“I was immediately sold on what they were trying to do and teach, and I felt they were taking an approach to education and architecture that was not readily accessible anywhere on the continent, maybe ...

There's a new kid on the festival block; the Pan-African Architecture Biennale will launch its inaugural edition in Nairobi, Kenya, on 1 September 2026, it has just been announced. The event – the ...

The history of colonisation still stands tall across west African cities. Benin’s politicians pass laws in a French-built villa. Modernist architecture was brought to Ghana by British colonists. If ...

In the 1960s, a Polish sculptor built a monument to Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah – only for it to be toppled months ...

In her hometown of Kampala, Uganda, Doreen Adengo ’05 M. Arch. co-curated a chapter of “African Modernism: Architecture of Independence,” an exhibition that documents how African nations celebrated ...

In Africa, design practices tend to focus on bottom-up growth and organic, fractal forms. They are created in a sort of feedback loop, what computer scientists call “recursion.

Philipp Meuser wanted to find a comprehensive look at the architecture of West Africa. When it didn’t exist, he and Adil Dalbai designed their own. In 2014, Philipp Meuser was looking for information ...

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 A3 – Archnet Collaborative for Documentation of Africa’s built heritage is elated to announce the first West < > Africa Architecture Biennale scheduled to hold from 20 February – 31 July, 2022.