Afritecture : building social change / edited by Andres Lepik ; with texts by Sierra Bainbridge ... [et al. ; translations, Ian Pepper, Laura Schleussner].

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz ; München : A.M., Architekturmuseum der TU München, ©2013.

269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Africa's economic boom is being accompanied by a rapid urban growth that is decidedly altering the continent. Approaches to an individual, ecological, and context-sensitive kind of architecture are evolving within these transformative processes. In these changing urban structures, numerous projects aim at making an impact on society. Thus, a large number of building schemes-most of them conceived with the help of the local population-are turning the city into an experimental field for design. Rural planning, on the other hand, is developing traditional local architectural techniques, vocabularies, and materials through technological and stylistic innovations. This catalogue features essays by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and others, and presents around twenty outstanding examples of contemporary African architecture south of the Sahara.

9783775736619 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
3775736611 (hd. bd.)
9783775736602 (German)
3775736603 (German)

Architecture Africa 21st century.
Architecture Afrique 21e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture
Africa

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
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Lepik, Andres.
Bainbridge, Sierra.
Pepper, Ian.
Schleussner, Laura.
Technische Universität München. Architekturmuseum.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 317774
Cote: 317774
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