Papers
Below is a complete list of contributors who submitted papers for the KNUST Kumasi Conference in June 2007. Some of the papers are available to download; others shall be added in due course.
- Afram, Sam | Ghana | The Traditional Ashanti Compound House – A Forgotten Resource For Home Ownership Of The Urban Poor. | [download]
- Amole, Bayo | Nigeria | Towards The Development of a Relevant Conceptual Framework for the History of Architecture in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria [download]
- Amos-Abanyie, Samuel | Ghana | The Need for a New Framework: In the Age of Consequences |
- Balbaa, Taymoore | Canada | Scarcity & Wealth: Building Traditions and Lack of Water in North and West Africa | [download]
- Blackmun Visona, Monica | USA | Contributions by Art Historians to the Study of African Architecture | [download]
- Börner, Andrea/ Müller, Bärbel | Austria |Learning From Kumasi - Extreme Perspectives on the City | [download]
- Chaffers, James | USA |African Architecture as Practical Beauty | [download]
- Cripps, Christopher | UK |Why is African Architecture relevant? | [download]
- Cumberbatch, Toby/Martusewicz, Caitlin/Addo, Joe Osae | - | Why Abandon the Mud Hut? |
- Egbo, Godson | UK | introducing Bukka | www.bukka.org
- Folkers, Antoni | Netherlands |The African house today : observations from Burkina and Tanzania | [download]
- Forjaz, Jose | Mozambique |What is an African architecture? | [download]
- Gebremedhin, Naigzy | - | Asmara, Africa’s Secret Modernist City | [download]
Images copyright: Edward Denison
- Heynen, Hilde | Belgium | Multiple Modernities? Postcolonial Questions about African Architecture | Editorial |
- Hyland, Anthony | Ghana | What became of the Garamantes? An Exploration of Sources and Conduits of Innovation in African Architecture |
- Intsiful, George | Ghana |The Architecture Of The Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology Campus At Kumasi. | [download] [images 1| 2| 3 ]
- Jenkins, Paul | Scotland |African architecture tomorrow: a research approach | [download]
- Jordan, Coleman | USA |Translating Africa’s Infinite Pasts:
Architectures of Myth and Reality [download] | Passageways | [download]
- Joubert, Ora | S Africa |South African Architecture Today – The Quest For Identity | [download]
- Kamweru, Kigara | Kenya |Positioning the African School of Architecture: Recent experiences in curriculum reform in the University of Nairobi. | [download]
- Kootin-Sanwu, V. | Ghana |The Dilemma Created by the Instruction of Environmental Systems Design in Architectural Pedagogy | [download]
- Mhlaba, Dumisani | S Africa |Approaches and Appreciation of African Architecture | [download]
- Nawangwe, Barnabas | Uganda |Expressionism Versus Environmental Sustainability In Modern African Architecture | [download]
- Niang, Mbacke/ W.O. Soboyejo | Senegal/USA | The use of Quasi-crystal and Fractal Concepts in the Design of Affordable Rural/Urban Landscapes | [download]
- Obot, Dr. I. | Nigeria | Sustainability In African Architecture:
Problems and Prospects | [download]
- Okoye, Ikem Stanley | USA | African Architecture redefining the Modern |
- Otitoola, Olifikayo | Nigeria | Demas Nwoko: A Study in Reification| [download]
- Oliver, Paul | USA | The value of the vernacular |
- Osasona, Cordelia| Nigeria |From Traditional residential Architecture To The Vernacular: The Nigerian Experience | [download]
- Prussin, Labelle | USA |Architecting a life, a building, a nation, a conference... | [download]
- Rifkind, David | USA |Modernity and Continuity in Ethiopian Architecture and Urbanism – the Case of Gondar | [download]
- Roux le, Hannah | S Africa | African Architecture between Modernity and Agency |
- Roux le, Marguerite | S Africa |Revisiting Making: the space in between Africa and Modernism in the work of Norman Eaton (1902 – 1966) | [download]
- Silverman, R/ Chaffers, J/ Intsiful, G | USA/ Ghana|Pedagogy in Practice: The Process of Building a Cultural Center in Techiman, Ghana | [download]
- Tassel van, Daan | Belgium |The making and unmaking of ‘African architecture’ in an ‘African city’: The experience of Mwanza in Tanzania. | [download] 3mb
- Torre, Susana/ Fox, Geoffrey| USA | Architecture and the Construction of Cultural Identity, or learning from Latin America | [download]
- Uduku, Ola | Scotland |Setting the Agenda for African Architectural Discourse | [download]
- Zami, Mohammad | Zimbabawe |Cultural Antecedents To Campus Landscape Architecture Development In Africa | [download]
- Zengotitabengoa | USA |Stacking the (Extra) Ordinary: Wholesale and Resale Market Installations in Bariba and Bonoland | [download]
- Zourgane, Phillipe/ Roussel, Severine | Reunion |Chronique métisse n°5 Saisir la vie… la sensation du vivant | [download]
