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Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital (Hardcover)
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Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital (Hardcover)
Series: Architext
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This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the
architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic
growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings
took on an ideological role that was never remote from the
increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing
mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected
the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to
wider discourses on international postwar modernism in
architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions
of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as
case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied
for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried
latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic
prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known
and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents
buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the
documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and
include classified material and photographs from the National
Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and
documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State
architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an
evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation
of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to
their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in
Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and
contested position on the African continent. The shift from
provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless.
Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the
state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures
torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs
erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of architectural history as well as those
with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and
social anthropology.
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