African Modernism

Back-in-print, the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date

When African Modernism was first 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 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.

Winner of the FILAF d'or, the first prize for Best Books on Art 2015 at the FILAF (The International Art Book and Film Festival).

Named one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2015.

Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2016.

Neuausgabe der bisher umfassendsten Übersicht über moderne Architektur in Afrika Eine einzigartige Studie über die enge Beziehung zwischen Architektur und Staatsaufbau nach der Unabhängigkeit der afrikanischen Länder von ihren ehemaligen Kolonialmächten Detaillierte Beschreibungen von mehr als hundert Gebäuden und Gedenkstätten in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenia, Sambia Aufwändig illustriert mit Fotografien von Iwan Baan und Alexia Webster sowie mit historischen Bildern und Plänen

Autorentext

Manuel Herz runs his own design and urban planning studio in Basel and Cologne. He is assistant professor at the University of Basel.

Ingrid Schröder is an architect and director of the Architectural Association's School of Architecture in London.

Hans Focketyn runs his own architecture firm in Basel and teaches as a professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences' School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering in Burgdorf, Switzerland.

Julia Jamrozik is an architect and assistant professor at the University of Buffalo's School of Architecture in Buffalo, NY.

Zusammenfassung

Back-in-print, the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date