PARA-COLONIAL – COLONIAL – POST-COLONIAL

INFLUENCES AND TRANSACTIONS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF OCEANIA (1840-1990)

Joint symposium by Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand) and Technical University Munich (Germany)

29 June to 1 July 2022

Connecting existing knowledge with new research:

Knowledge on colonial architecture in the South Pacific is still sparse. Connections with pre-colonial settings and the post-colonial afterlife of this built legacy are often missing. In this sense, this conference unites contributions within the targeted time span c. 1840–1990, embedded in the larger South Pacific region. The contributions of this conference attempt to link their concrete architectural case studies of buildings, ensembles and urbanist projects with reflections on the influences of and transactions between locals and foreigners, colonials and colonised, and their changing allegiances, even across changing political powers.