An African conquering the World
By 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.
An African conquering the World Apr 22, 2022
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The Laws of Traditional Architecture
Universal Laws create our traditional architecture and are essential for the architecture of today. The absolute expression of architecture is ubiquity
Jan 20, 202316:15
Shaping our buildings
Why did ancient Africans shape thing the way they did?
Jul 15, 202212:22
Reframing the Argument
Creating new basic assumptions to view our architecture heritage
Jun 17, 202215:25
Santa Barbara: The Museum City
What are museum cities?
Jun 10, 202215:38
Modernism
Is there an African Architecture?
May 27, 202218:58
Of Manifestos and Voyages
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?
Apr 22, 202215:18
On Sustainability
Has sustainability become a tool of war?
Apr 15, 202217:57
Erasure 2
Continuation of the last episode on erasure. Fuck Neufert.
Apr 08, 202215:39
Erasure 1
The wiping of our ability to think good architecture
Apr 01, 202211:26
Of Beauty
Description of beauty.
Mar 25, 202217:10
Incompleteness
It’s time to stop the childishness and start making architecture for our people
Mar 18, 202222:16
The City 3
The layers or lack of layers of our cities
Mar 11, 202214:53
The City 2
The tastelessness of our cities
Mar 04, 202213:33
The African City
Why are our cities without taste
Feb 25, 202217:08
Can Design be Transcended 2
The conclusion with the team
Feb 18, 202215:46
Can design be Transcended
An office discussion
Feb 11, 202211:41
Nowness
We need to be here, now.
Dec 17, 202112:15
Architecture Is Not Art
Architecture never Art. Both are polar opposites of one another.
Dec 10, 202120:37
Architecture not Archeology
Collective action is needed in the world. Architecture must lead this drive with passion
Dec 03, 202115:12
What Future can we except?
What are we missing?
Nov 26, 202119:57
Singapore: Urban and Poetic
A story about the architecture of Singapore seen from the eyes of an African
Nov 19, 202114:16
Utilitarianism
Are we neglecting the formation of a new architecture in rural Africa?
Nov 12, 202111:47
Architecture of Fear
Against Tropical Modernism
Nov 05, 202112:27
Optimisation
Optimisation and Compactness
Oct 29, 202112:42
The Way we See
We need to realign our perspective on things so we can begin to appreciate our jewels
Oct 22, 202113:27
Rotterdam to find Parthenon
A trip to Rotterdam to find my personal Parthenon...
Oct 15, 202113:53
The Problem of the House
A short thesis on the 21st century urban African House
Oct 08, 202112:46
Travelling in France
New episode after a long hiatus. Talks of a travel experience to find Corbusiers Villa Stein at Garches in France.
Oct 01, 202111:34
Architecture above Journalism
We are creators of world views. Let’s do that.
Oct 17, 201902:17
Why is it that
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
Aug 29, 201903:46
Language and Manifesto
We need to figure a way to make language from architecture
Apr 18, 201904:24
A message
Architecture Must lead the way
Mar 19, 201906:19
A Language for Africa’s Architecture
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?
Mar 04, 201904:22
Architecture and social Change
We believe that a new architecture is all that stands between humanity and environmental catastrophe in a period of political denialism
Feb 18, 201904:07
A new experimentation?
Why don’t we experiment on the city anymore?
Jan 29, 201902:08
The State and the City???
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.
Jan 23, 201908:49
Architecture cannot engage the problems of the world anymore?
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
Dec 16, 201803:41
Why our method of design doesn’t produce modern masterpieces
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
Dec 04, 201803:29
The architect is first a public intellectual that develops world views
We must make our work a creator of worlds and views and stop being reactionary
Nov 26, 201803:60
Response to a colleague about the last podcast
Being called to the table is not imperialism is it?
Nov 12, 201805:19
What does it take to be called to the table of development?
Prince Charles Visit to Nigeria and Ghana opens up some questions about Nigerian Architects and architecture in general.
Nov 09, 201805:07
A compromise?
Has the Surrender of the plan to make the forms of big buildings been with it?
Oct 30, 201803:16
The search for first principles
Oct 22, 201803:19
Demands from your architect
Oct 08, 201802:46
We need a new architecture
In a century of Hybrids we need a new architecture
Oct 03, 201804:33
Rethinking the base assumptions of Africa’s Traditional arch
The base assumptions by which our traditional architecture had been judged have been wrong.
Sep 30, 201803:21
A new manifesto for architecture
Sep 26, 201804:42
Modernism Truncated
Sep 05, 201803:58
Episode 17
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
Aug 23, 201801:48
Episode 16
Buildings must become Citizens
Aug 19, 201802:47