African building architecture

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Tata Somba houses 🛖

The glories of African architecture are often shamefully overlooked. Sadly, this is a symptom of a larger problem overall, where the rich diversity and culture of the African continent is largely glossed over in international media. Most reporting from the continent focuses only on issues that reinforce negative stereotypes – those of poverty, disease and war.

Assemble's Jane Hall, author of Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women picks out eight key female architects featured in the book.

Tata Somba houses 🛖

There is incredible and underrated architecture across Africa, from important archaeological sites to vernacular structures to cathedrals and mosques.