- Title :
-
Modern architecture in post-colonial Ghana and Nigeria
- Author :
- LE ROUX, Hannah ;
- Publication year :
-
2004
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Discusses modernist architectural practice in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s, noting how architects, both British expatriate and African, transformed architecture there in the post-colonial period. Highlights the diversity of works by the architects Oluwole Olumuyiwa, Alan Vaughan-Richards, Ulli Beier, and members of the Kumasi school, based in the Faculty of Architecture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 19 ill.; 2 plans ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ; 5306A - 1945- ; Architecture ; 530-VI - 1945- ;
- French keywords :
- Architectes ; Architecture ; Beier, Ulli, n.1922 ; Ghana ; Kumasi (GHA), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology ; Nigeria ; Olumuyiwa, Oluwole, 1929-2000 ; Post-colonialisme ; Variété ; Vaughan-Richards, Alan, 1925-1989 ; 1900-2000 ; 1950-1970 ;
- Descriptors :
- Architects ; Architecture ; Beier, Ulli, b.1922 ; Ghana ; Kumasi (GHA), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology ; Nigeria ; Olumuyiwa, Oluwole, 1929-2000 ; Postcolonialism ; Variety (concept) ; Vaughan-Richards, Alan, 1925-1989 ; 1900-2000 ; 1950-1970 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
-
Architectural history, 2004, 47
- INIST identifier :
- 24838012 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 0066-622X ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London
- Publisher country :
- UNITED KINGDOM ;
