Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond

by Janet McGaw and Anoma Pieris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415815320
• ISBN13: 9780415815321
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"