African Modernism and Its Afterlives

Name: African Modernism and Its Afterlives
Brand: Intellect Books
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Nina Berre Paul Wenzel Geissler Johan Lagae(Herausgeber*in)

Intellect Books (Verlag)

Erschienen am 1. Juni 2022

362 Seiten

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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.

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'Tracing concrete connections between architecture and anthropology, African Modernism and Its Afterlives offers glimpses of past futures, half-remembered dreams and enduring structures. Engaging and ever clear-eyed, its chapters provide a trenchant guide to 20th century efforts to alter African social life through building, along with the artefacts they left behind.'

Peter Redfield, University of Southern California

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List of Figures

Introduction Recognizing African Modernisms

Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae and Nina Berre

PART 1: AFRICAN MODERNISM

Karl Henrik Nostvik: Remnants of Nordic Aid

Nina Berre

Africa's 'Lone Star': Building 'New Liberia' in the Context of Post-war Africa

Iga Perzyna

Countryside Reconstruction in Postcolonial Africa: The Ujamaa Experience

Karl Otto Ellefsen

Technocratic Colonial Housing Policies and Reductive Modernism in Eastlands, Nairobi

Peter Makachia

Transnational Exchanges in Postcolonial Zambia: School Buildings at the Intersection of Architectural, Political and Economic Globalization

Kim De Raedt

Forms of Freedom: Soviet Gifts in Postcolonial Kenya

Ruth Prince

Georg Lippsmeier and His Tropenbau: Salesmanship and Pragmatic Modernism

Antoni Folkers

Israel/Africa: The Laboratories of (Post)colonial Modernity

Haim Yacobi

'Tout le Congo est un Chantier': Notes on the Archive of a (Post)colonial Construction Firm

Johan Lagae and Robby Fivez

INTERLUDE

Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The Zambia World Bank Educational Projects

Mette Tronvoll

Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The KICC & Fishery Station by Architect Karl Henrik Nostvik in Africa

Iwan Baan

PART 2: AFTERLIVES

'Kenya Grew from Here': Property and History in a Nairobi Housing Estate

Constance Smith

Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and 'European Reservations' during Decolonization

Tim Livsey

The Legacy of Nordic Expertise in Postcolonial Housing Schemes in Nairobi

Tom J. C. Anyamba

Privatization and the Reshaping of the Recreational Landscape of the Industrial Zambian Copperbelt

Patience Mususa

The Ruins of Turkana: An Archaeology of Failed Development in Northern Kenya

Samuel F. Derbyshire and Lucas Lowasa

The Brand New Ruins of Public Health: A Tale of Two Buildings, Kinshasa, DRC

Guillaume Lachenal

'Is This Anthropology Really a Modern Subject?': Kenyan Students' Experience of Nairobi's (Changing) University Architectures

Ida Skjong Grovik

Laboratory Unbuilt: An Architectural Biography of Postcolonial Science in East Africa

Paul Wenzel Geissler

Epilogue Buildings and People: Interdisciplinarity, Juxtaposition and Experimentation

Paul Wenzel Geissler and Johan Lagae

Notes on Contributors

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