Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
14 July 2016, 6pm
Antoni Folkers: Modern Architecture in Africa
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Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
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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".
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
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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Research materials on Africa
CD037.S1
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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
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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
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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
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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
photographs
CD037.S5.003
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Bresil, Bolivia, Burkina Faso (Obervolta), Cambodia (Kambodscha), Cameroon (Kamerun), Canada, Caribbean (Karibik), Central Africa (Zentralafrika), Chile, China, Columbia (Kolumbia), Congo (Kongo), and Egypt (Ägypten).
1970-1987
Reference slides on architecture in Tropical climates
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CD037.S5.003
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Bresil, Bolivia, Burkina Faso (Obervolta), Cambodia (Kambodscha), Cameroon (Kamerun), Canada, Caribbean (Karibik), Central Africa (Zentralafrika), Chile, China, Columbia (Kolumbia), Congo (Kongo), and Egypt (Ägypten).
photographs
1970-1987
photographs
CD037.S5.011
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Tanzania, and Thailand.
1972-1987
Reference slides on architecture in Tropical climates
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CD037.S5.011
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Tanzania, and Thailand.
photographs
1972-1987
photographs
CD037.S5.006
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Israel, Ivory Coast (Elfenbeinküste), Japan, and Kenya (Kenia).
1970-1987
Reference slides on architecture in Tropical climates
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CD037.S5.006
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Israel, Ivory Coast (Elfenbeinküste), Japan, and Kenya (Kenia).
photographs
1970-1987
photographs
CD037.S5.010
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Singapur, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tahiti, and Tanzania.
1965-1987
Reference slides on architecture in Tropical climates
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CD037.S5.010
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Box of slides organized in alphabetical order of countries' name. Contains slides of reference of architecture in Singapur, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tahiti, and Tanzania.
photographs
1965-1987