Description
Book Synopsis Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book – architectural practitioners, architectural and spatial design theorists, anthropologists and historians – show not only how new theoretical perspectives can arise out of comparing aspects specific to one discipline with their equivalents of another, but also demonstrate how a space of emergence is created for something that goes beyond both, enhancing both fields of potentialities.
Trade Review “The authors make an important contribution to understanding spatial relationships within indigenous communities. The book highlights an important, and often overlooked, connection between space, time, and the built environment by breaking the disciplinary bounds that often confine our understandings.” • Jamon Alex Halvaksz, University of Texas at San Antonio
“The various themes, scales, modes of address, writing styles, and academic approaches are packed together cheek by jowl. The friction among them is full of possibilities for further research, discussion and thinking.” • Stephen Cairns, Future Cities Laboratory
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Introduction: Pacific Spaces: Dialogues Between Architecture and Anthropology
Lana Lopesi, A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Albert L Refiti
Chapter 1. Māori ‘Architectural Anthropology’
Deidre Brown
Chapter 2. The Junction of the Tala and the Itu
Athol Greentree
Chapter 3. The Energetics of Vā and the Samoan Faletele
I'uogafa Tuagalu
Chapter 4. Vā and Its Relationship to the Samoan Built Environment
Anne E. Guernsey Allen
Chapter 5. ‘Carving Costs Nothing’: Māori Woodcarvers Train Wage-Laborers how to Show up to Work on Time
Jacob Culbertson
Chapter 6. Zombie Architecture: Sacrifice in Pre Contact Polynesian and Classical European buildings
Ross Jenner, Albert L Refiti
Chapter 7. Maunawila Heiau: A Sacred Hawaiian Tempo-Spatial Structure Linking Hawaiʻi and Moana Nui
Tēvita O Kaʻili
Chapter 8. Aelon Kein Ad: A Case Study of Rimajol Place Identity in the United States
James Miller
Chapter 9. Hinemihi 2.0: Whare-for-Export
Anthony Hoete
Chapter 10. Travelling Houses: Translation, Change and Ambivalence
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul
Conclusion: Vā: What is In-Between Architecture and Anthropology?
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Albert L Refiti
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