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The revolution will be stopped halfway : Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
- Title
- The revolution will be stopped halfway : Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria / Jason Oddy ; with a preface by Samia Henni.
- Author
- Oddy, Jason, 1967-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA859.N5 O33 2019 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 206 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria's President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy's further research into Niemeyer's Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Boumedienne, Niemeyer : When Militarism Meets Modernism / Samia Henni -- Concrete Spring / Jason Oddy -- The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway / Jason Oddy -- Documents / Oscar Niemeyer Foundation Archive.
- ISBN
- 9781941332504
- 1941332501
- LCCN
- 2019006304
- 40029553049
- OCLC
- on1085577393
- 1085577393
- SCSB-14615954
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries