African Modernism and Its Afterlives

List of Figures



Introduction Recognizing African Modernisms



Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae and Nina Berre



PART 1: AFRICAN MODERNISM





Karl Henrik Nostvik: Remnants of Nordic Aid


Nina Berre





Africa's 'Lone Star': Building 'New Liberia' in the Context of Post-war Africa


Iga Perzyna





Countryside Reconstruction in Postcolonial Africa: The Ujamaa Experience


Karl Otto Ellefsen





Technocratic Colonial Housing Policies and Reductive Modernism in Eastlands, Nairobi


Peter Makachia





Transnational Exchanges in Postcolonial Zambia: School Buildings at the Intersection of Architectural, Political and Economic Globalization


Kim De Raedt





Forms of Freedom: Soviet Gifts in Postcolonial Kenya


Ruth Prince





Georg Lippsmeier and His Tropenbau: Salesmanship and Pragmatic Modernism


Antoni Folkers





Israel/Africa: The Laboratories of (Post)colonial Modernity


Haim Yacobi





'Tout le Congo est un Chantier': Notes on the Archive of a (Post)colonial Construction Firm


Johan Lagae and Robby Fivez



INTERLUDE



Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The Zambia World Bank Educational Projects



Mette Tronvoll



Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The KICC & Fishery Station by Architect Karl Henrik Nostvik in Africa



Iwan Baan



PART 2: AFTERLIVES





'Kenya Grew from Here': Property and History in a Nairobi Housing Estate


Constance Smith





Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and 'European Reservations' during Decolonization


Tim Livsey





The Legacy of Nordic Expertise in Postcolonial Housing Schemes in Nairobi


Tom J. C. Anyamba





Privatization and the Reshaping of the Recreational Landscape of the Industrial Zambian Copperbelt


Patience Mususa





The Ruins of Turkana: An Archaeology of Failed Development in Northern Kenya


Samuel F. Derbyshire and Lucas Lowasa





The Brand New Ruins of Public Health: A Tale of Two Buildings, Kinshasa, DRC


Guillaume Lachenal





'Is This Anthropology Really a Modern Subject?': Kenyan Students' Experience of Nairobi's (Changing) University Architectures


Ida Skjong Grovik





Laboratory Unbuilt: An Architectural Biography of Postcolonial Science in East Africa


Paul Wenzel Geissler



Epilogue Buildings and People: Interdisciplinarity, Juxtaposition and Experimentation



Paul Wenzel Geissler and Johan Lagae



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• História
• Antropologia
• Estrutura e design arquitectónico
• Arte e Design: design modernista e Bauhaus

architecture; landscape; design; africa; urban; culture; colonialism; anthropology; planning