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Architecture --- Sustainable Architecture. --- Architecture And State. --- Architectural Design. --- Regional. --- Sustainability & Green Design. --- General. --- Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design --- Structural design --- State and architecture --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design --- Architecture, Italian --- Architecture, Modern --- Gruppo 7 (Group of architects) --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- History of architecture --- Sustainable architecture. --- Architecture and state. --- Architectural design.
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Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécomines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context.
Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Art and state --- Architecture and state --- Art and society --- Architecture and society --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- State and architecture --- Arts --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Government policy --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Art, Colonial --- Architecture, Colonial --- Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) --- History --- History. --- Political aspects.
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"What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things--from everyday objects to monumental buildings--profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences."--Provided by publisher.
Imperialism --- Sovereignty --- Archaeology and history --- Architecture and state --- Architecture and society --- Commercial products --- Social aspects --- Imperialism and architecture --- Commodities --- Economic goods --- Merchandise --- Products, Commercial --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architecture and imperialism --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Law and legislation --- Sovereignty. --- Architecture and state. --- Political Theory of the State --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Social aspects. --- Commodity exchanges --- Manufactures --- Substitute products --- History --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Contracting out --- Human factors --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- State and architecture --- Architecture and society. --- empire --- sovereignty --- imperialism --- south caucasus --- ancient persia --- Achaemenid Empire --- Anno Domini --- Tsaghkahovit --- Urartu
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