In 2014, Philipp Meuser was looking for information about architecture in Africa. His Berlin-based architecture firm, Meuser Architekten, was designing two German embassies, in Mali and Ghana, and he ...

Have you ever imagined what the architecture of Africa would look like today, if the great civilizations of Egypt, Timbuktu, Mali, the Dogon, Zulu, Yoruba, and thousands of other African empires had ...

History is often taught as if advanced architecture followed a single European arc—from classical stone temples to Roman engineering, from medieval cathedrals to modern cities—while Africa appears as ...