Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers
around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and
Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling
addition to the field of cultural production, illustrating how the facilities---all built in the last
three decades---have challenged assumptions about nature, culture, and built form. Using
the spatial-temporal practice of place-making as the starting point, the facilities highlighted …

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums is a richly illustrated catalog of forty-one
important buildings constructed for indigenous people and cultures in recent decades. Its
author, Anoma Pieris, is an associate professor of architecture at the Melbourne School of
Design in Australia. She undertook this survey at the request of a local indigenous
organization, the Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice Group, interested in constructing
its own cultural center. Individual chapters describe each project separately and generally …