Dearest Fellow Rulers, If you know this author, you know it is time to grab your cup of your ‘fav’ beverage and go on an adventure with him. Today, we…
Aliens are invading the Earth! Genetically mutated hybrid dinosaurs are creating havoc in our world! Advanced technology is ravaging the Earth! Zombies are attacking a world dying of hunger! One…
Architecture, in itself, weaves a tale of times gone by, with precincts of wood and stone harbouring values and stories that once transpired. Mies Van Der Rohe once said that…
The yearning of the African is for his identity. We say that for us to truly move forward, we need to learn the past. Some go ahead to say that…
It is hard to talk about Ethiopian and African Modernist Architecture without mentioning the name Michael Tedros. Born in 1921, Michael is Ethiopia’s first formally trained architect. He was more…
Everyday spaces are the familiar corners of people’s lives, the hallway they walk through every morning, the kitchen where they cook their food, the work desk which is their own…
Architecture is a language civilizations have used for centuries to convey their social, economic, and political worldview. The buildings people build say a lot about the people who make them.…
They say routines are built from habits, but the spaces we live in shape those habits long before we’re aware of them. Architecture doesn’t shout its influence; it whispers it.…
Dearest fellow rulers, Join me as we delve further into interior design and architecture and explore challenges with designing for interior well-being in Africa. Using an africanfuturist approach, we will…
This is an era of technological revolution. New forms of technology are coming up like BIM, Parametric designs, and AI-driven spaces, which can no doubt achieve every possible design idea,…
In 1960, Australian architect and critic Robin Boyd published The Australian Ugliness, a bold and enduring critique of the nation’s built environment and cultural identity, a polemic that dared to challenge…
Perhaps the image of a vertical green facade has caught your attention before. But that’s not all there is to biophilic design. Let’s take a brief detour into history. In…