AustLit

Epigraph:

"Indigenous architectural forms supported their cultural beliefs, used minimal materials, responded directly to the climate with many forms providing daytime shade, and supported an outdoor-orientated lifestyle. While European settlers were reluctant to recreate indigenous people's shelters, they did borrow from them."

(Cathy Keys, "Shifting Priorities of Shade and Northern Australian Architecture: Colonial Settlement Prior to the 1920s," ABE Journal 17 (2020), http://journals.openedition.org/abe/8008, citing Fred Cahir, "Shelter: Housing," in Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives from Early Colonists, ed. Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clarke, and Phillip A. Clarke (Clayton South: csiro, 2018), 151–72 (emphasis added).)