African Architecture and Design

Voiceofthedesert website features an article by Keith Smith that has shows the intricate construction steps of a Woodless mud building in G...

Worldarchitecturenews writes about a new design of a residential tower proposed for development in Singapore.According to the World Archite...

The blog Liberia Stories reports about a sustainable building being built by Obadiah Gondolo out of stick and mud. The articale says "...

Open Architecture Network is an organisation started by Cameron Sinclair with the aim "....to generate design opportunities that will...

Their company is one of the top Property Development firms, that Design & Build commercial as well as private projects in Nigeria. Their...

The RIBA website writes about how "... Massimiliano Fuksas Architects has won the international design competition to design the first...

Those of us that have been in a mud or adobe built building on a hot day are sure to notice how cool (temperature) they are compared to a co...

Eco-Africa is an environmentally friendly company that uses indigenous plants and African artisans to produce a diverse range of craft pape...

The chimney effect (stack effect) created by a Solar chimney tower of about 1000m high according to the Environ Mission website would be a...

While on an Architecture School visit in Nigeria in 1985 to the Town of Bida , Niger State Nigeria we went to the traditional home of a Nupe...

According to their website "... J. S. Kalsi & Associates is a group of registered architects Kenya specializing in the field of Ar...

Design Union is an indigenous Nigerian design outfit that specialises in Architecture, Engineering,Graphics, Interiors, and Project plannin...

I don't know how many unused oils rigs lay wasting in the Bright of Benin which is off the coast of Nigeria's delta region but these...

The CEO of Environ Mission Roger Davey talks about new technologies that will reduce the height of the solar chimney project. These techno...

The technology that was once restricted to producing prototypes in CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture) and RAFT (Rapid Automated Fabrication ...

Andrew Blum of Wired Home writes about high tech method of building green buildings developed by Steve Kieran. "...Snapped together f...

Africa now has its first Automobile design association called AADA . According to their website the aim of the association is "...to br...

Nazret.com writes about Ethiopia born Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Sweden's Architect of the Year 2006. "...Rahel Belatchew Lerdell wa...

The "Design made in Africa" exibition which started in Charlotte, NC a couple of weeks ago aims "...to reveal and confirm t...

According to their website ArchiAfrika organisation aims to achieve the following in the feild of African Architecture: "... To collec...