Adjaye, David, 1966-

Adjaye, Africa, architecture : a photographic survey of metropolitan architecture / edited by Peter Allison. - Compact edition. - 407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm

Originally published in 7 volumes in larger format as: African metropolitan architecture. 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Maghreb. Algiers/Algeria ; Rabat/Morocco ; Tripoli/Libya ; Tunis/Tunisia -- Desert. Cairo/Egypt ; Djibouti/Djibouti ; Khartoum/Sudan ; Nouakchott/Mauritania -- The Sahel. Bamako/Mali ; N'djamena/Chad ; Niamey/Niger ; Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso -- Forest. Abidjan/Côte d'Ivoire ; Accra/Ghana ; Bangui/Central African Republic ; Banjul/the Gambia ; Bissau/Guinea-Bissau ; Brazzaville/Republic of Congo ; Conakry/Guinea ; Cotonou/Benin ; Dar es Salaam/Tanzania ; Freetown/Sierra Leone ; Juba/South Sudan ; Kampala/Uganda ; Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of Congo ; Libreville/Gabon ; Lilongwe/Malawi ; Lomé/Togo ; Luanda/Angola ; Malabo/Equatorial Guinea ; Maputo/Mozambique ; Monrovia/Liberia ; Moroni/Comoros ; Port Luis/Mauritius ; Praia/Cape Verde ; São Tomé/São Tomé and Príncipe ; Victoria/Seychelles ; Yaoundé/Cameroon -- Savanna & grassland. Abuja/Nigeria ; Antananarivo/Madagascar ; Dakar/Senegal ; Gaborone/Botswana ; Mogadishu/Somalia ; Pretoria/South Africa -- Mountain and highveld. Addis Ababa/Ethiopia ; Asmara/Eritrea ; Bujumbura/Burundi ; Harare/Zimbabwe ; Kigali/Rwanda ; Lusaka/Zambia ; Maseru/Lesotho ; Mbabane/Swaziland ; Nairobi/Kenya ; Windhoek/Namibia -- Essays. African metropolitan architecture / David Adijaye ; Cities, connections, and circulations in Africa / Garth Myers & Jenny Robinson ; Friend, enemy, neighbour, stranger / Okwui Enwezor ; A tale of three highland cites / Naigzy Gebremedhin ; The African urban past / Suzanne Preston Blier ; Imagined topographies / Nana Oforiatta Ayim.

This book presents fifty-three African cities that illustrate the continent's diverse architecture and features over 700 color photographs.

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Adjaye, David, 1966- --Travel--Africa.
Adjaye, David, 1966-


Architecture--Africa.
Cities and towns--Africa.
Architecture--Africa--Pictorial works.
Cities and towns--Africa--Pictorial works.
Travel.
Cities and towns.
Architecture.


Africa.


Pictorial works.

NA1580 / .A352 2016

720.96