Browsing Open Research by Author "Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr."

Using the example of discussions of ornament and ornamentation, this paper sketches out scenarios in which "minor knowledges" (Foucault) and practices fail to be recognised in mainstream discourses of academics or ...

Counter currents: Whare Nui and Fale abroad

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Wikitera, K (University of Melbourne, 2009)

Since the 1860s, several Māori whare nui (meeting houses) and Samoan fale (houses) travelled overseas. Their fates are diverse: Mataatua, misappropriated and sent to overseas exhibitions under sometimes scandalous curatorial ...

Counter currents: Whare Nui and Fale abroad

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Wikitera, K (University of Melbourne, 2009)

Since the 1860s, several Māori whare nui (meeting houses) and Samoan fale (houses) travelled overseas. Their fates are diverse: Mataatua, misappropriated and sent to overseas exhibitions under sometimes scandalous curatorial ...

Disjunctive flows

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Newcastle University, 2007)

A 2005 architectural call for papers asserted the sacrifice of absolute position for velocity, and the power of the flux of our times to sweep us into a time defined by its own flux. Earlier, Marc Augé wrote of airports ...

Fale Samoa and Europe’s extended boundaries: performing place and identity

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Refiti, A (EAHN, 2012)

British, German and American traders, bureaucrats and military, rubbed shoulders in Apia, Samoa as the nineteenth century came to a close. Amongst them, they settled their imperial rivalries by contract in 1899: Western ...

Frontiers of shame and repulsion

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Enigma, 2006)

Globalised desk-top skirmishes? Reporting from the colonies

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Birkhäuser Architecture, 2012)

No abstract.

Introduction

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Jenner, R.; Refiti, A. (Enigma, 2006)

Introduction: consensus versus disagreement

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Enigma, 2008)

Introduction: gaps between and within Gen-ius and Gen-ealogy

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Enigma, 2007)

On modernism’s secret anxieties by Gerrit Confurius

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Enigma : he aupiki, Auckland. Print production by McCollams, Auckland, 2011)

The moderns looked upon strong and enveloping, closed forms with suspicion. These forms have been ideologically suspect ever since – even though we usually respond positively to them and, on holidays, even seek them out ...

Out there: Whare and Fale performing abroad

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (University of Queensland Press, 2009)

What was once classed as 'savage ornament', which could not possibly register as architecture, has today morphed into the stuff of 'iconic architecture'. From another perspective, what began as a whare tupuna or a fale ...

Restless containers: thinking interior space – across cultures

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. (Enigma: He Aupiki, 2011)

In Innenraum denken (Thinking Interior Space), a section in the first volume of his Spheres trilogy (1998, 1999b, 2004), German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk describes human relations as being akin to containers that ...

Silence and forgetting

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Robertson, N (AUT University, 2006)

No abstract.