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Architectural Education in the Intermediate Zone
Oussouby Sacko on African architectural identity and his studies in China, interviewed by Cole Roskam
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
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Where Was Not Modernism?
Where Was Not Modernism?
Ikem Stanley Okoye redefines the origins of African modernism
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visiting scholars 2018, Dainese Elisa, african architecture, Africa, Van Ginkel Associates
23 August 2018, 6:30pm
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23 August 2018
6:30pm
Study Room Keyword(s):
visiting scholars 2018, Dainese Elisa, african architecture, Africa, Van Ginkel Associates
2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
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The Modernizing Beat
The Modernizing Beat
Dele Adeyemo rereads the production of space of a modernizing Ghana through highlife
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47 pages : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm
[Casablanca] : Les Éditions-Edarba, [approximately 1925]
L'architecture Nord-Africaine contemporaine.
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47 pages : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm
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[Casablanca] : Les Éditions-Edarba, [approximately 1925]
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xix, 173 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm
Singapour : Publié par Concept Media Pte pour le compte du Prix Aga Khan d'architecture, ©1983.
Lectures de la ville africaine contemporaine : actes du Séminaire 7 consacré aux Transformations de l'architecture dans le monde islamique, Dakar, Sénégal, 2-5 novembre 1983 [sic].
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xix, 173 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm
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Singapour : Publié par Concept Media Pte pour le compte du Prix Aga Khan d'architecture, ©1983.
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223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm
Paris : L'Harmattan, ©1989.
Villes africaines : anarchie et raison d'une architecture / Jak Vauthrin.
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223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm
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Paris : L'Harmattan, ©1989.