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Author : Susan Denyer
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435890599
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Architecture written by Susan Denyer and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaj Blegvad Andersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Architecture written by Kaj Blegvad Andersen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beschrijving van leefgewoonten, bouwkunst en gebruiksvoorwerpen van verschillende stammen
Author : Susan Denyer
Publisher : Africana Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Architecture written by Susan Denyer and published by Africana Pub.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Architecture written by Nnamdi Elleh and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an extraordinary account of the evolution, transformation and development of architecture across this continent. It is examined and evaluated from a wide range of ethnic, climatic, political economic and religious factors.
Author : Jean-Paul Bourdier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415585439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Vernacular Architecture of West Africa written by Jean-Paul Bourdier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of ideas and construction practices which contradict the widespread image of the primitive huts comonly atributed to rural Africa... The cultural dimension and its application using different architectural practices are illustrated in this work."--Book jacket.
Author : Antoni S. Folkers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030010759
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Modern Architecture in Africa written by Antoni S. Folkers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Oluwatoyin Huntar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Traditional African Environments written by Oluwatoyin Huntar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Epée Ellong
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634890
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The African Dwelling written by Epée Ellong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing has changed in Sub-Saharan Africa since the Europeans arrived. Africans no longer live in traditional homes. This historical transition from "hut to house," from traditional to Western style, reflects slavery, colonialism and other social influences. This book focuses on Cameroon, known as "Africa in Miniature" because of its geographical and cultural representation of the continent at large. Architectural styles, materials and construction techniques are discussed within a larger context, examining how lifestyle changes and architectural trends influence each other. This work is a rich examination of the challenges and opportunities for a new generation of African architects to integrate the lessons of the past and create a future more responsive to the region's needs.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (916 download)
Download or read book African traditional architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alisia Tognon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000441105
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Necessary Architecture written by Alisia Tognon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niger is sand, light, and heat. Starting from the necessity of the Mission Catholique du Dosso, which has worked in Niger for several years, this book speaks about the Nigerien situation which is characterized by a countrywide spread of poverty. Along with studying the country’s environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. A number of the most common techniques are described. The possibilities for these methods to adapt to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical and physical benefits inherent in them are illustrated. The book embraces some topics that are not common but highly relevant in the Developing World, such as identity through the evolution of architecture and the value of transmitting knowledge related to the vernacular building process. Nowadays, Niger’s condition is characterized by a lack of resources, both physical and cultural. Earthen technology appears to be a valid solution in this situation for the creation of an environmentally sustainable approach. The book aims to provide an overview of the possibility of constructing new buildings related to the climate and traditional context, applying vernacular technology and solutions in a contemporary application. Providing a balance between teaching vernacular knowledge and the contemporary architectural language could help face this out-of-resource situation, aiming to get comfortable and affordable living spaces.
Author : Manuel Herz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783038602941
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book African Modernism written by Manuel Herz and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
Author : Ade Adedokun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780448080
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on West African Traditional Architecture and Planning written by Ade Adedokun and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paolo Cascone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948765626
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book African Fabbers Atlas written by Paolo Cascone and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on almost ten years of applied research of Paolo Cascone and his CODESIGNLAB practice in Africa, the book investigates the potential role of indigenous and spontaneous architecture in the contemporary debate on sustainability in architectural design. How to respond to climatic changes reconciling nature with tekné? What is the social role of technology? How architects would reconsider their practices supporting community-oriented projects? These questions are discussed through a number of paradigmatic projects and conversations between the author and a panel of experts from different backgrounds in order to shape an interdisciplinary approach that bridges different knowledges. The theoretical assumption for this investigation is based on the observation of cause-effect relations, between different urban and architectural configurations and their performances: social, environmental, structural etc. in both pre-colonial and informal cultures around Africa. The diachronic approach intends to generate, after many years of post-colonial studies, an operative agenda of possible strategies, which is in accordance with different contextual conditions starting from the anthropological and the climatic ones. Such an agenda responds to a global cultural need for an ecological shift in the contemporary design and manufacturing processes, which should bridge high and low-tech cultures. Therefore, the book is conceived also as a sort of manual that is articulated around emergent principles inspired by traditional and informal African practices and architectures: self-similarity and diversified typologies, material optimisation and circular economy, self-sufficiency and responsive dwellings. Each principle is confronted also with the work of pioneers such as Hassan Fathy, Fabrizio Carola etc. with the aim of sharing and evolving such tremendous heritage by introducing the case studies realized in the frame of the [AF] African Fabbers project over the last decade.
Author : Philipp Meuser
Publisher : Dom Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783869220840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Sub-Saharan Africa: Eastern Africa : from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa written by Philipp Meuser and published by Dom Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite the growing interest in Africa, the continent's built environment is still largely unfamiliar in many parts of the world. The seven volumes of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide form the first comprehensive overview of architecture south of the Sahara that does justice to the region's wealth of buildings. In 49 chapters, each focusing on one country, richly illustrated texts by more than 350 authors from Africa and across the globe come together to produce a superlative work. On the basis of 850 selected buildings and over 200 thematic articles, the continent's building culture is elucidated and contextualised. The diverse contributions paint a multifaceted picture of Africa's architecture in the twenty-first century, a discipline shaped by traditional and colonial roots as well as today's global interconnections and challenges. An introductory volume on the history and theory of African architecture provides essential background knowledge."--Publisher
Author : Jonathan Alfred Noble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351960407
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture written by Jonathan Alfred Noble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' imaginative dialogues with African landscapes, craft and indigenous traditions. Referring to Frantz Fanon's classic study of colonised subjectivity, 'Black Skin, White Masks', Noble contends that Fanon's metaphors of mask and skin are suggestive for architectural criticism, in the context of post-Apartheid public design. Taking South Africa's first democratic election of 1994 as its starting point, the book focuses on projects that were won in architectural competitions. Such competitions are conceived within ideological debates and studying them allows for an examination of the interrelationships between architecture, politics and culture. The book offers insights into these debates through interviews with key parties concerned - architects, competition jurors, politicians, council and city officials, artists and crafters, as well as people who are involved in the day-to-day life of the buildings in question.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Horizon DAT written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conference on Traditional African Architecture, Sept. 24-26, 1970 written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
