7021 Architecture: An Indigenous Cultural Buttress

Saturday, February 18, 2012: 10:00 AM
Room 215-216 (VCC West Building)
Patrick Stewart , Patrick Stewart Architect, Chilliwack, BC, Canada
The Canadian residential school experience attempted to replace all physical forms of indigenaity including indigenous architectures. However, modern indigenous architects are reviving indigenous architecture in recognition of architecture as ceremony. Ceremony, for indigenous people is seen as a methodology of life, including science. Therefore, architecture must be seen as an expression of indigenous science.