Fugitive Archives is published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Jap Sam Books in the context of the project Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Archit4ecture, the 2019-2022 interation of the CCA's Multidisciplinary Research Program, organized with the support of the Mellon Foundation.

 

 

Fugitive Archives is not a book about African architecture or its history. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work of the fellowss and about how, to centre Africa in histories of architecture, they had to develop new ways of finding, seeing and listening. the sources presented here are starting points for dismantling and expanding existing architectural archives, in which what is considered valuable enough to archive remains dominated by colonial or Western knowledge frameworks. Through varied media an formats, the sources multiply histories by highlighting diverse actors, practices, and geographies--on and off the continent--implicated in the history of architecture in Africa. Rather than suggesting key, but inevitably reductive, themes, this book brings the fellows and their sources into dialogue in three sections that foreground similar methods and challenges to locating, accessing, reading and constructing otherwise fugitive archives.

 

 

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