Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital

by Hilton Judin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367519445
• ISBN13: 9780367519445
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages