Abe journal, architecture beyond europe, 23 | 2024
Material Constraints
First Edition
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- Publisher
- InVisu
- Edited by
- Monika Motylińska, Robby Fivez, María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares, Paul Sprute,
- Journal
- ABE Journal | n° 23
- Language
- English
- Publisher Category
- Applied Sciences > Architecture and Civil Engineering
- BISAC Subject Heading
- ARC000000 ARCHITECTURE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning > G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3801 OUVRAGES DE DOCUMENTATION > 3069 TECHNIQUES ET SCIENCES APPLIQUEES
- Title First Published
- 15 January 2025
Paperback
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- Publication Date
- 15 January 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9791097315252
- Extent
- Absolute page count : 244
- Code
- 107943
- Dimensions
- 17 x 23.5 cm
- List Price
- 46.50 €
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- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Dossier: Material constraints
Monika Motylińska, Robby Fivez, María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares, Paul Sprute,
Introduction: Swimming in an Ocean of Materials 9
Gauri Bharat, Bhavya Jain, Becoming Concrete: Materiality and Water Infrastructure in Colonial India 19
Ewan Harrison, Rixt Woudstra, Iain Jackson, Accelerating Development: Taylor Woodrow and Arcon's Prefabricated Steel Structures in Decolonizing West Africa 45
Ksenia Litvinenko, Unsettled Modernization: Soviet Historiography on the Mongolian Ger (1935-1980) 83
Juliane Richter, Alfonso Alfonso González, Projected Traditions? Tracing an East German-Cuban Collaboration in Loam and Soil Cement Construction in
Havana-Cocosolo 113
Juliane Richter, Alfonso Alfonso González ¿Tradiciones proyectadas ? Rastreando una colaboración entre Alemania Oriental y Cuba en la construcción con barro y cemento en La Habana-Cocosolo 139
Monika Motylińska, Robby Fivez, "Addiction to Cement." Narratives and Strategies for Tackling the Lack of Cement in Sub-Saharan Africa (1920s-1980s) 165
Varia
Igor Bloch, House Construction and Social Engineering in the Beaux Métiers and Formation Sociale Manuals of the Bibliothèque de l'Étoile (1943-1966) 195
Dissertation abstracts
Pauline Maartje Bezemer, Urban Models, Building Types and Estate Transformations: An Analysis of the Public Housing Estates of Nairobi, Accra, Douala, and Lomé 219
Reviews
Will Davis, Imperial Malaise
A review of Miel Groten, The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe: Space, Place, and the Construction of an Imperial Environment, 1860-1960, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022 (Landscape and Heritage Series) 231
Ricardo Costa Agarez
A review of Michael Falser (ed.), Picturesque Modernities: Architectural Studies in Global Regionalism (1890-1950) = Modernités pittoresques: études architecturales en régionalisme mondial (1890-1950), Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2023 (Art et societé) 235