February 2012
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Stars of Dar on show at Slipway, 14 February - 14...
After its first presentation in October 2011, the exhibition will now be presented on the well visited Msasani Slipway in Dar es Salaam.
The exhibition Stars of Dar light-footedly introduces you to the most interesting public spaces and buildings of Dar es Salaam. It tells the visitor about their history but most important: what we can learn from them if we think about the future of our beloved...
January 2012
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Atlas Architectures of the 21st Century - Africa...
Edited by Luis Fernández-Galiano, this volume gives insight in some of the interesting projects of the African continent and the Middle East. AAmatters director Antoni Folkers contributed to this publication with a chapter on Central and Eastern Africa, but also ArchiAfrika friends Iain Low, Nnamdi Elleh, Suha Ozkan, Hassan Radoine and Farrokh Derakhshani contributed to this book. Among many...
ArchiAfrika newsletter on the National Museum of...
The ArchiAfrika newsletter on the National Museum of Ghana is just spread, with contributions from Rachel Stella Jenkins, Rafael Chikukwa, Mae-ling Jovenes Lokko and Fatric Bewong. Does the role of National Museums in Africa have to be reviewed? In this newsletter, through the case of the museum in Accra, this question is discussed. In Accra this discussion is continuing through the activities...
November 2011
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Learning from Casablanca exhibition reviewed
(photo Elena Cattani)
The exhibition Learning from Casablanca is dismantled over last weekend, but it lives on through some reviews and a facebook page. Casamemoire and AAmatters are preparing for the next steps in this journey. We will explore what the lessons from Casablanca could mean for contemporary planning challenges. We keep you updated.
Meanwhile read the reviews at Archdaily and Made...
Images of African Perspectives 2011 in Casablanca
Opening session during the key-note lecture of Saskia Sassen (photo Rachel Stella Jenkins)
Nearly 4 weeks ago, the 5th African Perspectives conference opened in Casablanca, Morocco. Another successful gathering of students, academics and professionals in the fields related to architecture and planning in Africa, organised by the network organisation ArchiAfrika.
The conference closed after a...
AAmatters newsletter posted!
Read about the latest news and activities of African Architecture Matters in the newsletter via http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a985ccc339a56cccb87d5c9a5&id=dedadaa6da&e=7d3fe8663b.
There is news on African Perspectives 2011, the exhibitions Learning from Casablanca and Stars of Dar as well as the announcement of lectures / debates at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.
Happy...
Lecture 'Global architecture, is there a...
With projects in Sao Paulo and Ghana, students from the academy in Amsterdam are intrigued by the position of the architect while working abroad. Heinrich Wolff, highly successful prize winning architect from South Africa is often crossing borders in his country. After his lecture for ‘designers of the future’ in Delft on 10 November (see www.designersofthefuture.nl), he shares his ideas on...
exhibition Stars of Dar now at the Slipway in Dar...
After a successful opening of at the Urban Dreamscape project, part of the event ‘Global City – Local Identity?’ in Dar es Salaam, Stars of Dar is moving on and actually is now on display at one of its Stars! The exhibition is being built up at the Slipway in Dar es Salaam and can be visited for free most part of the day.
Moreover you will be able to find everything about the Stars of Dar on...
exhibition Learning from Casablanca opens at first...
Casablanca served as laboratory for European architects to experiment with modernist mass housing in the 40’s and 50’s. The visions of modernist architecture spread all over the world, suggesting new structures in housing, work, transport, and leisure.
The spatial structure in Casablanca has been extremely transformed and appropriated by the inhabitants over time to respond to the...
African Perspectives 2011 starting very soon
African Perspectives 2011 in Casablanca is about to start. The 5th conference of ArchiAfrika, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is again going to be special. From 3 to 5 November an international crowd will gather and visit places in Morocco’s largest city for lectures, debates, exhibitions, films and more on ‘the African Metropolis’. Many countries in Africa but also from...
October 2011
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An exhibition on Africa by Africa - Femke van...
When the Dutch Afrika Museum wanted to give its visitors an idea of current day Africa, African Architecture Matters advised them to ask people on the continent themselves how they wanted to be represented. An interesting experiment involving an architectural competition with an outcome unknown to the museum’s planners: ‘The time a Western ethnographic museum could say ...
workshop and exhibition 'Stars of Dar' and...
… the meaning of architecture and planning for everyday life, based upon interviews with key persons in Dar es Salaam society and street interviews …
Dar es Salaam is a vital and vibrant city, the pumping heart of the country. It accommodates millions of people, all together to work, learn and live. Every corner of the country is represented and due to globalization also almost all...
August 2011
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Learning from Casablanca, Excursie en vakmatig...
Van zaterdag 29 oktober tot zondag 6 november 2011 organiseert African Architecture Matters in samenwerking met Casamemoire en ARCAM een reis naar Casablanca en Agadir in combinatie met deelname aan de 5de African Perspectives conferentie, die plaatsvindt van 3 tot 5 november 2011 in Casablanca.
De reis is bedoeld voor professionals op het gebied van stedenbouw, architectuur en woningbouw...
July 2011
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lezing over Blueprints of Paradise in het Afrika...
Sankofa Garden City Park van prijswinnaar Kobina Banning
Inventief, dynamisch en creatief, zo kun je veel Afrikaanse stadsbewoners karakteriseren. Middels 12 visies op de gebouwde toekomst van Afrika, ontwikkeld door Afrikaanse ontwerpers en kunstenaars, laat Blueprints of Paradise zien dat Afrika meer is dan wildparken, sloppenwijken, conflicten en natuurrampen. Sommige van de ontwikkelde...
June 2011
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Streaming of the debate ‘African Cities: problem...
If you can’t make it to Berg en Dal on 18 June, you are able to follow the debate via http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blueprints-of-paradise and contribute to the debate via Twitter with hashtag #BOP. Join us in real or virtual!
May 2011
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Debate ‘African Cities: problem or solution?’ and...
18 June 2011 - 15:00hrs. Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal (NL)
image from the entry Garden City Park from Kobina Banning
It is a pleasure to invite you for an introduction to the Blueprints of Paradise exhibition, developed by African Architecture Matters in collaboration with the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, the Netherlands. You are welcome for a programme, organised with the Afrika Museum and...
April 2011
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Blueprints of Paradise awards presented at the...
In June 2010, the Afrika Museum and African Architecture Matters organised an international design contest for African architects and designers. They were asked to produce a blueprint for the Africa of the future. The 12 best designs are on show at the Afrika Museum in Nijmegen up to October 2011 as part of the Blueprints of Paradise exhibition. Last weekend, the exhibition opened and the winners...
exhibition Blueprints of Paradise in the Afrika...
Debate on 8 April at the NAi in Rotterdam with N’Goné Fall, Joe Osae – Addo, Kunle Adeyemi, Jan Konings and the prize winners
Debate on 10 April in LUX in Nijmegen with Joe Osae – Addo and the prize winners
The African continent is developing rapidly. Over half of the 1 billion Africans will be living in a city or its suburbs by 2025. Just like in the other cities of the world, African...
March 2011
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public defence thesis 'Modern Architecture in...
Antoni Scholtens Folkers has the pleasure of inviting you to the defence of his doctoral thesis: ‘Modern Architecture in Africa’.
The public defence of his thesis will take place on Friday March 18, 2011 at 10:00a.a. in the ‘Senaatszaal’, Aula, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 5, Delft.
Prior to the defence Antoni Folkers will give a short lecture on his thesis...
February 2011
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special edition ArchiAfrika newsletter: African...
This special edition of the ArchiAfrika newsletter brings to you the Call for Papers & Call for Pictures of the African Perspectives 2011 conference, taking place in Casablanca from 3-6 November this year.
The focus of the 5th African Perspectives conference is the ‘African Metropolis’.
In recent decades, many cities on the African continent have experienced unprecedented urban growth. They...
Hoe bouw je in rap verstedelijkend Afrika?
Journalist Seada Nourhussen published an article on the rapid urbanisation processes in Africa and the challenges for architects and urban planners in Trouw newspaper on 8 January 2011. The article was based upon interviews with Kunle Adeyemi and Antoni Folkers, director of African Architecture Matters, as well as Antoni’s book ‘Modern Architecture in Africa’. The exhibition...
January 2011
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November 2010
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Crash Course Congo: Congo toen / nu / later with...
Als we de kranten en het nieuws mogen geloven is Congo verloren. De problemen zijn immens en het land loopt enorm achter. Maar is dit beeld niet hopeloos achterhaald? Wie zijn westerse bril af zet, ziet in verscheidene Afrikaanse landen een nieuwe stedelijkheid zich in ongekende snelheid ontwikkelen. Nieuwe sociale verschijnselen en culturele dynamiek wisselen elkaar in een hoog tempo af....
October 2010
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Change of Venue: An Evening with Manthia Diawara...
The Prince Claus Fund, together with African Architecture Matters, invite you for an evening with Malian film-maker and scholar Manthia Diawara and Ghanaian architect and chair of the ArchiAfrika network Joe Osae Addo.
Manthia Diawara will present his new book, African Film, New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics, as well as his film Maison Tropicale. Manthia Diawara is former jury member of the...
25 October, Philadelphia: Lecture by Antoni...
EAST MEETS WEST IN MODERN AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE
ON Monday 25 October, 12:30 - 3:30hrs.
IN CEA 102, Cnr N 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia
Invitation for an evening with Manthia Diawara and...
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE!
Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond - Nes 43 Amsterdam
The Prince Claus Fund, together with African Architecture Matters, invite you for an evening with Malian film-maker and scholar Manthia Diawara and Ghanaian architect and chair of the ArchiAfrika network Joe Osae Addo.
Manthia Diawara will present his new book, African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and...
First book launch in the USA of Antoni Folkers'...
On 27 October 2010, AAmatters director Antoni Folkers will lecture at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and present the recently published book ‘Modern Architecture in Africa’.
‘Modern Architecture in Africa’ is one of the few Western studies of modern African architecture. The architect Antoni Folkers calls into question the moralistic, simplified Western Modernism that has...
ArchiAfrika newsletter September 2010: This is...
African Architecture Matters produced the ArchiAfrika newsletter September 2010 which was guest edited by Bukka trust from London.
‘Welcome to Lagos – It’ll defy your expectations’, a three part BBC documentary broadcasted in April this year, fired the debate on how to picture Africa and more particularly Lagos as a place to live. Bukka Trust, founded in 2003 by a group of Nigerian architects...
September 2010
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READY FOR AFRICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL?
Competition BLUEPRINTS OF PARADISE open for entries
listen to the interview iwth jury chair Joe Osae - Addo
Africa is planning for the future. Some projects, like the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, affect the entire world. Others, like the works of Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Doual’art, or the team of Takako Tajima and Aziza Chaouni, are locally focused. With BLUEPRINTS OF PARADISE, the Afrika Museum...
June 2010
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(im)migration and the built environment, how do...
Commissioned by the Netherlands Architecture Fund, foundation African Architecture Matters(AAM)is preparing a project plan for international design research on how architecture and urban design can add to the improvement of the cultural, economic and social emancipation of (im)migrants.
In the Netherlands, the largest group of non-western immigrants is of Turkish decent, the third group is...
May 2010
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March 2010
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