Assembling the Centre : Architecture for Indigenous Cultures
Subtitle: Australia and Beyond
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415815321
Subjects: Architecture, philosophy; Civic centers; Human geography; Indigenous peoples; Architects and community
Description: "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"--