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African Metropolitan Architecture : a book by David Adjaye
août 2012 | Sortie de film, livre, album… | Architecture | Royaume-Uni
Source : Architectural Record
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This handsome book is a culmination of a series of exhibitions held in Massachusetts; London; Bern, Switzerland; Lisbon; and Tokyo that showcased architect David Adjaye’s photographic survey of Africa’s urban environment.
Six of the seven paperback volumes in this boxed set, edited by Peter Allison, consist of pictures of the diverse architectural forms that exist on the continent. The author, who was born in Tanzania but practices in London, should be commended for attempting to document Africa so thoroughly. The book serves as a visual archive for architects, urban planners, and architectural historians interested in the continent’s built environment.
The decision to assemble the pictures on the page in multiple rows, like courses of masonry blocks, adds to the architectonic quality of the book. The photographs vary in size and dimension, preventing a visual monotony that would have resulted from displaying pictures of similar dimensions on every page. Also, the decision to leave the photographs unlabeled allows the buildings and streetscapes to speak for themselves. However, this omission makes it hard for readers to learn more about the architects or clients of the buildings (…)
[Lire l’intégralité de la critique de Adedoyin T. Teriba publiée sur le portail Architectural Record]
The decision to assemble the pictures on the page in multiple rows, like courses of masonry blocks, adds to the architectonic quality of the book. The photographs vary in size and dimension, preventing a visual monotony that would have resulted from displaying pictures of similar dimensions on every page. Also, the decision to leave the photographs unlabeled allows the buildings and streetscapes to speak for themselves. However, this omission makes it hard for readers to learn more about the architects or clients of the buildings (…)
[Lire l’intégralité de la critique de Adedoyin T. Teriba publiée sur le portail Architectural Record]
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