African modernism and its afterlives / edited by Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler, and Johan Lagae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berre, Nina, editor.

Geissler, Wenzel, editor.

Lagae, Johan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern movement (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

Brings together research by Africanist anthropologists and architectural historians who share in the pursuit of an archaeology of modernist architecture in Africa. Case studies connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the historical processes, and present use and habitation. 132 b/w and 35 col. photographs.

Contents:

Cover

African Modernism and its Afterlives

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Recognizing African Modernisms

PART 1: AFRICAN MODERNISM

1. Karl Henrik Nøstvik: Remnants of Nordic Aid

2. Africa's 'Lone Star': Building 'New Liberia' in the Context of Post-war Africa

3. Countryside Reconstruction in Postcolonial Africa: The Ujamaa Experience

4. Technocratic Colonial Housing Policies and Reductive Modernism in Eastlands, Nairobi

5. Transnational Exchanges in Postcolonial Zambia: School Buildings at the Intersection of Architectural, Political and Economic Globalization

6. Forms of Freedom: Soviet Gifts in Postcolonial Kenya

7. Georg Lippsmeier and His Tropenbau: Salesmanship and Pragmatic Modernism

8. Israel/Africa: The Laboratories of (Post)colonial Modernity

9. 'Tout le Congo est un Chantier': Notes on the Archive of a (Post) colonial Construction Firm

INTERLUDE

Remnants of Nordic Aid: Zambia World Bank Education Project

Remnants of Nordic Aid: Kenyatta International Conference Centre and Kalokol Freezing and ColdStorage Plant

PART 2: AFTERLIVES

10. 'Kenya Grew from Here': Property and History in a Nairobi Housing Estate

11. Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and 'European Reservations' during Decolonization

12. The Legacy of Nordic Expertise in Postcolonial Housing Schemes in Nairobi

13. Privatization and the Reshaping of the Recreational Landscape of the Industrial Zambian Copperbelt

14. The Ruins of Turkana: An Archaeology of Failed Development in Northern Kenya

15. The Brand New Ruins of Public Health: A Tale of Two Buildings, Kinshasa, DRC

16. 'Is This Anthropology Really a Modern Subject?': Kenyan Students' Experience of Nairobi's (Changing) University Architectures

17. Laboratory Unbuilt: An Architectural Biography of Postcolonial Science in East Africa.

Epilogue: Buildings and People: Interdisciplinarity, Juxtaposition and Experimentation

Notes on Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Berre, Nina African Modernism and Its Afterlives

ISBN:

9781789384055

1789384052

9781789384048

1789384044