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OASE 82 l'Afrique, c'est chic

Architecture and planning in Africa 1950-1970

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For the last few years there has been a strong revival of interest in the African city across numerous disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and urban history. Since the mid-1990s, when Rem Koolhaas placed urban conditions in Lagos on the agenda as a research topic, other architects and planners have rediscovered the African continent. Architecture historians and heritage agencies are now also studying modern architecture in Africa, which is largely ignored in overviews of twentiethcentury architecture.
OASE 82 shares this current fascination for modern architecture and planning on the African continent, but also expresses reservations. This edition presents a critical historiography of modernistic architecture from 1950 to 1970, which in many cases still defines the urban landscape in African centres. A photographic project by the young Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji about Avenida Lenine in Maputo, Mozambique, presents a striking profile of twentieth century architecture in a former Portuguese colony.
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authors / editors

Madalena Cunha Matos & Tania Ramos, Haim Yacobi, Luce Beeckmans, Viviana d’Auria & Bruno De Meulder, Luis Lage

in collaboration with

Die Keure

with support from

the Netherlands Architecture Fund, the Flemish Community of Belgium and the EFL Foundation

design

Karel Martens (Werkplaats Typografie)

ISBN

978-90-5662-775-1

publication date

October 2010

availability

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language

Dutch, English

pages

144 p

cover

paperback

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