BDT_29 Modernism in Africa

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).