The award-winning architect, who was born in the West African country, has proposed a dramatic new capitol to replace the former one destroyed during a 2014 revolt.
In late 2014, citizens of Burkina Faso revolted against the country’s dictatorial leader, President Blaise Compaoré, and set fire to the parliament house, leaving it a charred ruin in the capital city of Ouagadougou.
When the Philadelphia Museum of Art started to plan an exhibition about Africa, it informally surveyed visitors, asking for their general impressions of the continent.
MASS Design group is used to working in remote places. Building schools or health centers where there were none and training local labor is practically written into its DNA.
Karl Henrik Nostvik's 1973 Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi.
The dearth of literature on African architecture has long been a source of frustration for the continent’s design community.