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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.

Architecture --- architectural history --- Modern [style or period] --- Africa --- History --- Histoire

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"Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterized by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanized production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past." [Publisher]

Architecture, Modern. --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- Modern [style or period] --- Urbanisation --- Urban politics

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Modern [styles and periods] --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Spain --- History --- Histoire --- Modern [style or period]

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A collection of interviews with architects and plans, photographs, and illustrations of works and projects by the Arkís architectural firm (Reykjavík, Iceland) in celebration of its tenth anniversary.

Architecture --- hedendaagse architectuur --- Iceland --- Architectural firms --- Architects --- History --- Modern [style or period] --- architecture [object genre] --- Arkis (firm)

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Architecture --- MVO (maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen) --- klimatisering --- hedendaagse architectuur --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Modern [style or period] --- architecture [object genre]