Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris

Assembling the Centre

Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book pursues a new architecture for colonised Indigenous cultures that moves beyond this quandary, and takes the politics of recognition to its heart.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138229327
• ISBN-10: 1138229326
• Artikelnr.: 47075435

Autorenporträt

Janet McGaw is Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Melbourne, Australia. Anoma Pieris is Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cultural Centres
Identity
Assemblages
2. Voices: Story
Writing Exchange
3. Centre: Space
Politics
Typology
4. Land: Belonging
Law
Rights
5. Programme: Dreaming
Time-keeping
Becoming (by Emily Potter)
6. (Im) materialities: Clearing
Erasure
Disguise
7. Skin: (S)crypts
Inscriptions
Hide
8. Conclusion: Re-Assembling the Indigenous Cultural Centre