Erica Mann and an Intimate Source
| Autor: | Lee, Rachel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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histoire de l’architecture
architectural history Privatarchive biography historia del urbanismo biographie Architekturgeschichte archivi privati storia dell’architettura archivos privados biografia storia dell’urbanismo biografía historia de la arquitectura private archives archives privées Biografie history of urban planning storia dell'architettura Stadtplanungsgeschichte storia dell'urbanismo histoire de l’urbanisme |
| Popis: | Standing at the entrance of a dilapidated farm house near the Athi River in Kenya, the architect, town planner and activist Erica Mann (1917–2007), wearing a blue denim sunhat, silver eye shadow and fuchsia pink lipstick, muses about her humble beginnings in Africa (fig. 1). “It took about twenty years before we became just ‘foreigners,’ not ‘bloody foreigners!’” she explains, referring to how the British colonisers had treated her and her family when they had first arrived in Kenya over 60 y... |
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