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.
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.
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture Tania Sengupta and Stuart King, eds.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reclaiming Colonial Architecture: Critical Practices of Lands,
Cities, Buildings and Things Tania Sengupta and Stuart King
Map showing featured locations
Lands
L1 Truth-telling at Wybalenna (Wybalenna, Tayaritja, Lutruwita/Tasmania)
L2 - Inga Ancestral Inhabitation Knowledge Mapping (Andean Amazon, Colombia
) 00 Pedro Jajoy, Jhon Tisoy, Musu Jacanamijoy, Juliana Ramķrez and Catalina
Mejķa Moreno
L3 - Ma Joie Plantation House (Mahé, Seychelles) 00 Helénč Frichot
L4 - The Counter Plantation of Barbados (Saint George, Barbados) 00
Mackenzie Luke
L5 - Watery Archives, Aqueous Methods (Manchester, UK) 00 Huda Tayob
L6 - The Inscrutable Mire: Designing with Other-than-Human Agency (Banff,
Canada)) 00 Tiffany Kaewen Dang
L7 - Reclaiming the Landscape Beyond the Highway (Jerusalem) 00 Mira Idries
Cities
C1 - Postcolonial Anxiety and Fragmented Revitalisation of Jakartas Old
Town (Jakarta, Indonesia) 00 Amanda Achmadi
C2 - Making, Unmaking and Remaking Colonial Space in New Delhi (Delhi,
India) 00 Arunava Dasgupta
C3 - Contesting Pasts: (Re)Interpretations of Colonial Heritage in Harbin
(Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China) 00 Wenzhuo Zhang
C4 - Dangerous Heritage in Danger: Colonial-Imperial (Neo)classicism of the
Ukrainian South (Odesa, Ukraine) 00 Ievgeniia Gubkina
C5 - Two Missing Colonial Monuments in Germany (Hamburg and Berlin, Germany)
00 Valentina Rozas-Krause
C6 - ReOrientalism: The Ramadan Pavilion at the Victoria and Albert Museum
(London, UK) 00 Shaheed Saleem
Buildings
B1 - The Chicago Cultural Center and the Settler Colonial City (Chicago,
USA) 00 Andrew Herscher and Ana-Marķa León
B2 Rainbow Serpent (Version) at the Gropius Bau (Berlin, Germany) 00
Michael Mossman and Andrew Leach
B3 - Decolonising Fascist Legacies, Demodernising Architecture (Borgo Rizza,
Sicily) 00 Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti
B4 - The Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris: A Debris of Empire (Paris,
France) 00 Guillaume Lachenal, Gaėtan Thomas, Simon De Nys-Ketels and Johan
Lagae
B5 - Rescripting the Invisible City (Johannesburg, South Africa) 00 Althea
Peacock and Tanzeem Razak
B6 - Reconnecting Architecture with Country at 119 Redfern Street (Sydney,
Australia) 00 Aileen Sage Architects and Daničle Hromek
B7 - (Re-)Inhabiting the Junta Dos Bairros E Casas Populares Neighbourhoods
(Maputo, Beira & Nampula, Mozambique) 00 Patricia Noormahomed
B8 - The Paradox of Andean Colonial Churches in Arica and Parinacota (Arica
and Parinacota, Chile) 00 Magdalena Pereira and Cristian Heinsen
B9 - Coral White: Reclaiming (?) Missionary Architecture in the Cook Islands
(Rarotonga and Mangaia, Cook Islands) 00 Jeanette Budgett, Carolyn Hill and
Jean Mason
B10 - Dissonant Heritage: The Loss of the Apia Courthouse (Apia, Samoa) 00
Christoph Schnoor
Things
T1 - Spring Bay Mill: A Place to Gather Again (Triabunna, Tasmania) 00 Ross
Brewin
T2 - Interpreting and Communicating Taiwans Colonial Sugar Industry
Heritage (Taiwan) 00 Cheng An-Yu and Wu Ping-Sheng
T3 Reweaving, Rebuilding: The Malkha Cotton Factory (Ellanthakunta,
Telengana, India) 00 Tania Sengupta
T4 - Now You See It, Now You Dont: The Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall Screen at
66 Portland Place (London, UK) 00 Neal Shasore
T5 Toppling Crowther: Activists, Institutions and Colonial Monuments
(Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania) 00 Stuart King
T6 - A New Practice for the Architecture of Afrorevivalism: The Lobi Vessel
(Lobi Country, Western Africa) 00 Richard Adetokunbo Aina
T7 - Harmful Objects (Beloved Subjects): Colonial Family Archives (County
Down, Northern Island) 00 Briony Widdis
Conclusion: Architectures of Critical and Responsive Practice Tania Sengupta
and Stuart King
About the Editors Authors biographies Community-based Organisations Notes
Index Image Credits
Dr Tania Sengupta is Associate Professor and was until recently (201923) the Director of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). Her research explores histories of built environment in colonial South Asia and global postcolonial contexts, and the inequities stemming from these inheritances today. She received the RIBA Presidents Medal for Research 2019, is Co-editor in Chief of the journal Architecture Beyond Europe, and a co-curator of the curricular resource Race and Space: What is Race Doing in a Nice Field Like the Built Environment? (2020)
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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