Modern architecture in Africa : practical encounters with intricate African modernity / Antoni S. Folkers, Belinda A.C. van Buiten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Folkers, Antoni, author.

Van Buiten, Belinda A. C., author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property.

Architecture.

History.

Africa.

Architecture--Africa--History.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Regional planning--Africa.

Regional planning.

Cultural property--Africa.

Cities and towns--Africa.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 365 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

"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 and 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 authors document and describe the hybrid architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and in so doing they also narrates the history of African architecture."--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. Working on the African city. 1. The lost cities of Africa

2. The modern African city

3. The other side of Zanzibar

4. Popular housing in Ouagadougou

5. The contemporary African city

Part II. Building in Africa. 6. Farewell to African arcadia

7. The Faculty of Engineering in Dar es Salaam

8. A field office in Wagadogo

9. Inno-native African building technology

Part III. African comfort. 10. African environment and comfort

11. The Dobie house

12. Turiani hospital

13. Restituitas and autarky

Part IV. Monument care in Africa. 14. From Imhotep to Docomomo

15. The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela

16. The restoration of St. Joseph's Cathedral

17. The completion of the mater misericordia

18. Monument care in Africa

Modern architecture in Africa

Glossary/African synonym

Notes:

This is an updated and revised version of "Modern architecture in Africa" published by SUN Publishers in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

3030010740

9783030010744

OCLC:

1050363093

Publisher Number:

99983732551