A Conflict of Dominion at the Slave Quarters Tuckahoe slave labour camp is located ten miles west of Richmond, Virginia and was first settled by the Randolph family in 1714 and was at one point the childhood home of Thomas Jefferson.1 Construction of the main house began soon after and ultimately underwent the addition of […]
Introduction The Caribbean is a region historically notable for its legacy of colonization and slave labour. As early as the 16th century enslaved Africans were shipped to islands in the West Indies to work on plantations owned and operated by Europeans. In particular, France claimed a substantial amount of territory for its monarchy, and took […]
Forming a portion of the St. Lawrence Market façade in Toronto, its first official city hall is part of a legacy of facadism in Toronto architecture, where buildings are preserved to meet the goal of heritage conservation of facades. As we seek a decolonized society, it is important to question the role our preserved architecture […]
Introduction The role of public architecture serving as a channel for filtering nineteenth-century French ideals is explored in the town hall of Annaba. Public architecture, such as town halls, schools, or chambers of commerce1, were built as a reflection of colonial strength, consequently resulting in many buildings related to administration expressing the “aesthetic revolution imported […]
One of the defining characteristics of 19th century social and cultural thought was a shift in man’s approach towards science and reinterpretation of the relationship between human creation and divine inspiration. The architectural debates that dominated this moment of history are expressed in the Oxford museum’s 1854 competition to create the two-storey natural history museum […]
The Shakers were a religious utopian group that moved from Britain to America in the late 18th century. The Shakers originated in Manchester under the leadership of Ann Lee, who proclaimed herself the female incarnation of Christ.1 Delores Hayden describes in her book Seven American Utopias, that Ann Lee came to the religion after experiencing […]
The architecture of India has evolved throughout centuries, deeply rooted within history, culture, traditions, and religion. The British legacy in India remains among the infrastructure of the nation as colonial buildings in India use their architecture as expressions of control and power. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formally known as the Victoria Terminus in Bombay is […]
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 […]
Introduction Perched on the North peninsula of Halifax, Nova Scotia is a replica of a vintage church, sitting in solitude, overlooking the bay. The park is deceptively serene, and betrays the violent reality of the landscape’s history. A century before, the site was not a park, but a thriving black community named Africville. Africville, established […]
The Fall of the Tokugawa Era and the Rise of Imperial Japan The tail-end of 19th century Japan saw a major transition of authoritative power that sparked a new era of rule throughout the nation. In 1868, Emperor Mutsuhito, later known by his reign name Meiji, and his Imperial forces recognized the fragile rule of […]