Architecture of Peter Rich - Conversations With Africa

Peter Rich has a unique, contemporary, yet uniquely African architecture. This book shows how his work emerges from a fascination with indigenous settlements and their forms of complex symmetry and examines various community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Artist, a Dreamer and a Clown; 2. Learning from the Ndebele; 3. Forming an Architectural Language: Westridge house & garden; 4. The Implied Diagonal: early residential projects; 5. Mandela’s Yard: social architecture; 6. The Golden Rhino: commemorating Mapungubwe; 7. Cairns with Tentacles: organic architecture

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jonathan Noble is Professor of Architecture at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is author of 'African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks', 2011, Ashgate.

Zusammenfassung

Peter Rich has a unique, contemporary, yet uniquely African architecture. This book shows how his work emerges from a fascination with indigenous settlements and their forms of complex symmetry and examines various community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Noble, Noble Jonathan
• Verlag: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781848222571
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-257-1
• Seiten: 184
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Africa, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, Republic of South Africa, Individual architects and architectural firms, South Africa;architecture;regional modernism