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Forms and Symbols of Cultural Appropriation: The Egyptian Building

The Egyptian Revival Style enjoyed attention in the United States (US) as “an exotic” and as a primarily architectural phenomenon in the mid-nineteenth century.1 Architectural markers from the time—such as the original Library of Congress (1808), and the Washington monument (1848)—point to the problematic nature of colonial power exerting influence through the fetishization of ancient […]

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The Architectural Complicity in Indigenous Cultural Annihilation : St. Eugene Indian Residential School

The Indian Residential School (IRS) system operated in British Columbia from 1861 to 1984.1 Over a hundred years, these institutions operated to systematically carry out the cultural, and often, corporeal annihilation of Indigenous people across Canada.2 Of focus in this essay is the inextricable link between the colonizing mission of the Government, and the architectural […]

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