PUBLIC TALK
Thursday, February 24, 7pm
WEST AFRICAN MODERN: MODERN MOVEMENT ARCHITECTURE IN WEST AFRICA AND THE DISCOURSE OF TROPICAL REGIONALISM—Ola Uduku examines the multiple legacies of modern architecture in West Africa alongside the professional, academic and discursive networks that shaped architectural practices in countries like Nigeria and Ghana. In addition to the work of the well-known British architects such as Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, James Cubitt, and the Architects Co-Partnership who pioneered the development of tropical modernism, Uduku explores the built legacy of indigenous, local architects and artists whose work both predated and contributed to the new modernism. Uduku is a senior lecturer in Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art School of Architecture and Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
For more information: 305.535.2649 or regina@thewolf.fiu.edu. Free.