Antipodean Architectures of Displacement
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2020
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The Handbook of Displacement
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Architecture Building and Planning
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Pieris, A. (2020). Antipodean Architectures of Displacement. Adey, P (Ed.). Bowstead, JC (Ed.). Brickell, K (Ed.). Desai, V (Ed.). Dolton, M (Ed.). Pinkerton, A (Ed.). Siddiqi, A (Ed.). The Handbook of Displacement, (1), pp.383-398. Palgrave Macmillan.
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The provisional occupations and ephemeral materialities of human displacement offer limited scope for a discipline focused on formalism and aesthetic value. Consequently, more temporary or abject human spatial experiences have been excluded from the architectural canon in the past. Treating the history of Australia, a settlement colony and postcolonial immigrant nation as a test site, Pieris applies the caveat of displacement to its record of architectural types. The chapter looks beyond the tented encampments of a progressive colonial outpost, built on white Australian immigration, to the repressed spaces that these in turn displace. By linking convict prisons, Aboriginal missions, wartime internment camps, postwar immigrant camps, and contemporary detention centres, the chapter proposes a taxonomy that might politicise the discipline.