Design and the Vernacular

Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory
Herausgeber: Memmott, Paul; Vellinga, Marcel; O'Rourke, Tim; Ting, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the relevance and role of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural practice using case studies across Australasia and Oceania.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350294318
• ISBN-10: 1350294314
• Artikelnr.: 71245398

Autorenporträt

Paul Memmott is a trans-disciplinary researcher (architect/anthropologist) and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) and the Indigenous Design Place (IDP) at the University of Queensland, Australia. John Ting is an architect, researcher and educator. He teaches in the architecture program at the University of Canberra, Australia. Tim O'Rourke is Health Safety and Wellness Chair and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland, Australia. Marcel Vellinga is Professor of Anthropology of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction, Paul Memmott and Marcel Vellinga
Part 1: Design Practice and Research Methods in Applying the Vernacular to
Contemporary Contexts
1. The Architectural Vernacularisation of Pacific Aid Practice - Charmaine
'Ilaiu Talei, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2. Te Whakapapa o nga Wharenui: A Genealogy of Maori Meeting Houses -
Savannah Brown (Ngati Whatua ki Kaipara, Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngati Wai),
Amber Ruckes (Tuhoe), Faye Mendes-Underwood (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa), Aisea
Fanamanu, Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) and Jason Ingham, all Waipapa
Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
3. 'Tropical Architecture': Cultural Collisions and Reverberations in the
Vernacular of Aotearoa New Zealand - Jacqueline McIntosh and Bruno Marques,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
4. Linguistics and Architecture, Creolistics and History, or, is Norfolk
Island Architecture (a) Creole? - Joshua Nash, founding editor of Some
Islands
Part 2: Bridging between Local Cultures and Influences of Modernity
5. Is Vernacular the New Modern? Reflections on Movements, Changes and
Preservation in Indonesia - Gabriele Weichart, University of Vienna,
Austria
6. Adaptive Uses of Traditional Windbreaks and Bough Shades for Indigenous
Housing in Australia - Timothy O'Rourke, University of Queensland,
Australia
7. Building on Indigenous Homelands in Arnhem Land since the 1980s:
Harnessing Appropriate Technologies and Partnerships as a New Procurement
Vernacular - Hannah Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia
8. The Resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge in Adapting Vernaculars:
Implications of Climate Change for Rimajol Architectural Traditions -
James Miller, Western Washington University, USA
9. Papua New Guinea's Vernacular Architecture, from Relics to Reframing
Culture: Kunguma and Tubusereia - R. H. Rusch, J. H. N. Amar and L. A.
Armitage, all Bond University, Australia
Part 3: Bridging for Diasporic Peoples
10. Archipelagic Views: Vernacular Transformation and Inter-Colonial
Agricultural Trade Networks in the Late 19th Century Asia Pacific - Amanda
Achmadi, Karen Burns, and Paul Walker, all University of Melbourne,
Australia
11. Hand in Hand with Crossed Top Plates: Mapping the Contribution of
Chinese Carpenters to the Production and Installation of Melbourne's
Prefabricated 'Singapore Cottages' - John Ting, University of Canberra,
Australia
12. Diasporic Vernaculars? Different Australian Commercial Precincts -
David Beynon, University of Tasmania, Australia and Ian Woodcock,
University of Sydney, Australia
13. Translating Spaces: Speculative Landscape Futures for New Climate
Diasporas - Lizzie Yarina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and
Penny Allan and Martin Bryant, both University of Technology Sydney,
Australia
Part 4: The Vernacular in Postcolonial Modernisation, Politication and
Nation-Building
14. Historic Church Vernacular in the Cook Islands: Modernization,
Conservation and Change - Carolyn Hill, University of Waikato, New Zealand
15. Appropriating the Native: Shifting Definitions of the Vernacular in
Twentieth-Century Philippine Architecture - Edson G. Cabalfin, Tulane
University, USA
16. From Cultural Symbol to Societal Sign: The Question of the Kanak
Traditional House in Present-Day New Caledonia - Louis Lagarde, University
of New Caledonia, New Caledonia and Yves-Béalo Gony, IANCP, New Caledonia
Index