Contact Architecture: Colonial Architecture in Namibia between Norm and Translation

With Kontaktarchitektur, based on research in Namibia before 2008 and drafted as a dissertation in 2018, Ariane Komeda proposes “contact architecture” as an alternative view of German colonial architecture in Namibia. Contributing to the limited body of research on German colonial construction acti...

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Autor principal: Sprute, Paul
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: ABE Journal 2021
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:With Kontaktarchitektur, based on research in Namibia before 2008 and drafted as a dissertation in 2018, Ariane Komeda proposes “contact architecture” as an alternative view of German colonial architecture in Namibia. Contributing to the limited body of research on German colonial construction activity, the author builds upon―and extends―the first overview of German colonial building in Namibia, compiled by Walter Peters in 1981. Komeda’s discussion of colonial architecture within the specif...