View of the old town of Khartoum, Sudan. Image © Sergey-73 via Shutterstock There is a burgeoning, perhaps overdue, interest in mid-twentieth-century African architecture of the Modern Movement. This period saw independence movem… Read on blog or Reader Free Autocad Blocks & Drawings Download Center Read on blog or Reader From Kumasi to Khartoum: How Architectural Education in Africa Was Influenced by Modernism By Mohieldin Gamal on August 20, 2024 View of the old town of Khartoum, Sudan. Image © Sergey-73 via Shutterstock There is a burgeoning, perhaps overdue, interest in mid-twentieth-century African architecture of the Modern Movement. This period saw independence movements and new self-ruling governments asserting their new nationhood with built projects, often in what was regarded as the International Style or Tropical Modernism, both offshoots of Modernism. These included monuments, convention centers, and hotels, with well-known examples such as the refined brutalism of the Kenyatta International Convention Center in Nairobi, Kenya, or the formal expressionism of the Dakar International Fair, Senegal. Read more »

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