The publication of Bioko Island: Lived Architecture marks the start of a new collection of concise catalogues about architectural and urban heritage in Equatorial Guinea, the result of ongoing research and fieldwork.This edition places the historic built landscape in context and provides basic information about how the units of landscape, the towns and the cities, and their architecture have been shaped. It is a territory with a diversity of local cultures and the imprint of successive colonizing cultures—a rich cultural crossover that makes up today’s Equatoguinean material heritage. The aim of this publication is to inform and disseminate knowledge of this he-ritage, which requires protection and revitalization by government agencies to become a key factor in the country’s development.