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African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

by Manuel Herz
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783038602941
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
  • Publisher Imprint: Park Publishing (WI)
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 640
  • Original Price: GBP 75.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 3130 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criticism, History / Contemporary (1945-), and Buildings / General

Back-in-print, the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date.

When African Modernism was first 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 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.

Focketyn, Hans: - Hans Focketyn is cofounder of the architecture firm Focketyn del Rio Studio based in Basel.

Herz, Manuel: - Manuel Herz runs his own design and urban planning studio in Basel and Cologne. He is assistant professor at the University of Basel.

Jamrozik, Julia: - Julia Jamrozik is an architect and assistant professor at the University of Buffalo's School of Architecture in Buffalo, NY.

Schröder, Ingrid: - Ingrid Schroder is an architect and director of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design Program at the University of Cambridge.

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