FIELD NOTES / ERI / Eastern Africa
Eritrea
Modernist forms & lived urban fabric.
START WITH A PLACE
Asmara: A Modernist African City
Asmara contains early modernist buildings alongside Indigenous neighbourhoods within a city shaped by Italian colonial planning. Its heritage includes both architectural experimentation and the unequal conditions under which it developed.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare a streamlined civic or commercial facade with the street life around it. Read modern form through local use and historical context.
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Limestone paper#eee7d8oklch(0.929 0.021 85.945)
Warm sediment#c6ad86oklch(0.760 0.060 78.678)
Earth ochre#a36545oklch(0.568 0.092 47.550)
Weathered slate#657d79oklch(0.569 0.029 184.084)
Carbon ink#282b2boklch(0.286 0.004 196.917)