What African architecture can teach the world - BBC News

What the world can learn from innovative designs in a future with scarce resources.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Danko StjepanovicBy Ijeoma NdukweBBC NewsSalt bricks and sweeping mud walls - as recently showcased by some African architects - may be the building blocks for innovative designs of the future.

Such ideas were explored by Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo in a major exhibition she recently curated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

She wanted to look at how regions such as Africa are able to function with scarce resources.

"I think ultimately the big elephant in the room for most of us is climate change," Ms Oshinowo told the BBC about the show The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability.

Designers from 26 countries were invited to Sharjah to come up with works to address the issue of scarcity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68622504

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