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Becoming Raven

PrizeWinner in Landscape Architecture / Gardens, Winner in Landscape Architecture / Other Landscape Architecture
Project locationMuseum of Anthropology, Vancouver
University/SchoolUBC SALA
Lead ArchitectYongwook Seong
Design TeamM.Arch Thesis Committee: Prof. Christopher Macdonald, Lőrinc Vass and Nicholas Waissbluth

The very origin of an Aboriginal museum in North America is a colonial by-product per se. The presentness of the First Nations is relegated to be a forgotten past. Aboriginal culture becomes endangered entities to be ‘preserved’ in an enclosed form of architecture, what can be disguisedly called, a museum. Becoming Raven is an alternative vision to the existing Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, which is primarily based on the preservation model. In so doing, ravens become an agent to deconstruct the idea of preservation and re-introduce a Native model, becoming part of the natural cycle.