October 4, 2024 Façade of the Museu Tàpies intervened by the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, with the installation “Afterlife Voyage,” from the project “Beyond the Skin,” Barcelona, Catalonia, 2024 © Museu Tàpies. Photo by: Eva Carasol, 2024. On October 4th, I participated in the seminar Architectures of the Skin: From the Body to the Street, one …
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September 19th 2024 Last Thursday, we enjoyed an afternoon celebrating the launch of Top Manta’s new collection: DESIGNED BY AN IMMIGRANT, CRAFTED BY AN ARTISAN. This new collection aims to highlight the art and culture of the Global South, showing that another way of producing and living is not only possible but essential. This initiative was …
September 18th 2024 Yesterday, we had the opportunity to talk with two architecture studios that work by creating situations and sensations: SCOB and WALK. Lesley Lokko explained in a recent text that the Zulu term for an architect is umqambi wesino, which could be translated as “magician of space”, “maker of a situation”, or “maker of …
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April 28, 2024 Taking advantage of the 70th anniversary of the film “Les statues meurent aussi,” co-directed by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in 1953, this exhibition at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món de Barcelona seeks to update the debate opened by the documentary at the time and to carry out a …
July 18, 2024 From July 18th to July 25th, we attended the EASA conference, which was held in Barcelona this time. As part of the research group (Tr)African(t)s, I had the opportunity to participate in the panel “Doing provenance research otherwise. From undoing colonial epistemologies to pluralising knowledge with museum collections.” This panel aimed to …
July 30, 2024 The Mies van der Rohe Foundation announces the 4th Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture on the occasion of the anniversary of Lilly Reich’s birth, with the intention of generating research and debate on modern and contemporary architecture in relation to concepts that are fundamental today, such as identity, social inclusion, …
May 19, 2024 On May 29th, we had an incredible night with the opening event of the fifth edition of Living Places. One of the highlights was the presentation of the official video for this edition, created by Rene Baptista, Tito Sánchez, and RA!Arquitectos. In the last edition of the Simon Architecture Prize, RA! received …
January 2024 During 2023, I have been a researcher for the Black Spain project in the Basque Country, in collaboration with Artium Museoa, and in Catalonia, in collaboration with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Black Spain is a research project proposed by Diáspora LAB of Radio Africa, aiming to trace the presence of …
Despite the growing interest in Africa, the continent’s built environment continues to be largely disconnected from many parts of the world. These volumes of the Architectural Guides series constitute the first comprehensive overview of architecture in the southern Sahara that gives justice to the wealth of buildings in the region. In 49 capitols, each centered …
