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Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed states expressed their national identity. <strong><em>African Modernism <\/em><\/strong>investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features 100 buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster especially for the book&rsquo;s first edition, documenting the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed through an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Additional essays on specific aspects and topics of postcolonial Africa, likewise richly illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date that explores the close relationship between architecture and nation building after African countries gained independence from their former colonial powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37066,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34453","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-edited-by-hans-focketyn","8":"author-edited-by-ingrid-schroder","9":"author-edited-by-julia-jamrozik","10":"author-edited-by-manuel-herz","11":"publisher-park-books","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>African Modernism - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: African Modernism, Pages: 640 Pages, Publish Date: 8th Dec 2022, Author: Edited by Hans Focketyn, Edited by Ingrid Schr\u00f6der, Edited by Julia Jamrozik, Edited by Manuel Herz, ISBN: 9783038602941. 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