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Modern Architecture In Africa
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Author : Antoni S. Folkers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-22
Modern Architecture In Africa written by Antoni S. Folkers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-22 with Social Science categories.
This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional site-specific architecture with the Modernist Project in Africa, which to date have only been considered in isolation. The book covers the four architectural disciplines: urban planning, building technology, building physics, and conservation. It includes an introduction with a historical outline and an analysis and comparison of a number of projects in various countries in Africa. On the basis of examples drawn from practice, the author documents and describes the hybrid architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and in so doing he also narrates the history of African architecture.
African Architecture
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Author : Nnamdi Elleh
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Release Date : 1997
African Architecture written by Nnamdi Elleh and has been published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Architecture categories.
Provides an extraordinary account of the evolution, transformation and development of architecture across this continent. It is examined and evaluated from a wide range of ethnic, climatic, political economic and religious factors.
Contemporary South African Architecture In A Landscape Of Transition
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Author : Thorsten Deckler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-09
Contemporary South African Architecture In A Landscape Of Transition written by Thorsten Deckler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Architecture categories.
Now in paperback, the first book to have been published on contemporary South African architecture, celebrates some 50 projects of architectural excellence that have been built in the years of democracy since 1994
Colonialism And Modern Architecture In Germany
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Author : Itohan Osayimwese
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Colonialism And Modern Architecture In Germany written by Itohan Osayimwese and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Architecture categories.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technologies and building materials that catered to the local contexts of its remote colonies, such as prefabricated systems. As German architects gathered information about the regions under their influence in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—during expeditions, at international exhibitions, and from colonial entrepreneurs and officials—they published their findings in books and articles and organized lectures and exhibits that stimulated progressive architectural thinking and shaped the emerging modern language of architecture within Germany itself. Offering in-depth interpretations across the fields of architectural history and postcolonial studies, Itohan Osayimwese considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.
Modern Architecture In Africa
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Author : Antoni Folkers
language : en
Publisher: Sun
Release Date : 2010
Modern Architecture In Africa written by Antoni Folkers and has been published by Sun this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
Summary: "Modern architecture in Africa" is one of the few Western studies of modern African architecture. The architect Antoni Folkers calls into question the moralistic, simplified Western Modernism that has become stranded in the African savannah. The critique of the one-sidedness of Western architecture is not only theoretical, but also assumes a practical form in the pluriform and multi-coloured architecture of Africa. After studying at the TU Delft, Antoni Folkers went to Africa in 1984 to become acquainted with the critique of the practice of Western Modernism. His "Modern architecture in Africa" shows both the clash and the blending of 'original' African architecture with Modernism. On the basis of his experiences, he sets the potential and limitations of Modernism in a cultural context and links them with the history and development of Africa.
Global Heritage Assemblages
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Author : Christoph Rausch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-25
Global Heritage Assemblages written by Christoph Rausch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Architecture categories.
UNESCO aims to tackle Africa’s under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for ‘modern heritage’ invariably—and paradoxically it seems—has to reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a circumstance complicating intentions to preserve a recent ‘culture’ of modernization on the African continent. This book, a new title in Routledge’s Studies in Culture and Development series, introduces the concept of ‘global heritage assemblages’ to analyse that problem. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, it describes how various governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger, and the Republic of the Congo. Rausch argues that the global heritage assemblages emerging from those examples produce problematizations of the modern’, which ultimately indicate a contemporary need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing, epochal, and spatial culture.
Adjaye Africa Architecture
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Author : David Adjaye
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Adjaye Africa Architecture written by David Adjaye and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Architecture categories.
A complete overview of architecture in fifty-three African cities, seen through the eyes and images of one of the world’s leading young architects Educated in England, David Adjaye’s lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent’s built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colorful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites, and public spaces, and letting each building speak for itself. The result was a stunning seven-volume work that has become an essential resource for all those interested in the burgeoning continent. The fifty-three cities featured in this remarkable study are grouped according to the terrain in which they are set: the Maghreb (north Africa); Desert; Sahel (the semi-arid transitional region between the Sahara and the south); Forest; Savannah and Grassland; and Mountain and Highveld. Each metropolis is illuminated by a concise urban history, maps, and satellite imagery, along with the dozens of photographs Adjaye has taken with an architect’s eye. This compact edition selects the highlights from over 4,000 buildings and places captured for the initial seven-volume work. The result is one of the most original, ambitious, and important architectural publications of our time.
Asmara
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Author : Edward Denison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Asmara written by Edward Denison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture, Italian categories.
Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world. This superb building-by-building survey, illustrated with previously unpublished archival material and specially commissioned photography, chronicles the colonial past and remarkable survival of a city that has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa."
Modern Architecture In Africa Angola And Mozambique
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Author : Fundacio para a Ciencia a Tecnologia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Modern Architecture In Africa Angola And Mozambique written by Fundacio para a Ciencia a Tecnologia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.