Main entry:

Conference "Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence" (2005 : Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

Title & Author:

Proceedings : Conference "Modern architecture in East Africa around independence", 27th-29th July 2005, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Publication:

Utrecht : ArchiAfrika, 2005.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Examining the aspirations of modern architecture in East Africa around independence / Nnamdi Elleh -- Session 1 : Change and reuse in modernist environments -- Foreign parts / Hannah Le Roux -- Sudanese architecture around independence / Omer Siddig Osman -- The rule and the exception : the place of the Modern Movement in Reunion Island / Severine Roussel, Philippe Zourgane -- Breathing wall : a modernist architectural heritage / Olufikayo Otitoola -- Eritrea : Refining Africa's Modernist experience / Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren -- Ernst May and modern architecture in East Africa / Nobuyuki Ogura -- Session 2 : The aspirations of modernism in East Africa -- The intertwinement of Modernism and Colonialism : a theoretical perspective / Hilde Heynen -- The role of social systems in production process of modern architecture in Kenya / Robert Rukwaro -- The insights of modern architecture in reference and beyond its visible surface / Camilus Thomas Lekule -- The (non) political position of the architecture of Anthony B. Almeida between 1948 and 1975 / Pieter Burssens -- 'To be or not to be, tradionalist or modernist, nationalist or internationalist, that is the question' for architects in Tanzania / Anthony B. Almeida -- Modernism looks East : exclusive 'Safar' vs popular 'Ujaama' cultures / Nwola Uduku -- Session 3 : Modern housing and the instant welfare state -- OCA and the urban question in Central Africa / Bruno de Meulder -- Architectural modernism in post-independence Uganda / Barnabas Nawangwe -- Finding the fruits of modern architecture in urbanizing Dar es Salaam / Bert Lemmens and Daan van Tassel -- Controlling and civilising natives through architecture and town planning in South Africa / Fassil Demissie -- Domiciliating modern architecture in Tanzania : the case of Ubungo National Housing Corporation scheme in Dar es Salaam / Daniel Mbisso -- Modern architecture in Dar es Salaam / Jos Bosman -- Conserving modern architecture in East Africa in post-'Colonial/Modern' contexts / Nnamdi Elleh.
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.

ISBN:

9078296011
9789078296010

Subject:

Architecture Africa, East 20th century Congresses.
Architecture.
Architektur
Modern movement (Architecture) Africa, East Congresses.
Africa, East.
Ostafrika

Form/genre:

Kongress 2005.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

ArchiAfrika

Modern architecture in East Africa around independence

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248605
Call No.: NA1597 .C6 2005
Status: Available