The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway
The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
Jason Oddy
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, September 2019
Paperback | 9 x 11 inches | 208 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1941332504 | $35.00
Publisher's Description:
Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer?s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria?s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modern, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy?s further research into Niemeyer?s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.dDAB Commentary: Think of Oscar Niemeyer and most likely Brazil pops to mind, not Algeria. Sure, Niemeyer completed some of the hundreds of buildings he designed outside of Brazil and South America, particularly during his two-decade-long "exile years" starting in 1965, but I'm probably not alone in lacking familiarity with his Algerian projects before seeing this book. I'm glad the book made its way to me, not only for it apprising me of his university and sports projects there, but for the beautiful do...
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