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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modern Architecture in Africa
    sub title: Practical Encounters with Intricate African Modernity
  name:
    name part: Folkers, Antoni S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: van Buiten, Belinda A. C.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 365 p. 530 illus., 349 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Introduction: The Clock Tower -- PART I Working on the African city -- The lost cities of Africa -- The modern African city -- The other side of Zanzibar -- Popular housing in Ouagadougou -- The contemporary African city -- PART II Building in Africa -- Farewell to the African Archadia -- The Faculty of Engineering in Dar es Salaam -- A field office in Wagadogo -- Inno-native African building technology -- PART III African comfort -- The people and their African environment -- The Dobie House -- Turiani Hospital -- Restituitas and autarky -- PART IV Monument care in Africa -- From Imhotep to Docomomo -- The rockhewn churches of Lalibela -- The restoration of St. Joseph's Cathedral -- The completion of the Mater Misericordia -- Monument care in Africa -- Bibliography -- Index -- Glossary / African synonym -- Abbreviations -- Illustration credits.
  note: by Antoni S. Folkers, Belinda A. C. van Buiten.
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Cultural heritage
  subject:
    topic: Building construction
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns-History
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: Building Physics, HVAC
  subject:
    topic: Urban History
  classification: HT390-395
  classification: HT165.5-169.9
  classification: 710
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030010751
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 190722
    record change date: 20191022121050.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-01075-1