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

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.