Lecture outline
Lesson class with international group of architecture’ students from European universities at:
Tampere
Department of Architecture
Institute
AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CULTURES
Course director: Marie-Alphonse Liwata
Architect and Town Planner
The course consists of a series of 8 lectures. As part of the course requirements students are expected to write an essay on a topic of their choice though related to the issues in the lectures, and to perform an exercise on African architecture. The exercise will consist first of making a multidisciplinary analysis and critics of a settlement layout and, secondly to propose an appropriated new settlement.
DEFINING AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE
A series of lectures to define African architecture and identify the three major
roots of African architecture: Indigenous, Islamic and Western.
1. INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE
Genesis and Early houses of
Evolution of traditional architecture
2. WESTERN ARCHITECTURE IN
Spread of Evolution of Western architecture
3. ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN
The spread of Islamic architecture
AFRICAN VISION OF THE WORLD
The chapter consists of series of lectures on African philosophies and religions, their contributions to the African Arts and the built environments
4. BANTU PHILOSOPHY.
Ontology, Concept of time.
5. LIKUBA COSMOLOGY.
Space and Gender genesis.
6. TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
The man and the house
Space, Place, Gender and Concepts
Art and architecture of
The Art of West African women
7. RURAL SETTLEMENT
African Cosmologies and their contributions to the built environments
Settlements cases’ s studies
THE
This section focuses on the basic elements of the African city, its architecture,
evolution and image.
8. CONCEPT AND ORIGINS
9. TYPES AND STRUCTURES OF CITIES
10.
Case:
11. URBAN CULTURES.