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The First Pan-African Biennale Establishes a Platform for a Decolonized, African-Led Architectural Future

The inaugural Pan-African Architecture Biennale one-week event is scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya, launching on ...
Yahoo

Nigerian Architect Olajumoke Adenowo on Making It in a Patriarchal Society and Her New Book

MILAN — One of Africa’s most recognizable female faces in the field of architecture, Olajumoke Adenowo, said making it to the top wasn’t easy in Nigeria’s patriarchal society. “I have had to work ...
ArchDaily

Lesley Lokko Receives African Cultural Icon Award for Her Contributions to Architectural Education and Discourse

Lesley Lokko OBE has been recognized with the African Cultural Icon Award, honoring "leaders in the creative arts who promote ...
Afro

First HBCU pavilion at Venice Biennale honors African Diaspora with a talking drum

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 New York Times

In Building the Future, a Blueprint From the Past

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 ...
Architectural Record

Back in Print, Second Edition of 'African Modernism' Surveys Architecture Across the Continent

The dearth of literature on African architecture has long been a source of frustration for the continent’s design community. The last decade, however, has seen a gradual change, as young designers ...
Wired

An Afrofuturist Architect Builds for a Better Future

Growing up in rural West Africa, Diébédo Francis Kéré and his friends would build makeshift shelters from clay, tree branches, and leaves when they got caught in the rain away from home. Decades later ...
Time

Meet the Architect Behind The National Museum of African American History

David Adjaye in Dbayeh, near Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 25, 2015.Balkis Press/AP Meet David Adjaye, the Famed Architect Behind the New National Museum of African American History and Culture Opening in ...
Next City

Colonialism Didn’t Just Steal Africa’s Art. It Took Africa’s Architecture, Too.

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 ...
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African architects "to tell a story under their own terms" at Pan-African Biennale of Architecture

The first Pan-African Biennale of Architecture has been announced for 2026. In this interview, its inaugural curator, Omar Degan, explains his vision for the event. Set to take place in Nairobi, Kenya ...
Insider Monkey

5 Countries with the Best Architecture in Africa

Algeria ranks fifth on our list of countries with the best architecture in Africa. The country is home to seven distinct UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Algerian architecture has been impacted by Islamic ...