On Cultivating African Architecture for the Africa We Need
Africa’s age-old architectural knowledge is replete with diverse design techniques that satisfy not only aesthetic but also functional purposes. Nevertheless, as is normally the case with many African creative endeavors, this knowledge is not fully harvested. Yet from the COVID-19 pandemic, which d...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EL-AYACHI
2022-09-01
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| Series: | African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://revues.imist.ma/index.php/AJLP-GS/article/view/34110 |
| Summary: | Africa’s age-old architectural knowledge is replete with diverse design
techniques that satisfy not only aesthetic but also functional purposes.
Nevertheless, as is normally the case with many African creative
endeavors, this knowledge is not fully harvested. Yet from the COVID-19
pandemic, which demands rethinking of how space is used, to climate
change, which questions how structures are designed and made, the need
to consider how African architecture can shape the Africa we need, not to
mention its contribution to global architecture, is pressing.
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| ISSN: | 2657-2664 |