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 ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

The 2026 WMF/Knoll Prize celebrates preservation efforts for modernist architecture, including Africa Hall's restoration as a cultural hub.

In this article, we take a look at 10 countries with the best architecture in Africa. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of African architecture, you can directly go to 5 Countries with ...

Long before the 2023 Venice Biennale, modern African architecture was brought to the world’s attention. Udo Kultermann’s New Architecture in Africa, published in 1963, shed light on that current scene ...

Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology Amira Osman receives funding ...

Africa’s story is far more than ancient kingdoms and colonial history. It is a story of innovation, trade, cultural influence, and resilience that has shaped human civilization itself. From the first ...

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...