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Journal articles on the topic "Architecture, African"

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Dainese, Elisa. "Histories of Exchange." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 443–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.4.443.

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During World War II, interest in indigenous South African architecture deepened, leading to studies that challenged modernism and influenced architectural design. Histories of Exchange: Indigenous South Africa in the South African Architectural Record and the Architectural Review remaps the tension between modern and indigenous cultures during the 1940s and 1950s, examining the diaspora of ideas between South Africa and Britain and revealing a new genealogy of postwar architecture. Elisa Dainese addresses indigenous South African architecture as it was seen in the postwar years from the perspectives of two architectural magazines. In doing so, she provides a new theoretical framework that probes the role of architectural journals, considering them as alternative spaces where contact took place among European and African cultures.
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Mark, Peter. "Constructing Identity: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Architecture in the Gambia-Geba Region and the Articulation of Luso-African Ethnicity." History in Africa 22 (January 1995): 307–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171919.

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The precolonial architectural history of the northern Upper Guinea coast from the Gambia to the Geba rivers has yet to be studied in depth. Yet this region, the first to be visited and described by European travelers in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, is among the best-documented parts of sub-Saharan Africa for the four centuries of precolonial African-European contact. The establishment of communities of Luso-African traders in the sixteenth and seventeenth century makes the Gambia-Casamance-Bissau area important to the study of early sustained cultural interaction between Europeans and West Africans.One result of the establishment of Portuguese and Luso-African trading communities was the development of a distinctive style of architecture, suited to the climate and making use of locally-available building materials. The history of the trade itself has been extensively studied by George Brooks. His work, along with that of Jean Boulègue, provides a firm foundation for the study of local architecture and living space. It is not my intention to rewrite these excellent sources, although much of my material is drawn from the same primary documents they have used, and although, in presenting the historical context from which seventeenth-century coastal architecture developed, I necessarily cover some ground that Brooks has already trod.In addition to the history of building styles, several related questions that are highly significant to the history of European-African cultural interaction need to be addressed. These questions include: what were the respective roles of Africans, Europeans, and Luso-Africans in the development of a distinctive architectural style? Is it possible to discern the influence of evolving Luso-African construction on local African architecture? And of local building styles on Afro-European construction? In other words, to what extent does architecture reflect mutual, two-way interaction between European and African society?
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Uduku, Ola. "Other Modernisms: Recording Diversity and Communicating History in Urban West Africa." Modern Africa, Tropical Architecture, no. 48 (2013): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/48.a.8zfoufgc.

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Seminal publications on West African Architecture such as Kulterman’s New Architecture in Africa and the Architectural Review’s New Commonwealth Architecture came to define the African Modern Movement as it was understood internationally. This paper explores the specific context within which this new architecture developed and the actors that helped to shape it. Vaughan–Richards’ Ola–Oluwakitan House and Cubitt’s Elder Dempster Offices are analyzed in terms of their engagement with the socio-cultural context in which they were conceived, the site-specific Modernity of the former contrasting the corporate International Style response of the latter.
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Abrahamyan, Mira. "Tony Karbo and Kudrat Virk (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa." Czech Journal of International Relations 54, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 81–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/mv.1654.

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This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries. In so doing, it revisits the late Ali Mazrui’s concept of Pax Africana, calling on Africans to take responsibility for peace and security on their own continent. The creation of the African Union, in 2002, was an important step towards realising this ambition, and has led to the development of a new continental architecture for more robust conflict management. But, as the volume’s authors show, the quest for Pax Africana faces challenges. Combining thematic analyses and case studies, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on peace, security, and governance issues in Africa.
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Van Hoeymissen, Sara. "Regional Organizations in China's Security Strategy for Africa: The Sense of Supporting “African Solutions to African Problems”." Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 40, no. 4 (December 2011): 91–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261104000404.

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African regional organizations play a significant role in maintaining peace and security on their continent. This article looks at how China, as an emerging power in Africa, has incorporated these organizations into its policies on African security crises. It asserts that China has explicitly endorsed regional conflict resolution mechanisms, which it perceives as having a less intrusive impact on third world countries' sovereignty than have initiatives taken under the global collective security system led by the UN Security Council. Moreover, China strengthening cooperation with African regional organizations and aligning its stance with the views emerging from these regional bodies is an important way in which China has tried to respond to the rising security challenges and political demands it is faced with in Africa. The article briefly considers what influence China's increased attention to African regional bodies is having on efforts by Africa's traditional donors to help build – but also shape – Africa's emerging peace and security architecture.
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Ghanbari, Javid. "An Investigation into Architectural Creolization of West African Vernacular Mosques." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 8, no. 9 (September 4, 2021): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v8i9.2874.

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In investigating the influence of religious thoughts on architecture, much attention has been given to divine world-wide religions by the researchers, while indigenous religions have to a great extent been neglected. Ancient tribes in different parts of the world, have, on the basis of their cosmology, shaped beliefs which reflect on their architecture, especially on their sacred buildings. Regarding the Dogons-a well-known and a dominant tribe in West Africa- their Gods, cosmology and beliefs have led to the formation of settlements comprising houses, temples and other types of buildings in accordance with their religious thoughts while also being in harmony with nature. Up on the expansion of Islam throughout Africa, especially West Africa, vernacular mosques are shaped gradually beside shrines making a typology of Islamic architecture which has traces of both Dogon and Islamic architecture within it; While the influence of natural materials and indigenous building techniques should not be neglected. Taking a descriptive-deductive analysis approach, this paper will search for the architectural creolization process and will eventually conclude that West African vernacular mosques inherit their formal and spatial features mostly from Dogon house and pioneer mosques in Medina and their physical features, elements and exterior decorations from Dogon temples.
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Eglash, Ron. "Fractals in African settlement architecture." Complexity 4, no. 2 (November 1998): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199811/12)4:2<21::aid-cplx6>3.0.co;2-f.

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Schellekens, Jona. "A Note on the Dutch Origins of South African Colonial Architecture." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56, no. 2 (June 1, 1997): 204–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991284.

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The accepted view is that the eighteenth-century colonial architecture of South Africa has Dutch origins. Jan van der Meulen has challenged this view in this journal. Previous research has looked for the origins of the mostly rural South African colonial architecture in urban Dutch architecture, but, as van der Meulen has noted, with meager results. This note suggests that rural Dutch architecture may be a better field in which to look. Much of the argument presented here is based on a comparison between South African colonial gable design and that in the Zaanstreek, a rural-industrial area north of Amsterdam.
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Sami, Neha. "African perspectives – [South] Africa. City, society, space, literature and architecture." Social Dynamics 39, no. 2 (June 2013): 391–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2013.796128.

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Cazarin, Rafael. "The Social Architecture of Belonging in the African Pentecostal Diaspora." Religions 10, no. 7 (July 18, 2019): 440. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10070440.

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From megachurches in movie theatres to prayer groups held in living rooms, Pentecostals worldwide are constantly carrying out religious activities that ultimately aim to integrate diverse worshippers into the kingdom of God. Born-again Christians refashion their ‘ways of being’ by breaking down and re-establishing the interpersonal relationships shaped and changed by emerging diasporic modernities. I examined some of these changing ways of being by comparing the discursive practices of African Pentecostal pastors in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Bilbao (Spain). These case-studies demonstrate how these migrant-initiated churches create a ‘social architecture’, a platform on which African worshippers find social and spiritual integration in increasingly globalized contexts. I argue that the subdivision of large congregations into specialized fellowship groups provides African migrants with alternative strategies to achieve a sense of belonging in an expanding diasporic network. Their transformative mission of spiritual education, by spreading African(ized) and Pentecostal values according to age, gender, or social roles, helps to uplift them from being a marginalized minority to being a powerful group occupying a high moral ground.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Architecture, African"

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Sass, Lawrence. "Precedents in African American architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40988.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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As a sub-sets of American culture, African Americans have not been able to offer culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African American history of form and space. I do so by producing computational models of African American architecture and spatial planning from four key periods of American history: (i) the African Plantations (1619-1793), (ii) the American plantations (1793-1865), (iii) the African American gardens (1619-present), and (iv) the Middle Passage Monument (1993). These architectural elements can play an integral role in designing for African American communities in the future. To demonstrate this point, I use these African American architectural elements in designing housing units in Harlem. In my conclusion, I present ideas and goals for future research in African American architecture and spatial planning.
by Lawrence Sass.
M.S.
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Arceneaux, Kathleen Dugas. "The script-analogue and its application in architectural analysis: the relationship of African women to African traditional architecture." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54758.

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This work involves the presentation of an original critical theory, termed the "script-analogue", for the discovery of significance in works of traditional architecture within their cultural contexts. The theory includes a set of related ideas about the relationship of architecture and culture, and uses these ideas as a method to analyze the relationship of African women to African traditional architecture. The use of the script as an analogue refers to the script as it is used in theater, and indicates that the relationship of the individual, culture, and the architectural environment is dynamic and interactive. The "script-analogue" derives from post-structural thought, and modifies and expands on some of its themes to make them directly applicable in the context of architecture. lt represents a dynamic analytical alternative to the reading of architecture as “text”. In the "script-analogue" theory, culture is represented through the actions of individuals, who are members simultaneously of a culture and overlapping and modifying sub-cultures. Who an individual is, culturally and sub-culturally, is important in the relationship of the individual to architecture. The theory offers a means by which gender differences, in terms of "who" builds and uses architecture, can be addressed in research, through the investigation of metaphors of significance to women, and thus it can facilitate research which focuses on women. The concept of architecture is expanded to include both the built environment, and the unbuilt environment which is designated to be of significance through language. Memory is the means by which significance in architecture is given continuity. The term commemorative is used to indicate the commemoration, through architectural forms, of the appropriate actions of individuals within culture. The term orientative indicates that the locations of architectural forms and spaces, and the orientations of people to architecture, are factors in the memory of architectural significance and propriety of actions. The "script-analogue" proposes that architectural significance can be discovered through investigations of the metaphor in language, and that metaphor is the means by which cultural themes exist in an inter-connected relationship to each other. Ritual, as metaphorical action which takes place in an architectural setting, activates the script, and connects it to other cultural and sub-cultural themes outside of the local and specific conditions. This inter-connectedness is termed in the "script-analogue", transcendence through metaphor. The substance of this dissertation comprises both an explanation of the ideas involved in the "script-analogue" theory, and examples of its application. In addition to the findings generated by the application of the "script-analogue" to the relationship of African women to African traditional architecture, this dissertation suggests other applications of the theory, such as evaluations of housing design in Africa, and it attempts to bridge the gap between architectural theory and practice.
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Fourie, Morne. "Mêmes in amaNdzundza architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30129.

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The amaNdzundza are a South African abaNtu people. This thesis sets forth to determine the role of their world (in the Heideggerian sense) as it impacts on their Architecture. First the evolutionary process of the amaNdzundza architecture is established. An infinite series of memes (much like genes) that function both on an intra- and inter-cultural level govern this process. Next, the cultural interaction of the amaNdzundza over a period of half a millenium are mapped (and a space-time matrix drawn up: ch.3), as to find the sources of introduction on an intercultural level. Finally, the architecture of the amaNdzundza milieu, both of their settlements and of the cultures with which they shared their environment, is analyzed and a sample of memes identified, which best illustrate the meme-exchange and evolution. This is done in a structure comprising the analysis of selected religious spatial incentives, and some aspects and elements of the settlement, the dwelling and the mural. A summary is given of the memes involved in the amaNdzundza architecture, and their evolutionary dynamics and origins. The researcher thus concludes that, rather than a singular factor such as the patronage of apartheid, the cultural 'memes' in the amaNdebele ya amaNdzundza milieu played the predominant role in the shaping of their existential, spatial and structural dwelling, through a process of 'loci meme' evolution.
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Clarke, Charles E. (Charles Edward). "The African-American house as a vehicle of discovery for an African-American architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68318.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 1996.
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The purpose of this research is three-fold: (1) This thesis seeks to uncover evidence of a distinctly African-American architectural form. The primary building type observed will be the house, or the housing of African-Americans that was built by and for African-Americans. Because the greatest numbers of black people have resided in the southern United States throughout American history, most of the study will deal with the houses of blacks in that region. The position taken is that the house is a form of physical and spiritual self-expression. Simply stated, the study seeks to discover what it is about these houses that are of and by black folk that renders them peculiarly African-American. (2) This paper will document the works of some lesser known black builders of the American past, particularly in the Southeast following the Civil War. The objective will be to look for the possible visible signs of the transmittal of material culture in order to find if there is a uniquely African-American built form in existence today, or if, in fact, one has ever existed. It will look primarily at the houses executed by these people, and develop what is hoped will be a significant body of knowledge that will aid in the future study of this and other similar subjects. (3) This thesis seeks to answer a question very basic to my own personal and continuing involvement in the study of architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and African-American history: What are the determinants of an African-American architecture? In order to make a case for a truly African-American architectural form, those factors that could bear directly upon its formulation must be known and described. A major portion of this argument is devoted to just such knowledge and description.
by Charles Edward Clarke.
M.S.
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Molefe, Rampedi Lesego. "Spatialising African indigenous customs in Langa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19077.

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1.1 Background African Traditional Customs form an important part in the lives of millions of people on the African continent. They are the thread that stitches together the multifaceted blanket of African cultural variety. 1.2 Issue The problem is that of designing an African city that is representative of the cultural fabric and diversity in its spatial structuring and order. Although a city like Cape Town is considered an 'African city' it fails to spatially accommodate African customs that are the core ingredients of being African. Historically African lifestyle values found resistance in expression and loss of meaning within an urban context. The city in its conception and planning does not adequately address the need for African customs that find expression in the more rural context. Now that South Africa is emancipated from the bonds of apartheid, a new era of redefining African Identity has come. The question of African identity cannot be ignored because it is fundamental to solving many societal problems that develop from a loss of character personally and collectively. Many black South Africans living in Cape Town do not consider the city as their 'home'. The majority are of Xhosa lineage and do not feel that their lives are not well rooted in the urban environment. Many still consider the Eastern Cape 'ekhaya' (home), because that is where generations of amaXhosa set their roots. Even though some amaXhosa were raised as second and third generation inhabitants in Cape Town, the stronghold of their traditional roots is evident in their attitude towards their ancestral home. It is marked by the annual pilgrimage to the Eastern Cape by thousands of people who return home to fulfil traditional rituals and customs. For those growing up in Cape Town without a strong family ties or cultural roots with the Eastern Cape, their sense of identity is often lacking because the pillar of traditional ritual is absent in their lives. Personally I believe that a person's self-worth is directly related to their spiritual constitution, and that African traditional customs are not only important but they need to find expression in the environments that people live in daily. 1.3 Design Question How can African Traditional Customs be accommodated in the urban setting by physically finding expression and relevance practically and spatially. 1.4 The Site This project is located in Langa township because of the history of African people who have lived in the urban setting while upholding their traditional practices.
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Nagar, Dawn Isabel. "Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760.

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Based on library research this thesis examines the contribution of the SADC's peace and security efforts towards enhancing the larger security on the African continent. While it is acknowledged that peace and security involve peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace building; the research focused only on the peace and security mechanisms of SADC between 1966 and 2009. A central argument is that the SADC's peace and security system does enhance the evolution of a wider AU peace and security architecture. In furtherance of this argument, the thesis addressed the evolution of SADC from its predecessor the SADCC, the evolution of the African Stand by Force and the role of SADC in this process. In the end the study identified the necessity for certain policy reforms to ensure SADC's better contribution to AU's over all peace and security architecture: i) being donor-driven, SADC should remain the driver of its projects and set its own agenda for projects and strengthen its financial management systems in order to attract international funding; ii) SADC members should commit themselves to implementing its policies and strengthening its National Committees (SNCs); iii) The responsibilities of the SADC secretariat need to be revisited to grant it more executive powers on decision-making for achieving its security agenda; iv) Limited and inadequate staffing hampers SADC's overall security objectives, therefore, the SADC secretariat must be supported with additional capacity in competent programme management, planning, monitoring, finance, procurement and administration; and, v) HIV/Aids remains a challenge for SADC's peacekeepers and a policy should be implemented to cater for peacekeepers by specifying a timeframe and length of period for deployment of military personnel on peacekeeping missions with a moratorium set for much high ranking officials overseeing such missions.
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De, Flamingh Francois. "The role of textiles in sustainable South African residential architecture." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1321.

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Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011
Sustainable architecture prescribes the conscious consideration and active contemplation of ways of meeting the housing needs of humans while attempting simultaneously to prevent our consumption patterns from exceeding the resources at our disposal. Sustainability in the built environment is infinitely complex as the very nature of modern architecture is based upon the extraction and exploitation of finite natural resources to feed a linear system ultimately ending in the depletion of those resources and the destruction of the ecosystem from which they are excavated. When considering built environments, the most visible and measurable components of any sustainable design is its ecological and economic sustainability. Social sustainability, on the other hand is of an unquantifiable nature, making it a most contentious topic in design and development discourse. This thesis uses a systems approach to sustainable architecture as a lens to focus on the practical applications of structural concepts made possible by the integration of textiles in the built environment and examines possibilities of adapting and incorporating vernacular and low-tech textile-based construction methods into contemporary sustainable architecture. More specifically, it explores the possibilities of using architextiles, or textiles in the building industry, as a vehicle for advancing sustainable development within the emerging economy of South Africa with its unambiguous diversity in all three bottom lines of sustainability; environment (ecology, resources, geography, built environment), society (community, culture, politics) and economy (employment, wealth, finance, industry, infrastructure, consumer behaviour).
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Harris, Patricia Elaine. "Celebrating diversity : an exploration into African contributions to Caribbean residential architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17202.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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The purpose of this thesis is to document, through observation and research, architectural elements of a culture that have contributed to the development of another. As such it represents a way of thinking about the impact of architecture on culture and of culture on architecture. The len~ for this focus is the contributions of African people brought to the Caribbean during the European Slave Trade (1520's--1860's). As it essentially was a world region where the influence of indigenous people was negligible due to their early demise and general lack of an extensively developed architecture, it may almost be regarded as a 'clean slate' upon which the Europeans and Africans devised an architecture based on climate, materials, and tradition modified by colonization/enslavement. As climate and materials were generally similar to those found in Africa, tradition may be considered the most important aspect of this process and is the basis for this thesis and for the exploration of the following questions: What did Africans do to contribute to the architecture of the Caribbean; how did they say, "We are here?" What may have been present in the physical landscape, built and natural, that gave Africans brought to the New World any sense of familiarity of place in an otherwise alien environment? What are some of their contributions that have survived, either through transferal or transformation, physically tangible or attitudinal, that are present in the Caribbean today? In general, what do people do to affect the physical environment when they are in positions of social and economic powerlessness?
by Patricia Elaine Harris.
M.Arch.
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Steyn, G. "The Lamu house - an East African architectural enigma." South African Journal of Art History, 2003. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000884.

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Lamu is a living town off the Kenya coast. It was recently nominated to the World Heritage List. The town has been relatively undisturbed by colonization and modernization. This study reports on the early Swahili dwelling, which is still a functioning type in Lamu. It commences with a brief historical perspective of Lamu in its Swahili and East African coastal setting. It compares descriptions of the Lamu house, as found in literature, with personal observations and field surveys, including a short description of construction methods. The study offers observations on conservation and the current state of the Lamu house. It is concluded with a comparison between Lamu and Stone Town, Zanzibar, in terms of house types and settlement patterns. We found that the Lamu house is the stage for Swahili ritual and that the ancient and climatically uncomfortable plan form has been retained for nearly a millennium because of its symbolic value.
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Splaingard, Daniel. "DesignWork : a study of public works programmes in South African architectural projects." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20954.

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Increasingly in South Africa, architects are requested to design buildings that meet the job-creation and training goals of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), a government-led poverty relief initiative. In so doing, they have a mandate both to design buildings and to design work for the poorest of the poor. This unique context of architectural practice is herein termed DesignWork, and the links between these designs and their measurable work outcomes will be the focus of this Case Study Research. Architects can be key agents in shaping economic empowerment for participants and architectural quality within these projects. This thesis investigated how architects addressed three key goals of increasing wage transfer through labour-intensive construction, enabling skill development through relevant in-situ technical training, and creating quality assets. With the 2030 National Development Plan anticipating the growth of the EPWP in the coming decades, the development of effective architectural strategies within this context is of great significance. Evidence from semi-structured interviews, site visits, archival documents, direct observation, and data collection were used to interrogate the architectural design strategies and work outcomes within two select projects. What emerges is a focused view of the central challenges of achieving the EPWP programme goals, baseline data for future research, and an understanding of the foreseeable challenges for architects designing in this context.
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Books on the topic "Architecture, African"

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South African landscape architecture. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012.

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Early art and architecture of Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Elleh, Nnamdi. African architecture: Evolution and transformation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

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Blier, Suzanne Preston. The anatomy of architecture: Ontologyand metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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Carver, Norman F. North African villages: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. Kalamazoo: Documan Press, 1989.

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Alexander, Marvolyn D. African contributions to landscape architecture: The cultural landscape of African-Americans in southern Louisiana. [Louisiana]: M.D. Alexander, 1990.

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The anatomy of architecture: Ontology and metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Blier, Suzanne Preston. The anatomy of architecture: Ontology and metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Blier, Suzanne Preston. The anatomy of architecture: Ontology and metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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Prussin, Labelle. African nomadic architecture: Space, place, and gender. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "Architecture, African"

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Folkers, Antoni S., and Belinda A. C. van Buiten. "African Environment and Comfort." In Modern Architecture in Africa, 214–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1_10.

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Folkers, Antoni S., and Belinda A. C. van Buiten. "The Modern African City." In Modern Architecture in Africa, 18–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1_2.

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Folkers, Antoni S., and Belinda A. C. van Buiten. "The Contemporary African City." In Modern Architecture in Africa, 118–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1_5.

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Folkers, Antoni S., and Belinda A. C. van Buiten. "Farewell to African Arcadia." In Modern Architecture in Africa, 132–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1_6.

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Folkers, Antoni S., and Belinda A. C. van Buiten. "Inno-native African Building Technology." In Modern Architecture in Africa, 186–211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01075-1_9.

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Forjaz, José, and Jéssica Lage. "Slums in African Cities." In Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates, 251–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12036-8_8.

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Badmus, Isiaka A. "The African Peace and Security Architecture." In The African Union's Role in Peacekeeping, 84–111. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137426611_4.

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Kirkwood, Meghan L. E. "Postindependence Architecture through North Korean Modes." In A Companion to Modern African Art, 548–71. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118515105.ch28.

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Horton, Mark. "Early Islam on the East African Coast." In A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, 250–74. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch10.

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Nagar, Dawn. "Pillars of Africa’s Peace and Security Architecture: The African Standby Force." In The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa, 65–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62202-6_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Architecture, African"

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Soidridine, Moussa M., Lishou Claude, and Ahmed D. Kora. "Green cloud architecture for African local collectivities." In 2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology (ICAST). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icastech.2013.6707513.

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"Global Warming versus Green Architecture: African experience." In International Institute of Engineers. International Institute of Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15242/iie.e0515025.

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Pedreirinho, José Manuel, Michel Toussaint, and Pancho Guedes. "The Porteguese Perspective." In 1995 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.1995.4.

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ose Manuel Pedreirinho was born and educated in Lisbon, and has operated his own practice there since 1984. In addition to teaching the history of modern architecture and the theory of architecture at the universities of Lisbon, Coimbra, and Porto, Prof: Pedreirinho is also completing a PhD at the University of Bath (UK). The author of several articles and two books on Portuguese architecture and the teaching process, Prof: Pedreirinho is currently preparing a guide on the architecture of Porto. Michel Toussaint is an architect and educator in Lisbon, where he teaches the theory of architecture at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa and the Universidade Lusiada. Prof: Toussaint has published several essays, articles, and books on architectural topics, and has practiced in Portugal, Angola, and Macau. Pancho Guedes is an architect currently working in Lisbon ajler an extensive career in Mozambique and South Africa. A graduate of the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), Prof: Guedes’ work is noted for it sculptural and expressionistic quality, influenced heavily by African art and the work of Gaudi. In addition to his academic career in Lisbon, Prof: Guedes has also taught at the Architectural Association in London. [Editor’s note: The text of these presentations was not available at the time of publication.]
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Khoury, Milia. "Architecture “with the other 90%” – An African story." In The 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315226255-70.

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Mathew, Christopher G., Wenlong C. Chen, Hannah Bye, Natalie J. Prescott, Marco Matejcic, Robyn Kerr, Elvira Singh, Cathryn M. Lewis, Chantal Babb de Villiers, and Mohamed I. Parker. "Abstract 237: The genetic architecture of African esophageal cancer." In Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting 2018; April 14-18, 2018; Chicago, IL. American Association for Cancer Research, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-237.

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Solms, Fritz. "What is software architecture?" In the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2389836.2389879.

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Malila, Bessie, Tinashe Mutsvangwa, and Tania Douglas. "Architecture of a village small cell network for mobile health." In 2018 3rd Biennial South African Biomedical Engineering Conference (SAIBMEC). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/saibmec.2018.8363172.

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Henniche, M., R. Eschard, and J. N. Proust. "Sedimentary Architecture of the Siluro-Devonian Sequences in Illizi Basin, Algeria." In 1st EAGE North African/Mediterranean Petroleum & Geosciences Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.8.t046.

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van Gend, Carel, Briehan Lombaard, Amanda Sickafoose, and Hamish Whittal. "The South African Astronomical Observatory instrumentation software architecture and the SHOC instruments." In SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, edited by Gianluca Chiozzi and Juan C. Guzman. SPIE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2231403.

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Agosta, F., and E. Tondi. "Architecture and Petrophysics of Active Faults in Platform Carbonates, Italy." In 3rd EAGE North African/Mediterranean Petroleum and Geosciences Conference and Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20147381.

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