The Architecture of Peter Rich

Conversations with Africa

The Architecture of Peter Rich
Jonathan Noble
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Hardback
h250 x 190mm - 184pg
21 Oct 2020 UK
9781848222571
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Internationally renowned, Peter Rich' s career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his work which emerges from a fascination with African tribal settlements, including his documentation, publication, and exhibition of Ndebele art and architecture, and his friendship with sculptor Jackson Hlungwani. It explores what Rich calls "African Space Making" and its forms of complex symmetry; various collaborative community oriented designs of the Apartheid and post-Apartheid period, especially Mandela' s Yard in Alexandra township; and finally, his more recent timbrel vaulted structures, constructed from low-tech hand-pressed soil tiles derived from his highly innovative and award-winning work at Mapungubwe. The book shows how Rich combines these rich African influences, his sensitivity to the local context, and his environmental awareness with Modernist principles.
Jonathan Noble is Professor of Architecture at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He is author of African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks, 2011, Ashgate.
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ISBN-13: 9781848222571
Published: 21 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 190mm
Pages: 184

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