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.
It 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.
Primary readership will be among architects and architectural
historians, and graduate level architecture and urban studies
students, for whom it will be valuable course material, as well as
those in fields such as African studies and anthropology. It may also
be of interest to those working or researching in public policy and
political history.
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ISBN
9781789384055
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Intellect Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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