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Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums Anoma Pieris

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums By Anoma Pieris

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums by Anoma Pieris

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Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey by Anoma Pieris

Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling addition to the field of cultural production, illustrating how the facilities --- all built in the last three decades --- have challenged assumptions about nature, culture, and built form. Using the spatial-temporal practice of place-making as the starting point, the facilities highlighted here are described in terms of collaborations between a number of stake-holders and professional consultants. The book adopts the format of a descriptive survey with separate chapters devoted to individual case studies. A broad introductory chapter which presents the arguments and overview precedes richly illustrated short individual essays on selected projects. Each chapter commences with the details of the project including, location, area, cost and consultants, followed by a project description, and discussion of background, design development and reception of the projects. Each project is approached as an architectural commission, detailing the critical criteria, consultants, and processes. The format is adopted from architectural review essays typically used in awards or journal publications within the profession which are accessible and relevant for both academics and practitioners. Considerable attention is given to the process, and to the evaluation of the project as a cultural response. Each case study has been written with consultation of architects or administrators of the facilities for accuracy. Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey documents a rich legacy of collaboration across the spatial disciplines combining creative art practice, architecture, construction, landscape design and urban design in the production of unique and culturally significant social institutions. This book provides material on hitherto unknown bodies of work of talented architectural practices, working collaboratively with culturally different client groups and developing consultative processes that test models for inter-cultural engagement.

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[T]he book has value, and not just as travel guide (though it could serve as that). Looking at architecture in particular, Pieris examines the origins, development, and public reception of the sites, many of them designed in consultation with Indigenous peoples. One strength of the book is the author's overview of how architects and curators (mostly Australian) considered the voices of Indigenous people in their design and interpretive practices. Of special note is the Brambuk, a cultural center in Victoria, Australia: the center's circular forms represent the five Aboriginal communities that make up Brambuk Incorporated (which owns the Brambuk facility). Architects took care to invoke ancient stone dwellings throughout the complex, which drapes across the foothills of the Grampian mountains. At other centers discussed, designers incorporated buildings into existing landscape features (and included indigenous plants). Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty; professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *
Professor Anoma Pieris describes the new challenges faced by cultural centers and museums. She writes in a clear and engaging manner that suggests she is fully engaged with the subject matter, and the result is a real contribution to Indigenous studies. -- Joy Monice Malnar, co-author with Frank Vodvarka of New Architecture on Indigenous Lands

About Anoma Pieris

Anoma Pieris is an associate professor at the Melbourne School of Design at The University of Melbourne. She has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley, and has authored design monographs and research publications in architecture and the spatial disciplines.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Architectures of Survivance: an Antipodean Perspective 1. Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia 2. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia 3. Bangerang Cultural Centre, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia 4. Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia 5. Brambuk Cultural Centre, Halls Gap, Victoria, Australia 6. Brewarrina Aboriginal Museum, New South Wales, Australia 7. Burrinja Cultural Centre, Olinda, Victoria, Australia 8. Edge of the Trees, Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 9. Galina Beek Living Cultural Centre, Healesville, Victoria, Australia 10. Gunung-Willam-Balluk Learning Centre, Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia 11. Gwoonwardu Mia Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Centre, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia 12. Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia 13. Karijini Visitor Centre, Karajini, Western Australia, Australia 14. Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 15. Kurongkurl Katitjin Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia 16. Lake Tyers Training Centre and Lake Tyers Health Centre, Lake Tyers, Victoria, Australia 17. Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia 18. Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology), Osaka, Japan 19. Mossman Gorge Centre, Mossman, Queensland, Australia 20. Musee du Quai Branly and Universite Wing, Paris, France 21. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 22. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand 23. Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 24. National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia 25. National Museum of the American Indian, Washington & New York and Cultural Resources Centre, Maryland, United States of America 26. Needwonnee Walk, Melaleuca, Tasmania, Australia 27. Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Cultural Complex, Roebourne, Western Australia, Australia 28. Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, Canada 29. Port Augusta Courts, Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia 30. Reconciliation Place, Canberra, Australia 31. Riawunna Centre, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 32. Rumbalara Medical Clinic, Mooroopna and Rumbalara Elders Care Facility, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia 33. Sami Parliaments, Norway, Sweden & Finland 34. Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei, Taiwan 35. Tiaggara Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Museum, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia 36. Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, Caravonica, Queensland, Australia 37. Tjulyuru Cultural and Civic Centre, Warburton Aboriginal Community, Western Australia, Australia 38. Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre, Northern Territory, Australia 39. Wilcannia Health Service, Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia 40. Worn Gundidj, Tower Hill, Victoria, Australia 41. Yagan Memorial Park, Belhus, Western Australia, Australia

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CIN1442264063G
9781442264069
1442264063
Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey by Anoma Pieris
Anoma Pieris
Used - Good
Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield
20160914
328
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