In June 2018, architectural intern Tiffany Shaw-Collinge interviewed three of the five women who make up just over a quarter of the registered Indigenous architects in Canada—Harriet Burdett-Moulton, Wanda Dalla Costa, and Ouri Scott—along with fellow intern architect Kelly Edzerza-Bapty. In the interview, prepared for The Site Magazine, they discuss what it means to be both an Indigenous architect and a female architect; how cultural traditions and ceremony shape architectural practice; and how Indigenous peoples’ connection to the land and a deep history of light, portable architecture affects what is designed and built today.
Read the interview here, and learn more from Wanda Dalla Costa in this season’s “Briefing.”
St.Jude’s Cathedral, Iqualuit, Nunavut, with the northern lights. Harriet Burdett-Moulton for Santec Architects, 2011. Photo by Cwk36, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.Read the full Season 8 of arcCA DIGEST, on Indigeneity, here.
