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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 : Susan Denyer
Publisher : Africana Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jérôme Chenal
Publisher : EPFL Press
ISBN 13 : 0415750210
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The West-African City written by Jérôme Chenal and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis, macrocephali... The cities of west Africa are no longer ‘plannable’ – at least not using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory processes in city creation, it nonetheless seems crucial to return to city plans and models, to what cities convey, and how they are built. But to understand the city in all its depth and richness, we must also hit the streets. The West African City proposes a dual perspective. At the urban scale, it analyses historical trajectories, spatial development, and urban planning documents to highlight the major trends beyond the plans. At the second level – that of public space – the street is discussed as the city’s lifeblood. By innovating approaches and testing new methods, The West African City offers an unconventional look at Nouakchott, Dakar and Abidjan, the three study sites for this investigation. The city of today, in Africa or elsewhere, must re-examine its many social, economic, cultural, political, and spatial dimensions; for this, urban research has begun challenging its own methods. This book is also the companion of Chenal's MOOC African cities.
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.
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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 : Łukasz Stanek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Architecture in Global Socialism written by Łukasz Stanek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction Worldmaking of Architecture -- Chapter 2 A Global Development Path Accra, 1957-66 -- Chapter 3 Worlding Eastern Europe Lagos, 1966-79 -- Chapter 4 The World Socialist System Baghdad, 1958-90 -- Chapter 5 Socialism within Globalization Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, 1979-90 -- Epilogue and Outlook -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Image Credits.
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 : Jane Drew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135018219
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Village Housing in the Tropics written by Jane Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit the climatic and sometimes cultural context of hot countries. These hot countries were labelled ‘the tropics’ and were often European colonies, or countries that had recently won their independence. Fry & Drew’s book, written on the threshold of the end of the British Empire, was one of the first publications to offer practical advice to architects working in ‘the tropics’, based on the empirical studies they conducted whilst based in British West Africa during the Second World War. The book with its numerous illustrations, plans and easy to follow explanations became a key manual for all architects working in hot climates, and in particular those tasked with designing dwellings and small town plans. Although the Royal Engineers and Schools of Tropical Medicine had long been designing and campaigning for better planning, improved sanitation and had for example developed methods of cross-ventilation, this book became an instant hit. ‘Tropical Architecture’ suddenly bloomed into its own distinct canon, and by 1955 the Architectural Association had set up a course specialising in tropical architecture, led for a short time by Fry. Village Housing in the Tropics had a significant impact when it was written on a profession that had had little guidance on working in hot climates and on architecture students and universities who began to modify their courses to accommodate different conditions. Although from a post-colonial perspective many scholars now associate this architecture as being a continuation of the Imperial mission, this does not reduce the significance of the publication. Indeed, Tropical Architecture is regarded as being the forerunner to ‘green architecture’, developing passive low energy buildings that are tailored to suit their climate and built with local materials.
Author : Vibhavari Jani
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1563677555
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Diversity in Design written by Vibhavari Jani and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides lecturers with a resource to teach interior design from an inclusive perspective, acknowledging the contributions of all world cultures, rather than just western European traditions.
Author : Steven J. Salm
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580463140
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (631 download)
Download or read book African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective written by Steven J. Salm and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
Author : Philipp Meuser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869220819
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Philipp Meuser and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's architecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from archi-tecture in Africa? What does the term architecture actually mean in the African context? And how could these questions be conceptualised while leaving behind pre-existing theoretical moulds and biases? Searching for new ways to theorise sub-Saharan African architecture, this collection of 49 essays broadens and develops the discourse around the architecture of a very rapidly changing continent. Its authors - practising archi--tects and renowned scholars - put forward an array of heterogeneous perspectives, question old tropes and emerg--ing narratives, and challenge popular concepts whilst pro-pos-ing new ones. All with the aim of critically examining and advancing theoretical reflection on African archi-tec-tures, both on the continent and globally.
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 : James Morris
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568984138
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Butabu written by James Morris and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Author : Jeanne Marie Teutonico
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892366923
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Managing Change written by Jeanne Marie Teutonico and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium orgnanised by US/ICOMOS, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Getty Conservation Institute, help in Philadelphia, April 2001.
Author : Whelan Research Academy for Religion, Culture, and Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scramble for Africa written by Whelan Research Academy for Religion, Culture, and Society and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Audrey Stewart Parkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Earth, Mud, and Clay written by Audrey Stewart Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund C. Umeh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Space and Concepts in West African Traditional Architecture written by Edmund C. Umeh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
