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 ...

He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they are showing how to build sustainably for a warming, changing planet; what’s ...

It has also led to the birth of styles such as deconstructivism and postmodernism, making it a diverse template open to interpretation. A template African architecture can adopt, neglect the ...

It taking place in a 200 year old English barn in Milton Keynes helped to explore the juxtapositions between the English and Nigerian styles ... recent graduate of BA architecture who sought ...

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 ...

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 ...

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