[Applied] Foreign Affairs: Investigating Spatial Phenomena in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach.
This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana's Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects' creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses - well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: 01/23/2017
ISBN: 9783035611007
Pages: 452
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.90w x 1.00d