Overview
- Presents case studies of sixty African cities
- Provides an insightful and comprehensive overview of the development of African architecture, presenting the old, the modern, and the contemporary African city
- Richly illustrated with colorful maps and images of African buildings and housing
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Working on the African city
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Building in Africa
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African Comfort
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Monument Care in Africa
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Architecture in Africa
Book Subtitle: Practical Encounters with Intricate African Modernity
Authors: Antoni S. Folkers, Belinda A. C. van Buiten
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01074-4Published: 08 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01075-1Published: 22 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 181 b/w illustrations, 349 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cultural Heritage, Building Physics, HVAC, Urban History