World Bank building, Asmara (all images, courtesy of the author) Asmara is itself a giant monument to colonial folly. When it comes to architecture, the Italians simply lost their heads. —Michela ...
Introduction / Peter Volgger -- Photo essay : colonial mirrors / Jean Robert. -- part I: Colonial origin. 1st chapter: Colonialism and modernity. Is modern architecture good? / Kathleen ...
Located on an highland plateau at the centre of Eritrea, Asmara, a Modernist city of Africa is the capital of the country and is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a colonial planned city, ...
Eritrea's capital Asmara is home to one of the world's best collections of futurist architecture. The is bidding to become the nation's first UNESCO World Heritage site. Once a sleepy corner of the ...
Completed in 1939, the Fiat Tagliero service station is one of the city's many Art Deco structures. Sailko/Wikimedia Commons The city is rife with examples of Art Deco architecture. Clay ...
2023 45COM 7B.122 - Asmara: A Modernist African City (Eritrea) (C 1550) 2021 44COM 7B.117 - Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa (Eritrea) (C 1550) 2019 43COM 7B.104 - Asmara: A Modernist African City ...
Much of what we create—clothing, furniture, buildings—is plotted with an eye toward an imagined future. More often than not, we imagine that future incorrectly. Eli Durst’s photographs frequently ...
ON A dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station. Once owned by AGIP, an Italian petrol company, it was for decades the last place to fill up ...
The name Asmara may never ring like that of El Dorado. But high above the clouds over Eritrea, East Africa's newest capital city has treasures all its own. Through a quirk of colonial history, the ...
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