[APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Investigating spatial phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa

452 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach.
This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana’s Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects’ creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses – well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.

• Reihe: Edition Angewandte
• ISBN: 9783035611007
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2017
• Genre: Kunst/Architektur
• Verlag: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
• Herausgegeben von: Baerbel Mueller