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Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

Stierli, Martino
Okoye, Ikem Stanley
Cohen, Mallory

Hardcover

Architecture HistoryRegional Architecture

Publisher Price: $75.00

ISBN10: 1633451852
ISBN13: 9781633451858
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 3.26
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.70 Depth: 12.20
Language: English

A stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and more

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific--and thrilling--architectural production, during which leaders of newly independent nations sought to redefine themselves and their countries in contrast to colonial rule. Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa focuses on seven western African nations--Benin (Dahomey), Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo--and illuminates the ways in which architects sought to adapt, adopt or reinvent the idiom of modernism for their specific cultural, political and economic purposes.

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