Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)

Michael Falser was project director for German colonial architecture at the Technical University of Munich (2020-2024), and is teaching architectural history and cultural heritage at the Institute for Art History, Heidelberg University. Michael Falser was project director for German colonial architecture at the Technical University of Munich (2020-2024), and is teaching architectural history and cultural heritage at the Institute for Art History, Heidelberg University.

• Introduction. Para-Colonial Influences – Colonial Transactions – Postcolonial Legacies: Architecture in Oceania (1840–1970) Michael FalserPart I. The ‘South Seas’: Para-Colonial Forms of Architecture and Architectural KnowledgeChapter 1. Re-scribing Indigenous Form: The 19th-Century Churches of the London Missionary Society in Rarotonga, Cook Islands Carolyn HillChapter 2. Tongan–German (Siamane) Relations and their Architecture in the Kingdom of Tonga Charmaine ‘Ilaiū TaleiChapter 3. From Comparative Study to an Emergent Local Building Practice: Hermann Frobenius’ Study of Oceanische Bautypen of 1899 Robin SkinnerPart II. German Colonialism in the Südsee and its Encounters (1884–1914)Chapter 4. Administrative and Residential Architecture in the German Colonial South Seas: The Photo Albums of Wilhelm Knappe, Carl Schiesser, and Ferdinand Kunzmann Hermann MücklerChapter 5. Extracting Growth: The Phosphate Mining Infrastructure on Nauru and Angaur (1906–1913) Jasper LudewigChapter 6. Colonial Waves from Apia to Yap: Technoscientific Network Structures of German Expansionism in Oceania Clemens FinkelsteinChapter 7. German Colonial Building Cultures in Kaiser- Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck-Archipel: Reconnecting a Fragmented Architectural History of Deutsch-NeuguineaMichael FalserPart III. From Inter-Colonial Encounter to Post-Colonial Building PracticesChapter 8. Burns Philp’s Encounters across Colonial Borders: Buildings for Export and Commerce in the South Pacific Paul Walker and Amanda AchmadiChapter 9. Architectural Influence within Missionary Areas: The Steyl Mission Architecture during the German and the Australian Colonial Periods in New Guinea (1896–1914–1945) Paul B. SteffenChapter 10. Australian Architects in Melanesia: Culture as Resource in the Late-Colonial Development of Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia (1950s–1970s) Peter Scriver, Amit Srivastava, and Louis LagardeAbout the Contributors