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Title Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings
Full text https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37658/1/MOHOA_Invented%20Modernisms_Revisions.docx
Date 2022
Author(s) Gallagher, Julia; Manful, Kuukuwa Oduguamba; Ncube, Innocent
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.
Language en
Publisher Wiley
Relation https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37658/
Type of publication Journal Article; PeerReviewed
Format text
Identifier Gallagher, Julia, Manful, Kuukuwa Oduguamba and Ncube, Innocent (2022) 'Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings.' Curator: The Museum Journal. (Forthcoming)
Repository London - SOAS, University of London
Added to C-A: 2022-07-04;10:52:43