Modern Architecture in Africa Practical Encounters with Intricate African Modernity /

• Main Authors: Folkers, Antoni S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), van Buiten, Belinda A. C. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Cultural heritage.; Building construction.; Cities and towns-History.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Cultural Heritage.; Building Physics, HVAC.; Urban History.

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 P...

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.