Title & Author:

Architecture in Asmara : colonial origin and postcolonial experiences / edited by Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf.

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]
©2017

Description:

479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Basics ; 59

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Peter Volgger -- Photo essay : colonial mirrors / Jean Robert. -- part I: Colonial origin. 1st chapter: Colonialism and modernity. Is modern architecture good? / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- A modern historic city / Stefano Zagnoni. -- 2nd chapter: Construction of the colonial sphere. Colonial preliminaries : the genesis of Italian imperialism in the experience of the governance of Asmara / Pier Giorgio Massaretti -- Asmara : the real capital of the Italian empire in East Africa / Gian Luca Podestà -- Shaping the city from below : Asmarini's struggle for the city between the end of the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries / Francesca Locatelli -- Sleeping memory in Italian archives : historical photographs of Asmara and Italy's controversial relationship with its colonial past / Silvana Palma -- Asmara : making (colonial) modernity work through transport networks and infrastructure / Federico Caprotti -- Racing across Asmara : engines, speed and the colour-line in Eritrea (1938-1954) / Massimo Zaccaria. -- 3rd chapter: Asmara's colonial architecture and urbanism. Asmara and Rome : architecture and urbanism of the Fascist Italian empire and their reception / Harald Bodenschatz -- Twentieth-century architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Colonial specula : re-mapping Asmara / Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf -- Asmara and the development of its modern urban environment post 1941 / Belula Tecle Misghina -- Arturo Mezzèdimi : promises of an African modernity (Asmara 1940-1959) / Benno Albrecht, Filippo de Dominicis and Jacopo Galli -- Other scenes, possible selves : building the Italian colonial interior in Asmara / Sean Anderson -- Photo essay : Licht-Spiel-Theater (play-of-light theatre) / Günter Richard Wett. -- 4th chapter: Asmara's cultural heritage. Mapping the past for the sake of the future : the Cultural Assets Rehabilitation Project (CARP) / Peter Volgger, Stefan Graf and Arno Hofer -- Photo essay : architecture as image / Edward Denison -- The Asmara Heritage Project : heritage preservation past, present and future / Medhanie Teklemariam and Edward Denison -- The future of the present : rebranding Fascist architecture as heritage in Asmara / Fassil Demissie. --
part II: Postcolonial experiences. 1st chapter: Tracing postcolonialism. Rome-Asmara : a postcolonial archaeology of colonial spaces / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Photo essay : Rome denied. Postcolonial paths in the city (Roma negata. Percorsi poscoloniali nella città) / Rino Bianchi and Igiaba Scego -- Postcolonial utopia in Erminia Dell'Oro and Elisa Kidané : visions of an ideal society in Asmara and beyond / Rebecca Hopkins -- Travellers of the street : flânerie in Beyene Haile's Asmara play Weg'i Libi / Christine Matzke -- Photo essay : Giro d'Eritrea / Chris Keulen -- La piccola Roma : the female characteristics of unoccupied spaces in Totò Films / Linde Luijnenburg -- Asmara, the past in the present : echoes of colonial presence in documentaries on mobility / Gianmarco Mancosu. -- 2nd chapter: A geography of memories. A short note on Aba Shawl / Alemseged Tesfay -- Under a shadow of a colonial city : a memory of childhood in indigenous Asmara / Tekle Woldemikael -- Growing up in the Second Rome : Eritrean migrant women remember their childhood in postcolonial Asmara / Sabrina Marchetti and Domenica Ghidei Biidu. -- 3rd chapter: City and migration. In the belly of fascism and colonialism / Annalisa Cannito -- A city goes abroad : remembrance and hope in migration from Asmara / Magnus Treiber -- Asmarino in Jerusalem : Asmara from the perspective of an Eritrean refugee / Hadas Yaron -- Photo essay : Bar interiors in Eritrea / Eric Lafforgue. -- 4th chapter: Asmara's new images. Asmara online : the city as contested icon / Victorial Bernal -- Asmara : image, memory and identity / Peter Volgger -- Pride and posters in Asmara : what the graphic landscape reveals / Steven McCarthy -- Until next time in Asmara : a city of aspiration, despair and ambition / Tanja R. Müller -- Photo essay : Asmarinos / Stefan Boness. -- Conversations. Interview with Medhanie Teklemariam -- Interview with Magnus Treiber -- Interview with Christoph and Konrad Melchers -- Interview with Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and it's largest settlement. It's beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the imagination. The colonial city becomes a fantastical set of cities where each one reflects the others as if in a kaleidoscope. Architecture in Asmara. Colonial Origin and Postcolonial Experiences breaks new ground and moves us a little further along in the attempt to decipher Asmara in terms of contemporary theory. This title of the Basics series brings together scholars from a multiplicity of disciplines who have shown the ways in which colonial and postcolonial criticism has served as a platform for new, diversified readings of Asmara"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9783869224879 (paperback)
3869224878 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Eritrea Asmara.
Architecture Eritrea Asmara History.
Architecture, Italian Eritrea Asmara.
Architecture, Colonial Eritrea Asmara.
Architecture Italy Colonies.
City and town life Eritrea Asmara.
Architecture Érythrée Asmara Histoire.
Architecture italienne Érythrée Asmara.
Architecture coloniale Érythrée Asmara.
Vie urbaine Érythrée Asmara.
Architecture.
Architecture, Colonial.
Architecture, Italian.
City and town life.
Asmara (Eritrea) Pictorial works.
Eritrea Asmara.
Italy.
Asmara (Eritrea) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Volgger, Peter, editor, contributor.
Graf, Stefan, 1987- editor, contributor.
Basics (Berlin, Germany) ; 59.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299406
Call No.: BIB 245496
Status: Available