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This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic countries’ aid packages to newly independent states, but the expanded breadth of the essays includes work on other countries and architects. Drawing on ethnography, archival research and careful observations of buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the historical processes they underwent, and present use and habitation.It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms of Freedom at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960–80, and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a number of construction projects. The seminar, which built upon the exhibition as well as on a previous collaboration on the legacies of modernism in Africa between the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oslo and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from Ghent University, broadened the geographic scope of the discussion beyond the Scandinavian context, and set the ground for bringing together the disciplines of architectural history and social anthropology.Primary readership will be among architects and architectural historians, and graduate level architecture and urban studies students, for whom it will be valuable course material, as well as those in fields such as African studies and anthropology. It may also be of interest to those working or researching in public policy and political history. (Provided by publisher)

Modern movement (Architecture) --- Africa --- Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Relations --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U10 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: wonen en huisvesting --- Mouvement moderne --- 72.036(6) --- Histoire des relations internationales --- Art --- Modernisme --- Afrique --- Scandinavie --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Architecture --- international relations --- Modern Movement --- architecture [object genre] --- Scandinavia and Iceland

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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects?national and international?to simultaneously design the new city.00The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries, and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis.00This book for the first time thoroughly explores the forgotten tale of Agadir?s reconstruction. It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge, alongside scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians. A three-part interview with Lahsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student, rounds out this tantalizing narration of the international architectural adventure of rebuilding Agadir as the modern Afropolis.

Architecture --- History --- Agadir (Morocco) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Santa Cruz of Cape Aguer (Morocco) --- Santa Cruz do Cabo de Guez (Morocco) --- Akādīr (Morocco) --- 72.036(6) --- 72.036 --- 72.036 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Cities and towns --- Earthquakes --- Villes --- Tremblements de terre --- Reconstruction --- Histoire