Kordonouri, Thomais;
Teame, Biniam;
Denison, Edward;
(2022)
Asmara's architectural heritage as a bricolage: The case of St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral.
Curator: The Museum Journal
, 65
(3)
pp. 643-661.
10.1111/cura.12507.
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Abstract
Asmara's modernist heritage, adjudged by UNESCO to possess “outstanding value to humanity”, combines the architectural practices of locals and former “colonizers”, and embodies Eritrea's modernist encounters. In 2017 Asmara was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List under Criteria 2 and 4 and remains Africa's only explicitly modernist site. Employing the concept of bricolage to examine some of Asmara's most notable buildings, this paper questions UNESCO's rejection of Eritrea's claim to Criterion 3, which was intended to acknowledge the essential contribution of indigenous labour and cultural traditions in the creation and articulation of modernism in Asmara. The work focusses on the pre-eminent example of St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, a building with deep symbolic meaning and material and constructional histories of both Eritrean and Italian architecture. Finally, its bricolages contributed significantly to the production of a unique modernist language that defines Asmara's claims to modernism, a modernism not of Europe, but of Africa
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Asmara's architectural heritage as a bricolage: The case of St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cura.12507 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12507 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©2022 The Authors. Curator: The Museum Journal, published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169115 |
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