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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"African architecture"”.
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The search for hybrid tectonics in contemporary African architecture: encounters between the global and the local
… of tectonic hybridisation in contemporary architecture in Africa where global and local ways of making are being combined. A growing awareness of this tendency was informed by an extended period of practicing, teaching, and re - searching architectural technology in Africa. I embarked on a …
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Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings
… and authority within post-1994 South African Architecture. The design is investigated by means of a journey through power, the urban and the memory of architecture. Autonomy is proposed as a more appropriate means of representing power constructions than the often-quoted riposte of …
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The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies
… Its concern is with the analysis of southern African domestic architecture, which, it is argued, has become separated from the study of social systems and human behaviour. It is suggested that architectural research needs to be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework of a sociological …
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The architecture of the West African mosque : an exegesis of the Hausa and Fulani models
This thesis will examine two models of West African architecture-- the Mosque at Zaria, Nigeria and the Mosque at Dingueraye, Guinea. It will also attempt to illustrate implicit patterns of creative expression, both literal and allegorical , in the space-making processes of the Hausa and Fulani …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… present representations of black women in South African public and private domains. Having been confronted with monuments erected to celebrate British colonialism and Afrikaner nationalism, I focus on the paucity of iconic black women in history and mythology. I perform figures who I construct …
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Practice in theory, and the theory of practice: Examining the place of climate and modernity in postcolonial architectural mediation in Ghana since the 1940s
… Cultural Policy of Ghana (2004). In the larger African context, the Contemporary African Philosophy (CAP) expresses similar sentiments. The boundaries of mediation, however, depends on influences sketched by several factors including naturally occurring geographies such as the climate, and the …
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Edocentric Architecture: Reconciling the Past with the Present
In the words of David Hughes, "Afrocentric Architecture is a distinctive manifestation in a modern building environment which derives from the cultural, environmental and historical origins of the continent of Africa." In recent years, there has been a resurgence that seeks to define what it truly …
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The Door of Return Museum of Senegal
Door of Return Museum symbolizes a synthesis of environmental building systems (EBS) and extends Senegal's cultural fingerprint along the Atlantic shoreline. Benefits of EBS technologies include ecologic imperatives, coexistence with nature, and transcultural synergies to name a few. …