Huksendáidda: Sami Architecture

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Huksendáidda: Sami Architecture offers an introduction and trilingual guide to Sami building culture and architecture. Includes translations of featured essays in the Northern Sami language, Norwegian and English.

Huksendáidda explores Girjegumpi: Sami building customs, the treatment of the Sami in the history of architecture in Norway after the Second World War, how rebuilding and Norwegianization went hand in hand, and the phenomenon of 'kjempelávvu', as well as an overview of Sami architecture on the Norwegian side of Sápmi.

This book originated from the lectures of a seminar on Sami architecture by the National Museum in connection with the exhibition Girjegumpi: Sami architecture library, of artist Joar Nango’s nomadic architecture library in 2021.

Published in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo.