Building Apartheid
Subtitle: On Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781409446040
Subjects: Architecture and society; Great britain, colonies, africa; Apartheid
Description: Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid. Through reference to previously unexamined archival material, the book uncovers a myriad of mechanisms through which Empire laid the foundations onto which the edifice of apartheid was built. It unearths the significant role British architects and British architectural ideas played in facilitating white dominance and racial segregation in pre-apartheid Cape Town.