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Docomomo International (ed.)
Modernism in Africa. The Architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Birkhäuser (Basel) 2025

Edited by Uta Pottgiesser, Ana Tostões. Contributions by Renad Abdelhakam, Mai Abusalih, Nicholas Kwame Afadzi, Selorm Abla Afeke, Jonathan Kplorla Agbe, Afua Ampomah-Amoako, Bayo Amole, Pieter Burssens, João Vieira Caldas, Emmanuella Ama Codjoe, Guanghui Ding, Zara Ferreira, Kate Foss, Mohieldin Gamal, LaQuaye Glover-Tay, Brendan Hart, Suha Hasan, Michele Jacobs, E. Babatunde Jaiyeoba, Justicia Caesaria Kiconco, Timothy Latim, Ana Magalhães, Christine Matua, Yasmin Mayat, Hadeel Mohamed, Bola Oguntade, Maria Manuel Oliveira, Mark R. O. Olweny, Tubi Otitooluwa, Margarida Quintã, Tahera Rezaie, Annika Seifert, Muram Shaheen, Karlien Thomashoff, Laura Nin Thomashoff, Sandra van der Merwe, Kirk White

Uta Pottgiesser is an architect and Professor of Building Construction and Materials at Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (TH OWL) and Professor of Heritage & Technology at TU Delft. Since 2022, she has been chair of Docomomo International.
Ana Tostões is an architect, historian and a professor at Técnico – University of Lisbon. She was President of Docomomo International until 2022 and editor of the Docomomo Journal (2010–2021).

Originally published in: Felipe Hernández, Beyond Modernist Masters. Contemporary Architecture in Latin America, Birkhäuser, 2009

Originally published in: Uta Pottgiesser, Ana Tostões, Modernism in Africa. The Architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Birkhäuser, 2024

Originally published in: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser, 2023

Originally published in: Wolfgang Sunder, Julia Moellmann, Oliver Zeise, Lukas Adrian Jurk, The Patient Room, Birkhäuser, 2020

Originally published in: Gerhard Steixner, Maria Welzig (eds.), Luxury for All. Milestones in European Stepped Terrace Housing, Birkhäuser, 2020

Originally published in: Susanne Schmid, Dietmar Eberle, Margrit Hugentobler (eds.), A History of Collective Living. Forms of Shared Housing, Birkhäuser, 2019

Originally published in: Cor Wagenaar, Noor Mens, Guru Manja, Colette Niemeijer, Tom Guthknecht, Hospitals: A Design Manual, Birkhäuser, 2018

Originally published in: Eckhard Feddersen, Insa Lüdtke, Living for the Elderly: A Design Manual, second and revised edition, Birkhäuser, 2017

Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider with Eric Zapel (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fifth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2018