The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (eBook)

?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.

Dr Elizabeth Grant is an architectural anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Dr Grant is a prominent researcher and practitioner in the field of Indigenous architecture and has published two books and over 70 refereed papers and reports. As a consultant, she works with national and international architectural and engineering firms, government and Indigenous organisations to achieve award winning designed environments to meet the needs of Indigenous users. 

Dr Grant is an elected member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and a Churchill Fellow. She is recognised as the leading international expert on the design of Indigenous custodial and court environments. Dr Grant's work has led to major changes in the way prisons, courts and other environments are designed for Indigenous users. In 2015, her pioneering work on the design of prisons for Indigenous people was acknowledged by the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and she was bestowed with the Excellence in Research Award.

Dr Kelly Greenop is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. She is Deputy Director of ATCH, the Architecture Theory Criticism History research centre, and has been a member of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre for over ten years. 

Dr Greenop is an anthropologist, and architectural and social historian focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander buildings, places, cultures and their interconnection. Dr Greenop has published two scholarly books, five book chapters and over 20 other papers on Indigenous environments, placemaking and cultural heritage. She is an elected member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and has received awards for her ground-breaking work from the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, and AIATSIS. 

Dr Albert L. Refiti is affiliated to the villages of Vaovai and Fasito'outa in Upolu, Samoa, and was bestowed the Leali'ifano chiefly title in 2006. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spatial Design and co-chair of the Pacific Spaces Research Unit at Auckland University of Technology. A trained architect, Dr Refiti has practiced in Auckland, New Zealand and London, and was a Visiting Researcher at the School of Architecture and the Center of Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa. He is an elected board member of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and was appointed to the Pacific Advisory Committee to the Auckland Museum and the Pacific Architecture Expert for the Fale Pasifika at the Centre of Pacific Studies, University of Auckland. 

Dr Refiti is a research leader in the field of indigenous Pacific spatial and architectural environments with an extensive research and publication in the area, supported by his teaching and lecturing in the last 15 years. His current research is a collaborative project with researchers in the Pacific, Aotearoa New Zealand and Europe on the transformative appropriations and iconic power of Pacific spatial and architectural images on the Pacific diaspora's sense of identity and place. The project traces historical and contemporary exchanges of iconic images and objects through migration, trade, tourism and curation.

Daniel J. Glenn, AIA, AICAE, is the Principal Architect of 7 Directions Architects/Planners, a Native American-owned firm based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in culturally and environmentally responsive architecture and planning. Mr Glenn, a graduate of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, has more than 30 years of experience in architectural practice and he has taught architectural design at the University of Washington, Arizona State University, Montana State University and the Boston Architectural Center.

Mr Glenn grew up working with tribal communities in Montana with his parents' company, John Glenn Engineers, Architects and Constructors, which was owned and operated by his father and mother, both members of the Crow (Apsáalooke) Tribe of Montana. His mother is from the Ties the Bundle Clan and his father is from the Greasy Mouth Clan of the Apsáalooke people. Mr Glenn is a nationally recognized expert in design for Native American communities and was selected to be a technical advisor for the HUD (US Housing and Urban Development Department) Sustainable Construction in Indian Country Initiative and is a regularly invited speaker at national and international conferences and universities. His projects include the University of Montana Payne Family Native American Center, a LEED Platinum project, the Place of Hidden Waters for the Puyallup Tribe, the 2012 LEED for Homes Project of the Year, and the Little Big Horn College Campus and buildings in his family's home town of Crow Agency on the Crow Reservation in Montana.

Mr Glenn's work reflects his Crow tribal heritage. He has been featured in the film, Indigenous Architecture / Living Architecture, and four of his tribal projects have been featured in the book, Design Re-Imagined: New Architecture on Indigenous Lands published in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. Mr. Glenn and his work was featured in the documentary film, Native American Green: New Directions in Tribal Housing, on the PBS series, Natural Heroes, in 2016. He is part of a team of indigenous architects who will be representing First Nations and Native American architects at the 2018 Venice Biennale.

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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.