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- Title
Il leone ride ancora L'Africa di Pancho Guedes.
- Authors
Sarno, Francesca
- Abstract
In Africa, among the many variations and diffusions of the Modern Movement, there have been attempts to incorporate the vernacular qualities of the continent into architectures. However, most of these attempts have often failed, driven by a process of adapting traditional forms to the materials and needs of modernity. In this scenario, the work of Pancho Guedes emerges, capable of producing an original post-colonial and post-modern African architecture. Born in Portugal, educated in Mozambique and South Africa, and a member of Team 10, Guedes is among those architects who, spanning from the Mediterranean to the sub-Saharan region, have sought to activate a flow of ideas, styles, forms, and architectural-artistic sensibilities. His production between the 1950s and 1970s is distinguished by the "humanization" of buildings, during a period of both political and architectural disorientation. His work does not express Portuguese colonization in Africa, but rather the geocultural hybridization that now appears as one of the paths to pursue in asserting African architectural culture. This involves a synthesis process between tradition, modernity and contemporaneity, today especially significant.
- Subjects
AFRICA; MODERN movement (Architecture)
- Publication
Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica, 2023, Issue 171, p50
- ISSN
0392-8608
- Publication type
Article