Place: Maputo

If This Then That: Sculpture — John Chamberlain → Gonçalo Mabunda

If you understand why John Chamberlain’s crushed cars matter, you’ll recognize what Gonçalo Mabunda built from the weapons of a war. IF YOU LIKE JOHN CHAMBERLAIN John Chamberlain transformed crushed automobiles into sculpture, showing that industrial scrap could carry the same expressive force as bronze or marble. Rather than erase the material’s past, he preserved […]

Maputo’s Modernist Moment

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