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 ...

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 ...

Award-winning South African architect Luyanda Mpahlwa was one of the first Black students permitted to study architect during the height of the anti-apartheid movement. After spending five years in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2025 Creatives For Our Future - AllSpace Modular Home. Image Courtesy of Swarovski Foundation In response to the need to improve living conditions for displaced communities, AllSpace modular housing ...

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 ...