Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 This article inaugurates a new ...

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 ...

Itohan I. Osayimwese is the author of “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage.” (Photo by Christian Scully / Design Imaging Studios) This is your first of three ...

Long before the 2023 Venice Biennale, modern African architecture was brought to the world’s attention. Udo Kultermann’s New Architecture in Africa, published in 1963, shed light on that current scene ...

In this article, we take a look at 10 countries with the best architecture in Africa. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of African architecture, you can directly go to 5 Countries with ...

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 ...

Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology Amira Osman receives funding ...

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...

Some spaces feel easy the moment you step into them. They’re not styled to impress, not packed with things for the sake of visual interest, but they’re balanced in a way that makes daily life more ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.