Modern Architecture And Its Representation In Colonial Eritrea

Author : Sean Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317094784

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Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea by Sean Anderson Pdf

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea during the Italian colonial period spanning from 1890-1941. Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, the book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. As Italy’s colonia primogenità or 'first born colony', Eritrea and its capital, Asmara, not only bore witness to the emergence of politicized interiors and international expositions, the colony became a vehicle that polarized issues of race and gender. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism, literature and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy's ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries. Consequently, modern architecture inscribed Eritrean subjectivities while redefining technologies that affected constructions of the colonial interior. Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea demonstrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.

Author : Sean Anderson
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472414977

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Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea by Sean Anderson Pdf

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea during the Italian colonial period spanning from 1890-1941. Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, the book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. As Italy's colonia primogenità or "first born colony", Eritrea and its capital, Asmara, not only bore witness to the emergence of politicized interiors and international expositions, it also became a vehicle that polarized issues of race and gender. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy's ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries. Consequently, modern architecture remained a tool for inscribing Eritrean subjectivities while redefining visual technologies that affected constructions of the domestic interior. Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea illustrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.

Author : Kay Bea Jones,Stephanie Pilat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000061444

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The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture by Kay Bea Jones,Stephanie Pilat Pdf

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals, post offices and stadia to housing, summer camps, Fascist Party Headquarters, ceremonial spaces, roads, railways and bridges, the physical traces of the regime have a presence in nearly every Italian town. The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism, how sites have been transformed or adapted and what constitutes the meaning of these buildings and cities today. The essays include a rich array of new arguments by both senior and early career scholars from Italy and beyond. They examine the reception of fascist architecture through studies of destruction and adaptation, debates over reuse, artistic interventions and even routine daily practices, which may slowly alter collective understandings of such places. Paolo Portoghesi sheds light on the subject from his internal perspective, while Harald Bodenschatz situates Italy among period totalitarian authorities and their symbols across Europe. Section editors frame, synthesize and moderate essays that explore fascism’s afterlife; how the physical legacy of the regime has been altered and preserved and what it means now. This critical history of interpretations of fascist-era architecture and urban projects broadens our understanding of the relationships among politics, identity, memory and place. This companion will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including Italian history, architectural history, cultural studies, visual sociology, political science and art history.

Author : Günter Berghaus,Dalila Colucci,Tim Klähn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111318394

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2023 by Günter Berghaus,Dalila Colucci,Tim Klähn Pdf

This thirteenth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies explores some of the many facets of Neo-Futurism from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. It looks both at the revival and the continuation of Futurist aesthetics, whether in explicit or palimpsest form, in a variety of media: literature, visual art, design, music, architecture, theatre and photography. The essays delve into the broad spectrum of artistic research and offer a good dozen case studies that document, with a transnational and interdisciplinary orientation, the manifold forms of Neo-Futurism in various parts of the world. They investigate how historical Futurism's intellectual and artistic perspective was appropriated and developed further in a more or less conscious, faithful and original way, all the while confronting its progenitor's cultural, social and political misconceptions. Interdisciplinary contributions to neo-futurism as a global phenomenon

Author : Autori Vari
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06T11:21:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9791254690161

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Africa. N.S. IV/1, 2022 by Autori Vari Pdf

Articoli / Articles Jorge García Sánchez, The Promotion of Tourism in Carthage (Tunisia) during the American Archaeological Excavations (1921-1925) Federico Cresti, Al-Jaghbūb, the Libyan Holy City of the Ṭarīqa al-Sanūsīya: A Photographic Reconstruction Liliana Mosca, Fianarantsoa, la capitale du sud de Madagascar : de la ville royale à la ville coloniale Dawit Abraha, Nelly Cattaneo, Cinzia Monopoli, Hielen Tekeste Berhe, Asmära: Portraits of a Contemporary City Recensioni / Reviews Florence Brisset-Foucault, Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda (Alessandro Jedlowski) Carlo Piaggia e le sue esplorazioni africane (1851-1882), edited by Luca Lupi (Massimo Zaccaria) Autori / Contributors

Author : Peter Volgger,Stefan Graf
Publisher : Dom Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869224878

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Architecture in Asmara by Peter Volgger,Stefan Graf Pdf

The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and its largest settlement. Its beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the imagination. The colonial city becomes a fantastical set of cities where each one reflects the others as if in a kaleidoscope. This book breaks new ground and moves us a little further along in the attempt to decipher Asmara in terms of contemporary theory. The book brings together scholars from a multiplicity of disciplines who have shown the ways in which colonial and postcolonial criticism has served as a platform for new, diversified readings of Asmara. The book examines the current realities of Asmara in order to address the continuing effects of the legacy of colonialism upon the city dwellers.

Author : Jochen Visscher
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3868594353

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Asmara by Jochen Visscher Pdf

Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, has one of the most extensive surviving ensembles of modernist architecture in the world. To this day, the influence of the former colonial power of Italy from the early 20th century remains visible. Many of the buildings, erected in the futuristic, expressionist, cubist or rationalistic style have been preserved and dominate the cityscape of Asmara. UNESCO is considering to make the city a World Heritage Site in recognition of its outstanding modernist architecture. The impressive photographs by Stefan Boness convey the unique atmosphere of Asmara as a living museum of modernity. New, changed and revised edition of Asmara - The Frozen City (2006)

Author : Christoph Rausch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315414966

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Global Heritage Assemblages by Christoph Rausch Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123442514

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Denison,Guang Yu Ren,Naigzy Gebremedhin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060015529

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Asmara by Edward Denison,Guang Yu Ren,Naigzy Gebremedhin Pdf

Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, is one of the most exciting architectural `discoveries' of recent years: built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, it became a prime location for architectural innovation. This groundbreaking and superbly illustrated study reveals the full extent of Asmara's remarkable survival and confirms its status as one of the world's finest Modernist cities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058784094

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The Art Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Includes section: Notes and reviews.

Author : Mia Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134648306

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Moderns Abroad by Mia Fuller Pdf

This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colonized, and also the application of modernist theory to both Italian architecture and that of its colonies. Moderns Abroad is the first book to present an overview of Italian colonial architecture and city planning. In chronicling Italian architects' attempts to define a distinctly Italian colonial architecture that would set Italy apart from Britain and France, it provides a uniquely comparative study of Italian colonialism and architecture that will be of interest to specialists in modern architecture, colonial studies, and Italian studies alike.

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351950534

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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa by Fassil Demissie Pdf

Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts, police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects, planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the wider colonial project in Africa.

Author : Felipe Hernández
Publisher : Rosenberg & Sellier
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9791259931078

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Ardeth #09 by Felipe Hernández Pdf

Architecture is an inward looking discipline. Its history conveys the norms of the discipline to an audience composed mostly of architects, who are familiar with the work of their predecessors-from whom they learnt, or for whom they worked. As such, architecture singularises the multiple processes through which space is produced, excluding difference in the pursuit of coherent narratives to sustain its authority, and does so mainly through the figure of the architect. For a long time now, critics have shown how that figure is principally male. However, little has been said about the fact that the figure of the architect is also white; a racial classification that refers not only to epidermal characteristics, but to their national origin, education, and in most cases their class affiliation.

Author : Tom Avermaete,Serhat Karakayali,Marion von Osten
Publisher : Black Dog Architecture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907317112

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Colonial Modern by Tom Avermaete,Serhat Karakayali,Marion von Osten Pdf

"'Colonial Modern' is a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in architecture, as well as the intertwining of both in the context of colonialsim and decolonisation. It includes texts by specialists in the field and provides a strong visual representation of the subject."--