The home is a fundamental expression of architectural movements within the fabric of a city. As one of the smallest typologies, it is the simplest canvas to exhibit the design ethos of any particular ...

MOMA’s Architects of Liberation traces how architecture became a tool of self-determination, nation-building and cultural ...

The Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) opened in 1973 in the heart of Nairobi, a decade after Kenya achieved independence from the British. It’s named after Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first ...

African-inspired architecture offers a unique perspective on sustainable design, drawing from the continent's rich cultural ...

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 ...

Parpend, a design studio from Lagos, Nigeria, interviews every year a group of architects to discuss their favorite projects and how they created them. Believing firmly that design should be a fusion ...

Futuristic pyramids and boxy concrete forms rose up with the modernist architecture of Africa in the 1960s and ’70s, although beyond the continent the radical forms aren’t widely recognized. Growth ...

In this article, we take a look at 10 countries with the best architecture in Africa. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of African architecture, you can directly go to 5 Countries with ...

The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

The heralding of the Afri­can visa-free avalanche represents one of the most remarkable diplo­matic developments in modern African history. It is more than a travel policy, more than an im­migration ...

Some spaces feel easy the moment you step into them. They’re not styled to impress, not packed with things for the sake of visual interest, but they’re balanced in a way that makes daily life more ...