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Island identities: the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

Laura Hourston Hanks
Laura Hourston Hanks
Affiliation:
Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK, Laura.Hanks@nottingham.ac.uk
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Extract

In the context of the maturation of traditional concepts of identity into ‘new forms of plurality and spatiality’, this paper aims to explore the role of genius loci, memory, and ultimately identity in a particular gallery: the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney.

Initially, it considers ways in which regional and vernacular identities have informed and enriched the architectural project, instilling it with tangible and intangible traces of place, and the past and present people of that place. Formal and material influences from the abstract but poetic idea of north, the local topography and town, and the existent buildings on site, are revealed.

Type
criticism
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 222 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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