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020 _a9783906027746
040 _cGoethe Zentrum Library
082 _aCA2016/02
245 _aThe Architecture of Independence: Ghana ,Senegal ,Cote d'Ivoire ,Kenya ,Zambia
250 _a2. Auflage
260 _aGermany
_bPark Books AG
_c2016
300 _a639p.
_b;pictures
_c23cm.
500 _aIn the 1950s and 1960s most African countries gained their independence .Architecture became one of the principal means by which the young nations expressed their national identity . Parliament buildings, central banks ,stadiums ,convemtion centers ,universities and independence memorials were bulit with often heroic and daring designs. This book investigates for the first time the relationship between architecture and nation building in Ghana, Senegal ,Kenya ,Cote d'Ivoire and Zambia. It features around eighty buildings with descriptive texts, photographs, site plans and selected floor plans and sections .The images ,commissioned especially for this book ,are contributed by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster.
700 _aHerz ,Manuel
_eEditor
700 _aSchröder ,Ingrid
_eEditor
700 _aFocketyn ,Hans
_eEditor
700 _aJamrozik ,Julia
_eEditor
942 _2Custom
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