Strategies of Monumentality in Contemporary Sámi Architecture

Thus, to achieve monumentality in contemporary public Sámi architecture seems to be a difficult task, as is the case in other indigenous cultures and regions all over the world. This challenge related to monumental issues is however not peripheral. It goes straight into the core of the architectural culture itself and turns the question back: What is monumentality at the end of the twentieth century? The aim of this article is double. On the one hand to investigate some public buildings and concepts of crucial importance in the construction of Sámi identity in architecture, and on the other to point out some general issues concerning the conception of monumentality in the late modern and contemporary architecture, which are actualized by public buildings in Sápmi.