Building Africa taster
Here’s a taste of Building Africa, on at the Bioscope, 18.00 on Wednesday 28 August and Soweto Theatre at 15.00 on Thursday 29 August....
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Mar 6
Academics and architects creating knowledge together: Building Africa’s curators’ and designers’ roundtable and closing party
We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...
Mar 6
Talk on school architecture in Ghana – Kuukuwa Manful
Building Africa is delighted to announce the seventh and final event in its speaker series. Entitled Building the nation and constructing...
Mar 6
Talk on Chinese-built parliaments in Africa – by Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Building Africa is delighted to announce the sixth of its speaker events, ‘Not Soft, not Sharp’: the subtext of China’s subtle power...
Feb 26
The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of colonial incarceration in Africa – a talk by Laura Routley
Building Africa is delighted to announce the fifth of its speaker events, ‘The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of...
Feb 26
Academics and architects creating knowledge together: Building Africa’s curators’ and designers’ roundtable and closing party
We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...
Feb 8
Aesthetics of ‘prosperity’: the Megaprojects of Addis Ababa – public talk by Brook Teklehaimanot Haileselassie
Building Africa is delighted to announce the third of its speaker events, ‘Aesthetics of “prosperity”, the Megaprojects of Addis Ababa’,...
Feb 5
Reminder: Tomà Berlanda’s talk on ‘The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020’ is this Thursday 8 February at 17.00 in the Brunei Building, SOAS
Entry is free. Register here. The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020 Why talk about languages?...
Jan 26
Building Africa - guided tour by one of the curators
There will be a free guided tour of the Building Africa exhibition on Thursday 1 February at 5.30pm, with Julia Gallagher, one of the...
Jan 26
The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020 – public talk by Tomà Berlanda
Building Africa is delighted to announce the second of its speaker events, ‘The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan...
Jan 26
ASA Building African Futures book launch – watch online
The ASA team’s book, Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism, was launched at the Venice...
Jan 8
Building Africa exhibition opening soon
We are in the final stages of setting up our exhibition for the launch next week. The exhibition brings together installations created in...
Dec 1, 2023
Building Africa: An exhibition about how architecture shapes politics 11 January – 16 March 2024
Building Africa explores the relationship between architecture and politics. It tells stories about presidential palaces, courts,...
Nov 30, 2023
Call for papers - Political architecture and decolonialisation
A one-day workshop on 11 March 2024 at SOAS University of London. This one-day workshop will explore political architecture in...
Nov 2, 2023
Innocent Batsani-Ncube wins the Terence Ranger Prize 2023.
Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s article, ‘Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in...
Nov 2, 2023
The dis/contented state: how Ghanaians read the state through its buildings
Gallagher talk on Ghana at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana The talk is entitled 'The dis/contented state: how...
Oct 26, 2023
Building Africa - new exhibition in Accra
The Building Africa Exhibition Accra opens on 3 November. The exhibition tells stories about buildings and politics in Ghana. It asks,...
Oct 25, 2023
Building African Futures book launch in Accra
Members of the ASA team will present their most recent book, Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and...
Sep 27, 2023
ASA team members go on to new jobs
Kuukuwa Manful and Innocent Batsani-Ncube are leaving SOAS to take up new roles. Kuukuwa becomes an Assistant Professor at the Taubman...
Sep 27, 2023
Building African Futures book launch
The book had a first launch event at the Venice Biennale on Monday 4 September. Biennale curator Lesley Lokko introduced a panel...
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