A Mythic Obsession
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
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This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photogra- phic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain «tropical modernism».
More precisely, Album Architectures, Abidjan is the testimony of an encounter between two individuals who live and share an aesthetic and emotional attach- ment to the lagoon city. Issa Diabaté, architect, contemporary actor of the architectural future of this city that never stops reinventing itself. François-Xavier Gbré, a photographer who has made architecture his preferred medium for apprehending the muted history of places by envisaging architectures as the sedimen- tary traces of the social and political changes of a country, the Ivory Coast.
This book, and the Album Architectures collection more broadly, aims to initiate a reflection on the defini- tion of the notion of contemporary heritage through the valorisation of rich and singular architectural lands- capes, not always identified, often invisibilised, of cities in perpetual urban change.
- ISBN-13
- 9782493283115
- Publisher
- Caryatide LLC (Cosa Mentale)
- Imprint
- Caryatide LLC (Cosa Mentale)
- Publication date
- 3 January 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- Dimensions
- 240 x 320 mm
- Language
- English
