- 001
- EditorialL'Afrique, c'est chic
- Abstract
- This issue devoted to Africa is a response to the current fascination with the African city among architects and planners, stimulated among other things by Rem Koolhaas’s research on Lagos. By opting for an explicitly historical perspective, this issue also aims to stand out from a debate often mired in wide-ranging meta-theoretical reflections on the informal city or a reductive view of a forgotten modernist heritage. Through several case studies on architecture and planning practices in Africa between 1950 and 1970, placed in context by two critical essays and a photo reportage on the urban landscape of Maputo, Mozambique, the issue presents a different and still little-known story.
- Citation
- Lagae, J., & Avermaete, T. (2010). Editorial. L'Afrique, c'est chic. L'Afrique, c'est chic. Architecture and Planning in Africa 1950–1970, OASE, (82), 1–3. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/82/Editorial
Download PDF (72.5 KB)
- Editors of this issue
- Tom Avermaete, Johan Lagae
- October 2010
- English/Dutch
- Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
- 170 × 240 mm
- Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
- ISSN0169-6238
- ISBN978-90-5662-775-1
- © NAi Publishers, 2010
- Subsidising institutions
- Netherlands Architecture Fund, Flemisch Community of Belgium, Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Fund