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Title Architecture in Asmara : colonial origin and postcolonial experiences / edited by Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf.

Imprint Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]
©2017
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 2nd FL Fine Arts Collection Books  NA1591.6.E652 A843 2017    Available
Collation 479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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still image sti rdacontent
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volume nc rdacarrier
Series Basics ; 59
Basics (Berlin, Germany) ; 59.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part II: Postcolonial experiences. First chapter: Tracing postcolonialism. Rome-Asmara : a postcolonial archaeology of colonial spaces / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Photo essay : Rome denied. Postcolonial paths in the city (Roma negata. Percorsi poscoloniali nella città) / Rino Bianchi and Igiaba Scego -- Postcolonial utopia in Erminia Dell'Oro and Elisa Kidané : visions of an ideal society in Asmara and beyond / Rebecca Hopkins -- Travellers of the street : flânerie in Beyene Haile's Asmara play Weg'i Libi / Christine Matzke -- Photo essay : Giro d'Eritrea / Chris Keulen -- La piccola Roma : the female characteristics of unoccupied spaces in Totò Films / Linde Luijnenburg -- Asmara, the past in the present : echoes of colonial presence in documentaries on mobility / Gianmarco Mancosu. -- Second chapter: A geography of memories. A short note on Aba Shawl / Alemseged Tesfay -- Under a shadow of a colonial city : a memory of childhood in indigenous Asmara / Tekle Woldemikael -- Growing up in the Second Rome : Eritrean migrant women remember their childhood in postcolonial Asmara / Sabrina Marchetti and Domenica Ghidei Biidu. -- Third chapter: City and migration. In the belly of fascism and colonialism / Annalisa Cannito -- A city goes abroad : remembrance and hope in migration from Asmara / Magnus Treiber -- Asmarino in Jerusalem : Asmara from the perspective of an Eritrean refugee / Hadas Yaron -- Photo essay : Bar interiors in Eritrea / Eric Lafforgue. -- Fourth chapter: Asmara's new images. Asmara online : the city as contested icon / Victorial Bernal -- Asmara : image, memory and identity / Peter Volgger -- Pride and posters in Asmara : what the graphic landscape reveals / Steven McCarthy -- Until next time in Asmara : a city of aspiration, despair and ambition / Tanja R. Müller -- Photo essay : Asmarinos / Stefan Boness. -- Conversations. Interview with Medhanie Teklemariam -- Interview with Magnus Treiber -- Interview with Christoph and Konrad Melchers -- Interview with Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos.
Introduction / Peter Volgger -- Photo essay : colonial mirrors / Jean Robert. -- Part I: Colonial origin. First chapter: Colonialism and modernity. Is modern architecture good? / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- A modern historic city / Stefano Zagnoni. -- Second chapter: Construction of the colonial sphere. Colonial preliminaries : the genesis of Italian imperialism in the experience of the governance of Asmara / Pier Giorgio Massaretti -- Asmara : the real capital of the Italian empire in East Africa / Gian Luca Podestà -- Shaping the city from below : Asmarini's struggle for the city between the end of the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries / Francesca Locatelli -- Sleeping memory in Italian archives : historical photographs of Asmara and Italy's controversial relationship with its colonial past / Silvana Palma -- Asmara : making (colonial) modernity work through transport networks and infrastructure / Federico Caprotti -- Racing across Asmara : engines, speed and the colour-line in Eritrea (1938-1954) / Massimo Zaccaria. -- Third chapter: Asmara's colonial architecture and urbanism. Asmara and Rome : architecture and urbanism of the Fascist Italian empire and their reception / Harald Bodenschatz -- Twentieth-century architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Colonial specula : re-mapping Asmara / Peter Volgger and Stefan Graf -- Asmara and the development of its modern urban environment post 1941 / Belula Tecle Misghina -- Arturo Mezzèdimi : promises of an African modernity (Asmara 1940-1959) / Benno Albrecht, Filippo de Dominicis and Jacopo Galli -- Other scenes, possible selves : building the Italian colonial interior in Asmara / Sean Anderson -- Photo essay : Licht-Spiel-Theater (play-of-light theatre) / Günter Richard Wett. -- Fourth chapter: Asmara's cultural heritage. Mapping the past for the sake of the future : the Cultural Assets Rehabilitation Project (CARP) / Peter Volgger, Stefan Graf and Arno Hofer -- Photo essay : architecture as image / Edward Denison -- The Asmara Heritage Project : heritage preservation past, present and future / Medhanie Teklemariam and Edward Denison -- The future of the present : rebranding Fascist architecture as heritage in Asmara / Fassil Demissie.
Summary "The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and its largest settlement. Its beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the imagination. The colonial city becomes a fantastical set of cities where each one reflects the others as if in a kaleidoscope. This book breaks new ground and moves us a little further along in the attempt to decipher Asmara in terms of contemporary theory. The book brings together scholars from a multiplicity of disciplines who have shown the ways in which colonial and postcolonial criticism has served as a platform for new, diversified readings of Asmara. The book examines the current realities of Asmara in order to address the continuing effects of the legacy of colonialism upon the city dwellers."--Publisher description.
Subject Architecture -- Eritrea -- Asmara.
Architecture -- Eritrea -- Asmara -- History.
Architecture, Italian -- Eritrea -- Asmara.
Architecture, Colonial -- Eritrea -- Asmara.
Architecture -- Italy -- Colonies.
City and town life -- Eritrea -- Asmara.
Architecture. fast (OCoLC)fst00813346
Architecture, Colonial. fast (OCoLC)fst00813657
Architecture, Italian. fast (OCoLC)fst00813806
City and town life. fast (OCoLC)fst00862081
Asmara (Eritrea) -- Pictorial works.
Eritrea ǂz Asmara. fast (OCoLC)fst01221158
Italy. fast (OCoLC)fst01204565
Alt Author Volgger, Peter, editor, contributor.
Graf, Stefan, 1987- editor, contributor.
ISBN 9783869224879
3869224878
ISBN/ISSN 9783869224879