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Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa - Hardcover

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Edited by Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye with Mallory Cohen

 
Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific architectural production, during which leaders of newly independent nations sought to redefine themselves and their countries in contrast to colonial rule. Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa focuses on seven western African nations—Benin (Dahomey), Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo—and illuminates the ways in which architects adapted, adopted, or reinvented the idiom of modernism for their specific cultural, political, and economic objectives.
 
This landmark publication features more than two hundred illustrations, including architectural drawings and archival photographs, as well as a newly commissioned photographic portfolio by François-Xavier Gbré highlighting these stunning works of architecture. Essays on critical topics—including Africanization, Pan-Africanism, infrastructure projects, housing, and tourism—together with close studies of iconic buildings and their architects, situate the region’s architectural production within the contexts that defined it. 224 pages, 250 illustrations. 
 
Edited and with contributions by Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye with Mallory Cohen. Contributions by Adekunle Adeyemo, Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Sabrine Bako, Antawan I. Byrd, Brunno Douat, Johan Lagae, Sonia Lawson, Ayala Levin, Prita Meier, Monika Motylińska, Marcos García Mouronte, Studio NEiDA, Łukasz Stanek, Y. L. Lucy Wang. Photographic portfolio by François-Xavier Gbré
  • Size
    12h x 9.5"w
  • Year of Design
    2026
  • Pages
    224
  • Publisher
    The Museum of Modern Art
  • Author
    Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye with Mallory Cohen
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