Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa." Desperate to build quickly, the colonial government of the time allowed radical architectural experimentation that would not have found favour in ...
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Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa." Desperate to build quickly, the colonial government of the time allowed radical architectural experimentation that would not have found favour in the more conservative European environment. Asmara therefore became one of the world's prime locations for architectural innovation during the Modern Movement. That this occurred at all is remarkable enough, but that these buildings should have survived in such numbers today makes it one of the finest modernist cities in the world. This building-by-building survey, illustrated with rare archival material and specially commissioned photographs, is a groundbreaking publication that is set to become one of the most important new books on modernist architecture of recent years.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Cover corners are lightly bumped. Bottom edge of spine is lightly bumped, but binding is tight. Binding is tight. Pages are yellowed around edges, but text and images are bright and unmarked.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages with no owners' marks; the hard cover shows only a little shallow wrinkling around spine ends; the dust jacket bears short creases at spine ends and mild sunning along the spine, otherwise clean and attractive, now protected in a clear sleeve. 240pp.; color illus.; 4to.
