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Africa
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House for a African family
E. May
1945 [project]
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Indigenous African architecture
R. Gardi
Van Nostrand Reinhold; 1974
- African Architecture
Evolution and Transformation
N. Elleh
McGraw-Hill; 1996
- Architektur und Mythos
Lehmbauten in Afrika
G. Chesi
Haymon Verlag; 1995
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Central Africa - Southern Africa
Springer Verlag
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docomomo Journal, 2003,28
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Rassegna: Architecture in the Italian Colonies in Africa, 3/1992,51
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Einfaches Bauen mit Lehm- Wohnhäuser im Sahel
in: Detail: Einfaches Bauen | Simple Forms of Building, 1/1998
G. Chesi
page 6–10
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May 5, 2008
- Douala in Translation
The book Douala in Translation was recently published. Its subtitle promises a ‘view’ of the biggest city in Cameroon and its ‘creative transforming potentials’.ArchiNed.nl – news
Marilyn Douala Bell is the great-granddaughter of King Rudolf Douala Manga Bell, who fought against the Germans and erected the famous Pagoda Palace in Douala. She set up doual’art with Didier Schaub in 1991. Doual’art is based on the assumption that…
December 19, 2007
- Architecture Biennale Sao Paulo 2007
The seventh Architecture Biennale — the most important after Venice say the Brazilians — takes place until December 16 in the exhibition building by Oscar Niemeyer in Sao Paolo. Alex van de Beld of architecture firm Onix, one of the participants in the Dutch presentation, visited the Biennale and explored the favelas.ArchiNed.nl – news
Brazil itself is present everywhere at the Biennale with a posse of architects around the Pritzker Prize winners Niemeyer and da Rocha. Europe is poorly represented. Other parts of the world are largely absent, apart from South Africa, which presents…
September 19, 2007
- The Gulf: Future of the City, Edition 2007?
This summer Volume 12, Al Manakh landed on the doormats of subscribers. On Monday September 10 Ole Bouman (Archis), Rem Koolhaas (OMA/AMO) and Mark Wigley (C-Lab) presented this guide to the Gulf region to a critical audience in the NAi lecture theatre.ArchiNed.nl – news
The special edition of Volume was compiled on the occasion of the International Design Forum Dubai held last May. Al Manakh is divided into three sections. The first two focus on recent developments in the Gulf region. Entitled Dubai Guide and edited…
June 1, 2007
- Visionary Power 2
The second day of the Visionary Power conference began with a provocative story from Elia Zenghelis. After head curator of the IABR Vedran Mimica had announced that the emphasis of the day would be on the dark side of the city, Zenghelis spoke of an architecture in crisis.ArchiNed.nl – news
Architect Elia Zenghelis observed a fluctuation in the belief that holds the profession and its practitioners together. ‘We have now reached a point at which there are no longer any shared paradigms’, according to Zenghelis. Architects …
October 31, 2006
- Housing Generator revisited
In 1997 ArchiNed let the Housing Generator project pass by unnoticed. Now, almost ten years later, we’re making up for that. In South Africa Jeroen Mensink visited Barbara Southworth, prize-winner for the Cato Manor (Durban) location and now director of the Department of City Spatial Development & Urban Design in Cape Town.ArchiNed.nl – news
In 1996, two years after the first post-apartheid elections were held in South Africa, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam initiated the Housing Generator Competition for South African Cities, a project that involved various South African instit…
December 1, 2005
- Candilis-Josic-Woods: dialectic of modernity
According to George Candilis, Alexis Josic and Shadrach Woods, building for the masses was the primary function of architecture and urban design. They believed that humanism and regionalism were the two main concepts. Tom Avermaete wrote a thesis on the design philosophy and work of the three.ArchiNed.nl – news
'And if there are no more cities, we return to savagery.' This is one of the two quotes from Shadrach Woods with which Tom Avermaete begins his book. It's a quote that rings differently in the weeks after the unrest in French suburbs. Certainly for t…
August 2, 2005
- The Modernist Heritage in Africa
The ArchiAfrika foundation recently organised a workshop and conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, entitled 'Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence'. Antoni Folkers of ArchiAfrika kept a diary.ArchiNed.nl – news
ArchiAfrika is a foundation set up by a group of Dutch architects who worked in Africa and want to increase knowledge about African architecture in Africa and the rest of the world. During the three-week workshop the participants documented and analy…
June 15, 2001
- Performing the City
From 31st May to 2nd June, the Prototypo Seminar in Architecture entitled Performing the City joined in Oporto 36 distinguished architects to discuss the city in its several dimensions. We hereby present a review of the proceedings sent to us from Portugal.ArchiNed.nl – news
Curated by Paulo Martins Barata (Promontório Architects, Lisbon), with Gerrit Confurius (Editor, Berlim) and Luis Tavares Pereira (Architect, Oporto) with the support of the APM (Portuguese Management Association) and Prototypo (Portuguese architectu…
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