Angola Cinemas — Concrete Dreams of a Postcolonial Stage, Steidl 2015

This photobook by Walter Fernandes and Miguel Hurst, Angola Cinemas , published in 2015 by Steidl in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it documents one of the most unexpected and visionary chapters in modern architectural history. Across Angola, from the 1930s to the 1970s, dozens of cinemas were constructed — not just as functional buildings, but as monumental expressions of futurism, utopia, and modernity in concrete.

Technical Sheet
Title: Angola Cinemas
Artist / Author: Walter Fernandes (photographs), Miguel Hurst (editor)
Date: 2015
Technique / Printing Method: Colour offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions: Approx. 25 x 32 cm (landscape format)
Pages: Unspecified (est. ~200–250)
Language: Multilingual (includes English, Portuguese, likely German)
Publisher: Steidl / Goethe-Institut
ISBN: 9783869307947
Condition: New