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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.

Modern Architecture in Africa: Practical Encounters with Intricate African Modernity

Foreword.- Introduction: The Clock Tower.- PART I Working on the African city.- The lost cities of Africa.- The modern African city.- The other side of Zanzibar.- Popular housing in Ouagadougou.- The contemporary African city.- PART II Building in Africa.- Farewell to the African Archadia.- The Faculty of Engineering in Dar es Salaam.- A field office in Wagadogo.- Inno-native African building technology.- PART III African comfort.- The people and their African environment.- The Dobie House.- Turiani Hospital.- Restituitas and autarky.- PART IV Monument care in Africa.- From Imhotep to Docomomo.- The rockhewn churches of Lalibela.- The restoration of St. Joseph's Cathedral.- The completion of the Mater Misericordia.- Monument care in Africa.- Bibliography.- Index.- Glossary / African synonym.- Abbreviations.- Illustration credits.