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Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

Ode to Zaha: An architect who built the ‘unbuildable’

Zaha Hadid embodied the idea that architects not only draw but build too. As a student of architecture, I mimicked Iraqi-born, London-based designer Zaha Hadid’s presentation style by resorting to what I later learned was called ‘whooshing the drawing’ in Zaha Hadid Architects’s parlance. Hadid was a hero for students, a celebrity of cult stature for the design world. Her studio was a place you...

How The Queen of Curves Zaha Hadid Touched Africa

ArchiDATUM particularly focuses on Zaha Hadid’s influence on Architectural landscape in Africa. Albeit concentrated to Egypt and Morocco and all of thes projects only proposals, Zaha Hadid’s buildings perhaps show her courage and beauty under any circumstance. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect carried with her the same tenacity and magnanimous altruism in all her projects regardless of geogr...

Queen of Curves Zaha Hadid Dies at 65

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, perhaps the most famous female architect of all time has died today in a Miami Hospital. Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect. In 2004 she became the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Additionally she received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are idiosyncratically neo-futuristic with sensous and flowy forms that terminate into ...

Pancho Guedes, A “Legend of African Modernism Architecture, Dies at 90

Pancho Guedes, one of the pioneering architects of lusophone African architecture has just passed away at age 90. Pancho died Friday at the age of 90. Famous for his artistic look at architecture and a keen eye for spatial acquity, Pancho is famously known for his buildings such as the Smiling Lion, the Saipal Bakery, and a a host buildings across Mozambique. His work perhaps tied the modern er...