He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they ...

Fractals are a type of geometric configuration that appears the same at every scale, and is integral to African architecture and braiding styles. Ballin’s work also draws inspiration from Ojeikere’s ...

Designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello has attracted acclaim in the global design community over the last few years for a practice that ...

Every expression of architecture and building type, or architectural style, is an answer to the ethno-cultural context and physical realities of the locale and studying Nigeria and all its variety ...

For Nigerian artist Ayobola Kekere-Ekun ... but not a passion that would inspire a career. At first, architecture seemed like the more stable path for Kekere-Ekun, following in her great-uncle ...

Take the National Museum of African American History and ... solutions produce better buildings than blanket style mandates. America’s architectural legacy deserves buildings that honestly ...

and the Organization of African Unity (1963). Within this context, Modernist architecture emerged as a powerful symbol of national identity, ambition, and the collective aspiration for a brighter ...

There he became the lead architect of the Labour Unions under British mandate, designing communal workers houses in the Bauhaus style ... would fit the Nigerian climate and culture. Maxwell Fry and ...

As African architects meet in Ghana to discuss the continent's architecture, do you like the buildings where you live? Recent headlines talk of modern buildings collapsing in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda ...

via Kéré Architecture; Photo by Nataniel ... Anonymous International style skyscrapers still dominate many African cities. “A certain generation of architects have seen ‘the other ...