Title & Author:

Reclaiming colonial architecture / edited by Tania Sengupta and Stuart King.

Publication:

London : RIBA Publishing, [2024]
©2024

Description:

ix, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Reclaiming colonial architecture: Critical practices of land, cities, buildings, and things / Tania Sengupta and Stuart King -- Land -- Truth-telling at Wybalenna: Wybalenna, Tayaritja, Lutruwita/Tasmania -- Inga ancestral inhabitation knowledge mapping: Andean Amazon, Colombia / Pedro Jajoy, Jhon Tisoy, Musu Jacanamijoy, Juliana Ramírez and Catalina Mehjía Moreno -- Ma Joie Plantation House: Mahé, Seychelles / Hélène Frichot -- The Counter Plantation of Barbados: Saint George, Barbados / Mackenzie Luke -- Watery archives, aqueous methods: Manchester, UK / Huda Tayob -- The inscrutable mire: Designing with other-than-human agency: Banff, Canada / Tiffany Kaewen Dang -- Reclaiming the landscape beyond the highway: Jerusalem / Mira Idries -- Cities -- Postcolonial anxiety and fragmented revitalisation of Jakarta's Old Town: Jakarta, Indonesia / Amanda Achmadi -- Making, unmaking and remaking colonial space in New Delhi: Delhi, India / Arunava Dasgupta -- Contesting pasts: (Re)interpretations of colonial heritage in Harbin: Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China / Wenzhuo Zhang -- Dangerous heritage in danger: Colonial-imperial (neo)classicism of the Ukrainian South: Odesa, Ukraine / Ievgeniia Gubkina -- Two missing colonial monuments in Germany: Hamburg and Berlin, Germany / Valentina Rozas-Krause -- ReOrientalism: The Ramadan Pavilion at the Victoria and Albert Museum: London, UK / Shahed Saleem -- Buildings -- The Chicago Cultural Center and the Settler Colonial City: Chicago, USA / Andrew Herscher and Ana-María León -- 'Rainbow Serpent (Version)' at the Gropius Bau: Berlin, Germany / Michael Mossman and Andrew Leach -- Decolonising fascist legacies, demodernising architecture: Borgo Rizza, Sicily / Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti -- The Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris: A 'debris of empire': Paris, France / Guillaume Oachenal, Gaëtan Thomas, Simon De Nys-Ketels and Johan Lagae -- Rescripting the invisible city: Johannesburg, South Africa / Althea peacock and Tanzeem Razak -- Reconnecting architecture with country at 119 Redfern Street: Sydney, Australia / Aileen Sage Architects and Danièle Hromek -- (Re-)inhabiting the Junta Dos Bairros E Casas Populares nieghbourhoods: Maputo, Beira and Nampula, Mozambique / Patricia Noormahomed -- The paradox of Andean colonial churches in Arica and Parinacota: Arina and Parinacota, Chile / Magdalena Pereira and Cristian Heinsen -- Coral white: Reclaiming (?) missionary architecture in the Cook Islands: Rarotonga and Mangaia, Cook Islands / Jeanette Budgett, Carolyn Hill and Jean Mason -- Dissonant heritage: The loss of the Apia Courthouse: Apia, Samoa / Christoph Schnoor -- Things -- Spring Bay Mill: A place to gather again: Triabunna, Tasmania / Ross Brewin -- Interpreting and communicating Taiwan's colonial sugar industry heritage: Taiwan / Cheng An-Yu and Wu Ping-Sheng -- Reweaving, rebuilding: The Malkha Cotton Factory / Ellanthakunta, Telangana, India / Tania Sengupta -- Now you see it, now you don't: The Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall screen at 66 Portland Place: London, UK / Neal Shasore -- Toppling Crowther: Activists, institutions and colonial monuments: Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania / Stuart King -- A new practice for the architecture of afrorevivalism: The Lobi Vessel: Lobi Country, Western Africa / Richard Adetokunbo Aina -- Harmful objects (beloved subjects): Colonial family archives: County Down, Northern Ireland / Briony Widdis -- Conclusion: Architectures of critical and responsive practice / Tania Sengupta and Stuart King.

Summary:

Offering historical background, unpacking key concepts and presenting thematically organised and multi-scalar urban and architectural case studies, this accessible text showcases how legacies of colonialism are being dealt with. Case studies highlight actions by built environment professionals such as architects and heritage practitioners, as well as community initiatives and activism. The book aims to build confidence in practitioners, students and communities grappling with a seemingly vast and complex terrain of debates and approaches around colonial landscapes, urban areas, buildings, monuments and material culture. A helpful resource for architecture schools or critical heritage studies departments/organisations, the book will offer a point of departure for graduate student inquiry and its accessible nature will help introduce undergraduates to concepts of colonial built-environments.

ISBN:

1915722365 (hardcover)
9781915722362 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture, Colonial.
Architecture coloniale.

Added entries:

Sengupta, Tania, editor.
King, Stuart, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324127
Call No.: 324127
Copy: 1
Status: Available