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Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond Paperback - 2016

by Janet McGaw; Anoma Pieris

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Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural interests of Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant community gathering that fail to garner the economic and politic support to remain viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely static. They are places of 'emergence', assembled and re-assembled along a range of vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of architecture. How might the traditional concerns of architecture - site, space, form, function, materialities, tectonics - be reconfigured to express the complex and varied social identities of contemporary Indigenous peoples in colonised nations?

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.

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  • Title Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond
  • Author Janet McGaw; Anoma Pieris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2016-10-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781138229327 / 1138229326
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Architectural
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Architecture
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720

About the author

Janet McGaw is Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Anoma Pieris is Associate Professor in Architecture, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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