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Author : Udo Kultermann
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006731650
A cross section of this architecture is represented in text and illustrations.
Author : Antoni S. Folkers,Belinda A. C. van Buiten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030010751
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.
Author : Udo Kultermann
Publisher : Studio Vista
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006731668
Survey of African architecture since 1960 with special emphasis on educational buildings.
Author : Manuel Herz,Ingrid Schröder,Hans Focketyn,Julia Jamrozik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3038602949
A new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
Author : Ulf Engel,João Gomes Porto
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754676056
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). It examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation.
Author : Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036077587
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.
Author : Thorsten Deckler,Anne Graupner,Henning Rasmuss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0702179698
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
Author : Christoph Rausch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315414966
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 : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317275558
Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.
Author : Antoni Folkers
Publisher : Sun
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9085069610
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.
Author : Usman A. Tar,Bashir Bala
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498574112
This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa, the contributors--scholars, policy-makers, and defense/security practitioners from both within and outside Africa--examine the evolution, dynamics, and working mechanisms for peace and security or emerging regional security architecture for regional security in the region. The volume will be essential reading for all academics, scholars, and researchers in academia and NGOs with interests in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism related issues in the Lake Chad Basin region. Additionally, the volume will also be useful for students of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, small wars, terrorism and strategic studies, and defense and security studies. It will also provide invaluable reference material for policy practitioners working on the activities in the contemporary operating environment within the Lake Chad Basin region. This book offers innovative perspectives on the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on how member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission are coping with the challenges of terrorism and insurgency. Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala, the volume is the first to critically document regional security in the Lake Chad Basin.
Author : Jonathan Alfred Noble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351960403
Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' imaginative dialogues with African landscapes, craft and indigenous traditions. Referring to Frantz Fanon's classic study of colonised subjectivity, 'Black Skin, White Masks', Noble contends that Fanon's metaphors of mask and skin are suggestive for architectural criticism, in the context of post-Apartheid public design. Taking South Africa's first democratic election of 1994 as its starting point, the book focuses on projects that were won in architectural competitions. Such competitions are conceived within ideological debates and studying them allows for an examination of the interrelationships between architecture, politics and culture. The book offers insights into these debates through interviews with key parties concerned - architects, competition jurors, politicians, council and city officials, artists and crafters, as well as people who are involved in the day-to-day life of the buildings in question.
Author : James Morris,Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984131
This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Author : Udo Kultermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015006360914
Author : Jonathan Noble
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848222572
Internationally renowned, Peter Rich's career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges from a fascination with African tribal settlements, including his documentation, publication and exhibition of Ndebele art and architecture, and his friendship with sculptor Jackson Hlungwani. It explores what Rich calls "African Space Making" and its forms of complex symmetry; various collaborative community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period, especially Mandela's Yard in Alexandra township; and finally, his more recent timbrel vaulted structures, constructed from low-tech hand-pressed soil tiles derived from his highly innovative and award winning work at Mapungubwe. The book shows how Rich combines these rich African influences, his sensitivity to the local context and his environmental awareness with Modernist principles.