The bricks are local, the open-air ventilation is abundant, and a single towering baobab unites it all: architect Francis ...

Leon Bridges, the first registered African-American architect in Maryland, passed away at 93. Funeral services will be held ...

When architect Mphethi Morojele began designing Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa, a 130-acre (52-hectare) memorial to lives lost in the struggle against the country’s Apartheid regime, he took ...

Francis Kere, a citizen of both Burkina Faso and Germany, is the only African to have won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré, a renowned architect, educator, and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, making him the first Black winner of the award. “I ...

Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first Black and first African architect to ever receive architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Burkina Faso in 1965 and currently ...

As a young boy growing up in the 1960s in Mthatha, South Africa, Luyanda Mpahlwa loved to draw houses. “I would draw this house on a slate, and I would show my mother when I got home,” said Mpahlwa, ...

According to Osae-Addo, the African continent needs to recognize, cultivate and appreciate its own heritage. From an architectural perspective, the small space appeared insignificant – completely open ...

When Paul Wellington wrote his book, he did it to showcase the role African American architects have played in the past and encourage young people to pick up that mantle for the future. He and ...

Philip Freelon, chief architect of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, has died. He was diagnosed with ALS in... Renowned African American Architect Philip Freelon ...

Some emerging nations seem convinced that they can best establish status by expelling or jailing American diplomats. An increasing number, fortunately, have found a more useful path to national pride: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 20—News of a building collapse on another continent isn't the kind of thing that normally sends people into a frenzy of ...