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dc.contributor.authorMatysek-Imielińska, Magdalena
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-03T12:04:23Z
dc.date.available2024-09-03T12:04:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/53105
dc.description.abstractIn the context of past winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, how can one interpret the decision to honor the architectural work of Francis Kéré in 2022? This article problematizes the West’s interest in African architecture. Is it really due to the fact that African architecture excels in conditions of scarcity and climate crisis? The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale shows that Africa can be regarded as a kind of the “laboratory of the future.” Or is the Pritzker Architecture Prize more of a patronizing and orientalizing gesture that renders African architecture a curiosity, while the Global North chasteningly points out that it is time to rein in the overly spectacular ambitions of contemporary starchitecture, which has neglected its social role? The posed questions direct the analysis toward Kéré’s architecture being interpreted as a local variant of modernism, and his work as a kind of advocacy. Jyoti Hosagrahar’s helpful concept of Indigenous Modernities is invoked as a medium through which Africa’s emerging and important current of participatory architecture may be viewed from the postcolonial perspective and considered beyond the center – periphery opposition.en
dc.description.abstractJak w kontekście dotychczasowych laureatów nagrody The Pritzker Architecture Prize można interpretować decyzję o wyróżnieniu w 2022 roku architektonicznej działalności Francisa Kéré? W artykule problematyzowane jest faktyczne zainteresowanie afrykańską architekturą. Czy rzeczywiście wynika ono z tego, że afrykańska architektura doskonale sprawdza się w warunkach niedoborów i kryzysu klimatycznego? 18 Venice Architecture Biennale pokazuje, że Afrykę można traktować jak swoiste „laboratorium przyszłości”.A może The Pritzker Architecture Prize to raczej protekcjonalno-orientalizujący gest, który czyni z afrykańskiego architekta ciekawostkę, a Globalnej Północy karcąco wskazuje, że czas powstrzymać nadmiernie spektakularne ambicje współczesnej starchitektury, która zapomniała o swojej społecznej roli?Postawione pytania kierują analizę w stronę architektury Kéré, interpretowanej jako lokalna odmiana modernizmu, i jego działalności jako swoistego rzecznictwa. Pomocna koncepcja rdzennych nowoczesności (Indigenous modernities) Jyoti Hosagrahar jest przywoływana jako medium, za pomocą którego można postrzegać z perspektywy postkolonialnej rodzący się w Afryce niezwykle ważny nurt architektury partycypacyjnej, rozpatrywany poza opozycją centrum – peryferia.pl
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPrzegląd Socjologii Jakościowej;3pl
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectIndigenous Modernitiesen
dc.subjectAfrican architectureen
dc.subjectFrancis Kéréen
dc.subjectmodernismen
dc.subjectcolonialismen
dc.subjectpostcolonial perspectiveen
dc.subjectrdzenne nowoczesnościpl
dc.subjectarchitektura afrykańskapl
dc.subjectFrancis Kérépl
dc.subjectmodernizmpl
dc.subjectkolonializmpl
dc.subjectpostkolonialna perspektywapl
dc.titleFrancis Kéré: A Spokesperson of African Architecture? Modernism and Decolonizationen
dc.title.alternativeFrancis Kéré – rzecznik afrykańskiej architektury? Modernizm i dekolonizacjapl
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number122-141
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Wrocław, Polanden
dc.identifier.eissn1733-8069
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dc.contributor.authorEmailmagdalena.matysek-imielinska@uwr.edu.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/1733-8069.20.3.06
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