Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

McGaw, Janet

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Pieris, Anoma

Description

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in architecture

Uniform Title

Routledge research in architecture.

Subjects

• Architecture > Philosophy
• Indigenous peoples
• Architects and community
• Arts facilities > Social aspects
• ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching
• ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
• ARCHITECTURE / General
• Cultural landscapes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780415815321 (hardback)
• 0415815320 (hardback)
• 9781315746647 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2014018218
• 40024481438

OCLC

• ocn881205498
• 881205498
• SCSB-5784250

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries