Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital

ISBN-13: 9780367519445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Hilton Judin

Opis

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of economic growth, social engineering and political repression from 1957 to 1966.

Spis treści

Introduction: "South Africa Builds …"  1. Apartheid Ideology and Architectural Form: State Building in Pretoria  2. Atomic Research Centre  3. Volkseie: Afrikaners and the University of Pretoria  4. Emerging Traditions: The Vernacular in "Separate Development"  5. Norman Eaton’s Glass Cabinet: Wachthuis  6. Hubris: Isolated Edifices, State Apparatuses and a Depleted Vision  Conclusion: Architecture for Ourselves  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Hilton Judin is an architect and Director of Postgraduate Architecture at the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He has developed a number of exhibitions, including a display of apartheid state documents and public video testimonies [setting apart] with the History Workshop in Johannesburg and District Six Museum in Cape Town. He was curator and editor (with Ivan Vladislavić) of blank____ Architecture, apartheid and after for the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He was in practice with Nina Cohen on the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mvezo and Qunu, and Living Landscape Project in Clanwilliam. He edited the volume Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid. He is working on the Political Evolution of Community Building, and with the History Workshop on the conference and anthology In Whose Place? Confronting the Vestiges of the Colonial Landscape in Africa. He continues with compilation of an Anatomy of Apartheid.