New Directions in African Architecture

New Directions in African Architecture
Author: Udo Kultermann
Publisher: Studio Vista
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1969
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Survey of African architecture since 1960 with special emphasis on educational buildings.

New Directions in African Architecture

New Directions in African Architecture
Author: Udo Kultermann
Publisher: Studio Vista
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1969
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Survey of African architecture since 1960 with special emphasis on educational buildings.

New Directions in African Education

New Directions in African Education
Author: S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1552382125

A collection of essays which critically examines education in the African context and presents possible courses of action to reinvent its future.

New Directions in Africa–China Studies

New Directions in Africa–China Studies
Author: Chris Alden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351668285

Interest in China and Africa is growing exponentially. Taking a step back from the ‘events-driven’ reactions characterizing much coverage, this timely book reflects more deeply on questions concerning how this subject has been, is being and can be studied. It offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and authoritative contribution to Africa–China studies. Its diverse chapters explore key current research themes and debates, such as agency, media, race, ivory, development or security, using a variety of case studies from Benin, Kenya and Tanzania, to Angola, Mozambique and Mauritius. Looking back, it explores the evolution of studies about Africa and China. Looking forward, it explores alternative, future possibilities for a complex and constantly evolving subject. Showcasing a range of perspectives by leading and emerging scholars, New Directions in Africa–China Studies is an essential resource for students and scholars of Africa and China relations.

The Architecture of Peter Rich

The Architecture of Peter Rich
Author: Jonathan Noble
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781848222571

Internationally renowned, Peter Rich's career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges from a fascination with African tribal settlements, including his documentation, publication and exhibition of Ndebele art and architecture, and his friendship with sculptor Jackson Hlungwani. It explores what Rich calls "African Space Making" and its forms of complex symmetry; various collaborative community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period, especially Mandela's Yard in Alexandra township; and finally, his more recent timbrel vaulted structures, constructed from low-tech hand-pressed soil tiles derived from his highly innovative and award winning work at Mapungubwe. The book shows how Rich combines these rich African influences, his sensitivity to the local context and his environmental awareness with Modernist principles.

Modern Architecture in Africa

Modern Architecture in Africa
Author: Antoni S. Folkers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030010759

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.

New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture

New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900441665X

New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture comprises 20 chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research. The contributions are united by several broad themes that represent the current directions of study in the field, i.e.: the organization and techniques used by ancient Greek builders and designers; the use and life history of Greek monuments over time; the communication of ancient monuments with their intended audiences together with their reception by later viewers; the mining of large sets of architectural data for socio-economic inference; and the recreation and simulation of audio-visual experiences of ancient monuments and sites by means of digital technologies.

Architecture and Power in Africa

Architecture and Power in Africa
Author: Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2002-12-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0313013888

Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial analysis of the buildings themselves. Using these two buildings as case studies, he also investigates questions of national memory, urban form, architectural styles, concepts of democracy, social hierarchies as well as the elites who make the decisions to build Africa's post-independence monuments and capital cities. His book is an exciting synthesis of theoretical and empirical analysis that is bound to stimulate debate about the form and content of post-colonial identities in Africa.