Afritecture
Subtitle: building social change
By: edited by Andres Lepik ; with texts by Sierra Bainbridge ... [et al. ; translations, Ian Pepper, Laura Schleussner]
Contributors: Technische Universität München. Architekturmuseum
Publisher: Hatje Cantz; A.M., Architekturmuseum der TU München
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ostfildern; München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783775736619
Subjects: Architecture
Description: Africa's economic boom is being accompanied by a rapid urban growth that is decidedly altering the continent. Approaches to an individual, ecological, and context-sensitive kind of architecture are evolving within these transformative processes. In these changing urban structures, numerous projects aim at making an impact on society. Thus, a large number of building schemes-most of them conceived with the help of the local population-are turning the city into an experimental field for design. Rural planning, on the other hand, is developing traditional local architectural techniques, vocabularies, and materials through technological and stylistic innovations. This catalogue features essays by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and others, and presents around twenty outstanding examples of contemporary African architecture south of the Sahara.
Notes: On the occasion of an exhibition held at Architekturmuseum der TU München, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, September 13, 2013-January 12, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.