Reclaiming Colonial Architecture

Dr Tania Sengupta teaches and is Director of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her specialism is in colonial architecture and urban spatial history, especially of South Asia, with particular focus on architectures of governance, bureaucracy and domesticity in British India in the nineteenth century, and the material culture of colonialism and how these translate into spaces/architecture. 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.

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 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