An African conquering the World

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Rolex Arts Initiative Nominated Architect and World Changer, using words and bricks to make futuristic African Cities a reality. TedX Speaker. Runs HTL.

James Inedu-George


    • Jan 20, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 65 EPISODES


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    The Laws of Traditional Architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 16:15


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

    Shaping our buildings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 12:21


    Why did ancient Africans shape thing the way they did?

    Reframing the Argument

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 15:25


    Creating new basic assumptions to view our architecture heritage

    Santa Barbara: The Museum City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2022 15:38


    What are museum cities?

    Modernism

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 18:57


    Is there an African Architecture?

    Of Manifestos and Voyages

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 15:18


    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?

    On Sustainability

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2022 17:57


    Has sustainability become a tool of war?

    Erasure 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2022 15:38


    Continuation of the last episode on erasure. Fuck Neufert.

    Erasure 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2022 11:25


    The wiping of our ability to think good architecture

    Of Beauty

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022 17:10


    Description of beauty.

    Incompleteness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2022 22:16


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

    The City 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2022 14:53


    The layers or lack of layers of our cities

    The City 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 13:32


    The tastelessness of our cities

    The African City

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022 17:08


    Why are our cities without taste

    Can Design be Transcended 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2022 15:46


    The conclusion with the team

    Can design be Transcended

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022 11:41


    An office discussion

    Nowness

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2021 12:14


    We need to be here, now.

    Architecture Is Not Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 20:36


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

    Architecture not Archeology

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 15:11


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

    What Future can we except?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 19:56


    What are we missing?

    Singapore: Urban and Poetic

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2021 14:16


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

    Utilitarianism

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 11:47


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

    Architecture of Fear

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 12:27


    Against Tropical Modernism

    Optimisation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 12:41


    Optimisation and Compactness

    The Way we See

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 13:26


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

    Rotterdam to find Parthenon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 13:53


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

    The Problem of the House

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2021 12:45


    A short thesis on the 21st century urban African House

    Travelling in France

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 11:34


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

    Architecture above Journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 2:17


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

    Why is it that

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2019 3:46


    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

    Language and Manifesto

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2019 4:23


    We need to figure a way to make language from architecture

    A message

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 6:19


    Architecture Must lead the way

    A Language for Africa’s Architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2019 4:22


    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?

    Architecture and social Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2019 4:06


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

    A new experimentation?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2019 2:07


    Why don’t we experiment on the city anymore?

    The State and the City???

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2019 8:49


    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.

    Architecture cannot engage the problems of the world anymore?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2018 3:41


    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

    Why our method of design doesn’t produce modern masterpieces

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2018 3:28


    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

    The architect is first a public intellectual that develops world views

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2018 3:59


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

    Response to a colleague about the last podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2018 5:19


    Being called to the table is not imperialism is it?

    What does it take to be called to the table of development?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2018 5:07


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

    A compromise?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2018 3:15


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

    The search for first principles

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 3:18


    Demands from your architect

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2018 2:45


    We need a new architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2018 4:32


    In a century of Hybrids we need a new architecture

    Rethinking the base assumptions of Africa’s Traditional arch

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2018 3:21


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

    A new manifesto for architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2018 4:41


    Modernism Truncated

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2018 3:58


    Episode 17

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2018 1:47


    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

    Episode 16

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2018 2:46


    Buildings must become Citizens

    The issue with our dear Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2018 3:46


    An African Rant. The problem of Africa is our impatience

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