Overview

Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colonial processes. Reclaiming Colonial Architecture unpacks the built inheritances of colonialism and re-thinks how we might understand, narrate, intervene in or act upon them as architects. Offering historical background, unpacking key concepts and presenting thematically organised and multi-scalar urban and architectural case studies, this accessible publication showcases how legacies of colonialism are being dealt with in real-world instances. Case studies involve works and 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. It also aims to be a helpful resource for architecture schools or critical heritage studies departments and organisations. Its content will provide a point of departure for graduate student inquiry and its accessible nature will help introduce undergraduate students to the concepts and questions of colonial built-environments.

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Author:   Tania Sengupta ,  Stuart King
Publisher:   RIBA Publishing
Imprint:   RIBA Publishing
ISBN:  

9781915722362

ISBN 10:   1915722365
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction: Reclaiming Colonial Architecture - Critical Practices for Lands, Cities, Buildings and Artefacts by Tania Sengupta and Stuart King Lands L1 - Truth Telling at Wybalenna (Flinders Island, Australia) by Mat Hinds and Poppy Taylor L2 - Inga Ancestral Inhabitation Knowledge Mapping (Andean Amazon, Colombia) by Pedro Jajoy, Jhon Tisoy, Musu Jacanamijoy, Juliana Ramírez and Catalina Mejía Moreno L3 - Ma Joie, Plantation House (Mahé, Seychelles) by Helénè Frichot L4 - The Counter Plantation in Barbados (St George, Barbados) by Mackenzie Luke L5 - Watery Archives, Aqueous Methods (Manchester, England) by Huda Tyab L6 - The Inscrutable Mire: Designing with other-than-Human Agency (Banff, Canada) by Tiffany Kaewen Dang L7 - Reclaiming the Landscape Beyond the Highway (Jerusalem, Palestine) by Mira Idries Cities C1 - Postcolonial Anxiety and Fragmented Revitalisation of Jakarta’s Old Town (Jakarta, Indonesia) by Amanda Achmadi C2 - Making, Un-making and Re-making Colonial Space, New Delhi (Delhi, India) by Arunava Dasgupta C3 - (Re)Interpretating Contested Colonial Pasts in Harbin (Harbin, China) by Wenzhuo Zhang C4 - Dangerous Heritage in Danger: Colonial-Imperial (Neo)classicism of the Ukrainian South (Odesa, Ukraine) by Ievgeniia 'Jenia' Gubkina C5 - Two Missing Colonial Monuments in Germany (Hamburg and Berlin, Germany) by Valentina Rozas-Krause C6 - ReOrientalism : The Ramadan Pavilion at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) by Shaheed Saleem Buildings B1 - The Chicago Cultural Center and the Settler Colonial City (Chicago, USA) by Andrew Herscher and Ana-Maria Leon B2 - Rainbow Serpent (Version) at the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) by Michael Mossman and Andrew Leach B3 - Decolonising Fascist Colonial Legacy, Demodernising Architecture (Borgo, Sicily) by Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti B4 - The Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris: a debris of Empire (Paris, France) by Guillaume Lachenal, Gaëtan Thomas, Simon De Nys-Ketels and Johan Lagae B5 - Rescripting The Invisible City (Johannesburg, South Africa) by Althea Peacock and Tanzeem Razak B6 - Redfern Community Facility (Sydney, Australia) by Isabelle Toland, Amelia Holliday, Yvette Salmon and Danièle Hromek B7 - (Re-)inhabiting the Junta Dos Bairros e Casas Populares Neighbourhoods (Maputo, Beira & Nampula, Mozambique) by Patricia Noormahomed B8 - Interpreting and Communicating Taiwan’s Colonial Industrial Heritage (Taiwan) by Cheng An-Yu and Wu Ping-Sheng B9 - The Paradox of Andean Colonial Temples in Arica and Parinacota (Arica and Parinacota, Chile) by Magdalena Pereira and Cristian Heinsen B10 - ‘For Now the White Walls Remain’: Coral Churches in the Cook Islands (Rarotonga and Mangaia, Cook Islands) by Jeanette Budgett, Carolyn Hill and Jean Mason B11 - Dissonant Heritage: The Loss of the Apia Courthouse (Apia, Samoa) by Christoph Schnoor Things T1 - Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall Screen, 66 Portland Place (London, UK) by Neal Sashore T2 - Malka Cotton Mill (India) by Tania Sengupta T3 - Spring Bay Mill: A Place to Gather Again (Tasmania, Australia) by Ross Brewin T4 - The Lobi Vessel: A New Practice for the Architecture of Afrorevivalism by Richard Adetokunbo Aina T5 - Harmful Objects (Beloved Subjects): Colonial Family Archives (Northern Island) by Briony Widdis

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Dr Tania Sengupta teaches and is Director of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her specialism is in colonial architecture and urban spatial history, especially of South Asia, with particular focus on architectures of governance, bureaucracy and domesticity in British India in the nineteenth century, and the material culture of colonialism and how these translate into spaces/architecture. Dr Stuart King is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and History, and Program Coordinator for the Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the University's Australian Centre for Architectural History and Urban Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH) and undertakes research in nineteenth century colonial architecture in Australia, on topics including colonial public works and architecture, climatic considerations in colonial architecture, material geographies, and heritage.

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