Fugitive archives : a sourcebook for centring Africa in histories of architecture / edited by Claire Lubell & Rafico Ruiz ; a collection of primary sources chosen by the research fellows of Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture, Doreen Adengo [and nine others].

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Publication:

Montréal, Québec, Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Prinsenbeek, The Netherlands : Jap Sam Books, [2023]
©2023

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in the context of the project Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture, the 2019-2022 iteration of the CCA's Multidisciplinary Research Program, organized with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references.
Texts in English, French, Chinese, and German.
Texts in English, French, Chinese, and German, with English translations.

Summary:

"Fugitive Archives is not a book about African architecture or its history. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work of the fellows and about how, to centre Africa in histories of modern architecture, they had to develop new ways of finding, seeing, and listening. The sources presented here are starting points for dismantling and expanding existing architectural archives, in which what is considered valuable enough to archive remains dominated by colonial or Western knowledge frameworks. Through varied media and formats, the sources multiply narratives by highlighting diverse actors, practices, and geographies--on and off the continent--implicated in the history of modern African architecture. Rather than suggesting key, but inevitably reductive, themes, this book brings the fellows and their sources into dialogue in three sections that foreground similar methods and challenges to locating, accessing, reading, and constructing otherwise fugitive archives."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781927071878 (softcover)
1927071879 (softcover)
9789492852939 (softcover)
9492852934 (softcover)

Subject:

Architecture Africa Archival resources.
Architecture Africa History Sources.
Architecture Fonds d'archives Afrique.
Architecture Afrique Histoire Sources.
Architecture
Architecture Archival resources
Africa
Centre canadien d'architecture Publishing

Form/genre:

primary sources.
History
Sources
Primary sources.

Added entries:

Lubell, Claire, editor.
Ruiz, Rafico, 1981- editor.
Adengo, Doreen, compiler.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, organizer.

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