Australian Indigenous architecture resources

Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how Aboriginal design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices.

This book explores the range and complexity of Aboriginal-designed structures, spaces and territorial behaviors, from minimalist shelters to permanent houses and villages.

This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the social and political project of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords.

This collection highlights some of the materials in our Library that are either by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, or cover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander topics. Do let us know if there is any other material in our Library that should be included in this collection.

Aboriginal housing has been topical in both architectural education and professional practice since the early 1970s. Despite the specialist nature of Aboriginal housing design there has been no book that deals with the subject from a broadly architectural perspective. Take 2 redresses the gap with an illustrated collection of writings.