Movement
Decolonising Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →A critical, decolonial tendency in contemporary architecture and pedagogy that treats the built environment as inseparable from colonial power, dispossession and spatial injustice, and seeks to reinterpret, subvert or repurpose structures of domination. Drawing on spatial-justice theory, it is advanced by the DAAR collective in Palestine and by curators and educators such as Lesley Lokko.
Power Collectivity Memory
Details
- Origin
- Palestine and the global South
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalCross cultural cosmological
Referenced by
- David Harvey associated with
- Henri Lefebvre associated with
- Edward W. Soja associated with
Sources
- Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman. Architecture after Revolution. Sternberg Press, 2013.
- Esra Akcan. Postcolonial Theories in Architecture (in A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture). Ashgate, 2014.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Decolonising Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/decolonising-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.