Title: Building 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.
Subjects: Architecture and society, Great britain, colonies, africa, Apartheid, Architecture and race, History, British colonial Architecture, City planning, Buildings, structures, Architecture, south africa, City planning, africa, Architecture et race, Histoire, Architecture coloniale britannique, ARCHITECTURE, Criticism, General, Regional, Buildings, Designs and plans