This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture,
influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a
natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional
architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional
site-specific architecture with the Modernist Project in Africa, which
to date have only been considered in isolation. The book covers the
four architectural disciplines: urban planning, building technology,
building physics, and conservation. It includes an introduction with a
historical outline and an analysis and comparison of a number of
projects in various countries in Africa. On the basis of examples
drawn from practice, the author documents and describes the hybrid
architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and
fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and
in so doing he also narrates the history of African architecture.
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ISBN
9783030010751
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok