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The temptation to talk about an African architecture is great, but it is, of course, ridiculous. There is no such thing and never was. 

Africa’s architecture is infinitely, thrillingly diverse and its variety embraces everything from the modernist ambition of postcolonial visionaries to the invention of the ad hoc informal settlements around some of the world’s most dynamic and fast-growing cities.It includes the urbane elegance of Hassan Fathy’s experiments in creating new towns in Egypt that absorbed arts and crafts attitudes, vernacular intelligence and modernist ideals, but it equally includes the remarkable menagerie of modernist optimism that punctuates Accra with the bravura of Brasília.......Continue Reading

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