Aboriginal Architecture

PLAY NOW

Robert Howe: We used to live in tipis and they were, for the lifestyle, probably the most appropriate because we were nomadic people and we had to pick up quickly, and we had to move from camp to camp

PLAY NOW

Narration: In modern Inuit communities, the houses are connected by roads. Many of the construction problems are dictated by the land.

PLAY NOW

There are no motels or hotels on the land so the people have to build a snow house, also known as an “igloo”. It takes two people about an hour to build a snow house.

PLAY NOW

Anne Hanson: He used to talk about the Inuit, the people before us. He used to talk about how they lived, what kind of housing they had, what kind of people they were.

PLAY NOW

Narrator: Brian’s Mohawk ancestry reflects a culture that has always placed great importance on a sense of community.

PLAY NOW

Narrator: Brian Porter. His firm, Two Row Architect, is located at the Six Nations Reserve.