A South Africa Event on 2016-03-03 18:00:00
TALK Nnamdi Elleh In conjunction with our exhibition, Architecture of Independence: African Modernism, please join us for a talk by Nnamdi Elleh. Nnamdi Elleh is associate professor of architecture, history and theory at DAAP, University of Cincinnati. He was trained as an architect and received his PhD in art history from Northwestern University. He was a Fulbright Teaching-Research Scholar at the University of Cape Town, where he studied post-apartheid nationalist inspired architecture in South Africa. His research focuses on modern and contemporary architecture as diverse, multi-centered, regional and localized experiences in different parts of the world. Elleh’s selected books include African Architecture, Evolution and Transformation (McGraw Hill, 1996); Architecture and Power in Africa (Praeger, 2001); and Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes: A Perspective on the Protests and Upheavals in Our Cities (Ashgate, 2014). To learn more about the exhibition Architecture of Independence: African Modernism, click here.
at Graham Elliot
217 Huron
Chicago, United States
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