Policies, people, projects. School building as development aid in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa

This dissertation started from the ambition to contribute to the mapping of post-World War II architectural globalization. Africa played a central role in this phenomenon, with intense exchanges of architectural expertise and practices taking place from the late colonial period onwards. Yet compara...

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Gepubliceerd in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe,
Hoofdauteur: Raedt, Kim De
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: ABE Journal 2018
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Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:This dissertation started from the ambition to contribute to the mapping of post-World War II architectural globalization. Africa played a central role in this phenomenon, with intense exchanges of architectural expertise and practices taking place from the late colonial period onwards. Yet comparatively speaking, Africa remains surprisingly absent in the canon of architectural history, with authoritative survey works of twentieth-century architecture still addressing the continent only marg...