Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea - Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene

This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date.

List of contents

Introduction
PART I:
I. Mythological Landscapes
II. Cosmos of Signs
III. Social Assemblages
IV. Ritual Spaces
PART II:
Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene. A transformative conclusion

About the author

Michael Hirschbichler works across the disciplines of art, architecture, and anthropology. He is the director of Atelier Hirschbichler and a researcher at TU Delft. His work focuses on spatial constructions in the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene, with a particular emphasis on the interrelationship between their material and immaterial aspects (narratives, memories, ideologies, beliefs), between facts and cultural fictions. Michael Hirschbichler studied at ETH Zurich and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on “Mythical Constructions” at Berlin University of the Arts. He was a lecturer at ETH Zurich, a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and director of the Architecture Program at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize by the German Academy Villa Massimo.

Summary

This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hirschbichler
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032412443
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241244-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Regional & area planning, Social and cultural anthropology, Tribal religions, Housing & homelessness, Theory of architecture, Papua New Guinea, Housing and homelessness, Regional and area planning, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal