Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
A Study in Hybridity: Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition
This article compares the pavilions of Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Paris as a case study in architectural hybridity. Architecture was one of the primary arenas for enacting and testing colonial politics in France and in the colonies. The Colonial Exposition was organized to distinguish sharply between France and her colonies and to represent the evolutionary difference between them, but its pavilions were actually hybrids of colonial and French architecture. These hybrids were ambiguous, neither indigenous nor French. Their existence ruptured a colonial power structure predicated on the strict segregation of things metropolitan and things colonial.
The contrast between the Moroccan pavilion (designed to match the monuments of Fez and Marrakech closely) and the Madagascar pavilion (an invented “native” architecture for the Red Island) illustrates the types of hybrid constructions produced for the Colonial Exposition. Although mixtures of French and indigenous architecture, these pavilions were promoted as authentic, accurate representations of the colonies.
A Study in Hybridity: Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition
This article compares the pavilions of Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition in Paris as a case study in architectural hybridity. Architecture was one of the primary arenas for enacting and testing colonial politics in France and in the colonies. The Colonial Exposition was organized to distinguish sharply between France and her colonies and to represent the evolutionary difference between them, but its pavilions were actually hybrids of colonial and French architecture. These hybrids were ambiguous, neither indigenous nor French. Their existence ruptured a colonial power structure predicated on the strict segregation of things metropolitan and things colonial.
The contrast between the Moroccan pavilion (designed to match the monuments of Fez and Marrakech closely) and the Madagascar pavilion (an invented “native” architecture for the Red Island) illustrates the types of hybrid constructions produced for the Colonial Exposition. Although mixtures of French and indigenous architecture, these pavilions were promoted as authentic, accurate representations of the colonies.
A Study in Hybridity: Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition
Morton, Pat (Autor:in)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 52 ; 76-86
01.11.1998
11 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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