Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his
Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968,
Algeria's President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two
universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of
large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to
forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an
in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria
today. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects those images
alongside archival documents and Oddy's further research into Niemeyer's
Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that
inspired and formed these buildings.