Main entry:

Folkers, Antoni, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

[Second edition].

Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xxiii, 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This is an updated and revised version of "Modern architecture in Africa" published by SUN Publishers in 2010."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-359) and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

3030010740 hardcover
9783030010744 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture Africa History.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Regional planning Africa.
Cultural property Africa.
Cities and towns Africa.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Afrique Histoire.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Aménagement du territoire Afrique.
Villes Afrique.
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Cultural property.
Regional planning.
Africa.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Van Buiten, Belinda A. C., author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316448
Call No.: 316448
Copy: 1
Status: Available