Project Details
Description
Çollaborative project with School of architecture at KNUST Ghana to conserve extant media and bulidings of the modernist period on the KNUST campus through a series of conservation lectures, proposed architectural history collaborations, and support for KNUST to apply for Docomomo membership
Layman's description
Awareness raising of KNUST's modernist campus and supporting of Ghana's application to become a member of Docomomo - the international organisation concerned with raising awareness of modernist heritage and landscape
Key findings
There is a latent public interest in Ghana's post WW2 modernist architectural history, which showed in the initial workshop programme and plans to help with the support and capacity building in modern African architectural history, and building conservation teaching at KNUST
Acronym | West AFrican Modernism |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 10/07/15 → … |
Links | https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/aapwd/ |
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