The Great Mosque of Porto-Novo – Benin
Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin in West Africa, is searching for its lost identity since the recent process of decentralisation leaded to the first democratic election of its mayor in 2002. Today the development of the town finds itself in…
Docomomo Saving Modern Monuments – France
Some 500 architectural experts came to Paris in September 2002 to discuss the plight of a threatened species: architecture of the 20th-century Modern Movement. The 7th International DOCOMOMO Conference met in the UNESCO Headquarters designed by Marcel Breuer, one of…
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