An African conquering the World: Recent Episodes
James Inedu-George
Rolex Arts Initiative Nominated Architect and World Changer, using words and bricks to make futuristic African Cities a reality. TedX Speaker. Runs HTL.
Universal Laws create our traditional architecture and are essential for the architecture of today. The absolute expression of architecture is ubiquity
A discourse of three major manifestos and their manifestations in the world. It poses an important question: from where to we get the rules to read our architecture?
Collective action is needed in the world. Architecture must lead this drive with passion
New episode after a long hiatus. Talks of a travel experience to find Corbusiers Villa Stein at Garches in France.
After a long hiatus we have realised that the worlds problems can indeed be solved by architecture thinking. We have committed to take the lead
Can we find a language for our traditional architecture that encapsulates the spirit of being African? Is this possible? Will anyone dare collaborate to attempt it?
We believe that a new architecture is all that stands between humanity and environmental catastrophe in a period of political denialism
States and politicians have lost power and prestige in our day and this has been mopped by the drivers of economics. So what will the city of our times be? A problem or a tool to solve problems? Happy New Year, we are back.
Lack of subtlety and nuance, the selfishness in focusing on only itself have led Architecture to a bend where it can no longer produce the visions from which policy and politics can take a cue. It is now a fancy object
One part of the earth manipulates structure which is the core of the architecture itself in the other, structure seems to have been decided long before design starts and cannot be manipulated
Prince Charles Visit to Nigeria and Ghana opens up some questions about Nigerian Architects and architecture in general.
The base assumptions by which our traditional architecture had been judged have been wrong.
We must take our destiny into our hands to avoid our worst being repacked for us and touted as the solutions to our problems as HKS Architects have done in Uganda
Africa is the ground Zero of globalisation and we can create a new architecture with the objects it has left in its wake. This is a great time for the world
Those who believe that we are frozen in time and shouldn’t invent any new things and that technology is a crutch for remembering the past instead of a vehicle for forward movement
We need to reconsider how we use architecture typologies and start to create new determinants from untapped traditional architecture sources to boost the typological pantheon of architecture
We want to create an architecture and a new city from the beautiful Technologies being created today like the hyperloop
Education is failing. We need a new school. Computer forms are interesting but not connected to the problems on ground. What do we do?
PoMo left Architecture in tatters especially because all that it did was revolt for revolt sake. The need to define freedom as an absence of rules can be traced straight back to the days terroristic regime. Yes, PoMo is the harbinger of ISIS. But we can change all that now. Join me. Let’s change the world
Architecture will generate its own philosophy if done right and not the other way around. The hyper analysis of things always ends up leading to an exclusionary kind of intellectualism as against the gritty intellectualism that is architecture thinking
How did Architecture become artefact? How did it become an activity that can only be sparingly participated in? Can African Traditional Architecture provide the fodder for new global thought in Architecture?
First they take its name, then they create useless data to swell the importance of non existent things. To rename is not innovative. A ramp will be a ramp and not a fold...
Architects must understand how the market flows of capital occur but architecture should not be a result of its ups and downs. In the boom of the 1920s, Architects who had less power were able to still create greatness regardless of the behaviour of the market. We must emulate them.