New Directions in African Architecture
Author: Udo Kultermann
Publisher: Studio Vista
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurvey of African architecture since 1960 with special emphasis on educational buildings.
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New Directions in African Education
Author: S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1552382125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays which critically examines education in the African context and presents possible courses of action to reinvent its future.
New Directions in Africa–China Studies
Author: Chris Alden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1351668285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest in China and Africa is growing exponentially. Taking a step back from the ‘events-driven’ reactions characterizing much coverage, this timely book reflects more deeply on questions concerning how this subject has been, is being and can be studied. It offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and authoritative contribution to Africa–China studies. Its diverse chapters explore key current research themes and debates, such as agency, media, race, ivory, development or security, using a variety of case studies from Benin, Kenya and Tanzania, to Angola, Mozambique and Mauritius. Looking back, it explores the evolution of studies about Africa and China. Looking forward, it explores alternative, future possibilities for a complex and constantly evolving subject. Showcasing a range of perspectives by leading and emerging scholars, New Directions in Africa–China Studies is an essential resource for students and scholars of Africa and China relations.
New Directions in Latin American Architecture
Author: Francisco Bullrich
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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The Architecture of Peter Rich
Author: Jonathan Noble
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2021-01-22
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781848222571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternationally renowned, Peter Rich's career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges from a fascination with African tribal settlements, including his documentation, publication and exhibition of Ndebele art and architecture, and his friendship with sculptor Jackson Hlungwani. It explores what Rich calls "African Space Making" and its forms of complex symmetry; various collaborative community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period, especially Mandela's Yard in Alexandra township; and finally, his more recent timbrel vaulted structures, constructed from low-tech hand-pressed soil tiles derived from his highly innovative and award winning work at Mapungubwe. The book shows how Rich combines these rich African influences, his sensitivity to the local context and his environmental awareness with Modernist principles.
Modern Architecture in Africa
Author: Antoni S. Folkers
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 3030010759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional site-specific architecture with the Modernist Project in Africa, which to date have only been considered in isolation. The book covers the four architectural disciplines: urban planning, building technology, building physics, and conservation. It includes an introduction with a historical outline and an analysis and comparison of a number of projects in various countries in Africa. On the basis of examples drawn from practice, the author documents and describes the hybrid architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and in so doing he also narrates the history of African architecture.
Architecture, Building and Engineering
Author: Gerald R. Erickson
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture and Power in Africa
Author: Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-12-30
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0313013888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial analysis of the buildings themselves. Using these two buildings as case studies, he also investigates questions of national memory, urban form, architectural styles, concepts of democracy, social hierarchies as well as the elites who make the decisions to build Africa's post-independence monuments and capital cities. His book is an exciting synthesis of theoretical and empirical analysis that is bound to stimulate debate about the form and content of post-colonial identities in Africa.
Architecture
Author: Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9780300053203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a period which is far more than a prelude to the age of steel and concrete. The first half-century culminated in the bold iron and glass of the Crystal Palace. There follows the creation of the modern styles of the era based on traditions of the past, and finally, in the 20th century, Art Nouveau and the modern architects in their generations - Perret, Wright, Gropius, Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and others in many parts of the world.
Nigeria’s University Age
Author: Tim Livsey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1137565055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign donors alike saw the nation’s new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities were vibrant places, centres of nightlife, dance, and the construction of spectacular buildings, as well as teaching and research. At universities, students, scholars, visionaries, and rebels considered and contested colonialism, the global Cold War, and the future of Nigeria. University life was shaped by, and formative to, experiences of development and decolonisation. The book will be of interest to historians of Africa, empire, education, architecture, and the Cold War.
