Asmara

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37337142551
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Books
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24.95
book_author_name: 
Edward Denison
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Merrell Publishers Ltd
published_date: 
13/10/2006
isbn: 
9781858943824
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Books > Art, Fashion & Photography > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning
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Edward Denison|Paperback|Merrell Publishers Ltd|13/10/2006
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9781858943824
Book Description: 
Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world. This superb building-by-building survey, illustrated with previously unpublished archival material and specially commissioned photography, chronicles the colonial past and remarkable survival of a city that has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa".

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