Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1858943825 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Asmara on Your Coffee Table Amazon Woman I spent my formative years living in Asmara, and was interested in reading about all the wonderful buildings in town. The writers did a good job gathering up all the tidbits of information. Asmara is a town that has changed little over the years, but one thing that has completely cha. fascist aesthetics I would like to add how important a text this is to the literature on fascist aesthetics.With the institutionalization of genocide studies, the development of curriculum on the powerful ideas of modernity, national myth, the power of a carefully-developed aesthetic for propaganda, sp. Wonderful Memories I spent seven years living and working in Asmara and was fascinated by its architecture. To compliment Asmara the city, are its citizens, the Asmarinos-friendly, dedicated, hardworking and very proud.Looking through the pages of this book brought back great memories of my time in Asm
This superb building-by-building survey, illustrated with previously unpublished archival material and specially commissioned photography, chronicles the colonial past and remarkable survival of a city that has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa".. Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world
An excellent overview of Asmara's colonial past, the ambitious building program of its Italian occupants, and its present condition.
Naigzy Gebremedhin, one of Africa's most experienced and highly regarded consultants in the fields of architecture, engineering and the environment, was formerly Director of Eritrea's Cultural Assets Rehabilitation Programme. Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren are heritage consultants with broad international experience.They have spent more than five years