Maputo’s Modernist Moment

Folded concrete church with angular roof forms against blue sky. Igreja de Santo António de Polana, modernist architecture in Maputo, Mozambique, designed by Nuno Craveiro Lopes, 1962.

Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, in the city then called Lourenço Marques, a generation of architects produced a body of work