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Terbatas Perpustakaan Prodi Arsitektur
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Terbatas Perpustakaan Prodi Arsitektur
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On 21 January 2014, the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment (Technical University
of Delft, TUD) hosted a conference on the topic. During a full and well-attended day in the
University’s handsome Berlage meeting suite, 10 Europe-based scholars presented their papers.
Mercedes Volait (INHA Paris and COST [Office for Co-operation in Scientific and Technical
Research] Action chair) set the scene with her paper, ‘Towards a global and connected
history of modern European architecture’, with a particular focus on North Africa. Two Delft
contributors followed: Herman van Bergeijk (Delft) on the 1923 visit by leading Dutch architect
Berlage to the Dutch Indies, and Nicholas Clarke (South African PhD student at TU Delft) on
the work of Dutch architects in the Boer republic of the Transvaal over the brief period between
the discovery of gold and diamonds in the 1870s and the British-imposed Union of South Africa
in 1910. Two British contributions were by Robert Home (Anglia Ruskin, UK, and Planning
Perspectives editorial board member) on British colonial urban planning, particularly the
impact of law and regulations upon urban landscapes, and by Ola Uduku (Edinburgh) on the
colonial heritage in Nigeria, encompassing mission stations, Government Reservation Areas
and master plans. Two richly illustrated presentations came from Eduard Ko¨gel (TU Berlin)
on the built environment heritage of Shanghai, and the threats to it from recent development,
and from Madalena Cunha Matos (Lisbon) on photographic collections about the Portuguese
colonies of Angola and Mozambique in the early twentieth century. Italy’s 80-year colonial
occupation of Ethiopia and Eritrea was the subject of two speakers, Gabriella Restainok, who
compared master plans for Asmara and Addis Ababa, and Caterina Borelli (an independent
film-maker), who screened her documentary film, Asmara, Eritrea, showing the value of
local interviews in histories of place and landscape.