Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea

An In-visible Colony, 1890-1941
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4724-1496-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea during the Italian colonial period spanning from 1890-1941. Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, the book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. As Italy’s colonia primogenità or 'first born colony', Eritrea and its capital, Asmara, not only bore witness to the emergence of politicized interiors and international expositions, the colony became a vehicle that polarized issues of race and gender. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism, literature and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy's ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries. Consequently, modern architecture inscribed Eritrean subjectivities while redefining technologies that affected constructions of the colonial interior. Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea demonstrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1: Displaced in the Sun; 2: Asmara; 3: Modernità e Interiorità: The Interiors of Africa Orientale Italiana; 4: At Home in the Mirage

Über Autor(innen)

Sean Anderson