Nigerian architecture holds significant cultural, historical, and social value. Although Nigeria's architectural scene has now been influenced by Western ...

Over the past 200 years, Lagos, Nigeria, has become crowded with architectural styles as wide ranging as its 16 million people. First, in the 19th century, came two-story stone houses in a Brazilian ...

With the new Goethe-Institut building in Dakar, Francis Kéré has created a building that combines tradition and modernity.

Parpend, a design studio from Lagos, Nigeria, interviews every year a group of architects to discuss their favorite projects and how they created them. Believing firmly that design should be a fusion ...

At 90 years old, Nigerian architect Demas Nwoko’s legacy extends beyond his art—it’s embedded in the walls of his rural sanctuary in Idumuje-Ugboko, a historic town in the north of Nigeria’s Delta ...

Modernism in the bravest new world. Not urbanism, but urbanity. The latter noun is often misunderstood to mean cityness when really what it refers to, in its fuller sense, is culture, civilisation and ...

Landscape architecture is a developing field in Nigeria that focuses on integrating human development with nature to address environmental issues like flooding, erosion, and urban heat. Education in ...