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AFRITECTURE

Building Social Change

Auteur:Andres Lepik

Uitgever:Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 978-3-7757-3661-9

  • Hardcover
  • Engels
  • 272 pagina's
  • 10 sep. 2013

AFRITECTURE. Building in Africa features contemporary architectural projects which examine the local and cultural conditions in Africa as well as its social exigencies.

Africa’s economic boom is being accompanied by a rapid urban growth that is decidedly altering the continent. Approaches to an individual, ecological, and context-sensitive kind of architecture are evolving within these transformative processes. In these changing urban structures, numerous projects aim at making an impact on society. Thus, a large number of building schemes - most of them conceived with the help of the local population - are turning the city into an experimental field for design. Rural planning, on the other hand, is developing traditional local architectural techniques, vocabularies, and materials through technological and stylistic innovations.

This opulent catalogue features essays by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and others, and presents around twenty outstanding examples of contemporary African architecture south of the Sahara.

AFRITECTURE. Building in Africa features contemporary architectural projects which examine the local and cultural conditions in Africa as well as its social exigencies.

Africa’s economic boom is being accompanied by a rapid urban growth that is decidedly altering the continent. Approaches to an individual, ecological, and context-sensitive kind of architecture are evolving within these transformative processes. In these changing urban structures, numerous projects aim at making an impact on society. Thus, a large number of building schemes - most of them conceived with the help of the local population - are turning the city into an experimental field for design. Rural planning, on the other hand, is developing traditional local architectural techniques, vocabularies, and materials through technological and stylistic innovations.

This opulent catalogue features essays by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and others, and presents around twenty outstanding examples of contemporary African architecture south of the Sahara. Alongside interviews with architects, developers, and sponsors, the book provides a comprehensive view of an original, lively architectural culture. Texts by Filip De Boeck, Killian Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, Iain Low, Edgar Pieterse, and others.

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