Architecture And Politics In Africa
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Author | : Dawit Yekoyesew |
Publisher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781847013323 |
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Author | : Nnamdi Elleh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2002-12-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0313013888 |
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Two 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.
Author | : Joanne Tomkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : 9781800105638 |
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Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa.
Author | : Ulf Engel |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780754676058 |
Download Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). It examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation.
Author | : Manuel Herz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2022-10-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783038602941 |
Download African Modernism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
Author | : Kirsten Rüther |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110601184 |
Download The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Context dependent, it acquires diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants; or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens. Contributions to this volume range from the field of history, to architecture and urban planning, African Studies, linguistics, and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so, the volume aims to add to the vibrant academic debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.
Author | : Michael Minkenberg |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1782380108 |
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Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
Author | : Antoni S. Folkers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2019-07-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030010759 |
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This 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.
Author | : J. Gomes Porto |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317184009 |
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This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans who are affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth, critical chapters inform, clarify and provide key points for reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the structures currently under implementation. The volume examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation. Students and researchers of African approaches to peace building, conflict resolution and regional security will benefit from the deep and critical engagement of issues covered in this volume by world renowned scholars and practitioners.
Author | : Labelle Prussin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Abomey (Benin) |
ISBN | : |
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