Peter Scriver
Biographic Data
| ID | 1443549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Scriver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Scriver |
| SIGNATURE | SCRIVER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1650-5607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts
The notion that architecture is a bridge between disciplines – a conjunction and synthesis of knowledges rather than an autonomous category unto itself – has wide if not universally accepted currency in current architectural discourse.1 Certainly, for those of us who examine colonial architectures and their associated cultural spaces, this fuzzy and inclusive notion of the topic can be particularly useful. By contrast, however, comparatively firm…
Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
n [excerpt] \n \n SCAFFOLDING OR SKELETON? \n The language of building furnished the promoters and apologists of Empire with some of their most cherished metaphors. As one elder statesman of Indian colonial service proposed in a statement to Parliament in 1873, the administrative infrastructure of British India “... was but a provisional temporary arrangement, ... a sort of scaffolding which [has] been erected until the edifice of our Indian Empi…
Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities
This article addresses the topical notions of hybridity and ‘in-between-ness’ as salient points of intersection between critical architectural inquiry and postcolonial studies. Focusing on domestic architecture in colonial-modern India, it examines the problematical role of the built environment in the construction and re-production of identities in nation-building processes. In the light of the equally problematical engagement of architectural f…
After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture
Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
n [excerpt] \n \n SCAFFOLDING OR SKELETON? \n The language of building furnished the promoters and apologists of Empire with some of their most cherished metaphors. As one elder statesman of Indian colonial service proposed in a statement to Parliament in 1873, the administrative infrastructure of British India “... was but a provisional temporary arrangement, ... a sort of scaffolding which [has] been erected until the edifice of our Indian Empi…
Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities
This article addresses the topical notions of hybridity and ‘in-between-ness’ as salient points of intersection between critical architectural inquiry and postcolonial studies. Focusing on domestic architecture in colonial-modern India, it examines the problematical role of the built environment in the construction and re-production of identities in nation-building processes. In the light of the equally problematical engagement of architectural f…
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
After the Masters: Contemporary Indian Architecture
Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities
This article addresses the topical notions of hybridity and ‘in-between-ness’ as salient points of intersection between critical architectural inquiry and postcolonial studies. Focusing on domestic architecture in colonial-modern India, it examines the problematical role of the built environment in the construction and re-production of identities in nation-building processes. In the light of the equally problematical engagement of architectural f…
Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts
The notion that architecture is a bridge between disciplines – a conjunction and synthesis of knowledges rather than an autonomous category unto itself – has wide if not universally accepted currency in current architectural discourse.1 Certainly, for those of us who examine colonial architectures and their associated cultural spaces, this fuzzy and inclusive notion of the topic can be particularly useful. By contrast, however, comparatively firm…
Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
n [excerpt] \n \n SCAFFOLDING OR SKELETON? \n The language of building furnished the promoters and apologists of Empire with some of their most cherished metaphors. As one elder statesman of Indian colonial service proposed in a statement to Parliament in 1873, the administrative infrastructure of British India “... was but a provisional temporary arrangement, ... a sort of scaffolding which [has] been erected until the edifice of our Indian Empi…
Constructing/curating Woomera: A topology of displacement between northeastern Europe and Central Australia
Through the 1950s and 1960s, top-secret rocket testing across a vast swathe of Australia’s arid interior continued to entangle the antipodean island continent in the geopolitical aftermath of WW2. So did the fast-growing settler-colonial nation’s post-war immigration policies. This paper focuses on Woomera, South Australia, the remote base settlement for these Cold War operations, and the role of ‘new Australians’, directly recruited from the ‘Di…
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024
Archaeology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)