An African conquering the World

Universal Laws create our traditional architecture and are essential for the architecture of today. The absolute expression of architecture is ubiquity

Why did ancient Africans shape thing the way they did?

Creating new basic assumptions to view our architecture heritage

What are museum cities?

Is there an African Architecture?

A discourse of three major manifestos and their manifestations in the world. It poses an important question: from where to we get the rules to read our architecture?

Has sustainability become a tool of war?

Continuation of the last episode on erasure. Fuck Neufert.

The wiping of our ability to think good architecture

Description of beauty.

It's time to stop the childishness and start making architecture for our people

The layers or lack of layers of our cities

The tastelessness of our cities

Why are our cities without taste

The conclusion with the team

An office discussion

We need to be here, now.

Architecture never Art. Both are polar opposites of one another.

Collective action is needed in the world. Architecture must lead this drive with passion

What are we missing?

A story about the architecture of Singapore seen from the eyes of an African

Are we neglecting the formation of a new architecture in rural Africa?

Against Tropical Modernism

Optimisation and Compactness

We need to realign our perspective on things so we can begin to appreciate our jewels

A trip to Rotterdam to find my personal Parthenon...

A short thesis on the 21st century urban African House

New episode after a long hiatus. Talks of a travel experience to find Corbusiers Villa Stein at Garches in France.

We are creators of world views. Let’s do that.

After a long hiatus we have realised that the worlds problems can indeed be solved by architecture thinking. We have committed to take the lead

We need to figure a way to make language from architecture

Architecture Must lead the way

Can we find a language for our traditional architecture that encapsulates the spirit of being African? Is this possible? Will anyone dare collaborate to attempt it?

We believe that a new architecture is all that stands between humanity and environmental catastrophe in a period of political denialism

Why don’t we experiment on the city anymore?

States and politicians have lost power and prestige in our day and this has been mopped by the drivers of economics. So what will the city of our times be? A problem or a tool to solve problems? Happy New Year, we are back.

Lack of subtlety and nuance, the selfishness in focusing on only itself have led Architecture to a bend where it can no longer produce the visions from which policy and politics can take a cue. It is now a fancy object

One part of the earth manipulates structure which is the core of the architecture itself in the other, structure seems to have been decided long before design starts and cannot be manipulated

We must make our work a creator of worlds and views and stop being reactionary

Being called to the table is not imperialism is it?

Prince Charles Visit to Nigeria and Ghana opens up some questions about Nigerian Architects and architecture in general.

Has the Surrender of the plan to make the forms of big buildings been with it?

In a century of Hybrids we need a new architecture

The base assumptions by which our traditional architecture had been judged have been wrong.

We must take our destiny into our hands to avoid our worst being repacked for us and touted as the solutions to our problems as HKS Architects have done in Uganda

Buildings must become Citizens

An African Rant. The problem of Africa is our impatience