La modernidad ignorada. Arquitectura moderna de Luanda

The Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands (Plaza Arquitecto Alberto Sartoris 1. Santa Cruz de Tenerife) hosts in its halls, from 13th November until 12th December, 2014, the exhibition Modernity ignored. Modern architecture of Luanda

The exhibition, which will be inaugurated during the conference African city, space for development, is part of an inter university research project coordinated by the University of Alcalá, which by looking at Africa in a different way, shared by Angolan, Portuguese and Spanish architects and historians, 'discovers' modern urbanism and architecture in Luanda.

Africa is a continent which, for various reasons, remains poorly understood and even worse explained. The annual visits that those responsible for the exhibition undertook in Angola in cooperation programmes since 2002, allowed them to get to know a complex social reality and a modern city of which they had no news.

The 'surprise' of the finding led them to contact the Department of Architecture of the University Agostinho Neto to see how to publicise and disseminate what they understood was a prime example of urban planning and modern tropical architecture.

In developing the project African, Spanish and Portuguese researchers interested in the subject were incorporated.

See

  1. Interactive website of the project.
  2. video
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