture for indigenous cultures : Australia and beyond / Janet McGaw and Anoma Pieris.

Main entry:

McGaw, Janet, author.

Title & Author:

Assembling the centre : architecture for indigenous cultures : Australia and beyond / Janet McGaw and Anoma Pieris.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Description:

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780415815321 (hardback)
0415815320 (hardback)
(ebook)
9781315746647

Subject:

Arts facilities Social aspects.
Architecture Philosophy.
Cultural landscapes.
Indigenous peoples.
Architects and community.
Paysages culturels.
Relations architectes-collectivité.
cultural landscapes.
ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
Iwi taketake.

Added entries:

Pieris, Anoma, author.
Pieris, Anoma author.
Routledge research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288755
Call No.: BIB 230651
Status: Available

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