“I noticed African Architecture isn’t really showcased compared to Asian, European, Middle Eastern and Indian. So here is a thread of African Architectural styles. Starting with Nubian,” Twitter user ...

Award-winning South African architect Luyanda Mpahlwa was one of the first Black students permitted to study architect during the height of the anti-apartheid movement. After spending five years in ...

Algeria ranks fifth on our list of countries with the best architecture in Africa. The country is home to seven distinct UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Algerian architecture has been impacted by Islamic ...

Professor Coleman A. Jordan teaches architecture at Morgan State University. For over two years, he has worked closely with students and alumni from the Baltimore HBCU, as well as from Tuskegee and ...

Moderating the dialogue between the traditional and the modern in the search for a new architecture for Africa. By Francis Kéré Mr. Kéré is an architect. This personal reflection is part of a series ...

Art In Heart Gallery Ltd earned a 2026 Global Recognition Award for its AfaSense concept, which reimagines buildings as ...

Growing up in rural West Africa, Diébédo Francis Kéré and his friends would build makeshift shelters from clay, tree branches, and leaves when they got caught in the rain away from home. Decades later ...

Have you ever imagined what the architecture of Africa would look like today, if the great civilizations of Egypt, Timbuktu, Mali, the Dogon, Zulu, Yoruba, and thousands of other African empires had ...

Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 This article inaugurates a new ...

A portable, energy-efficient home that was originally built for a competition may be available on the market soon in Africa. The design was created by team Jua Jamii, a group of 40 former university ...

The dearth of literature on African architecture has long been a source of frustration for the continent’s design community. The last decade, however, has seen a gradual change, as young designers ...