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... connotations of the verandah were transformed after Sudanese independence, thanks to its creative use by architects who critically employed the technical know-how progressed under the field of tropical architecture. The article identifies this approach as the search for a more equitable internationalism...

... as treatises on countries in which the use of modernism corresponded with "Tropical Architecture."1^ The most thorough technical guide nationalist agendas, in West Africa the movement was intro• on tropical architecture was probably the manual compiled from...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ARCHITECTURE AS COLONIAL DISCOURSE ANGELA FERREIRA'S MAISONS TROPICALES Angela Ferreira, Maison Tropicale, 2007, installation view (detail), Portuguese...

... into architectural and natural settings evoking features studiously generic; the only discernible the colonial tropics, with motifs such as cannons. characteristic of his silhouette is his humanity. She creates a dissonance between the lacy aesthet- More dramatically, an unmistakably female form ics—the doily...

... not lic atmosphere of what could be any tropical climate from the venture beyond the artificial beach of their hotel Antilles to Africa, across the Atlantic through the Indian Ocean, resorts; those who have never been; and Chris Ofili. The 35- all...

... of the old Marxist-­Leninist regime; as it rubbed shoulders with matrons in stately passage, kids on the loose, men in languid conversation, dudes in their finery hanging out in cars, along reddish clay pathways under the giant shadow of ancient tropical trees, taking...

... for Concrete Pre-manufacture); one still inhabited today (the Delamere Flats); and one demolished ca. 2005 (the Oceanic Hotel). The article explores May’s impulse for gardening as a kind of anti-architecture and crosses his narrative with those of two other architect-horticulturalists: Erica Mann, a Jewish...

... for Concrete Pre-manufacture); one still inhabited today (the Delamere Flats); and one demolished ca. 2005 (the Oceanic Hotel). The article explores May’s impulse for gardening as a kind of anti-architecture and crosses his narrative with those of two other architect-horticulturalists: Erica Mann, a Jewish...

... A proper viewing of the biennial involved travel to more remote settings. As a taxi brought a companion and me across the Emirate across stretches of desert, below gray mountains, through old towns, past mosques and modern skyscrapers we became acquainted with Sharjah s architecture and topography and its...

..., Hughes’s The Weary Blues, Countee Cullen’s Color, who could be counted on to chronicle her menus, Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and James Weldon her celebrity guests, and even her three marriages Johnson’s God’s Trombones.16 and divorces. “A’Lelia’s commission of an avant-garde...

... and erected boundaries between the artist and his subjects.15 Lindsay Twa has argued that Scott s Haitian Market (1950) further illuminates his interest in organizing the chaotic vibrancy of the market into stringent order ; taking up a position at a slight remove, he uses the architecture surrounding...

... the female form to cal worlds: primal and futuristic, lushly investigate and analyze broader issues ranging from W tropical and postapocalyptic. She colonialism and displacement, ritual and transfor- invents enchanted forests, interplanetary realms, mation, hunger and consumption...

... philosopher Henri Lefebvre coined the its architecture. Closer still, at the steps leading up to idea of social space, based on the idea that every the front door, an exterior text panel described how society produces its own space and that the hege- it was a former Museum of the Colonies. Initially...

... makes it a portrait of any typical lises, and they store the memory of a turbulent his- victim of this inhuman policy. Together with eight tory. They speak of Ole’s fascination with the flu- wall panels showing this picture, piles of papers tied idity of this architecture, which constantly re...

... that such paintings feature a mystical and immaterial light suggesting the vapors that rise from a tropical swamp, and, in turn, that Douglas positions Black subjects outside of industrial urbanity, the painting s metaphor of progress is in fact quite plain: the path from slavery to emancipation corresponds...