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Neo heritage : defining contemporary African architecture / Olajumoke Adenowo.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA1580 .A33 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adenowo, Olajumoke, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Africa--History.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Africa--Influence.
- Architecture, Modern--21st century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Regional planning.
- Cultural property--Africa.
- Cultural property.
- Africa--Civilization.
- Africa.
- Women architects--Biography.
- Women architects.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Defining contemporary African architecture
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Olajumoke Adenowo is a renowned Nigerian architect who heads her own architecture and interior design firm, AD Consulting, which she founded in Lagos in 1994. A gifted student, at the age of 14 she enrolled at Obafemi Awolowo University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours Architecture) by the age of 19, and then completed her Master of Science (Architecture) in 1991. Adenowo's intense interest in architecture and design emerged from her visits to Europe and throughout the world with her parents as a young child, as well as while living on campus at the Obafemi Awolowo University in the ancient city of Ile-Ife in Osun State, Nigeria, where her parents were professors. Having adopted a global perspective from an early age but firmly rooted in her heritage throughout her career, she is uniquely positioned to directly cultivate the kind of best practice African contemporary architecture that leverages ancestral knowledge and methods from within the continent itself. Adenowo's notion of "neo-heritage" envisions a new cultural confidence emerging in Africa that can contribute to international solutions for sustainability, urban planning, and environmental and residential design" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Neo heritage: defining contemporary African architecture / Rowland Abiodun
- Neo heritage
- Why Nigeria?
- Paradigms of beauty
- Light
- Climate-responsive buildings
- The fourth dimension
- Functional art
- Contextual veracity
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- Zeitgeist
- In conversation with Olajumoke Adenowo
- Olajumoke Adenowo biography
- Projects list.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-[256]).
- Includes Olajumoke Adenowo biography (pages 250-251) and a list of architectural projects (pages 252-253).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rosenlund fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9788891836168
- 8891836168
- OCLC:
- 1345458916
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