African Architecture Today

From 05 to 08 January 2007, the Department of Architecture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, in association with The Ghana Institute of Architects, will host the conference African Architecture Today.

ArchiAfrika has been asked to participate in the organisation of the conference by joining the working party. We are very pleased to do so.

The conference is part of an attempt to define and propagate African architecture.

The dearth of literature in African architecture, especially by Africans, has tended to perpetuate some kind of mysticism about African architecture. Recent developments challenging Eurocentric focus on architectural development education world-wide have also tended to produce rather romantic and exaggerated accounts of African architecture. The aim of the conference African Architecture Today is to help define and establish what African architecture really is and means today or in the 21st century and how it can be sustained into the future.

Conference Objectives

- To bring together major stakeholders to map out a common agenda to define
  African architecture and create a forum for its sustainable development.
- To provide the opportunity for African experts to share locally developed
  knowledge and expertise with each other and the broader international
  community.
- To establish a network of African experts on sustainable building and built
  environments for future cooperation on research and development initiatives
  on the continent.

Who Should Attend?

Teachers, researchers, students, practicing Architects and all those in related professions and occupations who are concerned with taking forward the position of Architecture and design of cities and the built environment in Africa in the 21st century.

For more information see: www.knust.edu.gh