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Some spaces feel easy the moment you step into them. They’re not styled to impress, not packed with things for the sake of ...
Discover the award-winning Zando Central Market in Kinshasa, a climate-responsive architecture project by THINK TANK ...
Moderating the dialogue between the traditional and the modern in the search for a new architecture for Africa. By Francis Kéré Mr. Kéré is an architect. This personal reflection is part of a series ...
Parpend, a design studio from Lagos, Nigeria, interviews every year a group of architects to discuss their favorite projects and how they created them. Believing firmly that design should be a fusion ...
Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...
Professor Coleman A. Jordan teaches architecture at Morgan State University. For over two years, he has worked closely with students and alumni from the Baltimore HBCU, as well as from Tuskegee and ...
The new domain : architecture at the time of liberation / Manuel Herz -- Ghana -- Architecture after independence / Hannah Le Roux -- Senegal -- Henri Chomette : Africa as a terrain of architectural ...
Modernism in the bravest new world. Not urbanism, but urbanity. The latter noun is often misunderstood to mean cityness when really what it refers to, in its fuller sense, is culture, civilisation and ...
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Lake Charles has been chosen for the Louisiana premiere of the documentary “Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture.” The ...
This is a study of African coastal elite residential architecture during the colonial period, specifically between the 1860s and 1930s. Anomabo, a historically-significant port town, serves as a ...