TY  - BOOK
AU  - Volgger,Peter
AU  - Graf,Stefan
TI  - Architecture in Asmara: colonial origin and postcolonial experiences 
T2  - Basics
SN  - 9783869224879
AV  - NA1591.6.E652 A8255 2017
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - DOM Publishers
KW  - ARCT-H
KW  - Asmara (Eritrea)
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; Peter Volgger --; Photo essay : colonial mirrors; Jean Robert. --; part I; Colonial origin; 1st chapter; Colonialism and modernity; Is modern architecture good?; Kathleen James-Chakraborty --; A modern historic city; Stefano Zagnoni. --; 2nd 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 Podesta --; 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. --; 3rd 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 Mezzedimi : 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); Gunter Richard Wett. --; 4th 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. --; part II; Postcolonial experiences; 1st 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 citta); Rino Bianchi and Igiaba Scego --; Postcolonial utopia in Erminia Dell'Oro and Elisa Kidane : visions of an ideal society in Asmara and beyond; Rebecca Hopkins --; Travellers of the street : flanerie 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 Toto Films; Linde Luijnenburg --; Asmara, the past in the present : echoes of colonial presence in documentaries on mobility; Gianmarco Mancosu. --; 2nd 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. --; 3rd 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. --; 4th 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. Muller --; 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
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