New Architecture on Indigenous Lands

2013 ARCHITECTURE

Author : Joy Monice Malnar
Release : 2013
Genre : ARCHITECTURE
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book New Architecture on Indigenous Lands written by Joy Monice Malnar. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Architecture on Indigenous Lands takes readers on a virtual tour of recent Native building projects in Canada and the western and midwestern United States. With close attention to details of design, questions of tradition, and cultural issues, and through interviews with designers and their Native clients, it provides an in-depth introduction to the new Native architecture in its many guises.

Native American Architecture

1990-10-25 Architecture

Author : Peter Nabokov
Release : 1990-10-25
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Native American Architecture written by Peter Nabokov. This book was released on 1990-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.

The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture

2018-06-26 Architecture

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Release : 2018-06-26
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture written by Elizabeth Grant. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.The book is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.

Old Stories, New Ways

2020 Architecture

Author : Vivian Manasc
Release : 2020
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 643/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Old Stories, New Ways written by Vivian Manasc. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old Stories, New Ways is about the influence that Indigenous Elders and their Grandfather Stories have had on the Manasc Isaac projects, not only on Indigenous lands but also on their practice as a whole. Indigenous ways of knowing make for better, more sustainable architecture, and it also made Manasc Isaac a more caring, nurturing, best practices firm, always ready to look at any problem from an Indigenous perspective."--

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