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

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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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
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