Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture Of Australia

The myth of a country devoid of indigenous architecture -
“architecture nullius” - has long persisted. Paul Memmott’s book
sweeps aside this convenient, if pernicious, slander. His central
subject is classical Aboriginal ethno-architecture as practised
before the arrival of the colonists.
Along the way he draws on evidence from explorers’ accounts,
early drawings, anthropological research from the 1930s and
archaeological surveys, coupled [...]

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