Asmara
New book coming out on the architecture of Asmara.
NY Times article reprinted here.A book on the city's architectural wonders, "Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City," to be published next month by Merrell, provides a building-by-building look at a place that Mussolini dreamed would be the start of his Italian empire in East Africa. "The Miami of Africa" is what some have called Asmara because of its Art Deco treasure, but other styles are represented as well - Rationalism, Novecento, neo-Classicism, neo-Baroque and monumentalism among them.
* Ray, 10/19/2003 12:01:48 PM
