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'Red Africa' is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22, London, and Iwalewa House, Bayreuth. This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International. Connections were particularly strong with countries(...)
Red Africa: Affective communities and the cold war
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'Red Africa' is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22, London, and Iwalewa House, Bayreuth. This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International. Connections were particularly strong with countries such as Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Angola that were conducting libertarian struggles, or which, post-independence, were part of the Non-Aligned Movement, which held its first Summit conference in Belgrade in 1961.
Art Theory
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After nearly a lifetime of traveling and photographing in far-flung places such as Mexico, Ghana, Italy, Scotland and his adoptive country, France, Paul Strand began to concentrate on the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval. The work that constitutes The Garden at Orgeval offers a close, exacting study of nature’s forms and patterns: tiny button-shaped flowers,(...)
Paul Strand: the garden at Orgeval
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After nearly a lifetime of traveling and photographing in far-flung places such as Mexico, Ghana, Italy, Scotland and his adoptive country, France, Paul Strand began to concentrate on the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval. The work that constitutes The Garden at Orgeval offers a close, exacting study of nature’s forms and patterns: tiny button-shaped flowers, cascading winter branches and snarls of twigs. While these photographs exhibit the same directness and precise vision that is so quintessentially Strand, they also reflect his increasing preoccupation with mortality and the fragility of existence.
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Maps activity book
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This book includes a compendium of 36 activities for you to design, decorate and draw. Bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles from around the world, this book offers hours of entertainment to young adventurers. Countries featured include: Europe – Poland, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece,(...)
Maps activity book
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This book includes a compendium of 36 activities for you to design, decorate and draw. Bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles from around the world, this book offers hours of entertainment to young adventurers. Countries featured include: Europe – Poland, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland Asia – Russia, Mongolia, China, Nepal, India, Thailand, Japan, Jordan Africa – Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Madagascar North America – Canada, United States of America, Mexico South America – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile Australia and Oceania – Australia, New Zealand, Fiji the Arctic, Antarctica
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David Adjaye is one of the most in-demand architects today, known for his thoughtful interpretation of public spaces. In order to understand him as an architect, you must look at his projects through the lens of material – a crucial consideration in his practice. Organized into five sections – Stone/Concrete, Wood, Metal, Glass, and Rammed Earth – this volume reimagines(...)
Alchemy: The material world of David Adjaye
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David Adjaye is one of the most in-demand architects today, known for his thoughtful interpretation of public spaces. In order to understand him as an architect, you must look at his projects through the lens of material – a crucial consideration in his practice. Organized into five sections – Stone/Concrete, Wood, Metal, Glass, and Rammed Earth – this volume reimagines the traditional architect monograph by examining the importance of material in architecture, a study vital to Adjaye and his design process. The book features over 30 public, commercial, and residential projects around the world, from his 2001 Concrete Garden in London to the Amoako Boafo Gallery in Accra, Ghana, built with rammed earth and completed in 2022.
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This book and CD-ROM present the world's best final-year projects by students in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. Archiprix International invited institutions teaching design from all over the world in 2001 and 2003 to each select and send in their best final-year project. A fascinating collection of over 300 submitted projects from every continent(...)
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
January 2003, Rotterdam
Archiprix International 2001/2003 : world's best graduation projects
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This book and CD-ROM present the world's best final-year projects by students in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. Archiprix International invited institutions teaching design from all over the world in 2001 and 2003 to each select and send in their best final-year project. A fascinating collection of over 300 submitted projects from every continent gives an insight into the trends worldwide in design education. They range from a vision of a futuristic urban Utopia from Kazakhstan to a museum for African culture from Ghana, and a cutting-edge Dutch polder landscape to a modest lookout tower in a Finnish park. Besides project presentations, the book also includes the jury's assessments.
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January 2003, Rotterdam
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
Brutalist interiors
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of(...)
Brutalist interiors
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of Brutalist techniques in contemporary design. Photographs by leading architectural photographers such as Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego, Simon Phipps and Iwan Baan and essays written by Blake Gopnik, Ewan Harrison, Deane Madsen, Gili Merin, Naomi Pollock, Felix Torkar, Ljubica Slavkovic and Rixt Woudstra take readers inside the interiors of some of the world's most remarkable Brutalist and contemporary concrete buildings.
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Applied foreign affairs: investigating spatial phenomena in rural and urban sub-saharan Africa
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[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach. This publication documents three projects that were carried out(...)
Applied foreign affairs: investigating spatial phenomena in rural and urban sub-saharan Africa
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[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach. This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana’s Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects’ creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses – well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.
Architectural Theory
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Africa’s population and economic growth make it the world’s fastest urbanizing continent. While some might still associate Africa with rural development, the future of Africa is, in fact, very urban. This urbanization is a huge challenge in areas with fragile institutional frameworks and chronic poverty. Many migrants moving to the city end up in self-organized(...)
To build a city in Africa: a history and a manual
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Africa’s population and economic growth make it the world’s fastest urbanizing continent. While some might still associate Africa with rural development, the future of Africa is, in fact, very urban. This urbanization is a huge challenge in areas with fragile institutional frameworks and chronic poverty. Many migrants moving to the city end up in self-organized settlements without basic services. ''Urban Africa'' brings together authors from various academic, political, and design backgrounds: as well as case studies on new towns in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Angola, Morocco, Kenya etc. In this way, the book provides a critical narrative about contemporary ''Urban Africa'' and the western world’s role – if any – in the radical transformations happening today.
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana,(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
May 2004, Oxford, New York
Architecture and tourism: perception, performance and place
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Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands(...)
L'ornement est un crime : architecture du mouvement moderne
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands architectes contemporains dont l'oeuvre s'inscrit dans la même lignée, tels David Adjaye, Tadao Ando ou Steven Holl. "L'Ornement est un crime" offre un tour du monde de ce style d'architecture, réunissant des maisons conçues aussi bien aux Etats-Unis et en Europe (notamment en République tchèque, en Irlande, en Pologne, au Portugal, en Slovaquie, en Grèce) qu'en Argentine, au Chili, au Pérou, en Australie, au Canada, au Ghana ou en Israël.
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