11 December 2019, 6pm
articles
Hotel Africa and the Crumbling of Modernity
Malkit Shoshan visits a Dom-Ino House, a UN Base, and an Irish Bar
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webpages
The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s collaborative and multidisciplinary research project on architecture’s complex developments in sub-Saharan African countries after independence.
Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture
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The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s collaborative and multidisciplinary research project on architecture’s complex developments in sub-Saharan African countries after independence.
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textual records
textual records
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Research materials on Africa
CD037.S1
Description:
This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
1960s-1980s
Research materials on Africa
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CD037.S1
Description:
This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
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1960s-1980s
maps
maps
1960s-1980s
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CD035.S2
Description:
This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
1980s-2000
Reference slides on urbanism in Africa
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CD035.S2
Description:
This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
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1980s-2000
View of double doors, Africa
ARCH286206
between 1970 and 1987
photographs
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22 File
ARCH273637
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- 2 labeled boxes. 1 box labeled, "Northwest Africa or Iran with Jim George"
late 1960s- mid 1970s
Travel slides primarily depicting Northwest Africa.
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ARCH273637
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- 2 labeled boxes. 1 box labeled, "Northwest Africa or Iran with Jim George"
photographs
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22 File
late 1960s- mid 1970s
photographs
CD035.S1.1979.PR01.021
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Documents previously stored in a binder labelled "AA / ansichtkaarten / en foto's".
1990s-2005
Postcards and photographs of architecture in Africa
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CD035.S1.1979.PR01.021
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Documents previously stored in a binder labelled "AA / ansichtkaarten / en foto's".
photographs
1990s-2005