Title & Author:

African modernism : the architecture of independence : Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia / edited by Manuel Herz ; with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn and Julia Jamrozik ; photographs by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster.

Publication:

©2015
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2015]

Description:

639 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
Buildings : Ghana : Accra : Independence Square ; National museum ; National library ; International trade fair ; Community center ; University of Ghana ; US Embassy ; Nkrumah residential towers ; Scott House -- Cape Coast : Adisadel College ; Wesley Girls High School ; Mfantsipim School -- Kumasi : Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) ; School of Engineering, KNUST ; Great Hall, KNUST ; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST ; Buckminster Fuller Hall, KNUST ; Senior Staff Club House, KNUST ; Africa Hall, KNUST ; Unity Hall, KNUST ; Paa Joe Stadium, KNUST ; Prempeh College -- Senegal : Dakar : National Assembly ; Building Administratif ; Ministry of the Interior ; Banque Centrale des Éstats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest BCEAO ; Building communal ; Centre d'Affaires ; Foire Internationale de Dakar FIDAK ; École Nationale d'Administration ENA ; Université Cheikh Anta Diop UCAD ; Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists School, UCAD ; Khaly Amar Fall Auditorium, UCAD ; ATEPA Group Headquarters office ; Hotel Independence ; Immueble Brière de l'Isle ; Immeuble Fayçal ; Immeuble Kebe ; Immeuble Dial Diop -- Le Liberté 2, Société Immobilière du Cap-Vert SICAP ; Grand Médina -- Thiès : École Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture ENSA -- St. Louis : Université Gaston Berger UGB -- Côte d'Ivoire : Abidjan : Hôtel du District ; Cité Administrative ; Société Générale ; Alpha 2000, Société Ivoirienne des Banques SIB ; La Pyramide ; Immeuble Postel 2001 ; Immeuble de Finance ; Immeuble Caisse de Stabilisation et de Soutien des Prix et Productions Agricoles CAISTAB ; Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny UFHB ; University Hospital Center, UFHG ; Insitut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle INSAAC ; Hôtel Ivoire ; Tours Sainte Marie ; Adjame 220 ; Cité Esculape ; 198 Logements -- Yamoussoukro : Yamoussoukro ; Hôtel Président ; Président Golf Club ; Institut National Supérieur de l'Enseignement Technique INSET ; Agropole, École Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture ENSA ; École Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics ENSTP SUD ; Lycée Scientifique ; Lycée Mamie Adjoua -- Kenya : Nairobi : Kenyatta International Conference Centre KICC ; University of Nairobi UON ; Faculty of Architecture, Design and Development ADD, UON ; Hyslop Building, UON ; Education Building, UON ; Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Family ; Chai House ; Kahawa House ; KTDA Plaza ; Norwich Union Building ; Hilton Hotel ; Wakulima House ; Wakulima Market -- Zambia : Lusaka : National Assembly of Zambia ; University of Zambia UNZA ; Evelyn Hone College ; Evelyn Hone College student hostel ; Public library ; Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross ; Cairo Road ; FINDECO House ; Provident House ; Bank of Zambia ; Zambia State Insurance Corporation ZSIC ; Profund House ; Premium House ; Maisonnettes for the Bank of Zambia ; Lorenz House -- Kabwe : Border Motors -- Ndola : Bank of Zambia ; Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial ; Mpelembe Building ; Grunewald House ; Attaia House.
Includes bibliographical references.
The new domain: architecture at the time of liberation / Manuel Herz -- Ghana : Introduction ; Photographic portrait of Accra ; Building documentation -- Architecture after independence / Hannah Le Roux -- Senegal : Introduction ; Photographic portrait of Dakar ; Building documentation -- Henri Chomette: Africa as a terrain of architectural freedom / Léo Noyer-Duplaix -- Côte d'Ivoire : Introduction ; Photographic portrait of Abidjan ; Building documentation -- Project of a nation: the African Riviera and the Hôtel Ivoire / Manuel Herz -- Kenya : Introduction ; Photographic portrait of Nairobi ; Building documentation -- Proxy colonialism: the export of Israeli architecture to Africa / Zvi Efrat -- Zambia : Introduction ; Photographic portrait of Lusaka ; Building documentation -- Land and social order in middle Africa / Till Förster -- African universe: Africa Place at Expo 67 / Ingrid Schröder.

Summary:

"In the 1950s and 1960s most African countries gained their independence. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the young nations expressed their national identity. Parliament buildings, central banks, stadiums, convention centers, universities and independence memorials were built with often heroic and daring designs. This book investigates for the first time the relationship between architecture and nation building in Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and Zambia. It features around eighty buildings with descriptive texts, photographs, site plans and selected floor plans and sections. The images, commissioned especially for this book, are contributed by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9783906027746 (paperback)
3906027740 (paperback)

Subject:

Herz, Manuel 1967-
Architecture Africa History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Africa History.
Modern movement (Architecture) Africa Pictorial works.
Nationalism and architecture Africa.
Symbolism in architecture Africa.
Nation-building Africa.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Afrique Histoire.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Afrique Histoire.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Afrique Ouvrages illustrés.
Nationalisme et architecture Afrique.
Symbolisme en architecture Afrique.
Reconstruction d'une nation Afrique.
Architecture History. Africa.
Modern movement (Architecture) History. Africa.
Architecture
Modern movement (Architecture)
Nation-building
Nationalism and architecture
Symbolism in architecture
Modernismus
Architektur
Unabhängigkeit
Moderne
Bauweise
Bildband
Africa
Afrika
Ghana
Senegal
Kenia
Sambia
Elfenbeinküste
Subsaharisches Afrika
Nordrhodesien

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Schröder, Ingrid, 1973- editor.
Herz, Manuel, editor.
Focketyn, Hans, editor.
Jamrozik, Julia, editor.
Baan, Iwan, 1975- photographer.
Webster, Alexia, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317816
Call No.: 317816
Status: Available