AFRITECTURE Building Social Change

Edited by Andres Lepik

With texts by Sierra Bainbridge, Toma Berlanda, Filip De Boeck, Killian Doherty, Dirk Donath, Susanne Gampfer, Rodney Harber, Dirk Hebel, Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, lain Low, Edgar Pieterse, Mark Olweny, Alfred Omenya, Hans Skotte, and an interview with Okwui Enwezor

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Introduction AFRITECTURE: Building Social Change Andres Lepik

Education Facilities and Rehabilitation Center Emilio and Matteo Caravatti

Ahmed Baba Institute DHK Architects

Education Facilities and Women's Center Diebedo Francis Kere

42 Habitat Research and Development Center Nina Maritz

46 My Home My Bed My Mango Tree Baerbel Mueller

50 Mapungubwe Interpretation Center Peter Rich Architects

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Central Market Laurent Sechaud

60 Architecture That Can Truly Be Owned by the People Okwui Enwezor in Conversation with Andres Lepik

72 Makoko Floating School NLE

78 Kibera Public Space Projects (KPSP) Kounkuey Design Initiative

Informal Studio: Marlboro South 26'10 south Architects

92 Challenges of Urban Growth: Toward an Anthropology of Urban Infrastructure in Africa Filip De Boeck

104 Competing.Imaginaries of Empowerment in African Cities Edgar Pieterse

114 Oudebosch Mountain Camp Architecture Co-op

120 Vele Secondary School east coast ARCHITECTS

124 Ubuntu Center Field Architecture

130 Design Indaba 10 x 10 Sandbag Houses Luyanda Mpahlwa

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Red Location Noero Wolff Architects

144 Primary School and Multi-Purpose Center CS Studio

150 Urban Impact: Important "Counter Currents" from South African Cities lain Low

160 Architectural Education in Ethiopia Dirk Donath and Dirk Hebel

166 Partner Projects in Ethiopia Addis Ababa University, ETH Zurich, and Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar

Architectural Education in Rwanda Sierra Bainbridge

178 Architectural Education in Uganda Mark Olweny

Architectural Education in South Africa Rodney Harber

186 Student Construction Projects: Skills Center near Nairobi TU Miinchen

192 ukuqala: Build Together, Learn Together University of Stuttgart

198 Emmanuel Day Care TU Vienna

204 Ithuba Community College Architecture Faculties of Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland

210 Pro and Contra: Design-Build Projects as a Form of Knowledge Transfer A Dialogue between Toma Berlanda, Susanne Gampfer, Dirk Hebel, Mark Olweny, Alfred Omenya, and Hans Skotte

220 Early Childhood Development Center Active Social Architecture

224 Butaro Hospital MASS Design Group

230 Kimisagara Community Center Killian Doherty I Architectural Practice

236 Women's Opportunity Center Sharon Davis Design

242 Pediatric Center tamassociati

248 Contemporary Architecture in East Africa: An Empire of Good Practice or Shadows of Neocolonialism? Killian Doherty

254 From Modernism to Mud. And Back Again Lesley Naa Norle Lokko

260 Appendix