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SUMMARY:Contradictory Contemporaneity? Sámi Building in Nordic Architectu
 ral Discourse   - Sofia Nivarti (Architecture\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20260210T163000Z
DTEND:20260210T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Since the 1970s\, major public buildings—museums\, cultural 
 centres and parliamentary assemblies—have been erected in Sápmi. Widesp
 read interest in them has provided a welcome corrective to the marginalisa
 tion of Sámi architecture in dominant accounts of Nordic architectural hi
 story and theory.\n\n\nYet analyses of Sámi public buildings remain stubb
 ornly anchored to an ostensible paradox: Designed to give contemporary for
 m to an ancient nomadic Indigenous culture\, their central attributes of p
 ublicness and permanence are foreign to the architectural tradition they s
 eek to represent. Insistence on the perceived ‘contradictory contemporan
 eity’ of Sámi architecture has constrained its critical reception and i
 nterpretation to comparative analyses with Nordic new-build projects.\n\n\
 nThis talk discusses the emergence\, persistence and consequences of inter
 pretations focussed on the perceived paradoxicality of Sámi public buildi
 ngs\, and suggests that means to challenge them might be gleaned\, in part
 \, from the historiography of modern architecture.
LOCATION:Scott Polar Research Institute\, Lecture Theatre
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