Title & Author:

African modernism and its afterlives / edited by Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler, and Johan Lagae.

Publication:

Bristol : Intellect Books, 2022.

Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : recognizing African modernisms / Johan Lagae, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Nina Berre -- Part 1. African modernism. Karl Henrik Nøstvik: remnants of nordic aid / Nina Berre -- Africa's 'lone star' : building 'new Liberia' in the context of post-war Africa / Iga Perzyna -- Countryside reconstruction in postcolonial Africa : the Ujamaa experience / Karl Otto Ellefsen -- Technocratic colonial housing policies and reductive modernism in Eastlands, Nairobi / Peter Makachia -- Transnational exchanges in postcolonial Zambia : school buildings at the intersection of architectural, political and economic globalization / Kim De Raedt -- Forms of freedom : Soviet gifts in postcolonial Kenya / Ruth Prince -- Georg Lippsmeier and his Tropenbau : salesmanship and pragmatic modernism / Antoni Folkers -- Israel/Africa : the laboratories of (post)colonial modernity / Haim Tacobi -- 'Tout le Congo est un chantier' : notes on the archive of a (post) colonial construction firm / Johan Lage, Robby Fivez -- Interlude. Remnants of nordic aid : Zambia World Bank education project / Mette Tronvoll -- Remnants of nordic aid : Kenyatta International Conference Centre and Kalokol Freezing and Cold Storage Plant / Iwan Baan -- Part 2. Afterlives. 'Kenya grew from here' : property and history in a Nairobi housing estate / Constance Smith -- Grave reservations : Nigerian literature and 'European reservations' during decolonization / Tim Livsey -- The legacy of nordic expertise in postcolonial housing schemes in Nairobi / Tom J.C. Anyamba -- Privatization and the reshaping of the recreational landscape of the industrial Zambian copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- The ruins of Turkana : an archaeology of failed development in northern Kenya / Samuel F. Derbyshire, Lucas Lowesa -- The brand new ruins of public health : a tale of two buildings, Kinshasa, DRC / Cuillaume Lachenal -- 'Is this anthropology really a modern subject?' : Kenyan students' experience of Nairobi's (changing) university architectures / Ida Skjong Grøvik -- Laboratory unbuilt : an architectural biography of postcolonial science in East Africa / Paul Wenzel Geissler -- Epilogue. Buildings and people : interdisciplinarity, juxtaposition and experimentation / Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Legae.

Summary:

"This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic countries' aid packages to newly independent states, but the expanded breadth of the essays includes work on other countries and architects. Drawing on ethnography, archival research and careful observations of buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the historical processes they underwent, and present use and habitation.0It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms of Freedom at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960-80, and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a number of construction projects. The seminar, which built upon the exhibition as well as on a previous collaboration on the legacies of modernism in Africa between the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oslo and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from Ghent University, broadened the geographic scope of the discussion beyond the Scandinavian context, and set the ground for bringing together the disciplines of architectural history and social anthropology." --Publisher.

ISBN:

9781789384031 (print)
1789384036 (print)
(ePUB)
9781789384055
9781789384048
(ePDF)

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Africa.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Afrique.
International relations
Modern movement (Architecture)
Africa Relations Scandinavia.
Scandinavia Relations Africa.
Afrique Relations Scandinavie.
Scandinavie Relations Afrique.
Africa
Scandinavia

Added entries:

Geissler, Wenzel, editor.
Berre, Nina, editor.
Lagae, Johan, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316046
Call No.: 316046
Copy: 1
Status: External loan