Research Catalog

Title

Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital / Hilton Judin.

Author

Judin, Hilton

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, [2021]

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Details

Description

xxxvii, 205 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.

Summary

"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 predominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. The book examines in detail how this process reflected the usurpation of regionalism and the International Style and contributes to the wider discourse on international post-war modernism in architecture. A group of key state building projects in Pretoria that came to embody the ambitions of the apartheid regime for industrialisation and progress serve as detailed case studies. Architects drew heavily on the idea of modernity and the vernacular, as the relationship between the agricultural rural and industrialised urban was transforming in the capital city of Pretoria. Grappling with architectural form in an age of enormous technological change had challenged architects' intent on giving expression to the idea of a shared modernity as much as an embrace of 'western civilization.' There was an understanding by the governing Nationalist Party of the symbolic resonance of highly visible buildings in the apartheid capital. Yet these buildings were being erected to consolidate a white presence in Africa just as black South Africans were being forcibly removed from the city, and the built environment was being stripped of contested traditional and everyday cultural traces of the entire black population. This book will appeal to students and scholars in architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology"--

Series Statement

Architext

Uniform Title

Architext series.

Subject

• Apartheid and architecture > South Africa > Pretoria
• Architecture and state > South Africa > Pretoria
• Modern movement (Architecture) > South Africa > Pretoria
• Apartheid and architecture
• Architecture and state
• Buildings
• Modern movement (Architecture)
• Pretoria (South Africa) > Buildings, structures, etc
• South Africa > Pretoria

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JQF 22-173

ISBN

• 9780367519438
• 0367519437
• 9780367519445
• 0367519445

LCCN

2020045354

OCLC

1201659909

Author

Judin, Hilton, author.

Title

Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital / Hilton Judin.

Publisher

Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Architext

Architext series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Judin, Hilton. Architecture, state modernism and cultural nationalism in the apartheid capital Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, [2021] 9781003055778 (DLC) 2020045355

Research Call Number

JQF 22-173