Publication

2013 - Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103775736603
  • ISBN-139783775736602
  • Better World Books9783775736602
  • Open LibraryOL33478235M

Description

Africa's economic boom is being accompanied by a rapid urban growth that is decidedly altering the continent. Approaches to an individual, ecological, and context-sensitive kind of architecture are evolving within these transformative processes. In these changing urban structures, numerous projects aim at making an impact on society. Thus, a large number of building schemes-most of them conceived with the help of the local population-are turning the city into an experimental field for design. Rural planning, on the other hand, is developing traditional local architectural techniques, vocabularies, and materials through technological and stylistic innovations. This catalogue features essays by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and others, and presents around twenty outstanding examples of contemporary African architecture south of the Sahara.

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Other Editions

  • Afritecture: Bauen in AfrikaHatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG2013-01-01

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