Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

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By Danny Hoffman ’94

Published Nov. 13, 2017

Danny Hoffman ’94 explores the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, destroyed during the urban warfare of the 1990s, to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Nearly 100 color photographs taken by Hoffman illuminate the lives of these buildings' transient inhabitants and the challenges they face.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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