Theorising architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa : perspectives, questions, and concepts. / txt
edited by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai ; with Livingstone Mukasa.
- 303 p. : ill. ; photo. ; col. ; maps ; plans ; 23 cm. book
- Basics 134 Theorising architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-297). Include index.
Philipp Meuser, Adil Dalbai 8 -- Introduction Adil Daldai, Livingstone Mukasa, Philipp Meuser 10 -- 1 Theorising African Architecture -- Philipp Meuser 18 -- 2 Questioning African Architecture -- Adil Dalbai 88 -- 3 Teaching African Architecture Livingstone Mukasa 116 -- Maps 275 -- Index 284 -- Bibliography 288 -- Editors and Authors 298 -- 4 Past Awareness: History and Heritage -- Adil Dalbai 136 -- Historia Matters: -- Authenticity and Cultural Guardianship -- Lohan Lagae 138 -- Theorizing Complexity: -- Five Commonalties in African Architecture -- Garth Myers 144 -- Retracing Memory: -- A Humanist Approach to Architecture Mphethi Morojele 146 -- Heritage Now: -- Taking Ownership of the Canon -- Edward Ihejirika 148 -- African Modernities: -- Indigenous Elites, Colonialism, and Architecture Antoni folkers 150 -- Reclaiming the Past: -- Our Heritage, Our Cultures, Our Future -- Luyanda Mpahlwa 154 -- Redeeming Heritage: -- Engendering a Fifth Age in African Architecture -- Godson Egbo 158 -- 5 Popular Edifices: Tradicional Knowledge and the Vernacular -- Adil Dalbai 160 -- Modern Vernacular: -- Theorising Popular Architecture Peter A. Makachia 162 -- Intentional Ephemerality: -- Unwritten Architectural Theory in Africa -- Warebi Gabriel Brisibe 164 -- Scaling Microtecture: -- From the Primitive Hut to Vernacular Technology -- DK Osseo-Asare 166 -- Vernacular Sustainability: -- Examples from Ethiopia and Eritrea -- Naigzy Gebremedhin 169 -- Everyday Originals: -- Between Iconic and Vernacular Architecture -- I. Perzyna, M. Morel, B. van der Lans, A. Folkers 172 -- Unrelenting Change: -- Architecture, Modernism, and Identity -- Franco Frescura 176 -- Indigenous Knowledge: -- Communities and Innovation in Africa Linda Felix Mampuru 180 -- 6 Architectural Identity: Style and Authenticity -- Adil Dalbai 182 -- Authentically African: -- The Search for Appropriate Architecture -- Samuel Óghale Oboh 184 -- Othering Africa: -- The Trouble with ‘African Architecture’-- Mariam Kamara 186 -- Affording Authenticity: -- Thoughts on African Architecture -- Ola Uduku -- From Wakanda to Benin: -- Restoration, Representation, and Architecture -- Peter Probst 190 -- State House: -- Reading Statehood Through Metaphors of Home -- Julia Gallagher 192 -- Symbolic Hierarchies: -- Spatial Representations in African Architecture -- Phill Mashabane 194 -- Hybrid Solutions: -- African Architecture and Identities -- Mahmoud Keldi 196 -- 7 Diverse Settings: Social and Spatial Contexts -- Adil Dalbai 198 -- African Cities: -- From Disruption to Mutation -- David Adjaye 200 -- Building Commons: -- An Inventory of a Kampala Neighbourhood -- Francis Kéré 202 -- Make it Funky: -- Imagery, Resourcefulness, Syncopation -- Philip Freelon 204 -- Africasing Education: -- Challenges Inherent in Teaching Architecture in Africa -- Epée Ellong 206 -- Seeing South: -- African Architecture and spatial Justice -- Iain Low 208 -- Cosmopolitan Localism: -- Architecture of Discoveries -- Jacopo Galli 212 -- Urban Polyrhythms: -- Layered Patterns and Programmes for Architecture -- Donna L. Coben -- 8 Constructing Narratives: -- Voices and Representations -- Adil Dalbai 216 -- Balancing Processes: -- An African Theory of Architecture -- Christian Benimana 218 -- Finding a Vocabulary: -- Power Implications of Architectural Language – Tomà Berlanda 220 -- Many Africas: -- Devising New Terminologies and Structures -- Joe Osae-Addo 222 -- Decolonising the Canon: -- Imagined Histories and Alternative Frameworks – Michelle Apotsos 224 -- Architecture’s Other: -- Africa in Flux -- Edward Denison 226 -- Failed Continent? – Representation of Africa – René Boer 230 -- Perceiving Futures: -- Towards an Afro-Imaginary – Mario Gooden 234 -- 9 Taking Charge: -- Agency and Architectural Practice -- Adil Dalbai 236 -- A New Paradigm: -- Ethics and Architecture for an African Environment – José Forjaz 238 -- Architecture Input: -- The Project of Decolonialisation -- Helder Pereira, Coral Gillett 240 -- Which ‘Theory’? – An African Stance on Theorising Architecture – Roger C. Fisher 242 -- Theorising Experience: -- A Neohumanist Perspective – Yashaen Luckan 246 -- Appropriate Modernity: -- About African Contemporary Architecture – Benno Albrecht 248 -- Form and Process: -- Some Notes for an Architect in Africa – Mick Pearce 250 -- Project Africa: -- Very Minor Thoughts on Architecture and Power – Anna Nnenna Abengowe 252 -- 10 Within and Without: Global Perspectives and the Diaspora -- Adil Dalbai 254 -- Double bind: -- Thinking Theory and Africa – Vikramāditya Prakāsh 256 -- Transnational Tactics: -- A View from across the Indian Ocean -- Amit Srivastava, peter Scriver 258 -- Indigenous Identities: -- Australian and African Architecture Experiences – Elizabeth Grant, Scott Heyes 262 -- Jamaican Yards: -- Spatial Construct of the African Diaspora -- Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis 266 -- From Africa to the Diaspora: -- Toward a Theory of (Pan-)African Architecture – Charles L. Davis II 268 -- Afrocentric Architecture: -- From Theory to Design – David Hughes 270 -- Revealing Patterns: -- Ten Principles of Black Cultural Design – Jack Travis 272 --
"Considering the immense diversity of sub-Saharan Africa's architecture and built realities, does it make sense to speak of an African architecture? How does this differ from architecture in Africa? What does the term architecture actually mean in the African context? And how could these questions be conceptualised while leaving behind pre-existing theoretical moulds and biases? Searching for new ways to theorise sub-Saharan African architecture, this collection of 49 essays broadens and develops the discourse around the architecture of a very rapidly changing continent. Its authors - practising architects and renowned scholars - put forward an array of heterogeneous perspectives, question old tropes and emerging narratives, and challenge popular concepts whilst pro posing new ones. All with the aim of critically examining and advancing theoretical reflection on African architectures, both on the continent and globally." --Page 4 of cover