Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital /
"This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of economic growth, social engineering and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on ideological and nationalistic roles that were never remote from the increasingly...
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Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Architext series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "South Africa builds ..."
- Apartheid ideology and architectural form : state building in Pretoria
- Atomic Research Centre
- Volkseie : Afrikaners and the University of Pretoria
- Emerging traditions : the vernacular in "separate development"
- Norman Eaton's glass cabinet : Wachthuis
- Hubris : isolated edifices, state apparatuses and a depleted vision
- Conclusion : architecture for ourselves