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- Title
Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings.
- Authors
Manful, Kuukuwa; Batsani‐Ncube, Innocent; Gallagher, Julia
- Abstract
This article examines recent attempts to create specifically African forms of modernist political architecture that draw on 'traditional' or 'pre‐colonial' aesthetic forms and ideas. Taking examples of three prestigious structures – the presidential palace in Ghana, the parliament in Malawi and the Northern Cape regional parliament in South Africa – the article shows how vernacular ideas have been incorporated into state‐of‐the‐art political architecture, producing new or explicitly 'African' forms of modernism. It explores how such buildings, which draw on 'invented traditions', are used alongside conventional, monolithic representations of the state to produce 'invented modernisms' that both uphold and question the African state as a project of modernity.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Cape (South Africa); GHANA; MALAWI; MODERNITY; MODERN movement (Architecture)
- Publication
Curator, 2022, Vol 65, Issue 3, p569
- ISSN
0011-3069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cura.12505