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

If This Then That: Sculpture — Guzangs comparison featuring John Chamberlain's crushed automobile-steel sculpture alongside Gonçalo Mabunda's throne welded from decommissioned weapons

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

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

Nyambo Masa Mara on Border Politics, Sustainability, and Building Masa Mara

Nyambo Masa Mara on Border Politics, Sustainability, and Building Masa Mara GOA FS CL 2025 1001160

Nyambo Masa Mara on Border Politics, Sustainability, and Building Masa Mara Portrait of Nyambo Masa Mara, Founder of the brand Masa Mara. Nyambo Masa Mara’s two freeform dreadlocks hang down his back, thick and heavy. He estimates they weigh about 15 kilograms total. “People always ask if they’re heavy,” he says. “Of course they are. […]