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Exterior of the Goethe-Institut Dakar, showing perforated laterite brick walls beneath a steel canopy

Francis Kéré Builds the Goethe-Institut Dakar from the Ground Up

Modernist BOAD (West African Development Bank) building in Lomé, Togo, featured in MoMA’s Architects of Liberation exhibition. Photograph by François-Xavier Gbré, 2025.

At MoMA, a New Exhibition Celebrates West Africa’s Modernist Architectural Legacy

Backyard Community Club in Osu, Accra: rammed-earth tennis enclosure by DeRoche Projects

Architecture Learns to Play

If This. Then That: Ceramics — Lucie Rie pot beside an Andile Dyalvane scarified vessel.

If This. Then That: Ceramics — Lucie Rie → Andile Dyalvane

Upward view of a massive concrete cantilevered overhang supported by columns at the University of Lagos, with vertical fins and a palm frond visible against the sky.

A Memory of Walls

Folded concrete church with angular roof forms against blue sky. Igreja de Santo António de Polana, modernist architecture in Maputo, Mozambique, designed by Nuno Craveiro Lopes, 1962.

Maputo’s Modernist Moment

Sculptural Coffee Table Comparison: Isamu Noguchi vs. Paul Ledron Tanyè Table.

If This. Then That: Coffee Tables – Noguchi → Paul Ledron

Ananse Center for Design Opens in Lagos: A New Integrated Hub for African Creatives

The Future Feels Different Here: 7 African creatives who are reshaping design on their own terms

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