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Redescribing the Periphery Frayne, Oliver Forrest

Abstract

With the intense urbanization of African metropolises already in motion, this thesis revisits residual colonial architecture as sites of potential transformation enabling improvisational and resilience-building socialities and networks. The library as an architectural public anchor sits at a nexus of political, socio-economic, and cultural discussions and agendas. It is also a space that traditionally houses works of writing and languages, expression of identity and memory and, inversely, the control and amnesia of both. Situated in Nairobi’s Central Business District, this research examines architecture of power as relating to language, identity, and memory, connecting the library into a broader framework of new core-periphery relationships.

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Title
Redescribing the Periphery
Creator
Frayne, Oliver Forrest
Date Issued
2021-05
Description
With the intense urbanization of African metropolises already in motion, this thesis revisits residual colonial architecture as sites of potential transformation enabling improvisational and resilience-building socialities and networks. The library as an architectural public anchor sits at a nexus of political, socio-economic, and cultural discussions and agendas. It is also a space that traditionally houses works of writing and languages, expression of identity and memory and, inversely, the control and amnesia of both. Situated in Nairobi’s Central Business District, this research examines architecture of power as relating to language, identity, and memory, connecting the library into a broader framework of new core-periphery relationships.
Subject
decolonialism; library; storytelling; language; assemblage
Geographic Location
Nairobi (Kenya)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2021-05-14
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0397490
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78350
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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