Fractured strata or common ground

In this final chapter, a number of themes that were raised by various authors throughout the present volume are summarised. Whereas the opening chapter set out three overarching, interconnected concepts-isolation, the periphery and colonisation-and prefaced their development in the following chapters, this final chapter has another goal. lt is apparent that while there are elements in common between many of the works analysed in this volume, the differences are equally as important. In this chapter, these common grounds are juxtaposed against the fractured strata of ideas raised by the eleven authors who have considered the relationship between cultural identify and architectural expression.