Erscheint: September 2026
Buch (Softcover): Fachbuch
Relational Modernities
The Missionary Architecture of Pancho Guedes in Colonial Mozambique
Verlag:
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35228261
EAN: 9783038604891
Erscheint: September 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Portuguese-born Mozambican architect Amâncio "Pancho" Guedes (1925-2015) designed several hundred buildings that became icons of late-colonial African modernism. His expressive design language, the Stiloguedes, is even recognized as a distinct style in its own right. Relational Modernities. focuses on Guedes's lesser-known work: the quieter, more austere buildings he designed for Swiss and British Protestant missionary societies in the then-Portuguese-ruled Mozambique: schools, student dormitories, and community centers. Architectural historian Silvia Balzan situates them within the unequal society and politics of the country in the later stages of colonial rule. She demonstrates how Guedes and the missionary societies created alliances and spaces that were inevitably intertwined with colonial structures, yet at the same time already open to a postcolonial future. As "relational modernity," Guedes's hybrid practice dissolved dichotomies between the colonizers and the colonized, the secular and the religious, Western modernity and Indigenous African culture. Silvia Balzan reexamines Guedes's legacy beyond stylistic eccentricity or missionary charity and assesses the sociopolitical and cultural significance of the buildings themselves, which continue to shape Mozambicans' everyday lives to this day.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Sascha Roesler
- Silvia Balzan
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 240