Main entry:

Elleh, Nnamdi, author.

Title & Author:

African architecture : evolution and transformation / Nnamdi Elleh.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [1997]
©1997

Description:

xvii, 382 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-371) and index.
Problems in African History -- The Beginning of New Thinking in African History: The "African Place" -- Laying a Foundation for the History of African Architecture: The Triple Heritage Concept -- Ch. 1. Traditional African Architecture -- Ch. 2. Western Architecture in Africa -- Ch. 3. Islamic Architecture in Africa -- Ch. 4. The Architecture of the Kingdom of Morocco -- Ch. 5. The Architecture of Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya -- Ch. 6. The Architecture of Egypt -- Ch. 7. Architecture of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and The Republic of Sudan -- Ch. 8. The Architecture of Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda -- Ch. 9. Architecture of the Congo Basin: Central African Countries -- Ch. 10. Architecture of Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles -- Ch. 11. Architecture of Botswana, Namibia, Republic of Zambia, and Zimbabwe -- Ch. 12. The Architecture of the Republic of South Africa -- Ch. 13. The Architecture of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad -- Ch. 14. The Architecture of Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and Senegal -- Ch. 15. The Architecture of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire and Burkina Fasso -- Ch. 16. The Architecture of Ghana, Benin Republic, Cameroon, Togo, Lao Tome -- Ch. 17. The Architecture of Nigeria -- Ch. 18. Urbanism in Africa -- Ch. 19. Urbanization in Africa -- Ch. 20. Modern Architecture: New Towns as National Development Strategy for Africa -- Ch. 21. Conclusion: Developing the Triple Heritage Architecture.
Dust jacket.
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:

"Africa, where three major cultures - indigenous, Islamic, and Western - all converge, reveals more about human history than does virtually any other part of the world. To study African architecture is, in the words of author and architecture scholar Nnamdi Elleh, "to go on an intellectual and spiritual journey which takes one to the distant past, back before 6000 B.C." That is why this landmark publication, the first complete and definitive illustrated study of African architecture from antiquity to the present, is of such monumental importance to anyone interested in architecture, art history, or cultural history." "Featuring hundreds of museum-quality photographs and drawings from archival and modern sources, the book provides an extraordinary account of the evolution, transformation, and development of architecture across the African continent. From Egypt to Ethiopia, Botswana to Burundi, and Zimbabwe to Cameroon, the architecture is examined and evaluated from the standpoint of a wide range of ethnic, climatic, political, regional, economic, religious, and historical factors."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0070215065
9780070215061

Subject:

Ethnic architecture Africa.
Vernacular architecture Africa.
Architecture ethnique Afrique.
Architecture vernaculaire Afrique.
Ethnic architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Africa.
Africa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 131315
Call No.: NA1580.E44 (ID:97-B24)
Status: Available