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‘Tropical Modernism’ Surveys Climate-Responsive Architecture in Post-Colonial West Africa and India

March 26, 2024

An exhibition at V&A South Kensington examines how Western ideas were reimagined as a form of post-colonial nationhood that combined European practice with indigenous traditions of making and design.

Lesley Lokko Awarded 2024 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Matt Hickman

January 18, 2024

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RIBA president Muyiwa Oki praised the Ghanaian-Scottish architect and academic as a “visionary agent of change.”

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18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale Opens Under Cloud of Controversy

RECORD Editors

May 18, 2023

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Curator Lesley Lokko addressed an unfortunate ‘headline story’ at a press conference kicking off the 2023 exhibition.

Back in Print, Second Edition of 'African Modernism' Surveys Architecture Across the Continent

Review: 'African Modernism. The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zambia,' edited by Manuel Herz with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn, and Julia Jamrozik

David Adjaye

January 26, 2023

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Reread David Adjaye’s thoughtful review of the compendium, originally published in Architectural Record in October 2015.

Review of 'Momentum of Light'

By Francis Kéré and Iwan Baan

Josephine Minutillo

February 14, 2022

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Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun.