Selection from the Library #2

Manuel Herz – African Modernism: Architecture of Independence Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia 2015, Park Books, Zurich

Manuel Herz’s groundbreaking study on African Modernisms, abundantly illustrated, collects the architecture as  mementos of the independence of 5 African nations

Francesco Bonami, Julia Rodriguez Windholm (ed.) – Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist Eye, 2005, DAP/MCA, Chicago

Bonami’s and Windholm’s interdisciplinary study brings together research from anthropology, sociology and political sciences to shine light on the universal experience of mobility, whilst commenting on tourism and travel.

Clementine Deliss, Taimaz Shahverdi – Trading Style: Weltmode im dialog
2012, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld

Trading Style draws on the concept of style as a global phenomena enhanced through global streetstyles and the exchange with international major fashion labels.