1st Edition

Reclaiming Colonial Architecture

Edited By Tania Sengupta, Stuart King Copyright 2024
224 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

224 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

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... Read more

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[MOU1] [AW2] )

00 Pedro Jajoy, Jhon Tisoy, Musu Jacanamijoy, Juliana Ramírez and Catalina Mejía Moreno

 

L3 - Ma Joie Plantation House (Mahé, Seychelles)

00 Helénè 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 Jakarta’s 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-María 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, Gaëtan 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 Danièle 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 Taiwan’s 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 Don’t: 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

Biography

Dr Tania Sengupta teaches and is Director of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

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.