The Changing Face of a Village’s Architecture in Southeast Nigeria
Journal Title: International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development - Year 2021, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Architecture in a Nigerian town, Adazi Nnukwu, Anambra State has gone from Neolithic to International Style, from the use of clay products to concrete, steel and glass. The small town’s architecture that was predominantly mud buildings in the 1980s are today, covered with concrete and steel buildings and appeared International style. The term International Style covers buildings and architects of the formative decades of modernism. The unguided growth and explosion in the architecture of the small town has resulted in a confused architectural modules and difficult to classify by any standards. This paper aims to indicate the new trend and shift in the architecture of the small town from Neolithic to International Style or an undetermined style. It adopted content base analysis where the authors laid emphasis on the works of previous authors in the field. Adazi Nnukwu struggles with different styles of architecture for her post modern, urban to suburban architectural growth and has not embraced a particular architectural style, but the architecture of different historic periods including, but not limited to neoclassical architecture. The confusion in the classification of the town’s architecture has led to different opinions especially, with the fragmentation, non liner process of design, interest in manipulating ideas of a structure’s surface or skin, and apparent non Euclidean geometry non rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of their architecture that some considered, deconstructivism and has stuck and has now, in fact, come to embrace a general trend within their contemporary architecture. Bons Obiadi N | Vitalis Irouke | H. I. Ivoke | Emmanuel Kikanme | Chinwe I. Mgbajiaka "The Changing Face of a Village’s Architecture in Southeast Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41195.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comengineering/civil-engineering/41195/the-changing-face-of-a-village’s-architecture-in-southeast-nigeria/bons-obiadi-n
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Bons Obiadi N | Vitalis Irouke | H. I. Ivoke | Emmanuel Kikanme | Chinwe I. Mgbajiaka
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