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.
Rem Koolhas to Headline Talk in Nairobi around the Countryside as Future of the World
World renowned Architect, Urbanist and Pritzker Prize winner Rem Koolhas will visit the University of Nairobi's Architecture Department from 27th to 30 April 2018. The Pritzker prize is often referred to as “Architecture’s Nobel Prize” and it is the profession’s highest honour. Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He graduated from the ...
GSA Boogertman+Partners International Lecture Series 2018 Features Alejandro Aravena
GSA Boogertman+Partners International Lecture Series 2018 starts with Alejandro Aravena of Elemental. Alejandro Aravena, graduated as an architect from Catholic University of Chile in 1992. He continued his studies of Theory and Art History in IUAV in Venice. In 1994 he established his own practice, Alejandro Aravena Architects. From 2000 until 2005, he taught at Harvard University, where he fo...
Mass Design Group's Documentary Made In Ilima Premieres at Architecture and Design Film Festival
On Friday, November 3rd 2017 at 9:00pm, MASS premiered a new feature-length documentary film titled Made in Ilima at the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF)in New York City.In the center of Equator Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. They have coexisted with endangered wildlife in their surrounding forest ...
Africa Architecture Awards 2017
The Africa Architecture Awards seek to celebrate design excellence and promote an increased awareness of the role and importance of architecture across Africa. Based on values rather than categories, the awards seek to honour established architects and encourage emerging and future voices. A ‘Critical Dialogue’ award promotes excellence in architectural writing, film and criticism and encourage...
Local Studio's Thomas Chapman Headlines Talk 02 of GSA Boogertman + Partners International Lecture Series
The second event in Boogertman + Partners continuing International Lecture Series features Thomas Chapman from Local Studio. Thomas Chapman is an architect and urban designer with over 10 years experience working in both public and private sector. He founded Local Studio and has been focussing on community participation, exploration of materials and exploring new spatial typologies in the urban...
Andrew Freear Headlines GSA Boogertman + Partners International Lecture Series 2017
The first lecture in the GSA - Boogertman+ Partners International Lecture Series 2017 is coming up! This series creates an opportunity for architectural students, professionals and those with a keen interest in architecture to hear and interact with world-class local and international speakers, whilst building a great platform for new African design voices. Please see below an invitation to the...
Shelter Afrique's 5000 for 5000 Home Competition
As Africa’s primary Housing Development Finance Institution this challenge presents an opportunity for Shelter Afrique to lead a result focused debate on how the housing market can be made to work for the more than 300m Africans including women and children who are currently unserved. But beyond the debate, we now want to work with partners to promote innovation in low income housing developmen...
Francis Kere Opens Radically Simple Exhibition
The Architekturmuseum der TU München presents »Francis Kéré. Radically Simple«, the most comprehensive exhibition yet on Kéré’s work, covering both his completed designs and his ongoing projects. In addition to the buildings that he planned and realized in his home village of Gando, the exhibition displays his buildings in Africa and China, as well as his projects and designs in Germany, where ...
Master Plan & Architectural Design Competition of the Science City in the 6th of October City in Egypt
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt is launching a single phase, open, international competition for a “Master Plan and Conceptual Design of the Science City,” to be located in 6th of October City near Cairo. The principle missions of the future Science City will be the dissemination of scientific knowledge, the promotion of science for development and the support of scientific education and r...
African Design Centre Fellowship Opens To Applications
Mass Design Group's Bauhaus of Africa recently opened its doors in Rwanda to applications. As Africa’s cities experience explosive growth, the continent will need designers to build critical infrastructure in a sustainable way. Otherwise, health and environmental crises will undermine the continent’s potential. MASS is creating the African Design Centre to train the next generation of human-cen...
9 of the Best : Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2014-2016 Cycle Master Jury Announced
With the recent closing of Nominations for the 2014-2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture cycle, The Steering Committee and the Master Jury have been announced putting together an ensemble cast for the three year prestigious award cycle by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Network. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence i...
The Boogertman + Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa 2016 is Back
It is about that time of the year when Boogertman + Partners Launch their Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa. This Award is awarded to one individual over a period of two years, and is valued at R140 000. This award includes an individual mentorship programme for the duration of the recipient’s studies, as well as a two year work contract at Boogertman + Partners after recei...
AfriSam-SAIA Award 4 Sustainable Architecture 2016 is Now in Session
Online entries for the 2015/2016 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation are now open and feature two new award categories. Alongside the two mainstays, Sustainable Architecture and Research in Sustainability, we now have additional categories for Sustainable Products and Technology and Sustainable Social Programmes - making the Award South Africa’s premier platform for rec...
Finding Stories :: The Role of Immaterial Culture in City Planning
On 30 January 2016, AAmatters together with its partners City of Amsterdam, Government of Zanzibar and Stadsherstel Amsterdam, organises the symposium ‘Finding Stories :: the role of immaterial culture in city planning’
African Design Center; “Bauhaus of Africa”
MASS Design Group’s Rwanda Program Director, Christian Benimana, will announce his vision for a major new initiative to train Africa’s next generation of creative design talent at the UN Solutions Summit in New York City on Sunday September 27th. Benimana, who oversees the nonprofit design studio’s high-impact architectural practice across Rwanda, will present what he calls the “Bauhaus of Afri...
Autodesk Kenya Live
Autodesk Africa is coming to Nairobi once again and invites you to attend a workshop showcasing the very best in design technology software and test drive moving from AutoCAD to BIM for Build.
Egypt inaugurates Museum of Arabic Calligraphy in Alexandria
A modest Classicist-style office building within the premises of theAlexandria Museum of Fine Art has been re-designed and adapted to house a new Museum of Arabic Calligraphy. The adaptation introduced a new glass curtain wall that combines Islamic motifs with modern design, and screens off the unchanged original facade. The design, implemented in 2010, included the scenario for a new exhibiti...
Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH)
There is a wealth of architectural heritage worldwide, from historic city centers and cultural landscapes to some of the largest archaeological sites in the world. Conserving such inheritance is a challenging task that requires sustained commitment, interdisciplinary effort, and international cooperation. The Ministry of Tourism will be attending this conference in order to join us in spreading...
GIfA Awards for Architecture 2015
Architecture is the most visible and public of the arts. An important function of all the Regional Institutes and the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) is to recognise and promote excellence in architecture and to create public awareness and debate on architectural issues. The awards programme is in support of these goals, and run in two stages over a two year period.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
A reference to fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1:54 establishes the parameters of the fair’s ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage.
Designing City Resilience
A city’s resilience impacts on the quality of life of its citizens and the health of its economy. Stability and certainty encourage the entrepreneurship, investment and international trade essential to a city’s long-term prosperity and growth.
Terra 2016: XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures
Terra 2016 is the twelfth in a series of international events organised since 1972, bringing together academics, professionals and experts, and a broad audience around earthen architectures.
The Lo-Fab Movement 2015 Campaign
MASS Design Group, the Boston based architecture team has launched their 2015 campaign dubbed The Lo-Fab Movement . MASS Alan Ricks says, "How we build, and who builds, matters."
Lagos State Considers ‘Makoko Floating School’ Into Development Plan
The Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban development announced its consideration for incorporating the internationally acclaimed prototype floating structure ‘Makoko Floating School’ in a regeneration plan for Makoko Waterfront community. Makoko Floating school is designed by NLÉ Work – an architecture, design and urbanism practice focused on developing cities and communities. T...
Making Africa A Continent of Contemporary Design
From March 2015, a major exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum sheds new light on contemporary African design. Showcasing the work of over 120 artists and designers, »Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design« illustrates how design accompanies and fuels economic and political changes on the continent. Africa is presented as a hub of experimentation generating new approaches and soluti...
Boogertman + Partners Architectural Design Scholarship 2015
The Boogertman + Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa, is awarded to one individual over a period of two years, and is valued at R140,000. This award includes an individual mentorship programme for the duration of the recipient's studies as well as a two-year work contract at Boogertman + Partners post receiving his/her Masters Degree.The Boogertman + Partners Architectural De...
World Architecture Festival Awards 2015
Winning a WAF award is your passport to the international architecture scene. Both professionally and personally transformational, the WAF awards are your gateway to global exposure, recognition and success.
RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, generously supported by Lord Foster and Foster + Partners, offers one travelling scholarship of £6,000 to a student of architecture to support international research on a topic and at locations of the student’s choosing.
Call for Proposals: Expo Milano 2015
On the occasion of the Expo Milano 2015, Scoopa invite Architects, Engineers, Artists, Designers and students to submit their proposals to be exhibited at their exhibition space and to be presented to a worldwide public in this Universal Exposition. Expo Milano 2015 is a part of the history of the Universal Expositions that have been celebrated all around the world since the second half of the ...
Architecture for Social Gain Awards 2015 is Finally Here
Construction materials are an integral part of architecture. Saint-Gobain would like to celebrate 350 years of their contribution to architecture. Africa is currently growing faster than any other continent, where societal change is dynamic and the role of architecture is critical in providing a framework for the development of social gain. As the continent develops, areas like education, train...
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