BENJAMIN TIVEN |
The Delight of the Yearner, parts 1, 2, 3 (2008) |
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| The Delight of the Yearner is one project composed of three parts, each of which circles around the work of the German emigré architect Ernst May, who lived and practiced in Nairobi, Kenya from 1933-1953. Though a refugee from German fascism, he operated in British-controlled colonial Africa with little reflexivity about the moral politics of his situation. His housing designs followed a racialized schema, with different designs intended for Europeans, Indians, and Africans. Within The Delight of the Yearner, it is the Europeans who live in the Africans’ housing and the Africans who live in the height of European Modernist design. | ||||