{"id":26824,"title":"E. Maxwell Fry, \"African Experiment - Building for an Educational Programme in the Gold Coast\"","dimensions":"24.8 x 30.5 cm","date_begin":"1953-01-01","material":"paper, ink","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eArticle by Maxwell Fry in \u003cem\u003eThe Architectural Review\u003c/em\u003e, No. 677 Vol. CXIII, May 1953\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"african-experiment-building-for-an-educational-programme-in-the-gold-coast","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/145/medium_500/2020_Monoculture_Photo_M_HKA_cc_27_Mod2.jpg?1602755637","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/145/large/2020_Monoculture_Photo_M_HKA_cc_27_Mod2.jpg?1602755637","poster_credits":"image: (c) M HKA, Published by The Architectural Review","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo principal approaches towards modern architecture of the 1950s can be distinguished. The first can be described as a regionalist approach that focused on the climate and geography of a region, but paid little attention to cultural analysis or existing vernacular tradition. This can be illustrated by the various\u0026nbsp;\u0026#39;African experiments\u0026#39;\u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;regionalist modernist projects of the leading British architects Maxwell Fry (1899-1987) and Jane Drew (1911-1996) in West African countries that were then part of the British Empire. In the 1950s the couple joined Le Corbusier to work on the creation of Chandigarh, the new capital of the divided Punjab in India. The modernist architecture of Chandigarh is widely regarded as one of the prominent experiments in urban planning and a symbolic statement of the radical break from tradition and colonial past of the newly independent India. Although the purity of the modernism was initially supposed to be protected \u0026ldquo;from whims of individuals\u0026rdquo; by the Edict of Chandigarh (as prescribed by Le Corbusier), the universal functionalism of modernist residential architecture has been challenged by various forms of ad hoc urbanism, inspired by local traditions of urban life.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn de jaren 1950 kunnen we twee belangrijke benaderingen van moderne\u0026nbsp;architectuur\u0026nbsp; onderscheiden. De eerste kan worden omschreven als regionalistisch. Ze richt zich op het klimaat en de geografie van een regio maar besteedt weinig aandacht aan culturele analyse of bestaande volkstradities. Een goed voorbeeld zijn de verschillende \u0026#39;Afrikaanse experimenten\u0026#39;, namelijk regionalistisch-modernistische projecten van Maxwell\u0026nbsp;Fry\u0026nbsp;(1899-1987) en Jane Drew (1911-1996), twee vooraanstaande Britse architecten, in de West-Afrikaanse landen die toen nog deel uitmaakten van het Britse rijk. In de jaren 1950 vervoegden de twee architecten Le Corbusier voor een samenwerking rond de creatie van\u0026nbsp;Chandigarh, de nieuwe hoofdstad van de religieus verdeelde Indiase deelstaat Punjab. De modernistische architectuur van\u0026nbsp;Chandigarh\u0026nbsp;wordt algemeen beschouwd als een prominent experiment in stadsplanning en als een symbolisch statement: ze betekende een radicale breuk met de traditie en\u0026nbsp;het koloniaal\u0026nbsp;verleden van het nieuwe onafhankelijke India. Hoewel het Edict of\u0026nbsp;Chandigarh, uitgevaardigd door Le Corbusier, aanvankelijk de puurheid van de modernistische architectuur moest beschermen \u0026ldquo;tegen de grillen van individuen,\u0026rdquo; werd\u0026nbsp;het\u0026nbsp; \u0026#39;universeel functionalisme\u0026#39; van de modernistische woonarchitectuur ook in twijfel getrokken door allerlei vormen van ad-hoc-stedenbouw, ge\u0026iuml;nspireerd door lokale stadstradities.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}